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By: Who is winning the video race? » Mathew Ingram: mathewingram.com/work

Who is winning the video race? » Mathew Ingram: mathewingram.com/work — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 20:05:43 +0000

[...] But wait. Blogger Greg Sterling notes that Hitwise has completely different numbers. In August, Hitwise says YouTube was by far the bigger draw, with more than 45 per cent of the traffic to Internet video sites. MySpace came in a distant second with 23 per cent, with Google Video at just a little over 10 per cent. VC Confidential has some thoughts about the difference in stats between Hitwise and ComScore, an issue that has come up more than once in the past. [...]

By: Mathew Ingram

Mathew Ingram — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 19:50:11 +0000

Sorry about that, Rohan. Forgot to include the link — I’ve updated the post.

Link is http://webmeasurement.wordpress.com/2006/08/10/siliconbeat-beats-webanalytics-industry/

Mathew

By: Rohan Jayasekera

Rohan Jayasekera — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 19:45:33 +0000

Mathew, in “(a good description here)” was the “here” meant to be a link?

By: Mathew Ingram

Mathew Ingram — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 16:36:25 +0000

An excellent point, George — I totally agree.

By: George Tsiolis

George Tsiolis — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 16:27:57 +0000

Mathew, just another reason why the only true measure of a website’s success is revenue and profit. Traffic, hits, page views, members, blah, blah, blah. Tell me how much money you’re making and then I’ll take an interest in your traffic. Otherwise, all of the traffic talk is like listening to a bunch of high school jocks comparing popularity - and we all know how fast popularity can change on the web.

I’ll take 1 Freshbooks over 10 popular web 2.0 sites any day of the week.

Best,
George