Google and YouTube Own Over Half The Video Market; YouTube Founders Get Shares
Compete.com has released these graphs showing the top 10 video websites, also showing what would happen if Google Video was added to YouTube, due to Google owning YouTube, and thus claiming the traffic of both. As you can see, the Google/YouTube juggernaut owns 51% of the market:
Of the 194 million sessions among the top ten sites, 108.46 million belonged to a Google-owned site. That’s a powerful statistic. Just picture this: If Time Warner bought MySpace, Yahoo, and 10-15 other smaller sites (like Break.com and Stupid Videos), they’d still be losing to Google.
Other YouTube news: The founders of YouTube are getting their share.
Google originally bought YouTube for 3,659,770 shares (442,210 of which were put in escrow). Of those, today it was announced how the YouTube founders and investors would be dividing up those shares:
- founder Chad Hurley - Gets 694,087 shares and 41,232 shares in a trust, valued currently at $345 million
- founder Steve Chen - 625,366/68,721 shares, valued at $326 million
- Sequoia Capital XI fund (invested $11.5 million) - 941,027, valued at $442 million
- Sequoia Capital XI Principals Fund - 102,376, valued at $48 million
- Sequoia Technology Partners XI fund - 29,724, valued at $14 million (including Maury Povich, who gets about $80,000)
- founder Jawed Karim - 137,443, valued at $64 million
- investor Artis Capital Management - 176,621, valued at $83 million
Other persons getting at least 1% of the shares (each 2,000 shares is worth just under $1 million):
- Christina Brodbeck - 18,898
- David Chia-Wei Chen - 20,616
- Richard Chen - 20,616
- Sharon Chen - 20,616
- Colin Peter Corbett - 13,744
- Dwipal Akhilesh Desai - 12,885
- Cuong Do - 37,796
- Kevin Christopher Donahue - 25,770
- Mayrose Dunton - 8,590
- Heather Nicole Gillette - 8,590
- Carol Louise Gunby - 5,154
- Bradley Wayne Heilburn - 12,885
- Shannon Hermes - 2,577
- Brent Hurley - 22,334
- Donald Hurley and JoAnn Hurley, as joint tenants - 10,308
- Heather Michelle Hurley - 6,872
- Erik Klein - 7,731
- Christopher Maxcy - 5,583
- Jacob Mark McGuire - 3,436
- Christopher Miller - 6,013
- Yu Pan - 75,593
- Michael Kenneth Powers - 4,295
- Hong J. Qu - 6,013
- Keith Rabois - 8,590
- Matthew Noel Rizzo - 7,731
- Micah Jody Schaffer Shebar - 3,436
- Michael Abe Solomon - 41,232
- Julie Rebecca Supan - 10,308
- Triplepoint Capital LLC - 13,744
- WS Investment Company, LLC (2005A) - 6,135
- WS Investment Company, LLC (2006A) - 644
- All other small owners - 15,904
If you know any of these people, it’s time to call in that loan from high school…