YouTube Loses Speed…
On November - 10 - 2006
I thought this was very interesting. I was playing around with Alexa and found this interesting graph. It shows that YouTube’s traffic flattened out on October 9th. Hmm, I wonder what happened on that day. Could it be the day it was aquired by Google? Yup. Check out the graph for yourself. This will be interesting to keep an eye on.
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Keep in mind it climbs sharply up to the day it was purchased by google. Media attention no doubt, afterwards I wouldn’t call it “flattening out” more like continuing the same weekly climb/dip pattern that the rest of the graph shows.
Shit, what happened in april? Were they bought by some other company? Cyclical market trends ftw.
Right. Who bought Youtube around June 15th?
I don’t think it’s slowing down. I’m a chart expert and it is normal after a hype like that of Google buying YouTube. There’s almost always a temporary decline in hits, which is still within the growth rate of its visitor. Until proven otherwise, which is too early to say as of this point, then YouTube’s growth will continue going up.
Way to small of a sample to be significant. A similar leveling off happened in June on this graph.
It won’t be nukes that take us down - it’ll be the giant corporations greed that sucks the lifeblood, finally and completely from their loyal customers. Don’t they realize that at some point - customers will grow to resent going one place for everything. Example - You Tube’s revolutionizing the ‘internet way’ a lot of people have grown to add to their daily sources of entertainment. So?
So, it never makes sense to put thousands out of work - to grow one’s own profits. Not because the Big Corporation doesn’t get profits - but the people left behind are typically left with no jobs, or at best - a job that pays far less than they had while working for the original company that was doing JUST FINE without being Google-ized… Tragedy due to a few Google-Eyed-Money-Sucking-Greed Mongers.
Really…. Just when IS enough - enough?? Another one bites the dust. Another Walmart success story or Google success story or Giant Corporation buyout success story = thousands of lost jobs and financial ruin for the ones left behind. YouTube slowing down? Duh. Some other Great website will quickly fill their void. At best, Google will have to sink a heap more money into their ‘investment’ than they ever realized, just to keep it going at the pace it was going without them. And I used to like Google. Man… Ask dot com… hmm I hear they’re pretty good too.
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I guess it’s because when Google bought them, they become legal and/or mainstream, and lost some of its appeal.
Way too short a period of time to call it a trend. Interesting coincidence though.
YouTube encourages it’s members to inflate viewhit numbers via automatic reloaders available on Firefox, so the numbers are unreliable at best, if not outright fraud.
One member I’ve noticed has over 1.2 million video’s watched and he’s only been subscribed to YouTube for 6 months.
Many, many members have over 100 thousand veiwhits in that time.
You do the math.
YouTube games their own game, and the media won’t confront them about it for whatever reason.
I think people are loosing interest on YouTube.com because they know Google will enforce alot of restrictions on their videos
i think google choosed the right timing to buy youtube ..soon or later the traffic will flattern for youtube and google studied that ..they were watching youtube for a long time and were waiting for it to get the max ammount of traffic where it will be difficult to get more visitors .. this is a rule traffic just can t go up forever as everybody is using it now ..traffic will go up again if monkeys start using internet .. look at the google alexa graph ..same thing the traffic get a max when it s hard to continue up ..it needs to relax a little … sorry for my english as i m japanese …
It shouldn’t be happening, since Google are renowned for keeping their bandwidth on their toes, as you can see from their search engines. I believe it’s the transition of ownership from YouTube itself to be part of Google, that leads to the deterioration of network speed. Hopefully Google don’t just buy and chuck it aside.
Honestly, I believe, Google will not spend a lot of money just to stop the competitions. Should it be, that there is a huge traffic now? To YouTube? As I was visiting this site several times, but many times after the announcement of the deal in the newspapers.
For me, it is not just a no name company now… it is Google. And I know Google.