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Last week (ending April 12, 2008) the share of upstream traffic from search increased 35% over the same week the previous year, while the referred traffic from social networks declined 20%.

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The share of traffic referred by Google (up 44%) and Yahoo! (up 13%) to the video category increased for the week ending April 12, 2008 when compared to the same week last year. While MySpace accounted for the largest share of referred traffic, there was a 25% decline when compared to the same week during the previous year.

Another driver for this change in referral behavior may be the shifting demographics as video websites attract a more mainstream audience.

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 While social networks are no longer only the playground of the young, the majority of the audience (47%) is under the age of 35.

 

 

 
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2 comments on "Search & Social Networks neck & neck for video referrals"
  Commented by  Sumeet Moghe, VP - Operations, TooStep    | 05 21 2008 22:40:53 +0000
The article shows the trend of increasing popularity of the video sites. Earlier, sites like you-tube were accessed through backlinks from social networking kind of sites .. but there is growing trend that users are proactively going to you-tube through search engines .. which means they know what they are searching for and finding it on these video-sites and not just following a link which has been referred to them by someone.

Another interesting trend as indicated by hitwise is that contrary to popular belief that video sites are meant for  the young, the growing audience in the age-group of 45+ can also not be neglected
  Commented by  Anurag Mitra, Product Marketing Manager (Asia Pacific)    | 05 21 2008 07:05:34 +0000
please share the conclusion..whay does this trend indicate?
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