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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YouTube continues to grow faster than the overall market for online video.
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With one viewer in five coming from China and more than half from beyond US borders, NBA.com set records for video replays in February and was ranked the world's third-most popular website.
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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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A new survey has found that more musicians are embracing the internet as a way of reaching new fans. A study by an American research company, Pew Internet, suggests that some musicians do not agree with the
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By Ryan Blitstein, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun. 20--YouTube has created local versions of its video-sharing site in nine countries, including France and the United Kingdom, the company said Tuesday.
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It is commonly believed that Google bought YouTube for $1.6 billion because the wildly popular video-sharing site represented a great way for the search giant to expand into video advertising.
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Google is ranked top Web brand and Microsoft is top "parent company," but AOL is tops when it comes to visitor time spent on the site, according to latest Nielsen/NetRatings figures.
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The beta release of this YouTube competitor is easy to use, but lags in content.
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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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More television viewers are turning to  the Internet to watch videos, films and TV episodes, according  to a new survey. In the past year, YouTube has widened its lead  as the top destination for online videos, while search engines  and television networks have gained ground.
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Two million YouTube viewers recently sought the answer to the question, "Can water burn?"
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(InfoWorld) - People in the U.S. have steadily increased the amount of time they spend watching videos online and Google's YouTube remains by far their preferred video site, according to a study. In July, almost 75 percent of U.S. Internet users watched videos online, up from 71.4 percent in March, according to comScore Networks. The monthly time spent watching videos went up to an average of 181 minutes per viewer in July from 145 minutes per viewer in March, according to comScore. People in the U.S. are also watching more video clips. In July, the average user watched 68 clips, up from 55 clips in March. Overall, almost 134 million U.S. Internet users watched a little over 9 billion video clips in July, up from 126.6 million people and a little over 7 billion clips in March. In July, Google ranked as the top provider of video clips, serving up 27 percent of the total -- almost 2.5 billion clips -- most of them via YouTube, comScore said. Yahoo nabbed a distant second place, serving up 4.3 percent of the clips. Fox Interactive Media, the News Corp. Internet division that includes MySpace.com, came in third with 3.3 percent. Viacom (3.1 percent) and Disney (2 percent) rounded out the top five. Google also ranked first in July in unique video viewers with almost 68 million, followed by Fox Interactive (35.8 million), Yahoo (35.3 million), Time Warner (26.6 million), and Viacom (22.6 million), comScore said. After years of unfulfilled promises, online video has taken off in a big way in the past year and a half, rapidly accelerating its momentum across a wide variety of sites. The revolution is widely credited to YouTube and its video-sharing format, but now companies are prominently featuring videos in portals, news sites, blogs, social networks, online stores, and film and television industry sites. YouTube's popularity can be attributed to several factors, including its ease of use forÂ bothÂ viewers and uploaders; a strong community of millions of people who submit, view, and share personal videos; and an abundance of commercial clips from movies and television. It is this last component of its popularity -- the commercial clips -- that have put YouTube at the center of the Internet industry's struggle with video copyright protection because many of those videos are copied and uploaded without their owners' permission. A landmark legal action is currently under way, asÂ Viacom pursues a copyright-infringement lawsuit against Google over the unauthorized appearance of its clips on YouTube. In addition to copyright, other technical and operational issues are in flux, such as the options for generating revenue from video content, the best ways to use video for online advertising, and the different alternatives of delivering the clips to viewers. Another area of interest are video search engines, as well as alternate devices for online video beyond the PC, from small ones like cell phones to large ones like living-room home entertainment centers. For example, currently the Web seems a vehicle primarily for short video clips as evidenced by comScore's finding that the average video clip duration in July was 2.7 minutes.
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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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YouTube continues to  attract attention from the labels, managers and aspiring  artists.
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YouTube is set to replace BBC.com as most visited general entertainment site for UK Web surfers.
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By Tim Luckhurst  With 35 million regular users and a reputation at the cutting- edge of cool, the video-sharing site YouTube.com was the happening new media company of 2006. It won Time magazine's award for Invention of the Year.