» Vidmeter http://videos.webpronews.com Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:23:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Vidmeter.com Contradicts That YouTube Became a Billion Dollar Property http://videos.webpronews.com/2007/04/vidmetercom-contradicts-that-youtube-became-a-billion-dollar-property/ http://videos.webpronews.com/2007/04/vidmetercom-contradicts-that-youtube-became-a-billion-dollar-property/#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:52:25 +0000 admin http://mcvideo.webpronews.com/2007/04/04/vidmetercom-contradicts-that-youtube-became-a-billion-dollar-property/ A report by Vidmeter.com contradicts the idea that YouTube became a billion dollar property only because of copyright infringing videos posted there by its users. Vidmeter’s three-month study found only about nine percent of the most-viewed videos on YouTube were removed at the request of copyright holders. Those removed clips, most of which were music videos, picked up less than six percent of all views for the period.

Out of Vidmeter’s sample, 72 of the videos were removed at the request of Viacom, which has sued Google over YouTube’s failure to keep copyrighted works off the site. Internet business blogger Henry Blodget suggested “Google/YouTube had a lot more leverage in the YouTube-Big Media negotiations than was commonly thought,” since so little copyrighted content was found consistently by Vidmeter in YouTube’s most viewed videos.

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