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."

better compression

[Anonymous Coward]

I upload to both myspace and you tube. myspoace has better compression and audio video sync.
This probably is partially the reason

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.