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CNET News.com: YouTube Video-Sharing Site Sees Spike in Users

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 31, 2006 - 7:57am.

San Francisco - CNET News.com on Friday reported on YouTube, the video-sharing site that has seen the number of video streams it serves jump from 3 million a day to 30 million since launching in December 2005. The site, which claimed 4.2 million visitors in February, according to ComScore Networks, features no ads and does not charge users to upload the blend of amateur and semi-professional clips found on the site. YouTube has removed several "Saturday Night Live" clips at NBC's request, and warns users not to post videos for which they don't own the rights. "We've been meeting with almost every TV network, record label and movie studio to talk about ways to partner and help them reach a broader demographic," YouTube spokeswoman Juile Supan told News.com. "Eventually, we're going to introduce extremely relevant ads that will benefit users and won't disrupt the service."

Super Bowl Ads Spike Web Traffic; GoDaddy.com Leads Way

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 10, 2006 - 2:53am.

Reston, Va. - Companies that paid millions of dollars for television spots during Sunday's Super Bowl also received a nice bonus on the Internet, according to new statistics from comScore Networks. GoDaddy.com, which ran an ad ending in a near "wardrobe malfunction" with the tagline "More at GoDaddy.com," saw the number of unique visitors to its site surge more than 1500% on Sunday compared with the average of the four previous Sundays. Traffic to Budweiser.com increased more than 500%, while Pepsi's ads with P. Diddy and Jackie Chan drove its web traffic up nearly 300%. Other big winners included Cadillac, Nationwide, Anheuser-Busch, Ford and Pizza Hut.

Google Shares Spike 17% to $102 in First Day Trading on Nasdaq

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 19, 2004 - 2:22am.

Mountain View, Calif. -- Shares of search engine giant Google rose over 18%, or $17 over the $85 price named for its initial public offering (IPO), which commenced on Thursday. Google sold 19.6 million shares at $85 each, raising a total of $1.67 billion in its IPO. The company lowered the initial share price to $85 from an earlier range of $108 to $135 per share, after it found that interest in the online auction offering of its shares did not produce as much investor interest as anticipated. Options on Google stock are expected to begin trading by the end of next week as well.