Comments on: Is Bing Driving Video Views for Microsoft? http://gigaom.com/video/is-bing-driving-video-views-for-microsoft/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:29:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Nielsen: Vids Slip in Sept., Facebook in the Top 10 http://gigaom.com/video/is-bing-driving-video-views-for-microsoft/#comment-474063 Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:28:02 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=28255#comment-474063 [...] Vids Slip in Sept., Facebook in the Top 10 After a hot streak all summer long, online video stats are a bit more of a mixed bag for September, according to Nielsen. [...]

]]> By: Joly MacFie http://gigaom.com/video/is-bing-driving-video-views-for-microsoft/#comment-474062 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:51:35 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=28255#comment-474062 You are certainly on top of things, Liz!

I guess there was some earlier precedent set on image search. Didn’t some porn site sue google?

]]> By: Liz Gannes http://gigaom.com/video/is-bing-driving-video-views-for-microsoft/#comment-474061 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:15:05 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=28255#comment-474061 @Joly – It looks to me like they are hosting the previews themselves. Here’s an interview where they say it’s fair use: http://www.beet.tv/2009/06/bing-has-integrated-hulu-clips-and-player-.html

]]> By: Joly MacFie http://gigaom.com/video/is-bing-driving-video-views-for-microsoft/#comment-474059 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:57:23 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=28255#comment-474059 Thanks Liz

I had noticed my views increasing in the last year. That explains it.

My guess is, at YouTube, that the change coincided with the Insight ‘Attention’ metric, which measures video stickiness. A product of this, the views, (and the duration), gives a preety accurate metric.

One wonders, does every bing preview add a view at YouTube, or does Bing cache?

]]> By: Liz Gannes http://gigaom.com/video/is-bing-driving-video-views-for-microsoft/#comment-474058 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:35:03 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=28255#comment-474058 @ Joly – As far as I know, YouTube used to be more stringent, but now counts starting a video as a view.

http://newteevee.com/2008/05/19/report-youtube-yahoo-relax-standards-to-inflate-views/

]]> By: Joly MacFie http://gigaom.com/video/is-bing-driving-video-views-for-microsoft/#comment-474057 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:52:50 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=28255#comment-474057 Isn’t it possible that bing is gaming the stats system with its preview function? Every time a user rolls over a title it’s counted as a unique view?

To my knowledge, at YouTube a view is not counted unless the video finishes downloading.

Should a new metric ‘video bits delivered’ be introduced? Surely Hulu, with it’s rapidly growing long-form customer base, would start looking like a real YT .

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