Facebook Triumphs Over YouTube: A New Era for Video Hosting Facebook has surpassed YouTube in a monumental shift in the video hosting landscape. According to recent data from iSpot.tv, Facebook’s Super Bowl commercial video views have outperformed YouTube’s, marking a significant milestone in the ongoing battle between these two social media giants. While YouTube has long been heralded as the…
The social media world is gearing up for the showdown of another mega contest. This time the No.1 social referral site i.e. Facebook is challenging the Google's most popular video uploading solution i.e. YouTube. Facebook's rivalry with Google is not new. In fact, it was the search giant who through his monogamous approach of competing with everyone initiated it in the first place.
YouTube is the second largest search engine and is used to share tens of thousands of news stories and interviews daily. Have you ever thought how a video gets viewed on YouTube, or let us say how does it get 'ranked' on Youtube for the people to view it? So, if a video has over 40,000 views, but with no comments will be ranked high? Or, a video with only 10,000 likes but favorited many times will be ranked higher? Or how about a video that has over 200 inbound links? So on and so forth. What really counts (factors, per say) in determing the ranking of YouTube videos?