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Did YouTube Pass MySpace?
There is a buzz today that YouTube passed MySpace. It seems to have started with an article in the Guardian (note that the site requires registration with a lot of oddly required questions and the article says little), picked up by the Huffington Post and now is circulating the blogosphere.
Here’s the problem: The only data is from Alexa. While many of us may use Alexa as a rough proxy of what is going on online, it is not a very good proxy. The other issue is that Alexa doesn’t necessarily agree with itself on this one.
The graph that proves the point: MySpace vs. YouTube by Reach
Then there is also this one: MySpace vs. YouTube by Rank
While I’m pointing to unreliable yet oddly fun graphs that are available at no charge online, Google Trends isn’t showing YouTube as being anywhere near MySpace:
What do you think? Which is bigger? Does it matter? Will MySpace crush YouTube once its video serving gets rocking?
I don’t think it matters since they’re different. YouTube is primarily for uploading and watching videos, MySpace isn’t. MySpace has videos but it isn’t the focus. I think their competition would be something like Google Video.
Many people have said that YouTube was built off of MySpace. If that is true, then what happens when MySpace has a reliable video platform and pushes its memebers there instead of to YouTube? What happens to YouTube as Google tries to build out Google Video and as Yahoo gets in the game and the rest join the club?
There is always room for the upstarts but how tied in to MySpace is YouTube?
“Many people have said that YouTube was built off of MySpace.”
Never knew, I heard about YouTube late in the game. They’re a clear #1 in what they do and checking out the competition and I can see why. Not sure what you mean by reliable video platform? MySpace has a few million videos and they work. As far as pushing, how so? There’s a tab for video and they’ve made announcements about it before. And MySpace doesn’t own the users of MySpace so most of them probably still go to YouTube and will continue too. You can check out videos at both places and many places around the web. If you do it first and good, you’re in good shape. People try to get at Ebay, Digg, YouTube, Million Dollar Home Page etc. and they’re still at the top in what they do. And if the others get better, people can still use YouTube and they can make improvements and adapt along the way.