YouTube Pulling 50% More Traffic Than Flattening Competition

MySpace is relaunching their video portal tomorrow, presumably as preparation for the NBC/FOX video site, but it may be too late, according to numbers from Hitwise. As the graph above shows, right after the new year YouTube’s traffic surpassed that of all other video sites combined, and a few weeks ago, YouTube reached traffic 50% higher than the entire rest of the market.
Worse for them is that the blue line, representing the rest of the market, is currently at the same level it was in mid-January. Zero growth is tantamount to death on the internet. YouTube’s 60% market share is already at Google-domination levels, four times that of MySpace, 25 times Yahoo, 30 times MSN Video, 70 times AOL. It’s just crazy.

Original post by Nathan Weinberg