Micro Persuasion: YouTube's Share of Traffic Larger than MySpace

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

YouTube's Share of Traffic Larger than MySpace

YouTube is looming larger than MySpace, according to Alexa data analyzed by The Guardian. YouTube has a 3.9% share of all Alexa Toolbar users' traffic compared with 3.35% for MySpace. This is a sample that some say is representative of the broader online population. Others disagree. BusinessWeek has some additional stats, including these doozies: the site now accounts for 60% of all videos watched online, 65,000 new videos are uploaded daily and 100 million are viewed.

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Posted at 09:06 AM in Centers of Gravity, Community, Social Networking, Video, Web 2.0 | Permalink

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