MySpace Take Over YouTube (On MySpace, That Is)

According to Mashable, MySpace’s own video product is making some impressive strides, overtaking YouTube is the video-embed of choice on MySpace.Â Mashable’s labs calculates that there was an over 90% increase in the percentage of spaces using MySpace’s own video product, pushing the percentage of spaces using it to over 47%, ahead of YouTube at 40%.

You might recall earlier, shortly after MySpace’s acquisition, Mr. Murdoch was heard to say something to the effect that MySpace would overtake YouTube as the leader of on-line video in 60-90 days.Â With a growing beach head established on his own turf, it might not be such an outrageous proposition after all — especially given how fast YouTube is taking down its own videos and the purported tailing off in YouTube traffic.

Tony Hung

Tony Hung is the editor of the BlogHerald. He is also a physician finishing his last year of residency in General Internal Medicine, and blogs at Deep Jive Interests , where he rants, occasionally, on new media topics.