August sees more online video viewership records

Ed: Additional data added Oct. 5

August set another record for online video viewing, and YouTube crossed the 10 billion U.S. video views threshold, according to comScore's August results. After YouTube, which had 121 million unique U.S. visitors in August, Microsoft Sites was a distant second with 546 million videos viewed and 54 million unique viewers.

Viacom Digital, Hulu and Fox International rounded out the top five sites in that order.

For the month, comScore reported that 161 million unique viewers in the U.S. watched a whopping 25.6 billion online videos, both record performances for the industry. 

For more:
- see more data here
- see the press release here 

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