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Is the Long Tail BS?

June 5th, 2008

We recently categorized all of our users (which now number over 25,000). The categorization was undertaken at the request of several specialty video sites that we deploy videos to that have strict editorial standards (Howcast only wants how-to videos, Crackle professionally-produced content, YouTube everything under the sun, etc.). While the tiering was qualitative, it yielded some interesting quantitative insights:

  • Tier One (i.e. CBS Interactive, NextNewNetworks): 47% of all views; 3% of all users
  • Tier Two (i.e. popular vloggers, filmmakers, less-knowns but popular): 23% of all views; 20% of all users
  • Tier Three (i.e. promotional material–movie trailers, corporate-seeded viral videos): 13% of all views; 7% of all users
  • Tier Four (i.e. unknowns, family videos): 18% of all views; 70% of all users
  • Since this data is about TubeMogul users, there’s a clear selection bias here in favor of savvier content creators (i.e. networks, marketers), who are probably more likely to know about TubeMogul than the casual video uploader. In any case, interesting (we hope).

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    Entry Filed under: TubeMogul Research, Video Analytics, Video Marketing, Video Viewership, Video quality

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    • 1. david  |  June 6th, 2008 at 7:07 pm

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