Stats on Net video...and a new video-sharing site that pays producers
- Mary Hodder of Dabble has a blog post that serves as a report on the "state of Internet video," circa June 2006. Most interesting to me are these stats she cites from Hitwise, from May 2006:
Top ten video sites by market share/traffic
1. YouTube 42.94%
2. MySpace Videos 24.22%
3. Yahoo! Video Search 9.58%
4. MSN Video Search 9.21%
5. Google Video Search 6.48%
6. AOL Video 4.28%
7. iFilm 2.28%
8. Grouper 0.69%
9. Daily Motion 0.22%
10. vSocial 0.09%
- News.com reports on a new video-sharing site with the unfortunate name eefoof.com. Greg Sandoval writes:
Eefoof's offer goes like this: Once a month the company tallies the number of page views for each submission. The company then looks at overall traffic and calculates what percentage of the page views was generated by each submission. Ad revenue is divided accordingly.
"Once your account exceeds $25, we will send you a PayPal transfer," the company wrote on its site. Specific percentages weren't dislosed on the Eefoof Web site.
posted by Scott Kirsner at
4:26 PM
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Scott - wrote about eefoof over on hdforindies.com the other day:
http://www.hdforindies.com/2006/07/google-offers-free-premium-content_03.html
boils down to this: will eefoof's money sharing scheme attract more premium content than the non-profit sharing sites? And will the footage be better than the more popular sites, better enough to draw more traffic away?
I don't think so, not without a significant marketing push, or unless they do something better on the CLIENT side (the consumers viewing) that makes their service better or more appealing.
If somebody started hosting higher quality videos, or provided better integrated encoding tools, that might make a difference amongst the top 5 or 10. Below that threshold, I don't think it would matter much unless they were killing the other players in the quality department. Seen Apple's HD trailers on a 1920x1200 monitor? They rock. Also, somewhat related, Apple now includes 5.1 audio in some of their web trailers - surely practice runs for their online movie service, long overdue?
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Mike Curtis, at 12:20 AM
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