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Facebook Gaining on Google’s YouTube in Web Video

time June 6th, 2010 by author David Goldstein

Social networking website Facebook is growing faster than Google’s YouTube as a place to watch videos.

Clips generated by Facebook users were watched by 41 million people in April, more than three times as many as a year earlier, when there were 13 million. YouTube grew 25 percent to 135 million unique viewers over the same period, Reston, Virginia-based data researcher ComScore Inc. said this week.

To read this Bloomberg report in full, see:
www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-03/facebook-gaining-on-google-s-youtube-in-web-video-correct-.html

Also see:

Google TV Shows How Far Web Video Has Come [GigaOm]
There’s still doubt about consumer demand for Web-connected TVs, but in this era of Hulu and YouTube, Google’s timing may be right

The just-announced Google TV operating system, which is set to launch on Sony TVs and Blu-ray players, as well as a Logitech broadband set-top box, has been labeled a game-changer. For all the talk about how revolutionary the Google TV concept could be, there are still some serious questions yet to be answered.
www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2010/tc2010061_669434.htm

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