aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
YouTube bigger in video than Google is in search
So says Hitwise. Read/WriteWeb:
Traffic analysts Hitwise released new numbers today indicating that while online video sites as a category have seen a 7% drop in traffic year over year since March 2007 - YouTube has seen a remarkable 32% growth in visits during that period. YouTube’s market share in the video sector is now at 73.18%, Hitwise reports.
That’s significantly higher than Google’s all-time market share high-point among search engines. Google saw an all-time high 67% of searches performed in March, also according to Hitwise.
MySpace TV came in second place last month, with just over 9% of visits. Google Video was 3rd at 4%, meaning that the two Google properties combine to hold a staggering 77% marketshare. Hitwise numbers are limited to US internet users and in this case to 68 selected top video websites.
Meanwhile, shockingly, YouTube was NOT blamed for the teen web attack in which a Florida teen lured another into a home to be beaten specifically for a YouTube posting. The Associated Press was among those who were actually able to establish that YouTube was not the problem here.
