Mar
20
Some Enlightening Internet Video Statistics: YouTube
ByOne of my favorite blogs to read is Startup-Review, a case studies blog profiling Web 2.0 companies like MySpace, Facebook, and YouTube and highlight how they got to their elite status.
In their most recent case study, they profile YouTube … and give some statistics on YouTube’s place in the Internet video market … pretty interesting, so I thought I’d share:
- Fastest growing website in Internet history
- On average 100 million videos streamed per day
- 65,000 new video clips are uploaded every day
- More than 13 million unique visitors per month. An average user spends 30 minutes on YouTube and most uploaders are repeat visitors themselves.
- 58% of Internet videos are watched on YouTube
- 20% to 30% of traffic volume is from the US
- Wide range of user demographics, however the largest segment of users is the 18 to 35 year-olds.
- 30% to 40% of the content is copyrighted. There is a clear correlation between eyeballs and copyrighted content.
Funny that you should post this today. I have just discovered why we shouldn’t use YouTube.
If you are wanting to put up a video for your blog – YouTube is not the answer. The quality is terrible, and I have blogged of my discovery of a new video website that I’ll be using instead.