Comments on: YouTube Vs MySpace

By: YouTube vs. MySpace. Dont Believe the Hype - Buzzsonic.com

YouTube vs. MySpace. Dont Believe the Hype - Buzzsonic.com — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 05:06:26 +0000

[...] toolbar installed on their browser, hardly an exhaustive user demographic. A fact only Mashable and GigaOm seemed to [...]

By: NubYouTuber

NubYouTuber — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 13:32:19 +0000

WELL for one, MySpace was sold for more than $1B. Therefore I see that YouTube will be bigger than MySpace if google video doesn’t take off…

By: Ifmyspace

Ifmyspace — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 20:53:38 +0000

I love myspace more a little-_-p and Your blog is so great:)

By: jason

jason — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:51:17 +0000

Sometimes people use alexa graphs to show popularity, but we know that alexa gets its rankings from a browser plug-in. A similar question exists, where does hitwise get its numbers from?

By: Jesse Kopelman

Jesse Kopelman — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 17:33:56 +0000

These con high-valuation for You Tube arguments are pretty much the same ones that were used against Skype. Remember how that worked out?

By: marc

marc — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 17:01:34 +0000

re: ad value…myspace does not monetize its traffic well b/c ppl arent' visiting myspace to view ads. it's like AIM, whose ad value is low as well.

re: video ads, it will be hard for youtube to serve 30sec ads into 30sec clips - how many consumer will stand for that?

By: marc

marc — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 17:00:19 +0000

i think there’s a difference between site visits and traffic (defined as bandwidth used). i assume youtube is nowehre close to myspace in terms of pageviews, may be on par wrt uniques, and is probably further ahead with regard to bandwidth used…

By: dave

dave — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 16:31:49 +0000

sorry, let me clarify: “reach” surpasses in july, but “rank” and “page views” do not – which raises the new thorny issue: myspace is about viewing tons of pages – blogs, pics, etc – while youtube is often one or two static hit videos (one page or two pages) – so imho, “reach” is a better measure for success, not page views…

any internet marketeers wanna chime in on the value issue here – as in, relative value of ad placement on youtube vs myspace where reach is an inverse relationship to page views and rank?

By: dave

dave — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 16:28:59 +0000

i’m not so sure about how one might interpret that alexa data…if you want some entertainment, check out alexaholic’s results for youtube vs myspace, it shows the real you tube passage taking place within the past 4 to 6 weeks:

http://www.alexaholic.com/youtube.com+myspace.com

By: Chris Brainard

Chris Brainard — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 16:20:56 +0000

I think we are going to see youtube get bought out shortly by some media gaint. That is what all the hype says to me. Youtube is pretty much a money pit and there is a ton of other competition like Google video and http://www.gotuit.com/ to name a few. There is really no sense in comparing myspace to youtube as they are totally different, unless you are trying to market them.

By: CG

CG — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 15:44:28 +0000

Eyeballs is meaningless, let’s talk bottom line. YouTube isn’t worth a billion cause no one sees a way to make it worth that. When you start with no business model, it’s hard to just make one up halfway down the road (see MySpace, YouTube, etc etc). Why would NBC pay a ton of money for a company that will probably be out of cash (and desperate for a sale) in like 10 months?

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 06:49:53 +0000

good point stewart. you need to explain to us how hitwise really works or not?

By: Stewart Butterfield

Stewart Butterfield — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 06:09:53 +0000

I thought Hitwise was US only? (And heavily biased towards dialup users who be less likely to watch a lot of video online.) YouTube could be bigger worldwide … be interesting when the next Comscore and NNR numbers come out.

By: Jordan Mitchell

Jordan Mitchell — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 05:29:03 +0000

"Re-eyeball-ification" is right, and it is disconcerting. But I think things are different this time. Feel free to disagree but I don't think venture capital is pouring into completely unproven business models. And the ad model, which formed the basis/hope for so many business models in the past only to fall flat on its face, is much stronger now, thanks to the maturation of keyword-based and other highly targeted advertising.

The hype is just that; thank goodness we don't have the IPO market conditions to turn the hype into irrational exuberance. And you know, it's ironic in that it's the people like us on the Web talking about all this stuff that's proliferating the hype. :-)

By: Mick

Mick — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 03:55:57 +0000

Well David, we're interested because it effects a number of other businesses, like Google and other ad serving/aggregating companies. Also, when business like these get big, there are complementary businesses that grow up beside them.

I'm interested anyway.

I'd like to see another chart showing income?

By: David Pursell

David Pursell — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 03:41:42 +0000

Just wondering, why do you, or your readers, really care about whether Youtube or Myspace is bigger? It matters to Youtube and Myspace, but does it matter to you? What do you gain from it either way? Unless you own shares in either company, nothing.

Or like one of the comments says "There is no way the company is worth $1B" Why does he care? Does it affect him at all if Youtube is worth $1B? Or if it crashes and burns? Nope.

I guess I'm just curious why people seem to want to broadcast their opinion on this, when it really doesn't affect them at all.