MySpace Trumps YouTube in Video

An anonymous reader writes to mention a MarketWatch article revealing MySpace is actually the largest video provider on the internet. From the article: "Now that third-party figures are available for individual sites, we're beginning to see who's actually attracting those coveted eyeballs. According to a new video report that comScore Media Metrix will begin offering starting Tuesday morning, 37.4 million unique individuals watched a video on MySpace in July. All told, they collectively watched 1.4 billion videos. By comparison, the audience on Yahoo watched 812 million video streams, making Yahoo the No. 2 most popular video site as measured by video streams. Yahoo ranks No. 1 as measured by unique streamers (similar to unique visitors), but barely beats out MySpace."

Comments

Watched but not watched..

[joshetc]

With all the movies on personal myspaces it makes one wonder how many were actually watched Its not often someone will visit the same youtube video daily. Very common for one to visit their friend's myspace daily though.

Re:Watched but not watched..

[LiquidCoooled]

The videos are just an incidental part of visiting the page.
Its like the god damned 1998 geocities crapola.

Re:Watched but not watched..

[bronzey214]

I only RPOTFA (read part of... well you know) but it seems like those were the ones actually watched. It calls them unique views.

My question is - are they the ones just initialized or viewed completely? I know a lot of the videos on myspace are dumb home videos by 12 year olds (as are most on YouTube, but the overall quality on YouTube is better) so does a viewing count as only clicking on the video of the kid eating the worm, or is it after the video completes and you see him puke it up?

Re:Watched but not watched..

[slashkitty]

My guess is that they are actually just watching YOUTUBE videos on Myspace pages. youtube is by far the #1 video provider.

Re:Watched but not watched..

[Golias]

With all the movies on personal myspaces it makes one wonder how many were actually watched Its not often someone will visit the same youtube video daily. Very common for one to visit their friend's myspace daily though.

I have a MySpace page, and I have many friends with MySpace pages which I visit frequently. Video links on a MySpace page are *not* viewed every time the page is visited. You must click on "Play" to see them.

Also, it seems that the vast majority of videos shared on MySpace are embedded YouTube objects, so to say MySpace is "trumping" YouTube is silly. They are very much intertwined.

In fact, I'm far more likely to find interesting and entertaining YouTube videos via the blogs of friends (or the Videos links on Fark.com) than I ever would by simply rummaging through YouTube's main page. They are a video hosting service, not a video search engine service.

Re:Watched but not watched..

[Paul Slocum]

If you look at the stats, Myspace had 37k unique streamers/day, and Youtube had 30k unique streamers/day. So they're pretty close for number of unique video users. It's just that Myspace gets a lot more videos viewed per user, which I suspect is from embedded and pushed content.

The quality of the content of the videos on Myspace isn't even close to Youtube IMO. I just quit watching Myspace videos because they were often ads, or they just weren't funny or interesting. The features on Youtube often are funny, or are really creative and/or weird, which is cool. Plus they have so much rare and vintage content. And I've never had anyone send me a link to a Myspace video, but I get sent links to Youtube videos very frequently.

Re:Watched but not watched..

[dthree]

No, those would be counted for YouTube. TFA mentions this.

Re:really?

[varmittang]

Get enough retarded people together and they will procreate. Thus, Myspace.

Video killed the radio star.

[Entropy]

MySpace Trumps YouTube in Video

Maybe, but I won't *believe* it till I watch it on youtube.

Re:Who cares?

[LiquidCoooled]

So you are the guy sitting on pornotube all day.

How is the data collected?

[Anonymous Coward]

While the article mentions that a third party is gathering the data, they don't mention exactly how the measurements are made? Are the sites now instrumented to provide the stats? Do they assume that landing on a page with a video is the same as "viewing" it (I assume not from the description). Also interesting would be to find out how much data is actually being streamed, how long the videos are and how long the user watches a particular video (e.g. MySpace users tend to watch 80% of the video while youtube users are only watching 40%). Just wait until any of the bigboys figure out how to automatically do product placement within the videos.

Re:really?

[nanio]

MySpace has taught more kids CSS than all of us combined.

Willingly?

[xitshsif]

Many of videos on MySpace start playing as soon as the page loads. I wonder how many videos are actively played on each site.

Not so fast!

[slashmojo]

How many myspace videos were user generated/uploaded rather than myspace/fox promo vids pushed to all their users?

this will save Universal some time

[User 956]

An anonymous reader writes to mention a MarketWatch article revealing MySpace is actually the largest video provider on the internet.

In other news, Universal has announced that they plan to sue MySpace first, then YouTube.

And?

[Trashhalo]

How is a study like this helpful at all? Find a site you like and use it. I personally like youtube because its layout doesn't kill braincells. Secondly its a site designed from the ground up to share videos not something added onto a social networking site as a after thought. But back to my original point my needs are different than your needs and thats why there are different sites offering video. If myspace works for you then run with it. The only thing that a article like this will cause is flamewars.

Re:really?

[kirun]

The average MySpace user has trouble reading the English language. Due to a tool on my site called "CSS Preview" having a feedback form (with a nice heading above it announcing this fact), I get the occasional submission of some lame MySpace template from somebody who clearly thinks that MySpace is the internets, and my site will magically detect what they wanted and turn their markup-vomit into a display of how their inane ramblings will look when a template created by running FrontPage output through the Netscape Rainbow Colorizer is thrown at it. MySpace users also rudely hotlink my images.

I wouldn't care so much if their Land That Design Forgot left me alone, but I'm getting their stupidity on me and I don't like it.

Forgetting something:

[Donniedarkness]

I think they're forgetting something big in this report-- Most videos on myspace are not HOSTED by myspace (As a matter of fact, a lot of the--probably most I've seen-- were youtube). Also, most videos put on a myspace page are PLAYED each time someone visits the page, and I (unfortunately) know several people with SEVERAL videos on their page (one girl in particular with 5 videos).

So these statistics are kind of BS...I'd be much more interested in seeing how many slashdotters have a myspace account.

Myspace.com/uryuu_Ishida

It's the end of the world :(

[QX-Mat]

NB. Irrelevent opinional post.

Since I've not seen a single myspace video... only youtube videos via myspace... it looks like the world is coming to an end because I've lost my grip on reality. (finally! yay - I'm diagnosed)

Or, you might find that myspace doesnt trump youtube, but that the original accessor site IS mysapce and that the videos are HOSTED by youtube.

Finding the google news portal, "the biggest news site on planet earth ever", or google.com as "the internet", might also be great articles.

Matt

Re:I'm more interested in August figures.

[kalirion]

So based on a sample size of 2, you have come to the conclusion that YouTube's popularity exploded in recent two months?

Re:really?

[TheRaven64]

MySpace users also rudely hotlink my images.

Oh, but there are so many fun things you can do with this. For best results, only divert 10% or so of MySpace referrers to something else; that will keep the page owner guessing when they receive complaints, look at their page, and see what they expect to see.

Letter to the editor

[WedgeTalon]

Dear Slashdot,

I really enjoyed your "MySpace Trumps YouTube in Video" article. It was very insightful. I also liked how it never mentioned YouTube save for in the title, cause then I have to read the original article to find out what you're going on about!

Yours Truly,
WedgeTalon

Re:really?

[caluml]

Yeah.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?yourdomain\.com [NC]
RewriteRule .* /files/goatse.jpg [NC,L]

It'll soon stop that.

Re:really?

[ElleyKitten]

Last I checked, myspace has no teaching facility, and never will. I'm assuming most of the kids are copying & pasting CSS code from some blinky-ass website to copy & paste.

Copy and paste still teaches. Even if it starts out looking like gibberish, eventually, you see that this gibberish does that, and that gibberish does this, and you can start to break it down. Then, you get curious, and want to do something slightly different from your copy and paste, so you start actually working with the code to see what does what, so then you can make your own. I learned more about working with a command line copying and pasting from UbuntuGuide.com than I learned in my "Advanced" Linux Administration course in college. A lot of it has to do with learning being easier when you're doing what you want rather than what someone tells you, but I would definately agree that MySpace has taught more people more CSS and HTML than probably anything else.