If Your Website Has Videos, Then You’re Crazy Not To Be Embedding Them From YouTube
8 Advantages To Embedding Videos From YouTube OR Vimeo—as opposed to streaming from your own host in a custom player 1. No bandwidth strain or maintenance issues. 2. Visitors get player controls that they’re already used to. 3. Shareability. 4. It works. Everywhere. Always. (plays on iPhone etc.) 5. Easy as f*** to implement (copy [...]
Pop Music Causes Traffic Jams
You’re driving—what’s the first thing you do when you hear a siren? You take your foot off the gas, you (hopefully) scan your mirrors, and you might even put your foot on the brake, right? But there’s no police, no ambulance, no fire truck, no motorcade, and no Polish parade. You’ve realize you’ve been duped by a lame sound effect in the latest Z100 hit.
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Facebook More Traffic Than Google [Stats]
Here’s some graphical perspective on Facebook’s growth via estimated traffic data from Quantcast and Compete. The numbers are significantly different between the sources but the basic trend and relative traffic difference between Facebook and Google is evident: Facebook is a rocket, or, rather a full-blown planet with enough gravity to start a galaxy—the data shows it surpassed Google in traffic in late 2009.
2009 Music Website Heat Map
Based on estimated traffic data from compete.com, this visualization compares November 2009 website visits for 27 popular, legal, music stream-or-download destinations. The heat map is scaled—larger map areas represent higher website traffic. Green indicates positive growth in 2009. Red indicates negative growth in 2009. Hold your mouse over each section for stats on each site.
