Interesting Video Stats

Out of curiosity, I just did some manual database searching to determine the current video host usage statistics. Here are the results for all videos by host in order from most to fewest:

Videos Percent Video Host
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33260 82.54126 YouTube (445807 votes; avg 13.4/vid)
3968 9.84738 Google (58163 votes; avg 14.7/vid)
616 1.52873 MetaCafe (8783 votes; avg 14.3/vid)
590 1.46420 Break (9560 votes; avg 16.2/vid)
487 1.20859 MySpace (7911 votes; avg 16.2/vid)
405 1.00509 iFilm (4458 votes; avg 11.0/vid)
358 0.88845 Live Leak (5576 votes; avg 15.8/vid)
187 0.46408 Comedy Central (5211 votes; avg 27.9/vid)
149 0.36977 Daily Motion (2338 votes; avg 15.7/vid)
87 0.21591 Revver (923 votes; avg 10.6/vid)
69 0.17124 VideoJug (1085 votes; avg 15.7/vid)
52 0.12905 Yahoo! (401 votes; avg 7.7/vid)
47 0.11664 Vimeo (700 votes; avg 14.9/vid)
10 0.02482 ForaTV (84 votes; avg 8.4/vid)
8 0.01985 vSocial (112 votes; avg 14/vid)
2 0.00496 The Onion (20 votes; avg 10/vid)
Total videos: 40295
Total votes: 551132
looris says...

I love stats! *quality

now you made me think would be intresting stats about dead pool videos, so one could know which host is to be considered more reliable.

and yeah, as karaidl points out, also counting votes average per host could be intresting.

jonny says...

Prior to the transition, I used to visit http://www.videosift.com/stats on a pretty regular basis. I don't know if many folks knew it was there (you couldn't navigate to it directly, afaik), but I miss it. When getting your video published often depended on time of day and site traffic, it was occasionally pretty helpful. It was also just neat to see things like variations in comments vs. posts at different times and on different days.
(omg - I sound like I'm talking about the "good ol' days." Screw that. 3.0 rocks!)

joedirt says...

Lucky,

I think if you re-ran those stats, but only looked at say videos from the last two months, you would see more YT percentage, and probably more votes/video.

antonye says...

Interesting.

I think the top 5 probably host pretty much the same kind of video clips, and you can often find the same video on all of these providers. I wonder if these results are skewed by the really good stuff that gets a lots of votes, which drags the random sillyness up a touch.

The Comedy Central one is obvious though - not trying to burst Karaidl's bubble - as it's the source for the Daily Show which seems to get a rather large percentage of postings and votes on here.

Maybe some kind of stats based on keywords would be interesting too - top ten most common maybe?

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