CBS: 30 Million YouTube Downloads

Cinematech has a CBS press release that says there have been close to 30 million downloads of CBS content on YouTube since October 18th.

CBS has uploaded more than 300 clips that have a total of 29.2 million views on YouTube, averaging 857,000 views per day, since the service launched on October 18. CBS has three of the top 25 most viewed videos this month (Nov.1–17), including clips from CBS’s Tuesday night hit drama “NCIS,” “Late Show with David Letterman,” “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson” and “The Early Show.” The CBS Brand Channel is also one of the most subscribed channels of all time with more than 20,000 users subscribing to CBS programming on YouTube since the channel launch last month.

I wonder how many of the viewers on YouTube have credit cards and would be willing to pay for movie downloads...

Comments

[eazyguy52]

I think these numbers are phony and here's why. Since CBS was paying, they had to bypass the usual criteria to get featured. Second, video counts of other users mysteriously began freezing while those CBS clips viewership kept climbing.

For instance, one of my own clips I put on there was doing quite well climbing steady in number of hits. Then suddenly it just stopped as if it weren't being viewed anymore. Yet, I was being left new comments and the number of people rating it continued to climb.

Here's someone else's example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-X5Eqjpy6Y

[type-cast]

Well, what do you expect? YouTube is selling out like Napster, eDonkey, KaZaA, BT and the rest. They'll sell themselves to the highest bidder. Money rules everything if we let it. Corporations seek to control any independent media source. They killed Air America with a boycott by major advertisers, but they don't mind buying spots on Rush Limberger and Bill O'Liely. They sue their rivals or boycott or buy them out. All the while lying about it.