Milestone indicative of emerging trend in which more and more people are looking for alternatives to traditional TV.
Vuze, formerly Azureus, has recently announced on its blog that it’s proudly surpassed the 10 million unique monthly visitors mark to its redesigned Vuze 4.0 HD Network.
With so many using Vuze to find video content, “Find, download, and play,” the motto behind the new Vuze, aptly describes what it’s been able to accomplish since its relaunch some 3 months ago.
This success, Vuze notes, dispels several myths of its critics.
Myth #1 — Consumers won’t download a video application
The amount of traffic that Vuze reports to be receiving for its HD Network makes the case that people are willing to stream video content from sources other than a simple web browser.
“People do download applications that have compelling value propositions,” it notes. “It’s the case for iTunes and Skype, and it’s the case for Vuze, which enables our users to Find, Download, and Play great videos – in HD – anytime, anywhere.”
I agree. I myself have a number of video streaming applications, TVU Player, TVAnts, in addition to Vuze.
So long as an application is stable, relatively spam free, and provides me with the content I’m looking for I have no hesitation with using it.
Myth #2 — Online video viewers are not engaged
At first glance it would be reasonable to hypothesize that Vuze HD Network users would be more likely to watch content for longer periods of time than on other web video destinations for the simple reason that they’re there for the singular purpose of watching quality video content.
Other sites, YouTube being the easiest example, more easily lend themselves to users simply passing through or trying to kill some time. It’s low video resolution has never made it a place to watch anything more than a minute clip of a guy getting hit in the groin or playing “Final Countdown” on the KazooKeylele (my personal favorite).
Vuze did some “number crunching” and found that Vuze HD Network viewers have a longer attention span and are a “full four times more likely to watch a five-minute video all the way to the end than the viewer of an average web video.”
“We suspect that more people watch videos to completion on the Vuze HD Network because they find content that is relevant to them, and because they love the superior picture and sound quality,” Vuze observes. “Which would you rather watch – grainy pixilated web video streams, or stunning full screen HD videos?”
Exactly.
So congratulations to Vuze and may you soon reach the 20 million mark.
[THX John]
jared@zeropaid.com
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VUZE is just more crap the original Azureus was a fantastic client until they put that shit in with it. If you don’t want all the crap of VUZE use BitTyrant.
I still download the stuff I want to watch…no commercials or any other CRAP that these so called pay sites want to put in the video.
And NO jumping through hoops just to watch a stupid video.
When I download a show I watch the SHOW…no commercials…no advertisments…nothing but the show itself.
If some company can come up with a streaming site without all that crap I would try it.
But I will not jump through hoops just to watch a stupid HD video.
Too many other ways of getting it.