Vevo surpasses Dailymotion in Spain
ComScore has just released data about the most successful video viewing (and most of the time also sharing) sites in Spain. Results are as expected with some exceptions: Vevo is larger than Dailymotion and there is no single Spanish company among the first 5 properties. Vevo is a music video website owned by Sony, Universal and Abu Dhabi Media. According to Comscore, France’s Dailymotion is the second largest video site in the world after YouTube. Not in Spain, it seems.
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Should journalism be just a hobby?
One of the last meetups I attended in Silicon Valley was by Tom Foremski, former columnist of The Financial Times, at the Jewish High Tech Community. He left his job as a paid journalist to start a new blog and he’s being doing well for a while. Not any more, as the advertising industry’s crisis is also hitting him.
Is there more democracy with blogs?
As you know, I have being studying social and media and politics at Stanford University. And the relationship between blogging an democracy was one of the most relevant issues that we had to deal with. Obviously, there is not a single conclusion but some spare ideas:
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To Free or not to Free
I don’t believe in free things. Even on the digital era. It’s a marketing strategy, which should not be confused with a business model, as Chris Anderson has done in his last book, which Seth Godin is also defending. You give something for free because you expect users to come and later offer them some ads or some products to buy.
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How to get a Ford Fiesta for free for 6 months
Last week I met Beto López, a videoblogger from Oakland who is currently driving a Ford Fiesta for free (including the gas) for 6 months. How come? Ford gave it to him so that we can test it with the condition that he videoblogs all his activities with the car.
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Paying bloggers to write about a company is not ethical
“Dear X. I am proposing you to write two posts in your blog for two of my customers. They are both hotel chains. They offer two options: either to write a post I will be sending to you, in which case you would get 20 euros, or to write it yourself, in which case you would get 30 euros. Thanks for your time”. This is not science-fiction. It is reality in Spain. And not very ethical, from my point of view.
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The most digged blogs on Digg
We just asked Digg’s API which were the most digged blogs in the last 30 days and here are the results:
1. The Huffington Post. Number of diggs: 71593
2. Gizmodo, The Gadget Guide. Diggs: 55862
3. Ars Technica. Diggs: 38604
4. Engadget. Diggs: 27088
5. Techcrunch. Diggs: 20728
6. xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. Diggs: 19780
7. Daily Kos: State of the Nation. Diggs: 14702
8. Read/WriteWeb. Diggs: 14044
9. Think Progress. Diggs: 13702
10. Mashable. Diggs: 13676
Note: only blogs in our top blogs have been included
Where are Digg-like sites going in Europe
The Digg model is not working very well in Europe, at least in terms of money. The real time web, mainly Facebook and Twitter, and the crisis are hurting it. To death some times, as happened with the French Digg-like site Scoopeo, which is closing down.
Main Spanish press group is buying local review site 11870.com
The main Spanish press group, Vocento, is buying local review site 11870.com for an unknown amount, though some sources say it could be between 6 and 10 million euros. Vocento has been developing new sites in areas in which it used to be the leader with classified ads, such as Pisos.com (real estate) and Infoempleo (jobs).
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Youtube also beats Dailymotion in France
I thought Dailymotion was bigger than Youtube in France, but it’s not. According to ComScore, the Google’s site had 15 million viewers in January 2009, 3,000 more than Dailymotion. The gap has even increased since 2008, which is shocking.
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