An all-time high of 188 million US internet users watched 37.7 billion online content videos in August, while video ad views totaled 9.5 billion.
Google Sites, driven primarily by video viewing at YouTube.com, ranked as the top online video content property in August with 150.2 million unique viewers, followed by Yahoo! Sites with 55 million, Microsoft Sites with 53.7 million, VEvo with 49.3 million and Facebook.com with 47.7 million.
Nearly 37.7 billion video content views occurred during the month, with Google Sites generating the highest number at 13.8 billion, followed by AOL, Inc. with 725 million. Google Sites had the highest average engagement among the top ten properties.
The August 2012 YouTube partner data revealed that video music channel VEvo (47.6 million viewers) maintained the top position in the ranking, followed by Warner Music with 24.8 million. Machinima drew 21.9 million viewers, followed by Maker Studios Inc. with 20.9 million and FullScreen with 18.9 million.
Among the top 10 YouTube partners, Machinima demonstrated the highest engagement (85 minutes per viewer) followed by Maker Studios (47 minutes per viewer). Vevo streamed the greatest number of videos (569 million), followed by Machinima (529 million).
