A service outage of several hours represented some growing pains for the YouTube video sharing service, which has become so popular that it is now part of the comScore Media Metrix Top 50.
YouTube took the site down for several hours. Internet operational metrics service Keynote Systems disclosed that YouTube had broke into the Media Metrix Top 50 for the first time, based on its July traffic. 16 million visitors hit YouTube during the month, good enough to make number 40 on comScore's list. In online video, Yahoo led the way with 21.1 million visitors to its video site in July, while MySpace Videos brought in 20 million visitors. Jack Flanagan, executive vice president of comScore Media Metrix, said in the report that "Many publishers and advertisers are responding to this trend, which means advertising dollars will continue to migrate online where consumers can be targeted with efficiency." That was part of IAC/InterActiveCorp's motivation to
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