Compete's numbers are even worse than Alexa's, which are themselves very often demonstrated to be false. Compete's methodology is inherently flawed on numerous dimensions. If you have any doubt about this look back to the Ze Frank/Andrew Michael Baron disagreement as just one of many examples.
That said, I'm not sure I disagree with the conclusions in general. The funny thing is that Compete is comparing apples and oranges. Google Video is rapidly transitioning into a discovery engine that doesn't host. No one I know (other than Yahoo employees who are forced to) uses Yahoo Video to host, but tons of people use it to find new videos from sites all over the Web. AOL carries tons of commercial content. This is like comparing ebay and amazon traffic in 1997 and saying "Amazon is winning! Amazon is winning!" ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: Yahoo Videoblogging Group <[email protected]> Sent: Sat Feb 03 17:43:45 2007 Subject: [videoblogging] Top Video Sites in December 2006 NewTeeVee posted a list of the leading video sites according to Compete data for the month of December 2006. Here's how the top five break down: YouTube 41.1% MySpace 19.3% Google 10.2% AOL 6.2% Yahoo 3.6% You can read the full list at http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/newteevee/~3/85628611/ What's interesting is that Revver doesn't even show up in the Top 20. NewTeeVee does point out that Compete is relatively new and could be under-reporting numbers. Still, that's interesting. -- Andrew Creative Director, The World's Angriest Puppets Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.angrypuppets.com Blog: puppetvision.blogspot.com _________________________________________________________________ Need personalized email and website? Look no further. It's easy with Doteasy $0 Web Hosting! Learn more at www.doteasy.com Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
