Facebook Boasts 2nd Largest Number Of Online Video Viewers, But They Aren’t Watching Much

Facebook now boasts the second largest number of online video viewers, following YouTube, but Facebook viewers are watching significantly less content than viewers on other sites.

October 2011 was a huge month for online video with more than 42.6 billion videos viewed by a total of 184.4 million US viewers.  Of course, Google’s YouTube topped the charts as usual, accounting for 160.9 million of these viewers, but a new player joined the rankings of sites with the most online video viewers this month—Facebook.  Facebook now boasts the second largest number of online video viewers, following YouTube.

The news came out of comScore’s October 2011 US Online Video Rankings and was reported by Joshua Cohen of Tubefilter

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