Largest Live Video Site on the Web Grows 1,800 Percent; Generating High Rate of Engagement Among its Users
Justin.tv, the largest online community for people to broadcast, watch and interact around live video, today announced that it has become a top five online video site, according to Quantcast1. Based on global network traffic, Justin.tv attracts 41.4 million monthly unique visitors, more than Hulu (28.1 million) and Veoh (22.5 million). In addition, according to Google Analytics, Justin.tv’s year-over-year traffic has grown by 1,800 percent2.
“Justin.tv is enabling people to create real-time connections with others around the world through live video on a massive scale,” said Michael Seibel, CEO of Justin.tv. “Live video is far more engaging than clip video, which is why we’ve seen such tremendous growth in the past year. Ultimately, we’re giving our users a more valuable experience, so we expect to grow even more in 2009 and beyond.”
Following are the current Quantcast3 metrics for Justin.tv (as of March 25, 2009):
In addition to being the largest live video site on the Web, with more than 428,000 channels broadcasting live video and 1.75 million hours of video watched per day4, Justin.tv is also leading the growing trend of engagement around online video. When looking at the most discussed video of all time on YouTube, the rate at which viewers engaged through text comments, video responses and ratings was only one in five5. The rate for Justin.tv’s network is one engagement for every two video views6. Beyond basic video comments and ratings on other static video sites, Justin.tv enables its viewers to engage in live, real-time chat about the content that they are currently viewing.
Justin.tv's live video platform scales to support massive audiences by measuring demand in real-time and intelligently replicating streams to additional servers to meet that demand. Constructed by a team of MIT and Yale graduates, the Justin.tv platform pushes more than 177 Gbps of video at peak usage – the equivalent of 16,946 standard DVDs per hour7.
About Justin.tv
Founded in October 2006, Justin.tv is the largest online community for people to broadcast, watch and interact around live video. With more than 41 million unique visitors per month and 428,000 channels broadcasting live video, Justin.tv is the leading live video site on the Web, enabling users to create real-time connections with others around the world. Headquartered in San Francisco, Justin.tv is funded by Y Combinator, Alsop Louie Partners and Draper Associates.Press contact: Evan Solomon Justin.tv e@justin.tv 415-683-1179
