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MySpace Trumps YouTube in Video

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the it-is-on-all-the-internets dept.

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."

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  1. Watched but not watched.. by joshetc · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Watched but not watched.. by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

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    2. Re:Watched but not watched.. by bronzey214 · · Score: 4, Interesting

      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?

    3. Re:Watched but not watched.. by slashkitty · · Score: 3, Insightful

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

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  2. Re:really? by varmittang · · Score: 3, Funny

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

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  3. Video killed the radio star. by Entropy · · Score: 4, Funny
    MySpace Trumps YouTube in Video


    Maybe, but I won't *believe* it till I watch it on youtube.
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  4. Re:really? by nanio · · Score: 4, Insightful

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

  5. Willingly? by xitshsif · · Score: 3, Insightful

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

  6. Not so fast! by slashmojo · · Score: 3, Insightful

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

  7. Re:really? by kirun · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

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  8. Forgetting something: by Donniedarkness · · Score: 3, Interesting
    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

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  9. Re:I'm more interested in August figures. by kalirion · · Score: 3, Funny

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

  10. Letter to the editor by WedgeTalon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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