IP Democracy: Pulver's Ranking of Top Internet-Only TV Shows

In keeping with his new focus on Internet video, Jeff Pulver and his team are now ranking the most popular Internet-only TV shows. Using Alexa rankings (not the best measure but unfortunately the only measure for web traffic that isn’t a proprietary index such as Comscore), Pulver produces a list of the top-35 web-only shows for the week of September 18.

The top-ranked “show” is the political blog “Crooks and Liars,” which is really a hybrid site that combines video with text, highlighting one key aspect of Internet video that isn’t true of traditional TV video. Internet video can be mixed in with other media — even voice — making the old ways of measuring viewership difficult, if not obsolete.

The rest of the shows in the top 35 basically fall into a few categories:

—geekdom (CNET TV, Cranky Geeks, Star Trek New Voyages)

—how-to (Yoga Today, Cooking Up a Story)

—music (Star Tomorrow, MusicPlus TV.com)

—humor (Happy Tree Friends, AskANinja) and;

—offbeat videos (TikiBar TV and Channel Frederator).

Pulver’s also got the beginnings of an intriguing guide to Internet-only video, called Network 2.0, here.

Posted by Cynthia Brumfield on September 21, 2006 9:51 AM to IP Democracy