{"id":50,"date":"2006-10-23T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-23T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog2\/2006\/10\/23\/bottom-line-youtube-vs-myspace-growth-no-contest\/"},"modified":"2006-10-23T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-23T14:00:00","slug":"bottom-line-youtube-vs-myspace-growth-no-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/bottom-line-youtube-vs-myspace-growth-no-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Bottom-line: YouTube vs MySpace Growth &#8211; No Contest!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-size:85%;\" >Originally published on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.compete.com\/index.php\/2006\/10\/18\/youtube-vs-myspace-growth-google-charts-metrics\/\">Compete Blog<\/a> on 18 Oct 2006<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/home.compete.com.edgesuite.net\/site_media\/upl\/img\/Compete_MySpace_YouTube.png\" \/><\/div>\n<p>When I was writing my <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.compete.com\/index.php\/2006\/10\/05\/youtube-googlevideo-site-lonelygirl15-traffic-growth-2006\/\">Google Video vs. YouTube<\/a> analysis (maybe someone at Google read the analysis and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/press\/pressrel\/google_youtube.html\">acted on it<\/a> ;-)), YouTube&#8217;s growth trajectory simply astounded me, which in turn compelled me to compare it against &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\">MySpace.com<\/a> &#8211; another viral phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what I discovered:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/home.compete.com.edgesuite.net\/site_media\/upl\/img\/Compete_MySpace_YouTube_V.png\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>In the chart above, YouTube when compared to MySpace doesn&#8217;t look too impressive.  <strong>In August, YouTube was less than half the size of MySpace.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now take a look at the chart below.  In this chart, YouTube is IMPRESSIVE!  YouTube&#8217;s growth has vastly outpaced that of MySpace in its early days.  Makes me wonder how much YouTube is going to grow in the next 12, 6, or even 3 months.  <strong>In August, YouTube was the 18th most popular website in the United States<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/home.compete.com.edgesuite.net\/site_media\/upl\/img\/Compete_MySpace_YouTube_16.png\" \/><\/div>\n<p><strong>Bottom-line:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Will YouTube break the Top 10 within 12 months (~50 million visitors)?  I think it is more likely that YouTube will hit that milestone than not. We&#8217;ll just have to wait and watch.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/home.compete.com.edgesuite.net\/site_media\/upl\/img\/Compete_MySpace_YouTube_G.png\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published on the Compete Blog on 18 Oct 2006 When I was writing my Google Video vs. YouTube analysis (maybe someone at Google read the analysis and acted on it ;-)), YouTube&#8217;s growth trajectory simply astounded me, which in turn compelled me to compare it against &#8211; MySpace.com &#8211; another viral phenomenon. Here is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}