When the Will Farrell/ Sequioa backed ($15m+) FunnyorDie launched in March 2007 it made a huge splash with Farrell providing original content that quickly went viral. After an initial peak the traffic slowed right down, with some suggesting that it may not rise again. Content has always been the key, and as the Jerry O’Connell send-up of Tom Cruise above demonstrates, they’re still producing the right stuff.
The positive side is that FunnyorDie has slowly grown since their initial post launch slump. According to comScore figures, FunnyorDie did 1.8 million uniques in December on 10 million page views. In perspective this placed FunnyorDie 5th on comScores humor index for the month, behind CollegeHumor at 4th, and ahead of The Onion at 11th. Notably that this is with FunnyorDie allowing their videos, like the one above, to be embedded on other sites, a move that would result in video views not being represented in comScore’s measure of site traffic.
Jerry O’Connel, he was that fat kid
What are the other top 3 comedy sites?
I think Tom Cruise uses the P-Mate to pee.
http://hight3ch...-standing-up-2/
Love it!
funnyordie.com still sucks – Youtube is king, king of all user-generated video
as for that jerry o’connel video, tom cruise is not a good guy to immitate – because there’s nothing really funny about him
The truth? You can’t handle the truth!
Jerry Minor used to be on SNL with Will Ferrell.
“Content has always been the key, and as the Jeremy O’Connell send-up of Tom Cruise above demonstrates, they’re still producing the right stuff.”
>> It’s Jerry O’Connell not Jeremy
Boy that was funny, at least if you have seen the original. If there was a point, it should be: Actors, musicians etc. should really do their job and not ty to save the world because it’s pathetic. Now Tom wants to be some kind of Scientology Bono? Well I’m sick of him too, talking about problems of Africa etc. on gala dinners surrounded by supermodels. “I know how they feel out there, you know, I’ve been eating only these $8 diet bars ALL WEEK and its KILLING ME”
That’s actually incorrect. Comscore measures videos embedded in third party sites in their video consumption panel.
so the correct measurement would really be video views not site traffic. so what’s the video viewers count for funnyordie?
But are they making money on that traffic? That’s the real question.
Here’s the original, posted by Nick Denton over at Gawker – http://gawker.c...ied-to-suppress. Makes watching the Jerry O’Connell spoof a heluva lot more funny.
Adam – I don’t know numbers but other comedy sites with big draws include TBS’ Super Deluxe (www.superdeluxe.com) and My Damn Channel (www.mydamnchannel.com – not affiliated with a network).
You regularly write some of the least informed posts anywhere on the internet. College Humor and The Onion both allow you to embed videos making your qualification, I don’t know, completely ridiculous. And did you even bother to look at the views of the the FoD clip? It’s been linked everywhere and it’s barely cracked a half-million views. That’s a decent showing for Dax Flame.
quick spelling error: It’s Will FERRELL not Farrel.
content is king!