Google and YouTube Own Over Half The Video Market; YouTube Founders Get Shares

Compete.com has released these graphs showing the top 10 video websites, also showing what would happen if Google Video was added to YouTube, due to Google owning YouTube, and thus claiming the traffic of both. As you can see, the Google/YouTube juggernaut owns 51% of the market:
Of the 194 million sessions among the top ten sites, 108.46 million belonged to a Google-owned site. That’s a powerful statistic. Just picture this: If Time Warner bought MySpace, Yahoo, and 10-15 other smaller sites (like Break.com and Stupid Videos), they’d still be losing to Google.
Other YouTube news: The founders of YouTube are getting their share.
Google originally bought YouTube for 3,659,770 shares (442,210 of which were put in escrow). Of those, today it was announced how the YouTube founders and investors would be dividing up those shares:

founder Chad Hurley – Gets 694,087 shares and 41,232 shares in a […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg