Is YouTube the home for Bad Internet Video?
June 4, 2009According to a recent comScore report (see below), in January 2009, Google (essentially YouTube) served up over 6.4 billion videos – but what are they watching? Are the best one hundred videos getting all the views while the millions of others languish in video purgatory?If you are a frequent YouTube visitors you know that most of the videos posted on the site are awful and close to unwatchable. How many times can you watch teenagers picking their noses, crashing skateboards and dancing to hip hop songs? According to YouTube, “People are watching hundreds of millions of videos a day on YouTube and uploading hundreds of thousands of videos daily. In fact, every minute, ten hours of video is uploaded to YouTube.”That is an awful lot of bad video! I guess it needs a home somewhere. I’d like to see a tracking report that shows what percentage of YouTube videos actually get watched – aside from the one person who originally posted it. I would guess that less than 1% of all YouTu
