Facebook, one of the most popular social networking sites has already reached its rank for having huge number of users and is equally liked by many number of people. But latest news shows its ranking in terms of online videos is giving a good competition to one of the famous video hubs Youtube.
Comscore, released data from the comScore Video Metrix service which showed 184 million U.S. Internet users watched online video content in the month of October for an average of 21.1 hours per viewer. The total U.S. Internet audience viewed 42.6% billion videos which is recorded as an all time high.
When it comes to the Top 1- video content properties by unique users, iGoogle sites are ranked as top online video content property in October. Driven primarily by video viewing at Youtube.com, it secured 161 million unique viewers and reached a record high of 20.9 billion videos viewed.
Facebook ranked second with 59.8 million viewers followed by VEVO with 57 million, Microsoft sites with 49.1 million and Viacom Digital with 48.2 million. More than 42 billion videos were viewed during the month of October, with the average viewer watching a record 21.1 hours. Google Sites demonstrated the highest viewer engagement with 7.1 hours per viewer.
These reports are showing how a social networking site without any official videos but just get videos from the uploads done by the members of the site is giving huge competition to Google which has an official video uploading website You tube. Facebook has extensive following among the teens and since the video has been shared many times, and hence it takes very less time for the video or any other upload to get popular among people.