Youtube eyeball magnet

From hitwise newsletter Mar 06:Position for week ending December 3: 2,520 (All Categories)Position for week ending March 18: 168Positions jumped: 2,352YouTube has now overtaken video search offered by internet giants Google and Yahoo! For the week ending March 11, the site attracted four times more visits than Yahoo! Video Search and nearly twice the share of visits compared to Google Video Search,YouTube really exploded from January in the UK, with visits from email services and online communities driving the site's growth. Visits to the site have nearly increased by a factor of ten compared to November 05. Yahoo! Video Search used tobe the clear leader but was overtaken by Google. YouTube surpassed Yahoo! Video Search in January and then overtook Google Video Search recently in February. Yahoo! Video Search still enjoys longer session duration than both YouTube and Google Video Search, with UK internet users spending an average of 14 minutes and 17 seconds on the site for the week ending March 11, compared to 12 minutes 38 seconds on YouTube and 8 minutes 27 seconds on Google Video Search. Websites in the Net Communities and Chat category accounted for 20% of visits to YouTube, with MySpace accounting for 7% of all visits to the site.