YouTube visits larger than rivals combined: survey
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YouTube, which has had to pull  copyrighted videos off its site after legal attacks by some big  media franchises, has enjoyed a surge in U.S. audience share  that leaves it far larger than the next 64 video-sharing sites  combined, a survey found.
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The beta release of this YouTube competitor is easy to use, but lags in content.
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By San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun. 20--YouTube's global appeal   YouTube's global popularity is growing as it introduces local versions in other countries. More than a third of the people in Spain who spent time online in May visited the video-sharing Web site at least once.
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Anyone with an Internet connection can watch videos of bombings and sniper attacks against U.S. forces -- shot and edited by Islamic militants and broadcast on YouTube, the world's largest video-sharing Web ...Comment
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Online couch potatoes will now have a lot more viewing options when watching the popular video Web site YouTube.
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(InfoWorld) - Paris-based video sharing site Dailymotion SA has landed a fresh round of funding to help it compete with U.S. rival YouTube, which has been gaining strength in Europe since it launched local versions of its service in June. Like YouTube, Dailymotion invites visitors to pick from a huge variety of streaming videos, or to upload their own videos to its site. On Friday, the company landed an additional US$34 million in venture capital funding to continue its development, a spokeswoman said. The investors are Advent Venture Partners LLP and AGF Private Equity. AGFPE's investments include French online dating service Meetic.com and professional networking site Viadeo.com, a rival to LinkedIn. Dailymotion took an early lead in tailoring content for different nationalities, offering sites for 14 countries including China, Germany, Japan, Russia and Turkey, but in June YouTube, owned by Google Inc., struck back with its own French-language service, as well as localized sites for other countries. YouTube's internationalization has hit Dailymotion, according to European audience figures from market researcher Comscore. Starting at 54.7 million unique visitors in February, the European audience for YouTube's properties rose steadily to 72.2 million in July. Dailymotion's visitor numbers also rose initially, from 11.8 million in February to 16.3 million in May, but then they stalled, declining to 14.7 million in July. German site MyVideo.de also grew, but more slowly, from 9.1 million visitors in February to 10.3 million in June, the same number it attracted in July. DailyMotion still reaches more viewers in its native France than does YouTube, according to Comscore's figures, but its lead is narrowing. Both companies attracted more viewers overall, to the detriment of smaller players in the market. The German market, too, is becoming a two-horse race, with YouTube drawing further ahead of MyVideo Broadband SRL. Third-placed Clipfish GmbH & Co. KG now has less than half the audience of MyVideo, according to Comscore, which counts unique visitors aged 15 and over, excluding traffic from public computers and mobile phones. To attract more visitors, Dailymotion is looking to strike further deals with rights owners like Warner Music, which agreed to allow Dailymotion to host music videos in return for a cut of the revenue. As part of that strategy, it will begin using a digital fingerprinting technology from Audible Magic Corp. to identify the owners of copyright material. As a video is uploaded, Audible Magic's software calculates a signature unique to that file and compares it to the signatures in a central database of works claimed by the copyright holder. If the signatures match, the software signals the upload as a copyright violation. Â
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(InfoWorld) - Google is gathering some of its top executives in Paris next week for an international press conference, and speculation is rife that announcements will include a local version of YouTube for European countries. France 24, a French public TV channel, confirmed Friday that it has been in talks with Google, suggesting the search giant may be lining up local content for its video-sharing service. Google's YouTube events calendar pegs Tuesday -- the day of the press conference -- for an unspecified "Paris launch." A Google spokeswoman in France declined to comment on the France 24 talks or speculation about local versions of YouTube. YouTube is already popular in Europe despite having only an English language interface. Offering local language versions, along with more local TV content, could help it compete more effectively with homegrown alternatives, said Bob Ivins, managing director of comScore Europe. France's most popular video site is DailyMotion, according to figures from comScore, although YouTube is close behind. DailyMotion, which can be viewed in several languages, had 6.6 million unique visitors in April, compared to 5.8 million for YouTube, comScore said. In Germany, YouTube topped the rankings with 7.6 million visitors, only slightly ahead of Germany's MyVideo.de. Across Europe as a whole, YouTube has a strong lead, with 60.6 million visitors, followed by DailyMotion with 14.5 million. But the European market is fractured, with YouTube attracting only around a quarter of the total audience, comScore said. YouTube received a boost in France this week from a video that purported to show French President Nicolas Sarkozy drunk during a news conference at the G8 Summit last week. The video has been watched more than 2 million times, although the Belgian newscaster who suggested Sarkozy was drunk has now reportedly apologized. Cutting deals to use European TV programming would help Google avoid potential copyright infringement lawsuits and be consistent with its strategy to partner with media providers. Google said separately this week that it is testing new tools that will try to identify copyright content and prevent it from being uploaded to its sites. Among the attendees at next week's press day will be Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Marissa Mayer, vice president for search products and user experience, along with unnamed guests.
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MySpace.com vs YouTube : Online Video Wars MySpace and YouTube are beginning to duke it out over which site serves the most online videos and according to a couple of recent studies, it is still undecided which site streams the most content.  Yahoo Video and Google Video are both fairly active in the online video market, [...]
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BBC Click examines the explosion in sites supporting user generated content such as YouTube.
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YouTube announces nice international versions of its popular web video service.
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New Pew Internet study says nearly 30 percent of U.S. residents tag online content.
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A chart with an article on Sept. 30 about the business model of The St. Petersburg Times in Florida included an incorrect figure from Nielsen/NetRatings for the Web site traffic of a competitor, The Tampa Tribune, in November 2006. The total number of unique visitors was about 870,000, not 637,247, according to Nielsen/NetRatings.
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Yahoo Search's Slurp and How to Write for It  As the world's second most popular search tool, Yahoo moves a tremendous amount of traffic and is a very credible alternative to Google. Yahoo receives over 2.76 billion page views per day from hundreds of millions of unique users. It boasts over ...
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A survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project provides the first large-scale snapshot of what artists think about the Internet and file-sharing.
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YouTube Video &#038; Usage Facts There&#8217;s an interesting article in the WSJ (sub req&#8217;d) on YouTube, with some data and metrics, by Lee Gomes today: I did a scrape of YouTube a month ago and found there were 5.1 million videos. By Sunday, the end of another scrape, that number had grown by about 20% to 6.1 [...]
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The debate over hits versus page views versus unique visitors has taken a new twist, thanks to measurement firm Nielsen//NetRatings, which is scrapping page views in favor of what it deems more accurate metrics.
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Measuring time on page instead of hits is likely to hurt Google but help YouTube.