Can YouTube Make the Jump to Paid Content?
Last Updated on Sunday, 24 January 2010 12:52 Written by Cubix Friday, 22 January 2010 12:22
Today the Hitwise blog took a deeper look into the trends/data around the news that YouTube is launching movie rentals. Summary of the post below:
- Last week, YouTube ranked 6th among all websites in the US and visitors spent an average of 25 minutes and 25 seconds with the website.
- YouTube ranked second behind Momo Mesh for websites that receive traffic from the search term ‘movies online’ for the 12 weeks ending January 16, 2010.
- Last week, among all of the search terms that drove traffic to YouTube, 2179 included the word ‘movie’ or ‘movies’, although 291 also included the word ‘free’.
- There are many competitors to the new service offering from YouTube including NetFlix, Apple and Amazon. However, in general, NetFlix has become synonymous with movie rentals online and appeared three times in the top ten search term variations of ‘movie rentals’ for the 12 weeks ending January 16, 2010.
