The rise of YouTube from nowhere to being one of the most popular sites on the web is the biggest start-up story of the year. But is the rise of YouTube over? Over on the Alexa Web Discovery Machine blog, Geoffrey Mack has posted the graph above. It clearly shows that YouTube’s traffic growth flatlined—at least according to the mysterious and not necessarily accurate Alexa metrics—in October.
Mack adds, “It started going flat on October 9th. Anybody care to guess what happened on that date?”
YouTube Goes Flat [Alexa-Web Discovery Machine]
Posted by Rob Leathern, Nov 17, 2006 11:49PM
You've got to be kidding with this right:
1) Alexa numbers are crap, sometimes saying they are directional is exceedingly generous.
2) even if they were accurate, this small of a blip is not a trend by any means.
Come on guys... just because you're plugging numbers into a model that was created by an associate at the ibank where you work 5 years ago doesn't mean you can't try to recall some of the stats you probably took back in college, right?