Comments on: OurTube http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/02/03/ourtube/ by Jeff Jarvis Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:08:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Ian Thorpe http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/02/03/ourtube/#comment-318610 Ian Thorpe Sun, 04 Feb 2007 17:38:29 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2007/02/03/ourtube/#comment-318610 My friends who are still in the business and working for France Telecom and Vodafone tell me the figures being quoted by new media outfits are as fanciful as Hans Andersen's fairy tales. I could get carried away and start building castles in the air if I allowed myself to think that my 3000 - 5000 hits per day at my blogs were all attentive readers. I would be lucky if 10% of those hits result in someone actually looking at what I post. The web is an immature medium that attracts mostly immature users. Which, I guess is why goat porn and fart lighting videos are so popular on You Tube. My friends who are still in the business and working for France Telecom and Vodafone tell me the figures being quoted by new media outfits are as fanciful as Hans Andersen’s fairy tales.

I could get carried away and start building castles in the air if I allowed myself to think that my 3000 - 5000 hits per day at my blogs were all attentive readers. I would be lucky if 10% of those hits result in someone actually looking at what I post.

The web is an immature medium that attracts mostly immature users. Which, I guess is why goat porn and fart lighting videos are so popular on You Tube.

]]> By: Mike G http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/02/03/ourtube/#comment-318603 Mike G Sun, 04 Feb 2007 17:27:11 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2007/02/03/ourtube/#comment-318603 And people watched YouTube for a minute at a time, they watch TV for three hours at a time. Yet it uses up 4% of all bandwidth. No wonder we have global warming. And people watched YouTube for a minute at a time, they watch TV for three hours at a time.

Yet it uses up 4% of all bandwidth. No wonder we have global warming.

]]> By: Michael Zimmer http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/02/03/ourtube/#comment-317611 Michael Zimmer Sat, 03 Feb 2007 22:46:44 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2007/02/03/ourtube/#comment-317611 This comparison seems even more of a stretch as apples to kumquats: more like apples to quarks. YouTube had 30 million unique visitors <i>for all of December</i>. American Idol had 34 million viewers <i>for one night</i>. Such a difference makes comparisons almost impossible. This comparison seems even more of a stretch as apples to kumquats: more like apples to quarks. YouTube had 30 million unique visitors for all of December. American Idol had 34 million viewers for one night. Such a difference makes comparisons almost impossible.

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