Archive for October, 2007

YouTube growing further: 47.5 million Unique Visitors in US

GigaOM has just put out the September web statistics from comScore on the major social networking sites, including YouTube, FaceBook, MySpace.
Yes, FaceBook seems to have slowed down in growth, although this is the most dynamically expanding site in the UK and in several European countries. On the other hand, YouTube is very stable, steadily growing […]

More Than Half of Europe’s Online Population on Social Networking Sites

The more than half means that 56.4% of all the European web users is regularly using social networking sites, according to comScore’s data on August 2007.
The interesting thing is that UK is in the lead with a staggering 77.9% and Spain comes second with 61.5%. But while the English spend almost six hours on the […]

Video Mashup Wishlist: Pandora, Videoclips, Lyrics

I think the title tells you all I want to squeeze into my Pandora pages: I want to listen to the song (let’s say White Stripes- Elephant), then I feel the urge to peek into the lyrics (- you got it, I am not a native English speaker, plus I think of lyrics as poetry), […]

Video Revenue Sharing Schemes: Google AdSense vs. Blinkx AdHoc

Play the video + ad, and get some share of the ad revenue

There have been recently two important market moves regarding (more or less) contextually targeted video ad revenue share schemes. One step taken by Google offering web site owners to have YouTube video boxes on the site and get money for advertisements running in […]