Comments on: YouTube Traffic Surges without Viacom

By: JohnB

JohnB — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 04:20:22 +0000

I've never understood the obsession over traffic either.

There's traffic at the grocery store. There's traffic at the mall. But what counts is conversion, monetization.

By: Viacom goes one way, BBC the other » mathewingram.com/work

Viacom goes one way, BBC the other » mathewingram.com/work — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:53:16 +0000

[...] on the subject of back-patting, YouTube doesn’t seem to have suffered all that much as a result of the Viacom clips disappearing, and is busy signing deals with smaller content owners, including [...]

By: YouTube Traffic Surges Without Viacom « Tons of Fresh News

YouTube Traffic Surges Without Viacom « Tons of Fresh News — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:50:46 +0000

[...] 28, 2007 at 8:49 pm · Filed under Uncategorized YouTube Traffic Surges Without Viacom Early research shows that traffic to YouTube has surged, not suffered, since Viacom demanded the [...]

By: Video Monte Ceneri » News - 26.02.2007

Video Monte Ceneri » News - 26.02.2007 — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:30:46 +0000

[...] Traffic on YouTube: the traffic has not suffered the take-down of 100′000 videos demanded by Viacom. [source] [...]

By: No Fact Zone.Net » Stephen Colbert in the Zeitgeist (February 26, 2007)

No Fact Zone.Net » Stephen Colbert in the Zeitgeist (February 26, 2007) — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:07:16 +0000

[...] YouTube Traffic Surges without Viacom – NewTeeVee: “It’s still early in the game, to be sure, but so far it looks like YouTube can keep calling Viacom’s bluff1, especially since early research shows that YouTube traffic has surged, not suffered, since Viacom demanded the takedown2 of 100,000 purportedly purloined video clips . . . maybe it’s not just people watching Daily Show and Colbert clips after all.” [...]

By: BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Who needs MSM?

BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Who needs MSM? — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:23:46 +0000

[...] NewTeeVee shares Hitwise’s report that traffic on YouTube surges even after Viacom pulled its precious content: “According to research from the fine folks at Hitwise, YouTube visits are up 14 percent3 since Viacom’s cease-and-desist order, showing that maybe it’s not just people watching Daily Show and Colbert clips after all.” As I said the other day, the big guys better be concerned that taking their marbles and going home only leaves more space on the playground for the rest of us. [...]

By: Chris Dodge

Chris Dodge — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:59:42 +0000

Why do people obsess about traffic?!? Without quality content in a pirated-free zone, quality advertisers(i.e. high paying advertisers) are not going to be intereted. YouTube is going to have trouble monetizing that traffic, which just translates it into ever increasing operational losses.

Not that Google doesn't have enough cash to handle the burn rate anyhow...