Metacafe bets on the power of wikis. This is an interesting response to the increasing market dominance of YouTube, and though I hesitate to bringing up splogging, the cynic in me feels that Metacafe’s move has quite a lot to do with boosting their results in Google.
Newer, faster, better, etc. Interesting stats further down:
There have been over 100 million requests to view programmes since BBC iPlayer launched. In May alone, there were 21.8 million requests to view, some 700,000 per day on average.
Tubemogul, an online video distribution and analytics company, has just released a list of the top 40 online video producers. And while it’s early days for this particular medium, and this chart isn’t definitive, I think that the fact Chris Pirillo ranks above CBS says some significant about how YouTube is changing the game.
Compete’s analysis of video traffic for April shows that Google (including both YouTube and the homegrown Google video) saw traffic jump 2.4 per cent over the month, giving them 50.4% of all video viewing sessions on the web. This is an incredible figure and makes the $1.5 billion in stock Google paid for YouTube, which was seen by many pundits as too much, look like the deal of the century.
