comScore Releases August 0 U.S. Online Video Rankings

comScore Releases August 2013 U.S. Online Video RankingsAOL Climbs into Second Place in Online Video Content Ranking with 71 Million Viewers

RESTON, VA, September 20, 2013 - comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing that 188.5 million Americans watched 46.7 billion online content videos in August, while the number of video ad views totaled 22.8 billion.

Top 10 Video Content Properties by Unique Viewers

Google Sites, driven primarily by video viewing at YouTube.com, ranked as the top online video content property in August with 167 million unique viewers. AOL captured the #2 spot with 71.2 million, followed by Facebook with 62.2 million, NDN with 50.7 million and VEVO with 49.4 million. 46.7 billion video content views occurred during the month, with Google Sites generating the highest number at 17.4 billion, followed by AOL, Inc. with 992 million and Facebook with 803 million. Google Sites had the highest average engagement among the top ten properties.

Top U.S. Online Video Content Properties Ranked by Unique Video Viewers

August 2013

Total U.S. - Home and Work Locations

Content Videos Only (Ad Videos Not Included)

Source: comScore Video Metrix

Property Total Unique Viewers (000) Videos (000)* Minutes per Viewer

Total Internet : Total Audience 188,499 46,746,596 1,294.3

Google Sites 166,966 17,437,897 521.6

AOL, Inc. 71,202 991,800 56.8

Facebook 62,183 803,148 21.6

NDN 50,650 569,815 92.0

VEVO 49,371 609,833 42.3

Microsoft Sites 48,894 689,704 33.0

Yahoo! Sites 45,049 368,975 79.2

Viacom Digital 44,434 452,938 45.2

Amazon Sites 34,499 133,380 22.5

Collective Video 31,857 149,318 29.1

*A video is defined as any streamed segment of audiovisual content, including both progressive downloads and live streams. For long-form, segmented content, (e.g. television episodes with ad pods in the middle) each segment of the content is counted as a distinct video stream. Video views are inclusive of both user-initiated and auto-played videos that are viewed for longer than 3 seconds.

Top 10 Video Ad Properties by Video Ads Viewed

Americans viewed nearly 22.8 billion video ads in August, with Google Sites ranking #1 with 3.2 billion ad impressions. Adap.tv came in second with more than 2.4 billion ads, followed by BrightRoll Platform with 2.4 billion and LiveRail.com with 2.2 billion. Time spent watching video ads totaled 8.5 billion minutes, with BrightRoll Platform and Adap.tv delivering the highest duration of video ads at 1.1 billion minutes each. Video ads reached 56 percent of the total U.S. population an average of 132 times during the month. Hulu delivered the highest frequency of video ads to its viewers with an average of 71.

Top U.S. Online Video Ad Properties Ranked by Video Ads* Viewed

August 2013

Total U.S. - Home and Work Locations

Ad Videos Only (Content Videos Not Included)

Source: comScore Video Metrix

Property Video Ads (000) Total Ad Minutes (MM) Frequency (Ads per Viewer) % Reach Total U.S. Population

Total Internet : Total Audience 22,755,256 8,518 132.3 55.6

Google Sites 3,171,612 301 28.5 35.9

ADAP.TV 2,448,969 1,126 18.0 44.0

BrightRoll Platform** 2,392,855 1,103 14.4 53.7

LIVERAIL.COM 2,203,060 859 28.4 25.1

Specific Media** 1,665,541 645 13.0 41.2

SpotXchange Video Ad Marketplace 1,249,149 467 14.4 28.1

Hulu 1,247,868 475 71.4 5.6

TubeMogul Video Ad Platform 1,148,595 380 15.0 24.7

Tremor Video** 846,112 390 13.2 20.7

Videology 751,183 291 9.8 24.8

*Video ads include streaming-video advertising only and do not include other types of video monetization, such as overlays, branded players, matching banner ads, etc.

**Indicates video ad network

Indicates video ad exchange/DSP/SSP

Top 10 YouTube Partner Channels by Unique Viewers

The August 2013 YouTube partner data revealed that video music channel VEVO maintained the top position in the ranking with 47.8 million viewers. Fullscreen held on to the #2 position with 34.5 million viewers, followed by Maker Studios Inc. with 29.6 million, Warner Music with 26.9 million and ZEFR (formerly MovieClips) with 24.9 million. Among the top 10 YouTube partners, Machinima demonstrated the highest engagement (91 minutes per viewer), followed by Maker Studios Inc. (65 minutes per viewer). VEVO streamed the greatest number of videos (580 million), followed by Maker Studios Inc. (521 million).

Top YouTube Partner Channels* Ranked by Unique Video Viewers

August 2013

Total U.S. - Home and Work Locations

Content Videos Only (Ad Videos Not Included)

Source: comScore Video Metrix

Property Total Unique Viewers (000) Videos (000) Minutes per Viewer

VEVO @ YouTube 47,764 580,437 40.8

Fullscreen @ YouTube 34,541 361,302 32.7

Maker Studios Inc. @ YouTube 29,573 521,066 65.1

Warner Music @ YouTube 26,921 159,047 19.2

ZEFR @ YouTube 24,893 126,822 13.8

The Orchard @ YouTube 21,197 87,548 12.1

Blizzard @ YouTube 18,261 43,062 4.1

rumblefish @ YouTube 17,784 44,429 7.0

Machinima @ YouTube 17,050 391,755 90.9

UMG @ YouTube 16,311 55,998 10.5

Other notable findings from August 2013 include:

87 percent of the U.S. Internet audience viewed online video.

The duration of the average online content video was 5.2 minutes, while the average online video ad was 0.4 minutes.

Video ads accounted for 32.7 percent of all videos viewed and 3.4 percent of all minutes spent viewing video online.

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