U.K. Online Video Viewing Up 37 Percent During Past Year

By Comscore Inc., PRNE
Sunday, April 25, 2010

Channel 4 Shows a Skew Towards 15-24 Year old Brits Watching Long-form Content Online

LONDON, April 26, 2010 - comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world,
today released data from the comScore Video Metrix service indicating that
5.5 billion videos were viewed online in the U.K. in February 2010, up 37
percent versus the previous year.

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Google Sites Most Popular Online Video Destination in U.K.

Driven by the popularity of YouTube.com (which accounted for 99.6 percent
of all videos viewed on the property), Google Sites grew 17 percent versus a
year ago to further solidify its position as the leading online video viewing
property in the U.K., with 2.5 billion videos viewed in February 2010. BBC
Sites ranked second with 140 million videos viewed on its sites followed by
Megavideo.com with 53 million videos.

Facebook ranked as the fastest growing video property in the top 10,
surging 205 percent in the past year to 43 million videos viewed. Blinkx was
the second fastest, growing 204 percent to nearly 29 million videos viewed.
BBC Sites (up 143 percent), ITV sites (up 134 percent) and Sky Sites (up 139
percent) also achieved triple-digit growth rates over the past year.

    Top U.K. Online Video Content Properties* by Videos Viewed
    February 2010 vs. February 2009
    Total U.K., Age 15+ - Home & Work Locations
    Source: comScore Video Metrix
    -----------------------------

          Property                       Videos Viewed (000)

                                         Feb-09         Feb-10      % Change
    Total Internet :Total Audience     4,017,400     5,504,984          37
    Google Sites                       2,111,012     2,477,398          17
    BBC Sites                             57,567       139,788         143
    Megavideo.com                         26,289        53,485         103
    Facebook.com                          14,001        42,674         205
    Microsoft Sites                       36,899        41,424          12
    Channel 4                             31,335        39,364          26
    Dailymotion.com                       17,804        31,360          76
    ITV Sites                             12,085        28,245         134
    Blinkx                                 9,501        28,840         204
    Sky Sites                              8,171        19,541         139

    *Rankings based on video content sites; excludes video server
    networks. Online video includes both streaming and progressive
    download video. Growth for Top 10 Sites not fastest growing sites
    within category.

"The U.K. online video market continues to soar and is attracting a
greater and greater share of Internet users' attention," said Mike Read, SVP
and Managing Director, comScore Europe. "In particular, we've seen eyeballs
move towards the online channel to watch more long-form, professional video
content, such as popular broadcast network TV shows. This trend presents a
significant opportunity to advertisers, as comScore research has consistently
shown that online video advertising is effective at building brands."

Channel 4's Young Audience Consumes Highest Number of Videos per Viewer

The online video viewing audience at the sites of the U.K.'s leading TV
stations exhibit significantly different skews by age and gender. While the
BBC's video viewing audience tends to be male (index of 110) and spread
between the ages of 25 and 54, Channel 4 skews heavily toward the 15-24 year
old age group with an index of 154. The site was visited evenly by males and
females but women watched five more videos (21.7) than male viewers on the
site during the month. ITV Sites had the least appeal to males (index 84) and
captured a larger proportion of female viewers of all three sites (index
119).

    Comparison of Top 3 TV Broadcast Network Content Sites
    February 2010
    Total U.K., Age 6+ - Home & Work Locations
    Source: comScore Video Metrix
    -----------------------------

                         BBC Sites           Channel 4        ITV Sites
                    ------------------  ------------------ ------------------
                    Composition         Composition        Composition
                     Index for  Videos  Index for   Videos Index for   Videos
                       Unique     per     Unique      per    Unique      per
    Target Audience   Viewers*  Viewer    Viewers   Viewer   Viewers   Viewer
    --------------- -----------  ------ ----------- ------ ----------- ------
    Total Audience          100    15.7         100   18.8         100   13.5
    --------------          ---    ----         ---   ----         ---   ----
        All Males           110    15.8         100   16.3          84   12.7
        ---------           ---    ----         ---   ----         ---   ----
        All Females          90    15.5          99   21.7         119   14.1
        -----------         ---    ----         ---   ----         ---   ----
    Persons - Age
    -------------
         15-24               88    15.2         154   21.5          92   16.7
         -----              ---    ----         ---   ----         ---   ----
         25-34              112    15.0         121   17.4          98   12.1
         -----              ---    ----         ---   ----         ---   ----
         35-44              113    17.5          80   20.9         104   13.5
         -----              ---    ----         ---   ----         ---   ----
         45-54              110    15.1          82   14.4         115   13.1
         -----              ---    ----         ---   ----         ---   ----
          55+                89    14.9          65   17.0         101   11.7
          ---               ---    ----         ---   ----         ---   ----

    *Composition Index = % of Viewers at a Site from a Particular Demo
    Segment /% of Total Internet Population from the Demo Segment x 100;
    Index of 100 indicates average representation.

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