YouTube built a brand in 18 months by allowing users to share, blog, link, subscribe or create channels on its video networking site making it a clear winner.
People flock here for entertaining originality and of course you can find all that copyrighted stuff. What becomes of Google Video remains to be seen.
The Wall Street Journal has traffic percentages based on market share on other competitor sites. YouTube is undeniably ahead in the game.
Lots of issues with Blogger today. The only browser it works on a mac, is Safari (I don't care for IE) and Firefox, the Blogger friendly browser has gone loco as well. Will not display graphics or video on the blog. It all transpired after the switch to Blogger Beta. Reading the Blogger Google Group I find I am not the only one.
Unitl then no ads, no customized features will appear. Waiting patiently for all this to reslove.
I finally made a move to Blogger Beta, which incidentally was announced the week after I started customizing my own blog via CSS. The intitial round was for new bloggers and most of us are now neing able to convert. Although I prefer editing my own CSS, as it is better than the rudimenatry tools that Blogger Beta is offering with a few frills.
I am still in the process of transitioning into the new features, adding categories therefore the blog may experience hiccups but all shall be sorted out shortly.
I will loose all my customized graphics in order to incorporate some of the new features from Blogger ... Sorry for the inconvinience.
The king of viral, YouTube has been snatching eyeballs from traditional TV channels. Mushrooming from 58,000 to over 20 million viewers within seven months. Troublemakers on the major network TV block. Undeniably online video sharing sites and broadband channel alternatives like Channel101.com, Heavy.com,Google Video and the likes are serving programmes either the networks cancelled, rejetced or purely consumer generated.
Earlier this year NBC was upset when Saturday Night Live videos showed up on YouTube and then later recognized the potential, offered to have its own presence on YouTube while offering paid downloads via iTunes and its own website.
Today Viacom snatched up a stake within the online video market Viacom and announced that they will be acquiring Atom Etertainment for a $200 million.
"This acquisition is in line with our business strategy of being a leader in the digital space and connecting with consumers on every platform and device they use," McGrath said in an interview.
Yet Atom (Films) as I always knew it, is no web 2.0 and a bit mid 1990's. While Viacom adds to its portfolio CBS addes their innertube serving programming for teens and young adults and are still figuring out what viral videos are all about (sort of) ...
So the darn adsense is back on this page (as a test). I had it for a long time in 2005 and Google thinks I should piblicize Katrina. I don't want to. I never figured out how to change that. I disabled it and got a note from them saying why don't you use Adsense? So dear Google ... now you know why?
Whats the point of non-sense ad-sense when it makes no sense.
I may just aswell banish it once again .... I have to look into this deeper.
Here's a break down of traffic within some Google properties. The top 3 comprising, Google search, Image search and mail.
As I look at this, it appears to me that its less market share and more a story of how we use Google offerrings .... remember they just recently added calendar which sits at the bottom... so clearly people search more than goof around on Google Earth.
Adwords is quite low on this totem pole and Blogger is not on the list at all?
Marissa Mayer, Google vice president of Search Products and User Experience --- " the first time ever, Google is making it possible to sift through billions of search queries from around the world to see what people are thinking about.”
Still in its initial test phase"Google Trends will be useful for search engine marketing experts trying to find out what users are really searching for. Today, search is important for how brands are percieved. A great tool to measure a brand against its competition. Google Trends lets you search and comapre upto 5 keyword seperated by comma with more. It may not just be a tool of whats in and hot but also what impact bloggers are making on brands.
