Winter weather, holiday anxiety and a failing economy seems to be the perfect cocktail for traffic on Internet video sites, which saw a huge spike in viewing this December. New figures from comScore show that online video properties like YouTube and Hulu saw a 13 percent jump in viewing in that month alone.
Predictably, YouTube continued to dominate by accounting for 41.2 percent of all videos watched, but it also accounted for the biggest part of the month’s leap in traffic: nearly 50 percent. Fox, Yahoo! and Viacom trail with 3.1, 2.3 and 2.0 percent of traffic total traffic for the month, respectively.
