Facebook named third most popular video website behind YouTube and Hulu
While everyone raves about Hulu and Youtube etc. The usual suspects are being caught up by a surprise challenger, Facebook!
The social networking scene has exploded recently with every Tom, Dick and Harry Twittering and posting onto Facebook, however a Nielsen report shows Facebook is the third biggest streaming website.
Of course YouTube was top streaming website for October with a monumental 6.6 billion streams delivered, which put their closest competitor to shame. New boy Hulu only managed a paltry 632 million streams. Surprisingly, however, the number three spot went to Facebook, who served 217 million videos. Further, Nielsen found that the amount of time actually spent on Facebook for the purpose of viewing videos increased a massive 1,840% over the past year. That surpassed the growth in online video viewing as a whole, which roughly doubled.
The speculation is that Facebook has evolved beyond social networking, and is instead morphing into a media hub. Nielsen may be right, and with hundreds of millions of subscribers already, Facebook has the userbase to try nearly any service they want.
Lets be honest though, if Facebook decided to run for president right now they would probably walk it. The fact is though, a social networking site is never going to be top dtreaming site.. Is it?
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