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Justin.tv has more incoming video than YouTube
- prospero 17y agoSo in other words, they have an average of 1320 feeds going at any time. That's nothing to sneeze at, but the YouTube comparison doesn't seem quite apples to apples.
- icey 17y agoThe fact that Justin.tv is beating YouTube in terms of volume of content creation is at least impressive to me.
- prospero 17y agoNot all content is made equal. On average, I'd say there's more than a minute's worth of effort put into each minute of video posted to YouTube. Most of the feeds on live video sites are static cameras pointed at televisions, puppies, etc. There's some effort involved in setting these things up, but it's certainly less than 1:1 with the amount of footage being uploaded. I'm not trying to trivialize justin.tv's accomplishment, I just don't think it's a particularly useful comparison.
- DarkShikari 17y agoThat's actually a really interesting metric: the amount of effort per minute of video. A quick mental runthrough of various video sites I've used suggests this would be an effective predictor of content quality.
- jonknee 17y agoNot really, all those live cams on 24/7 are a massive amount of content. Mostly worthless content, but content nonetheless.
- abossy 17y agoIndeed. Another question worth noting is, how many people are watching? The ratio of consumers to producers is big -- the fact that YouTube has people to watch all the content produced on it is what's remarkable about it.
- abstractbill 17y agohow many people are watching? We're getting close to half a billion pageviews per month, the majority of which are on channel pages. http://www.quantcast.com/justin.tv http://www.quantcast.com/justin.tv
- oldgregg 17y agoYeah, the problem is they have TOO MUCH video. The s/n ratio on JTV is so high that pirated channels are the only thing worth watching. I'm sure there's some good content in there, but good luck finding it. Their launch was brilliant (I love the concept), but they need to come up with a way to filter and summarize. I need to be able to grab 30 seconds out of a video and nominate it for the daily "Best of JTV" or something.
- abstractbill 17y agoDiscovery at this scale is a hard problem. As we get bigger, more people set up spam broadcasts too (streams with no interesting content and lots of links), which makes the job even harder. We're working on it though ;-)
- oldgregg 17y agoHave no doubt that you are :)
- timr 17y agoFor the record, we do have a way of making clips from videos that you're watching. (Maybe we need to make that feature more prominent...)
- catch23 17y agomaybe there's a way you can summarize boring video into showing only the interesting chunks
- inc 17y agoWe've tried to improve how people find live video feeds, at shiftpop.com.
- GraffitiTim 17y agoHow about a "Something interesting is happening" button that you can toggle on/off while you're watching a video?
- markbao 17y agoQuality not quantity.
- syntaxfree 17y agoI'm a big fan of Vimeo, but it's gone very buggy re: uploading.