Americans are apparently riding out the recession by holing up with their laptops. Internet users watched 14.8 billion online videos in January 2009, while YouTube surpassed 100 million viewers for the first time, according to data from comScore.

Web video viewership was up 4 percent from December, with Google leading the way.

People watched 6.4 billion videos on Google sites. About 99 percent of that occurred on YouTube, which now has 43 percent of the online video market share. The site logged just over 100 million unique viewers, with the average person watching about 62 videos over the course of the month for an average of 3.5 minutes.

Next on the list was Fox Interactive Media, which includes social networking site MySpace. People watched about 552 million videos on the site, for a 3.7 percent market share. The company had 62 million unique viewers in January, with people watching an average of 9 videos on the site.

Yahoo rounded out the top three with 374 million videos viewed, 42 million unique viewers, and 2.5 percent market share.

On average, about 77 percent of people who use the Internet watch Web video, comScore said. The average person watched about 6 hours of online videos in January, up 15 percent from December.

Hulu.com maintained its edge over the Turner Network and Disney with 250 million videos viewed and 24.4 million unique viewers. The site, a joint video partnership between Fox and NBC Universal, first jumped past Turner and Disney in October, when it had 235 million videos viewed.