In August more than 25 billion videos were viewed, with Google sites accounting for more than 10 billion.

Google sites remained as the top U.S. video property in August as it surpassed the 10 billion videos viewed threshold, representing 40 percent of all videos viewed online. YouTube accounted for 99 percent of all videos viewed on Google sites.

Microsoft sites ranked second with 547 million (2.2%) followed by Viacom Digital with 539 million videos viewed (2.1%) and Hulu with 488 million (1.9%).

More than 161 million viewers watched an average of 157 million videos per viewer during the month of August. Google sites pulled in 121.4 million unique viewers during the month (82.8 videos per viewer) followed by Microsoft sites with 54.9 million viewers (10 videos per viewer) and Yahoo sites with 51. 6 million viewers (6.9 videos per viewer).

Tremor Media ranked as the top video ad network during the month with a potenial reach of 68 million viewers, or 42.2 percent of the total viewing audience. YuMe Video Netowrk ranked second with a potential reach of 59.1 million viewers (36.7 % reach) followed by ScanScout Network with 57. 6 million viewers (35.7%).

Other highlights from the report include:

The top video ad networks in terms of their actual delivered reach were: Tremor Media Video Network (19.5 percent penetration of all online video viewers), BrightRoll Video Network (16.2 percent penetration), and BroadbandEnterprises.com (14.8 percent penetration).

• 81.6 percent of the total U.S. Internet audience viewed online video.

• The average online video viewer watched 582 minutes of video, or 9.7 hours.

• 120.5 million viewers watched nearly 10 billion videos on YouTube.com (82.6 videos per viewer).

• 44.9 million viewers watched 340 million videos on MySpace.com (7.6 videos per viewer).

• The average Hulu viewer watched 12.7 videos, totaling 1 hour and 17 minutes of videos per viewer.

• The duration of the average online video was 3.7 minutes.

Bing has helped Microsoft to modestly increase its search market share by 1 percent in the U.S. according to an analysis for June conducted by measurement firm StatCounter.

Microsoft had 8.23 percent market share in June, behind Yahoo at 11.04 percent according to the analysis. Unsurprisingly Google still dominates the U.S. market but has fallen back slightly from 79.07 percent in April to 78.48 percent in June.

Microsoft U.S. market share has gone from 7.21 percent in April to 8.23 percent in June.

“At first sight, a 1% increase in market share does not appear to be a huge return on the investment Microsoft has made in Bing but the underlying trend appears positive,” said Aodhan Cullen, CEO, StatCounter. “Steady if not spectacular might be the best way to describe performance to date.”

Looking at weekly trends for June, Microsoft (Bing, Live Search and MSN Search in total) had peaked post launch at 9.21 percent in week 1st – 7th June. But after falling away in the following two weeks it has made a comeback in the last week in June to 8.45 percent.

Microsoft market share, May/June – US
18th to 24th May: 7.41%
25th to 31st May: 9.11%
1st to 7th June: 9.21%
8th to 14th June: 7.47%
14th to 21st June: 7.6%
22nd to 28th June: 8.45%

Overall, Bing is a big improvement over Microsoft’s Live Search. The company has done a good job initially promoting Bing, but a $100 million in marketing tends to help such efforts.

Bing is unlikely to be a “Google killer” but it is showing it has the potential to compete in search at least initially. The long term results for Bing will be the real test, until then you can still expect to see Google remain the dominate search engine.

Google continued to dominate, capturing 72.39 percent of all U.S. searches for the month.

Yahoo trailed with 16.36 percent of the search market share, falling 19 percent year-over-year.

MSN Search also saw its search share dip 17 percent year-over-year to grab 5.50 percent of the market.

Ask.com received 4.07 percent of the search market and dropped just one percent year-over-year.

Google was the only major search engine to see its search share increase, rising 8 percent year-over-year.

The length of search queries has increased over the past year, according to Hitwise. Longer search queries, averaging searches of five to more than eight words in length have increased 8 percent between March 2009 and March 2008.

Searches of eight or more words increased 20 percent. The same time period showed that shorter search queries – those averaging one to four words long – have decreased 2 percent. Searches of two words accounted for the majority of searches, amounting to 23.17 percent of all queries.

Search engines continue to be the most popular way Internet users navigate to key industry categories.  Comparing March 2009 with March 2008, business and finance, sports, online video and social networking categories showed double-digit increases in their share of traffic coming directly from search engines.

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Though these results are not fantastic, I don’t believe they’re terrible either and it is difficult to measure our success at such an early stage in the blog’s life. Whose to say this isn’t the calm before the storm and were? not going to see an exponential growth of visitors in July, or perhaps even a surge in blog subscribers? Only time will tell.