Comments on: Video sharing sites – Alexa rankings

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Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:17:53 +0000

[...] at this post from June 2006, Video sharing sites – Alexa rankings « Video on the Web, I began wondering where their rankings are now. A cursory look already shows that more are in the [...]

By: sarahi

sarahi — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:42:27 +0000

hala

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:48:07 +0000

What about http://www.MetaCafe.com or http://www.Break.com??? Both are in the Alexa Top 500.

By: yang ro

yang ro — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:37:25 +0000

you should put http://www.pandora.tv on your list. it is really cool korean video web site.

By: Fez

Fez — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 11:23:26 +0000

There’s lots of greys in this space.

Just as one example, YourFileHost.com, which does mainly WMV hosting (30% general / 70% porn it would seem) is Alexa Rank 264.

I’m sure if you dug some more (like I’ve been doing lately), you’ll find even more sites like these that are insanely popular but you’ve never heard of them.

Then again, that could be the pr0n factor.

By: scottp

scottp — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 05:01:24 +0000

I just took the default Alexa ranking (3 mon average) on the day I wrote the post. Admittedly, everyone knows that Alexa is unreliable, so these numbers have to be taken as just general trends.

However, I would argue that page views is a pretty important measure for a video sharing site. Counting videos streamed is dangerous because it’s easy to stream LOTS of videos onto Myspace pages that get thousands of views a day. But what does that traffic mean? Maybe a little viral marketing, but mostly that’s a *cost*, and not a monetizable service. By that measure Photobucket is gaining on YT, and it probably works for them since they have a pay model. But for those vying to be a destination site for free video sharing, page views is pretty much the critical number.

By: Jaspuptin

Jaspuptin — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 18:08:51 +0000

Not sure where you got those numbers.. Revver is ranked number 6,862 today on Alexa for a 3 month average and ranked number 4760 today.. hmmm. As well, a large percentage of Revver’s traffic does not get registered in Alexa.. They track downloads, podcasts, P2P distribution, etc.. Last I heard they were pumping over a million videos a day.. putting them well above the others and just behind YouTube.. Alexa is a poor meter for this type of service.

By: seinfeld

seinfeld — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 17:24:03 +0000

My sense is you are only including video views/traffic from the actual domains themselves. So this is a very misleading analysis/post. Revver, for example has most of its traffic outside of Revver.com (people’s blogs, myspace pages, other domains) and I think if you were to rank by video views: YouTube would definitely be #1 and Revver would probably be #2 given the success they saw with Diet Coke & Mentos.

By: Krupo

Krupo — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 22:27:14 +0000

You forgot videosift.com, which ranks above ourmedia.org and clipshack.com …. http://alexa.com/search?q=www.videosift.com%2F

By: razib

razib — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 13:43:59 +0000

In many parts of the world, users cannot still enjoy the video sharing websites because of not having enough internet speed. This is gradually changing and thanks to the expansion of broadband technology in Asia, the market will increase manyfolds in the next 5 years.