YouTube videos about Republican presidential candidates accounted for 31% of all time spent at the site watching campaign-related videos in April 2007, increasing 21%age points over March 2007. Videos about Democratic candidates accounted for 69% of all time spent on campaign videos in April, decreasing 20%age points since March. Although Democrats are still dominating time spent on YouTube, Republicans are starting to make their online presence known.
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Time spent on YouTube presidential videos |
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| Share of total time | Growth | ||
| March 2007 | April 2007 | MTM | |
| Democrats | 88.9% | 69.0% | -20 |
| Republicans | 10.4% | 30.9% | 21 |
| Barack Obama (D) | 9.4% | 20.0% | 11 |
| Hillary Clinton (D) | 77.0% | 23.2% | -54 |
| John Edwards (D) | 5.7% | 16.1% | 10 |
| John McCain (R) | 14.9% | N/A | |
| Bill Richardson (D) | 7.7% | N/A | |
| Joe Biden (D) | 5.0% | 6.6% | 2 |
| Mitt Romney (R) | 1.9% | 6.2% | 4 |
| Rudy Giuliani (R) | 1.9% | 1.3% | -1 |
| Source: Nielsen//NetRatings | |||
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