YouTube just pass the 100 million US viewers a month

According to comScore, YouTube hit a new monthly high in January, topping 100 million as it dominated the online video arena.

The overall number of videos watched online in the US in January climbed 4 percent from the previous month to 14.8 billion, with YouTube viewing accounting for 91 percent of that growth, comScore reported Wednesday.

Google-owned websites, predominantly YouTube, ranked at the top of the US online video heap with 6.4 billion snippets watched during the month, according to comScore.

Fox Interactive Media, which owns online social-networking service MySpace, had the second highest number of videos viewed – 552 million.

Yahoo! online destinations were third with 374 million videos watched, the industry tracking group reported.

Approximately 147 million US Internet users watched an average of 101 online videos each in January, with 102 million of those people using Google-owned sites, according to comScore.

AFP: YouTube topped 100 million US viewer mark in January: comScore