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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?

  2. 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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  3. Re:really? by nanio · · Score: 4, Insightful

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