YouTube, silly! And if you have any doubts, then check out the latest stats from Compete.com, who sent us a list of top twenty video sites, which we hope to track for you every month.

According to Compete data for the month of December 2006, YouTube has 41.1 percent market share, followed by MySpace. Google clocks in at #3 with 10.2 percent of the market share, followed by AOL and Yahoo. Add Google and YouTube together, and they are half of the online video market. Okay, so $1.6 billion to become the 500-pound gorilla is not such a bad strategy, especially if they can figure out a way to make money from the traffic, and keep the likes of Viacom happy.

Rest of the list, like Break and Metacafe, has tiny shares. One notable site missing from the list: Revver.

(Infoporn below the jump.)

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Brightcove, having just closed $59.5 million worth of funding, is widening its focus from commercial and professional video to chase the consumer side of the space. This week, the company launched Brightcove Personal, allowing users to set up channels to post their own video. But in my initial testing (mostly on Firefox on a Mac), I found this product to be quite raw.

Brightcove Personal is similar to Brightcove’s free channel creation service, which has been targeted mainly at professional media concerns. The Personal version of Brightcove’s service is stripped down and simplified (see a blog post by CEO Jeremy Allaire today breaking down the differences).

I gave it a spin and encountered a few problems — first, it crashed my browser; second, my existing Brightcove account did not apply, so I had to create a new one; third, there’s no instant gratification, and the first video I uploaded is somewhere in the ether being “processed”; fourth, the bookmark collection tools for adding a video to your channel seem to be broken. Hmm.

Here’s a promo video Brightcove included in my account to watch while I’m twiddling my thumbs. Below the jump, an interview with Jeremy Allaire about the consumer video space and Brightcove service issues.

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While the world clears space on its TiVos to record whatever part of his body Prince chooses to reveal during his Superbowl halftime show, the innerwebs is busy capitalizing on the hype in the hopes of drawing eyeballs away from the big screen. For instance, Blendtec is trying to settle the score between the Colts and the Bears in a blend off by popular vote.

NewTeeVee has been keeping up with America’s premiere television event for weeks now, since news like highlight reels at iTunes, the dubious trend of placing advertising on the commercials, appearances from America’s favorite Internet Superstars and more user-generated content than you can shake a churro at keeps rolling in. We even dedicated two posts to NFL gag videos. But this is the Super Bowl, and the stuff doesn’t stop! So we’re going with a roundup.

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Another day, another harried schedule of lunching around town. My first stop was Papa Cristos for gyros with Sean Bury and Chris Cantwell of Invisible Engine Films. Then I took the metro across town to Hollywood for a coffee with Cory Tyler of Can We Do That. At this point, even I was starting to wonder if we were just going to talk about more of the same, but so far every conversation I’ve had has given me new ideas as well as different perspectives on recurring themes.

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