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The firm looked at statistics for various video sites in October, and YouTube came out as the top provider. They had a monumental 6.6 billion streams delivered, which put their closest competitor to shame -- Hulu netted around 632 million streams. Surprisingly, however, the number three spot went to Facebook, who served 217 million videos. Further, Nielsen found that the amount of time actually spent on Facebook for the purpose of viewing videos increased a massive 1,840% over the past year. That surpassed the growth in online video viewing as a whole, which roughly doubled.
The speculation is that Facebook has evolved beyond social networking, and is instead morphing into a media hub. Nielsen may be right, and with hundreds of millions of subscribers already, Facebook has the userbase to try nearly any service they want.
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teklord said:
I love Facebook although it isn't my first choice for streaming content.
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Humm there are video's on Facebook? You learn something new every day.
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Yes but most of the vids are linked from Youtube anyway. Big deal. I wish people would spend a bit less time there and join the rest of us on the other 95% of the interenet. There's a whole world of stuff going on that they don't get to see because they're too busy doing quizzes.
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Xclusiveitalian said:
If hulu starts charging for TV people already have and it isn't free anymore they'll lose 632 million users! Youtube will probably remain on top for a long time, facebook's popularity is growing but just like myspace another will come along and facebook will lose its popularity.
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Facebook and Youtube should have a baby, then that would be the ultimate website
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