Recent data on video search usage shows that video consumption on the Internet is on the rise. While video search only accounts for a little more then one percent of all U.S Internet visits in March, this has translated into over 11.5 billion videos being watched online during the month of March. Even video search sites, like YouTube, Yahoo Video, MySpace TV, and others, have seen the amount of time spent on these video websites increase by 7%.
Currently 73.7% of the total U.S. Internet audience is viewing videos online. eMarketers projects this to be almost 87% by 2011. This represents over 183 million users watching videos! Guess who dominates in the video search market? One word, Google. With Google’s acquistion of YouTube, their market share of video search has increased to 77.24%. Google is followed by MySpace TV (9.21%), Yahoo! Video (2.16%) and Break.com (1.82%).
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