Precisely. Well said mike. I completely agree.
I have one question. Does the fact that we're comparing apple's and oranges mean this thing still hasn't even shaken out the winners and loosers yet? To me it would seem to indicate there's a lot more terretory yet to cover. -Mike mmeiser.com/blog mefeedia.com On 2/3/07, Mike Hudack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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] > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
