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  <title>Comments for YouTube Now 4th Biggest Web Property in World</title>
  
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    <published>2007-01-10T18:58:57Z</published>
    <updated>2007-12-16T23:16:43Z</updated>
    <title>YouTube Now 4th Biggest Web Property in World</title>
    <summary>YouTube continues to grow and on current Alexa figures, the online video site is now ranked number 4 web site in the world - behind only Yahoo, MSN and Google itself! The chart below shows YouTube well ahead of MySpace now and (on today&apos;s data) now ahead of China&apos;s biggest search engine Baidu....</summary>
    <author>
      <name>Richard MacManus</name>
      <uri>http://www.readwriteweb.com</uri>
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      <![CDATA[<p>YouTube continues to grow and on current Alexa figures, the online video
site is now ranked number 4 web site in the world - behind only Yahoo, MSN and Google itself! The chart below
shows YouTube well ahead of MySpace now and (on today's data) now ahead of China's
biggest search engine Baidu.</p>

<p><img border="0" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/youtube_number4.png"
width="500" height="300" /></p>]]>
      <![CDATA[<p>Just 6 or so months ago, YouTube had only just snuck into the top 10 on Alexa. So this
truly is remarkable growth and it shows no signs of stopping, although it has to be said
there's quite a gap between number 3 (Google) and its recent acquisition at number 4:</p>

<p><img border="0" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/youtube_number4b.png"
width="500" height="300" /></p>

<p>I also checked out the comparisons on <a href="http://www.compete.com">Compete</a> and
<a href="http://www.comscore.com/">comScore</a>. Note that both of these measure data for
the United States market only. Here is Compete's graph:</p>

<p><img border="0" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/compete_youtube_jan07.jpg"
width="515" height="242" /></p>

<p>And comScore, where the results were very similar to Compete:</p>

<p><img border="0" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/comscore_jan07.jpg"
width="515" height="329" /></p>

<p>This perhaps shows that YouTube has a very active international audience, because
Alexa measures international traffic and not just US. For good measure, I did a
Google Trends chart too:</p>

<p><img border="0" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/google_trends_jan07.jpg"
width="515" height="254" /></p>

<p>YouTube has had rapid growth there too and is now about equal with MySpace.</p>

<p>All up, I think the Alexa stats around YouTube are very revealing - taken with the
usual grain of salt. And because online video is projected to be <a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/biggest_web_trend_2007.php">the biggest Web
trend of 2007</a>, YouTube has a lot more growth left in it yet!</p>]]>
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    <title>Comment from Adrian Keys on 2007-01-10</title>
    <author>
        <name>Adrian Keys</name>
        <uri>http://www.jollyjo.org</uri>
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        <![CDATA[<p>A step in validating ReadWriteWeb's recent poll results highlighting the imminent ascendacy of online video/internet TV in 2007...</p>]]>
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    <published>2007-01-11T02:51:14Z</published>
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