It is early days for HD video on the Web, but already we are starting to see jostling for position in this nascent part of the Web video market. Less than two months after YouTube started streaming high-definition videos in a major way, CEO Chad Hurley is now claiming bragging rights as the biggest HD video site on the Web. At a panel today at Davos, he said:
We feel we have the largest library of HD video on the Internet.
If you look at YouTube’s HD category, five pages with about 100 HD videos come up. Hulu’s HD gallery, in contrast, only has six videos. Vimeo’s HD gallery has 178 712 videos. But CBS has at least 1,000 (and it is not clear how many of those are on YouTube in HD quality).
But those are just the featured videos. Search on YouTube for “HD” and then select only results in HD quality, and you get 150,000 results. That doesn’t necessarily mean there are 150,000 different HD videos on YouTube. But search on Hulu for “HD” and you get, once again, six results. CBS and other sites, obviously have more. But it seems likely that YouTube has the most.
Hurley also updated some other stats about YouTube. The site is now ingesting 15 hours of video content every minute, up from 13 hours every minute last September. And he gives some sense for what percentage of YouTube users actively upload videos as opposed to passively consuming them:
Even on Youtube, you have a small percentage of the community uploading videos, and the majority consumes. It is in the range of 2 to 3 percent. But the audience is so large even that is a big number.
That percentage is in line with participation rates for other social media. It is only the very top of the pyramid that actually creates and contributes content to any user-generated site. But is it the most talented 2 to 3 percent?
does chad want a cookie for this feat?
If you had a 12 inch penis, and someone said well “how big is your penis seriously?”. Then you answered honestly,”12 inches”. Is it boastful, or just Chad Hurley spouting truth out of his mouth, that the biggest video website on the web acquired the largest amount of 720 HD video?
That being said YouTube HD is choppy 80% of the time, and I prefer Vimeo or Viddler for HD.
Thanks, Phil.
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Sorry but YouTube HD is questionable. Vimeo.com really has a handle on HD video and does a great job with it.
No, the largest collection of HD videos on the Internet are in little bits and pieces of files called torrents distributed across several hundren million computers all over the world.
Eric, you should have asked them, so what. Without the Google subsidy and the VC capital, how do these companies justify their existence?
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Exactly. Who cares how much HD video YouTube has collected. At the end of the day its all just data sitting on a server/s – most of it (and I mean the VAST majority of it) is probably useless crap video of someones kid/holiday/dog/stupidity.
There should be a new rule on the web = “You can’t boast big time unless you’re making $ big time’ – especially in these times!
Your Vimeo count is wrong it two ways:
1) As stated very clearly on http://vimeo.com/hd, “This channel is curated by the Staff of Vimeo and represents some of the best HD videos we see on Vimeo.”
2) The 178 number at the bottom refers to pages (note how there are 4 videos on the page). So even if you were to incorrectly assume that the HD channel was all the HD videos on vimeo, the number would be 712.
I’d suggest dropping Vimeo an email. I bet they’d give you the true number of HD videos users have uploaded there.
You’re correct Ben, the HD channel is just staff picks from the last year. And yes, the math is wrong. There are 4 videos per page: 4 * 178 = 712.
In actuality there are currently 176,390 HD videos on Vimeo.
Andrew Pile
Director of Development
Vuze has a ton
He could also brag about having the largest 2fps library on the Internet, too.
I thought Davos was the World Economic Forum. What in the World of Economics does this above discussion relate to again?
Anything you can do, I can do better? Is this kindergarden?
Sorry Chad, but Ifriends has you beat…in order to even close close, you would need to branch out further into the porn industry.
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What constitutes “high definition video” online? Because overall the online HD streams are not comparable to television.
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Hi folks,
Does youtube have the Option to Embed HD to Pick from etc…???
in other news, water is wet.
11,000+ results on Veoh
http://www.veoh...ch/videos/q/HD#
Stuff like this makes me miss Stage6 so much….
I wish google bought DivX too and worked Stage6 and DivX HD video as the standard…
DivX is so flexible with menus and is multiplatform capable so its kind of sad how bad Flash based HD is kicking its trash.
Yup, DivX HD is still much better. Cause DivX HD has no bitrate limitations, it plays back smoother on regular computers with regular graphics cards.
I still use DivX HD on my http://techvideoblog.com as well as post all my HD videos on Youtube now in HD.
Why is this article so poorly researched? It shouldn’t have taken a Vimeo developer to clarify that Vimeo clearly has more than 178 HD videos on their site… And it STILL hasn’t been fixed in the story… Mr. Schonfeld please feel free to update the incorrect article at your leisure.
Andrew Pile, Director of Development on vimeo states:
176,390 HD videos on Vimeo.
need to update the article.
MyToons has more … lolz
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Did he mention how many of them don’t violet copyright laws? Just a thought!
I’m sure YouTube has more than most, but when they have such notable titles as “Head On Spoof” and “ObamaGirl @ ROFLthing,” I’d think they should hang their heads just a little lower.
Call me when they’ve got Koyaanisqatsi in HD — I see that the whole movie is up there in normal definition.
I watch Internet videos and streams on my HDTV and I’ll be the first to tell you that you need a super-fast internet connection for HD. Even with my pretty-good Comcast cable Internet service, HD streams suck. Give it a few more years.
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Search for “*” on youTube and you get 600k+ HD results.
http://www.yout...gh_definition=1
This is one of the poorest researched articles I’ve ever read on TechCrunch. Those numbers are waaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyy off.
You couldn’t shoot an email or make a phone call to get actual numbers?
Is this what it’s come to TechCrunch?
It’s not journalism, it’s a blog!
who the hell cares if they have the largest library of HD content. It is about quality of content and not quantity. Who cares about watching chocolate rain and history of dance in HD on youtube. Hulu has the content that people want to see in HD.
Yes, it’s obviously poorly researched, and even Chad says that he “feels” like they have the most HD video. But considering YouTube’s overwhelming SD video count, it’s probably a safe bet they do (or will at least very soon) have the most HD content too.
Honestly though, I lol’d hard that the author published this article seriously thinking Vimeo only has 178 HD videos…
aha as soon as I comment there’s a fix changing 178 to 712…LOL
try again Erick!
Show Me The Money.
Hi folks,
Does youtube have the Option to Embed HD to Pick from etc…???
in other news, water is wet.
Broadcasting has come a long way. Why is the only thing not taught in society until now, making sure the person leading the government is following the law? Have you found any textbooks with this as a form of government in it? Why would someone be preventing that from happening? Watching the leader the entire time, live on public TV, would ensure the country is led by a person who follows the law. Civilocity is a form of government that ensures law.