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  • Vevo Attracts 35 Million Visitors In December

    Online music video service, Vevo, was the most visited U.S. website in the entertainment-music category in December with more than 35 million unique visitors, according to comScore.

    Partners in Vevo include Universal Music Group, Sony Entertainment and investor Abu Dhabi Media Company. The site is powered by YouTube.

    Vevo says its top ranking is an achievement because it did not launch until December 8 and it was not live for the full month of December, which comScore bases its results.

    "The Vevo Network, which is still in its infancy, has debuted at the top of the comScore rankings for unique visitors across the Entertainment-Music category in the U.S.," said Rio Caraeff (President and CEO, Vevo).

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    "The interest and enthusiasm our users have shown has been both gratifying and inspiring. We are also proud to deliver such strong traffic results straight out of the gate to our content and marketing partners, which solidify their early belief in the Vevo vision. We listen very closely to all of our partners and fans, and have been incorporating their feedback to continue to improve upon the Vevo experience."

     Music videos from Beyonce, Justin Bieber, Drake, Lady Gaga, Jay Sean, Shakira, Britney Spears, Taylor Swift and Young Money are the most popular on Vevo this week.

    The Top 5 U.S. Entertainment-Music networks on the web, according to comScore Media Metrix data, for December 2009 include: MySpace Music, AOL Music, Warner Music and MTV Networks Music.

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    > Vevo Reaches Content Agreement With EMI

    > Vevo Gets Official Launch Date

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  • Hitwise: Vevo Still Dependent On YouTube

    Hitwise: Vevo Still Dependent On YouTube

    Different opinions exist regarding whether or not Vevo will ever be a big success; on the one hand, it doesn’t offer anything that other video sites don’t.  On the other, well, music labels’ lawyers may work to ensure it’s something special.  But either way, Vevo owes YouTube its life at this early stage.

    Right from the start, everyone understood that YouTube would try to send all music video watchers to Vevo, of course.  Still, the stats are somewhat astonishing.  For the week ending January 2nd, Hitwise’s Heather Dougherty found that YouTube accounted for about 80.64 percent of Vevo’s traffic.

    Google, Facebook, and MySpace then played supporting roles (3.44 percent, 2.43 percent, and 1.80 percent, respectively).

    This raises a couple of questions: will Vevo be able to get away from using YouTube as its primary source of traffic?  And does it even need to?  Plenty of sites do fine with just a fraction of the visitors YouTube sees.

    Here’s one more troubling detail, though: as you can see from the graph below, Hitwise has already recorded a drop in Vevo’s market share.

    We’ll try to see where Vevo stands when it’s had a full six or twelve months to establish a following.

    Related Articles:

    > Vevo Reaches Content Agreement With EMI

    > Vevo Gets Official Launch Date

    > AT&T Strikes Ad Deal With Vevo

  • YouTube: Rush Limbaugh Says Nothing Was Wrong

    Rush Limbaugh was released from the hospital today and says doctors found nothing wrong. It makes you wonder if the thousands of hysterical people wishing Rush Limbaugh death on Twitter are feeling a little foolish. Probably not. 🙂

    Below is the video of Rush speaking to the press about his good health: 

     

    Taking a look at Twitter now and the "Rush Die" tweets have disappeared! Feel free to comment (or bash) below…