Vuze Reports: 10 million Unique Visitors Monthly

Yesterday we reported interesting news we picked up from a major P2P Client blog, FrostWire. Now another such blog comes to our attention –Vuze. “Here at Vuze, we haven’t been concentrating on industry buzz or PR. We’ve been quietly focusing all our resources on building features for our growing community of users,” the site reads and to prove these are more than just words the guys from Vuze published some statistics which are indeed worthy of consideration. For example, Vuze's feature that allows creating personalized torrent subscriptions appears to be enjoying great popularity with its user base:

• Since our Vuze 4.0 launch in mid-October, 1 million unique users have signed up for the new Subscriptions feature, and more than 8 million total subscriptions have been created.
• Total Friend Connections among our users (to share content and get faster downloads) have increased more than 350% since mid-October.
• Search traffic on Vuze has increased more than 700% since June 2008, with our users currently conducting more than 1 million search queries per day.
• In the past 3 months, we’ve gotten more than 45,000 emails from our users with comments, constructive suggestions, and support for the direction we’re headed.

The blog handles a bit a “demythisation” as well with respect to the way industry perceives (or wants us to think it does) some facts about the world of online video.

Myth 1 — Consumers won’t download a video application.
According to our internal data (and Google and Quantcast), we’ve just passed the milestone of 10 million monthly uniques to our content portal, the Vuze HD Network. We’ve been thrilled at the way our community has embraced the new design of Vuze 4.0, and think this disproves the conventional wisdom that people are only willing to stream videos from their web browser. People do download applications that have compelling value propositions. 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.

Myth 2 — Online video viewers are not engaged.
Well, this might not be a myth for some services, but we were surprised when we read research from TubeMogul, entitled How Much of a Typical Online Video Is Actually Watched? This piqued our curiosity, so we did some number crunching and found that Vuze HD Network viewers are far less likely to drop off at any point during the video than the average web viewer watching a short-form web video. This culminates in Vuze viewers being 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.

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