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The latest data from Hitwise shows YouTube claiming over 73 percent of the online video market in the United States — a larger share in its home market than even its parent compan, Google, enjoys in search. That figure is up 18 percentage points over March of last year, when YouTube had 55 percent of the market. Problem is, these numbers represent significant growth in viewership, but not growth in advertising sales or revenue, leaving Google on the hook for ever-expanding bandwidth costs.
YouTube's U.S. video share now bigger than Google's search share, but profit eludes it
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3:20 PM on Mon Apr 14 2008
By Jackson West
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they are starting to be like yahoo.. lots of eyeballs... no monetization from them.
Wait, I don't get it, a story by Jackson that does not feature a picture of Jackson? Can't you add a picture of him standing next to the video share graph or something?
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@WagCurious: How's that?
@Jackson West: Pimp.
@Jackson West: Nice job.
YouTube's share of the incompetence market is also very high: I spent Sunday night banging my head against their broken messaging system trying to reply to a press inquiry about a video I posted. I tried to send a bug report, but their form has a 350-character limit -- not nearly enough to describe all the things that are broken in the YouTube email system.
F-ing fully-vested incompetents. Another sign that Google's flying apart?
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