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YouTube Tops in Web Video Market
Video site is far more popular than offerings from Google, Yahoo, AOL, and MSN, researcher says.
Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service
YouTube is the most visited video Web site, attracting almost half of all visitors and towering over giants like Google, Yahoo, AOL, and Microsoft's MSN, according to Hitwise.
For the week ending May 20, YouTube, founded in January 2005, nabbed almost 43 percent of all visits to video Web sites, while the video section of MySpace.com came in second with 24.2 percent, the market researcher said.
The video search engines of Yahoo (9.6 percent), MSN (9.2 percent), Google (6.5 percent), and AOL (4.3 percent) followed.
Rounding out the top 10 were iFilm, Grouper Networks, Dailymotion.com, and Custom One Media's vSocial.com.
Gaining in Popularity
Collectively, traffic to the top 10 video Web sites increased 164 percent in the past three months, New York-based Hitwise said this week.
For many years, online video remained an unfulfilled promise, hampered by high broadband prices, inferior image quality, and reluctance by TV networks and film companies to put their shows and movies on the Web.
However, in the past year, video on the Web has gained momentum, helped by a critical mass of users with broadband access, improved quality, and an embrace by production companies to distribute their films and programs online.
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