I am well aware that sites such as eBaumsworld have been making good money for years now by hosting interactive content and silly videos. It might be time for you to start thinking about using video to attract traffic to your website (I am.)

There is a good article on Yahoo news about the growth of video content online.

“There seems to be no way to quench people’s thirst for online video programming,” says Chris Chambers, WWE senior vice president.

A few weeks ago, the first hour of WWE’s Friday Night SmackDown series on UPN was pre-empted by Hurricane Katrina coverage, so WWE put the show on its website. The show averages 5 million viewers weekly, and WWE thought it might attract 250,000 viewers online. Instead, there were 500,000.

“That was with no promotion, without people knowing that the show was there,” Chambers says.

I don’t believe that video will ever dominate the internet — but the internet may well dominate TV as we know it today.

There are stories about how those in the radio industry predicted that TV was just a fad — and how others saw TV as the death of radio; neither prediction was right. I believe the internet is the ultimate for of media. It combines books, radio, live TV, pre-recorded video, and user interactivity all together into one big package.

As a website owner don’t be afraid to take advantage of video technology to bring viewers to your site!