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What's hot in mobile video? YouTube and porn.

Stuart Dredge
What's hot in mobile video? YouTube and porn.

According to Bytemobile's new report, anyway.

Mobile video infrastructure firm Bytemobile has released a report that crunches data from a cross-section of its 117 mobile operator customers, and it makes for interesting reading.

The company claims that YouTube currently accounts for 36% of the total video traffic on mobile networks worldwide.

However, it also finds that four of the top ten video domains in terms of mobile traffic are adult sites: Xvideos, YouPorn, PornHub and TNAFlix.

Bytemobile says these four sites alone account for nearly 15% of ALL video traffic on wireless networks.

Other findings from the report include the fact that 90% of video traffic is in the .flv Adobe Flash format, and that high-definition video - defined as video greater than 1280x720 resolution - accounts for just 0.07% of traffic.

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The latter isn't a huge surprise: many mobile video services switch to lower quality when they detect that a user is on a 3G connection, reserving the HD footage for Wi-Fi streams.

The full report can be found here as a PDF.

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