Comparing global traffic for Justin.TV and Hulu borders on being idiotic since Hulu is, um let's see, <i>not accessible outside the US.</i> How can TC write a whole article about this and not even mention this pretty pertinent fact?<p>Edit: It's been pointed out that the article does mention that Hulu is only available in the U.S. Sorry, totally missed that. The article still seems trollish though.
This is a company that I am just <i>very</i> uncomfortable with. Just so much pirated content. If they get anywhere close to popular, they are going to get sued. I hope they have a big war-chest.<p>I know the immediate answer - YouTube. Just because they got rich (Google still doesn't seem to have made money on the deal) doesn't make what they did <i>right</i>. Right and wrong, yeah, I know, very "quaint" notions.<p>After all, Wall Street investment bankers got very rich creating toxic waste and ultimately unloading it on the tax payer. I met a dude recently who was in that line of business, and he said it wasn't like they didn't <i>know</i> what they were doing. They all along knew what the game was, but their attitude was "I am getting mine, so who cares."
Does anyone know how much of that is essentially pirated content? The reason I ask is that I have trouble imagining there are 15 million people watching live streams of random people (i.e. the original stream of Justin's). It's more believable that they watch stuff like sporting events that have no local coverage. I could obviously be wrong though!
What about in terms of advertising dollars? That's what matters, otherwise you're just losing cash on unmonetizable streams. I'd wager Hulu is far and away the leader in monetizing their traffic.
Guys, the main point Erick is making is that live video is significant, not that Justin.tv is kicking Hulu's ass. Despite the title, that's an interesting observation. I for one didn't think live video would be as big.<p><i>So most of its audience and growth is global, with particular strength in Spain, Brazil, Germany, and the UK.</i><p>I'm pleasantly surprised Brazil has that much broadband penetration.
I have a question about justin.tv's architecture. I always avoided the site because I made public denunciations of its stupid name, but I eventually went to it and was shocked by its similarity to blogtv.com<p>I grabbed these randomly:<p><a href="http://www.justin.tv/poshvixxxen" rel="nofollow">http://www.justin.tv/poshvixxxen</a><p><a href="http://www.blogtv.com/People/whiteboy712" rel="nofollow">http://www.blogtv.com/People/whiteboy712</a><p>There're some obvious similarities here. Did they both just pick off-the-shelf components and host them?