YouTube Netflix calls itself the world's leading Internet television network, but like many things, it depends on whom you ask.
Frank N. Magid Associates, a research and consulting firm, asked 2,400 people to check off a list of online sources they use to watch TV shows, and found the most common response -- with 38 percent of respondents -- was YouTube.
That compares with 33 percent who listed Netflix, 17 percent for Hulu, and 14 percent for Amazon Prime, according to data from a June survey released exclusively to CNET by Magid.
(Note that doesn't mean that the time spent watching TV on Google's massive site necessarily exceeds those other services.)
'The joke in the industry is it's all babies burping and cats meowing, and maybe YouTube was that,' said Mike Vorhaus, president of Magid Advisors. 'When they actually go and use it, people are surprised by the breadth of content that's there.'
Online television viewing is growing -- the number of people who say they watch video online daily jumped 10 points to 32 percent in two years, according to Magid. The services with the most eyeballs will have the best shot not only at cashing in on new status quos for watching video, either through advertising or subscriptions, but also at getting the most coveted content to bring to viewers.
Vorhaus also noted a trend of consolidation in how consumers approach online video, with 'the big guys getting bigger and not many new guys coming in.'
In rankings for source people turn to for TV and movies, iTunes came in relatively low for both: seventh for movies and eighth for TV, despite the platform's massive reach -- Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook recently touted the platform's more than 500 million customers when the company released U2's new album to all of them free.
But cost is likely a factor in iTunes' low stature in the survey responses, Vorhaus said. Sites like YouTube and Hulu are free with advertising, and Netflix and Amazon Prime are inexpensive subscriptions given the amount of content and services they deliver. Under iTunes' model of selling and renting shows and movies individually, the costs of watching video there can rack up quickly.
Respondents of the Magid survey also called out YouTube as a top source for viewing movies, with 24 percent of those surveyed saying they go there for film. Netflix was No. 1, at 35 percent, with Amazon Prime, Hulu, and HBO Go trailing YouTube.
'If you think of these services as brands, the brand of YouTube has the most people,' Vorhaus said. 'The big message I get is that people have changed their brand perception of YouTube.'
That change, from a Google point of view, is one in the right direction. And the company's announcement last week that it would start paying its 'YouTube stars' to stay there takes on a whole new light.
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