Comments on: YouTube Update: Majority of Traffic is International

By: Martin Chartrand

Martin Chartrand — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:35:06 +0000

Most people outside the US are pretty well clueless. Here if you wan't to see something worth watching you browse to a specialty netcaster.

At the end of the day content creators will own the internet!

Not the widget makers & the likes! The internet run's on content not containers.

I my case would be candidates are allready trickling in (whitout stale media adverts)!

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By: Between the Lines mobile edition

Between the Lines mobile edition — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 14:41:48 +0000

[...] share of videos viewed, compared to Yahoo’s 3.5 percent and Microsoft’s 1.9 percent. YouTube is uploading 10 hours of video every [...]

By: Liz Gannes

Liz Gannes — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:50:07 +0000

Charles — I know! Actually in a story about YouTube mobile earlier this week Reuters treated the word so awkwardly it made me laugh out loud.

“Monetization is a code word among Internet companies for running advertising alongside Web content.”

http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssTechMediaTelecomNews/idUSN2316792220080124?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0

By: Charles Iliya Krempeaux

Charles Iliya Krempeaux — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:55:02 +0000

The high percentage of international traffic is believable.

I used to be the Principal Software Engineer at an ad network... and... I won't name names for obvious reasons... but I know a number of the big portals have similar high percentages of international traffic. (I.e., >50%)

The problem for them was that these were in countries were they couldn't "monetize" the traffic. (I hate that word BTW... "monetize"... but anyways....)

Of course, that's only a problem if you are trying to make a living of this stuff.

-- Charles

By: Frank Sinton

Frank Sinton — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:44:39 +0000

I'm not surprised by the iPhone usage. Mefeedia actually gets more users on the PSP, but then again we don't have a button on the iPhone!

Also, the Playstation 3 and Nintendo Wii are close behind the iPhone. I wonder if YouTube is seeing this as well?

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:50:20 +0000

I think it may be initial curiosity than actual regular usage. I've only watched a handful of videos on my iPhone, and the other times were me showing off the phones abilities to people, which I'm sure every iPhone owner does.

So are they looking at us silly Americans? Or the videos served internationally are specific to their regions?