aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

YouTube 10% of Internet traffic

Lost Remote:

And you thought YouTube was big before: A new report (PDF) by Ellacoya Networks shows that the Google-owned video site comprises a monster ten percent of all traffic on the Internet.  Thanks to the video boom - HTTP traffic outpaced peer to peer traffic for the first time in four years.  Granted, video is a bandwidth hog and takes a bigger chunk of the pipe than your average web page - but that is still an astounding number.

And here’s a report that says the number of people who create user generated content will more than double from 118m in 2006 to 238m in 2011.