YouTube Is King of Online Video

Online video sites have a long way to go if they want to catch up with YouTube. You might say that it has become the Google of online video, even if Google has its own video service. Hitwise says that as of the end of last week, YouTube controlled 43 percent of Internet video traffic, the same percentage Google holds in search queries.

YouTube 42nd on the list of most visited sites out of the 500,000 sites that Hitwise tracks. A magic combination of social networking and video sharing also gives YouTube the second highest average visitor length at 13:20 per visitor - second only to Yahoo! Video, where 9.58 percent of video traffic spends an average of just over 15 minutes. In just under two months, Daily Motion (up 300 percent). Here's the top ten and their market share: 1. YouTube 42.94% 2. MySpace Videos 24.22% 3. Yahoo! Video Search 9.58% 4. MSN Video Search 9.21% 5. Google Video Search 6.48% 6. AOL Video 4.28% 7. iFilm 2.28% 8. Grouper 0.69% 9. Daily Motion 0.22% 10. vSocial 0.09% | document.write("Email Murdok here.") Drag this to your Bookmarks. Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") Yahoo My Web