YouTube's explosive growth should be of interest to networks,
which are looking for new platforms to air their shows. Nielsen just posted its report of Top
Online Video Sites in the U.S. for April 2010, and YouTube had 97.1 million unique viewers for the month, a 1.1% month-over-month growth. Its closest competitor in the Neilsen rankings, Yahoo!
video, had 27.6 million unique viewers for the month, so the size of YouTube's audience is staggeringly higher than the rest of the market, notes Beta News.
One caveat: People usually spend only 15 minutes a day on
the site, which is not all that much, if compared with 5 hours a day of watching TV, reports Top Tech
Reviews.
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