Filed under: Industry, Competitive strategy, Google (GOOG), Yahoo! (YHOO), Walt Disney (DIS), Viacom (VIA)
Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) YouTube continues to gain visitors. It competitors have to be dismayed. Why bother posting video content at all when YouTube owns the market.
According to comScore, YouTube had a 34.3% share of all videos watched in the U.S. during January, an improvement of 1.7 share points over the previous month.
The competition barely registered. AOL, Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO), Viacom (NYSE: VIA), and Disney (NYSE: DIS) had embarrassing share figures, none posting a figure better than 3.2%.
Visitors to Google video sites spent an average of almost 110 minutes per viewer. No other large internet site was above 33 minutes.
Douglas A. McIntyre is an editor at 247wallst.com.
