Hits to user-generated Web sites to grow to 65 billion by 2010: report

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – The volume of downloads and views of content on user-generated Web sites like YouTube and MySpace will balloon to more than 65 billion by 2010 and swell revenues accordingly, a new report predicts. Revenues from user-generated video, in the form of banner/skyscrapers, embedded video, Google Adsense, or branded pages and channels, will exceed $850 million U.S. by 2010, according to the high-tech market research firm In-Stat. In just four years, the size of downloads and views is expected to be 1.1 exabytes of data, with more than 9.1 petabytes in uploads. (An exabyte, according to Wikipedia, is...