Video sharing site YouTube saw the most traffic among video sites, accounting for 43 percent of category visits for the week ending May 20, 2006 and ranking at number 42 among the more than 500,000 sites tracked by Hitwise.
YouTube’s market share of visits has increased by 160 percent in the last three months (week ending May 20, 2006 versus week ending February 25, 2006), keeping it well above MySpace Videos, which saw a increase in market share of 3,825 percent during the same period. Other rapidly growing sites in the category in that period were Grouper (up 765 percent) and Daily Motion (up 300 percent).
1. YouTube 42.94%
2. MySpace Videos 24.22%
3. Yahoo! Video Search 9.58%
4. MSN Video Search 9.21%
5. Google Video Search 6.48%
6. AOL Video 4.28%
7. iFilm 2.28%
8. Grouper 0.69%
9. Daily Motion 0.22%
10. vSocial 0.09%
Source: Hitwise press release