Fancy a Facebook video? How about 20 million of them? That's how many new videos are being uploaded to the Web service each month, according to a company spokesperson. But are people staying to watch that many?

Fancy a Facebook video? How about 20 million of them? That's how many new videos are being uploaded to the Web service each month, according to a company spokesperson. A significant chunk of theseno percentages, unfortunatelyare being sent to the service via mobile devices, reports The New York Times.

In fact, the number of videos that have been flying over to the service doubled ever since Facebook started allowing its users to both upload videos to the site via email and send movies from their iPhones. But it's not just uploading that's catching Facebook users' eyes. The site's nearly half a billion worldwide users also view two billion videos per month.

The number might seem impressive, but it's a mere drop in the bucket compared to the viewing habits of United States-based Internet surfers.

According to a report released by comScore earlier this month, U.S. Internet users watched approximately 30.3 billion videos in just this past April. Google-based sites (including Google Videos and YouTube) captured 43.2 percent of the market with a total of around 13 billion videos watched. Facebook doesn't even appear in the top-10 list of total videos viewed on a service.

Facebook did show up on comScore's top-ten list of video sites in terms of unique viewers, however. According to the analytics firm, approximately 41.3 million unique U.S. Facebook users watched online videos in April. The company also noted that Facebook users, on average, watched 5.6 videos in that time period. In contrast, Google-based video sites captured 136.2 million unique viewers and each viewer, on average, watched 96 videos during the month.

So what does that mean? Regardless of Facebook's traffic claims, the service hardly carries the most weight in the U.S. online video world. While it might have a fair share of unique viewers coming to the service every month, users are finding alternate locations to park and watch numerous videos throughout a given time period.

Facebook representatives do expect an upswing in video postings and viewership as more users obtain mobile phones with video support built-in. And that's been illustrated in the data thus farin March of 2009, Facebook achieved roughly 12 million video uploads per month. The current figures aren't quite a doubling of that number, but the growth is definitely there.