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MySpace Trumps YouTube in Video

Posted by Zonk on Tue Sep 26, 2006 02:31 PM
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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Watched but not watched.. (Score:5, Insightful)

by joshetc (955226) on Tuesday September 26 2006, @02:33PM (#16203911)

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.. by jimstapleton (Score:1) Tuesday September 26 2006, @02:36PM
- Re:Watched but not watched.. (Score:5, Insightful)
  
  by LiquidCoooled (634315) on Tuesday September 26 2006, @02:37PM (#16203999)
  
  The videos are just an incidental part of visiting the page.
  Its like the god damned 1998 geocities crapola.
  
  [ Parent ]
  - Re:Watched but not watched.. by chroot_james (Score:1) Tuesday September 26 2006, @03:20PM
    - Re:Watched but not watched.. by LiquidCoooled (Score:1) Tuesday September 26 2006, @03:49PM
      - Re:Watched but not watched.. by jacksonj04 (Score:2) Tuesday September 26 2006, @04:36PM
        Re:Watched but not watched.. by LiquidCoooled (Score:1) Tuesday September 26 2006, @04:41PM
    - Re:Watched but not watched.. by Nasarius (Score:2) Tuesday September 26 2006, @06:46PM
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  - Re:Watched but not watched.. by LiquidCoooled (Score:1) Wednesday September 27 2006, @07:05AM
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- Re:Watched but not watched.. (Score:4, Interesting)
  
  by bronzey214 (997574) <j.rippelNO@SPAMcomcast.net> on Tuesday September 26 2006, @02:40PM (#16204065)
  (http://www.jasonrippel.com/ | Last Journal: Tuesday March 06 2007, @11:20AM)
  
  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?
  
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- Re:Watched but not watched.. by slashkitty (Score:3) Tuesday September 26 2006, @02:51PM
  - Re:Watched but not watched.. by dthree (Score:3) Tuesday September 26 2006, @03:41PM
  - Re:Watched but not watched.. by Anonymous Coward (Score:1) Tuesday September 26 2006, @04:19PM
  - Re:Watched but not watched.. by dfghjk (Score:2) Tuesday September 26 2006, @08:26PM
- Re:Watched but not watched.. by Golias (Score:3) Tuesday September 26 2006, @03:08PM
  - Re:Watched but not watched.. by Golias (Score:2) Wednesday September 27 2006, @03:16PM
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- Re:Watched but not watched.. by Paul Slocum (Score:3) Tuesday September 26 2006, @03:20PM
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really? (Score:1)

by bronzey214 (997574) <j.rippelNO@SPAMcomcast.net> on Tuesday September 26 2006, @02:34PM (#16203927)
(http://www.jasonrippel.com/ | Last Journal: Tuesday March 06 2007, @11:20AM)

Judging by MySpace's average user profile, I didn't even know most of them could program HTML to include videos.

yes, I know of MySpace's video feature. I'm just trying to be 'funny'.

I still consider YouTube's feature to be better due to their (comparative) lack of advertising.
- Re:really? (Score:4, Funny)
  
  by varmittang (849469) on Tuesday September 26 2006, @02:38PM (#16204011)
  (http://www.ducktapeandglue.com/)
  
  Get enough retarded people together and they will procreate. Thus, Myspace.
  
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  - Re:really? by bsims (Score:1) Tuesday September 26 2006, @04:15PM
- Re:really? (Score:4, Insightful)
  
  by nanio (937692) on Tuesday September 26 2006, @02:44PM (#16204159)
  (http://www.echoplanar.com/)
  
  MySpace has taught more kids CSS than all of us combined.
  
  [ Parent ]
  - Re:really? by British (Score:2) Tuesday September 26 2006, @03:17PM
    - Re:really? by ElleyKitten (Score:3) Tuesday September 26 2006, @03:48PM
      - Re:really? by whoa buddy (Score:1) Tuesday September 26 2006, @04:39PM
  - Re:really? by Wakko Warner (Score:2) Wednesday September 27 2006, @09:33AM
- Re:really? by kirun (Score:3) Tuesday September 26 2006, @02:47PM
  - Re:really? by TheRaven64 (Score:3) Tuesday September 26 2006, @03:26PM
    - Re:really? by caluml (Score:3) Tuesday September 26 2006, @03:48PM
    - Re:really? by kirun (Score:1) Tuesday September 26 2006, @03:49PM
  - Re:really? by Darthmalt (Score:2) Tuesday September 26 2006, @03:47PM
Video killed the radio star. (Score:5, Funny)

by Entropy (6967) on Tuesday September 26 2006, @02:39PM (#16204051)

MySpace Trumps YouTube in Video

Maybe, but I won't *believe* it till I watch it on youtube.
I'm more interested in August figures. (Score:1)

by chroot_james (833654) on Tuesday September 26 2006, @02:42PM (#16204117)
(http://www.trailofjames.com/)

I don't think YouTube was the powerhouse it is now back in June. Sure, it was popular, but my parents are using youtube now. They weren't in June. My Mom has had a myspace account since April and doesn't care about myspace videos, but she sends me youtube links all the time now.
- Re:I'm more interested in August figures. (Score:4, Funny)
  
  by kalirion (728907) on Tuesday September 26 2006, @03:06PM (#16204577)
  
  So based on a sample size of 2, you have come to the conclusion that YouTube's popularity exploded in recent two months?
  
  [ Parent ]
  - Re:I'm more interested in August figures. by Xymor (Score:1) Tuesday September 26 2006, @03:46PM
- Re:I'm more interested in August figures. by eodmightier (Score:1) Tuesday September 26 2006, @04:16PM
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How is the data collected? (Score:2, Insightful)

by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2006, @02:43PM (#16204143)

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:How is the data collected? by ran-o-matic (Score:1) Tuesday September 26 2006, @04:02PM
  - Re:How is the data collected? by laughingcoyote (Score:2) Tuesday September 26 2006, @04:39PM
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Willingly? (Score:3, Insightful)

by xitshsif (909565) <simonp@purdue.edu> on Tuesday September 26 2006, @02:44PM (#16204167)

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! (Score:3, Insightful)

by slashmojo (818930) on Tuesday September 26 2006, @02:45PM (#16204177)

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 (Score:3, Funny)

by User 956 (568564) on Tuesday September 26 2006, @02:46PM (#16204197)
(http://www.atomjax.com/)

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? (Score:2, Interesting)

by Trashhalo (985371) on Tuesday September 26 2006, @02:47PM (#16204213)
(http://blog.mindjunk.org/)

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.
better compression (Score:1, Informative)

by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2006, @02:50PM (#16204261)

I upload to both myspace and you tube. myspoace has better compression and audio video sync.
This probably is partially the reason
- Re:better compression by sfe_software (Score:2) Wednesday September 27 2006, @11:41PM
How many Myspace videos are YOUTUBE videos? (Score:1, Interesting)

by abricko (456937) on Tuesday September 26 2006, @02:55PM (#16204363)
(http://alberico.net/)

I don't know but I know a ton of myspace pages are actually filled with embeded youtube videos... so how many can myspace claim are theirs?
- Re:How many Myspace videos are YOUTUBE videos? by dfghjk (Score:2) Tuesday September 26 2006, @08:29PM
Forgetting something: (Score:4, Interesting)

by Donniedarkness (895066) <Donniedarkness.gmail@com> on Tuesday September 26 2006, @03:00PM (#16204475)
(http://gmail.com/)

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
- Re:Forgetting something: by dfghjk (Score:2) Tuesday September 26 2006, @08:36PM
It's the end of the world :( (Score:2, Insightful)

by QX-Mat (460729) on Tuesday September 26 2006, @03:06PM (#16204571)

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
Don't you mean (Score:1)

by thewils (463314) on Tuesday September 26 2006, @03:07PM (#16204589)
(Last Journal: Wednesday May 03 2006, @12:27PM)

MySpace Wallops YouTube?
ComScore (Score:2)

by TrippTDF (513419) <hiland AT gmail DOT com> on Tuesday September 26 2006, @03:19PM (#16204781)

ComScore's rating system is based in part on a traffic-tracker they get on people's computer by pairing it with ad-blockers and other things... it's pretty much spyware. So the users that have it installed are, more than likely, idiots that will install anything. I don't trust their numbers.
Yahoo does videos? (Score:1)

by slysithesuperspy (919764) on Tuesday September 26 2006, @03:29PM (#16205029)

First time I've heard of it.
- Re:Yahoo does videos? by hey (Score:2) Tuesday September 26 2006, @03:40PM
Letter to the editor (Score:4, Insightful)

by WedgeTalon (823522) on Tuesday September 26 2006, @03:33PM (#16205101)

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
Sob (Score:2)

by Yvanhoe (564877) on Tuesday September 26 2006, @03:54PM (#16205555)
(Last Journal: Monday February 12 2007, @04:47PM)

All of that, without the function "save", *sigh*...

By the way, am I the only Amber geek who imagined wired things with MySpace making a call to YouTube thanks to a Trump card ?
In soviet Russia (Score:1, Offtopic)

by mcwop (31034) on Tuesday September 26 2006, @03:57PM (#16205623)
(http://homepage.mac.com/mcwop)

In Soviet Russia mySpace Trumps youTube too.
Yes but.. (Score:1)

by Plutonite (999141) on Tuesday September 26 2006, @04:24PM (#16206107)

the collective pornography industry is sitting back and having a good laugh. Just because it's pr0n doesn't mean you don't count it.
Be fair. We know you've all done it, you statistics-recording, survey-writing freaks!!

P.S: TFA looses its significance when you realize that most of the 1.4 billion video views were of the same scantily clad 14 year old girl.
Just like in the RL commercial sector (Score:1)

by SFSouthpaw (797536) on Tuesday September 26 2006, @05:10PM (#16206915)
(http://www.sfsouthpaw.org/)

The most popular thing is crap.
wow (Score:2)

by johansalk (818687) on Tuesday September 26 2006, @05:17PM (#16207023)

And I use neither myspace or yahoo. What's wrong with me! why am I so abnormal!
But most of them are youtube? (Score:1)

by ninji (703783) on Tuesday September 26 2006, @07:27PM (#16208649)

But most videos viewed on myspace are hosting on youtube and just embeded, I think they are counting videos hosting on youtube but played throuhg myspace as myspace and not youtube.
I find this hard to believe... (Score:1)

by thombone69 (771957) on Tuesday September 26 2006, @08:13PM (#16209103)

...especially since myspace video requires Internet Explorer to even work. ANY other browser nets you an error message if you so much as try to play a video.
- Re:I find this hard to believe... by sfe_software (Score:2) Wednesday September 27 2006, @11:47PM
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Meaningless to me... (Score:2)

by kria (126207) <krilia@@@comcast...net> on Wednesday September 27 2006, @07:45AM (#16213143)
(http://www.dragonfiresigns.com/ | Last Journal: Wednesday October 27 2004, @12:39PM)

While I don't watch many videos online, YouTube would be my only choice out of those for a goodly part of the day. MySpace is blocked by our filter at work.
Re:Who cares? (Score:2, Funny)

by LiquidCoooled (634315) on Tuesday September 26 2006, @02:41PM (#16204083)

So you are the guy sitting on pornotube all day.

[ Parent ]
Re:Who cares? (Score:2)

by b0r1s (170449) on Tuesday September 26 2006, @02:47PM (#16204209)
(http://fight-a-dui.com/)

There's some great videos out there on the various sites. Most of them are just crap, but the classics like George Costanza ("I must be out of I'd pick up the phone") [vobbo.com] clips are worth the effort to find them.

[ Parent ]
Re:the secret of their success ? (Score:2)

by stunt_penguin (906223) on Tuesday September 26 2006, @03:43PM (#16205299)

Unfortunately, the blink tag remains very much in use :'|

[ Parent ]
Re:The sample is not representitive (Score:2)

by LocalH (28506) on Tuesday September 26 2006, @08:33PM (#16209299)
(http://www.s2beta.com/)

It's not spyware any more than the Nielsen TV ratings.

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Watched but not watched.. (Score:5, Insightful)

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really? (Score:1)

Re:really? (Score:4, Funny)

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Video killed the radio star. (Score:5, Funny)

I'm more interested in August figures. (Score:1)

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Willingly? (Score:3, Insightful)

Not so fast! (Score:3, Insightful)

this will save Universal some time (Score:3, Funny)

And? (Score:2, Interesting)

better compression (Score:1, Informative)

How many Myspace videos are YOUTUBE videos? (Score:1, Interesting)

Forgetting something: (Score:4, Interesting)

It's the end of the world :( (Score:2, Insightful)

Don't you mean (Score:1)

ComScore (Score:2)

Yahoo does videos? (Score:1)

Letter to the editor (Score:4, Insightful)

Sob (Score:2)

In soviet Russia (Score:1, Offtopic)

Yes but.. (Score:1)

Just like in the RL commercial sector (Score:1)

wow (Score:2)

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