YouTube remained dominant, growing 1 percent in October to 213 million visits on almost 52 million unique visitors. MSN/Live Video grew as well, up more than one-quarter to 35 million visits by 21 million unique visitors.

Visits to Yahoo Video, MySpaceTV and Heavy.com all had a drop in traffic. MySpace’s online video market share has decreased by one-half since July, to 7.6 percent.

Unique visitors to Yahoo Video stayed about the same, while visits fell 27.5 percent. Compete said the decrease showed that visitors to Yahoo Video were less likely to return than they were in August and September.

AOL’s video properties had a 4 percent increase in unique visitors, but visits fell by 9.4 percent to 30 million.

Compete said that visits to the top 20 video sites dropped by 6 percent in October.

The new program gives MySpace a stream of original content while providing artists a new avenue of promotion and revenue. The ubiquitous James Blunt is the first artist featured.

All content from MySpace Transmissions will be archived and available on-demand on the MySpace Transmissions profile and via MySpaceTV. Users will be able to add the content to their profiles and virally share the artists’ videos throughout the network and purchase the audio track. (press release)

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"Roommates" will follow the lives of four women in their 20s who have just graduated from college and are living together in Los Angeles. The Web show launched today and will run through December 21. There are 45 episodes that are three minutes in length that will be shown every weekday at 4 p.m. Eastern time.

Fans of "Roommates" will be able to access individual profiles for each character, watch video blog postings from the characters and other interactive content. Viewers will also have access to a real-time polling tool with which they can express their opinions on characters and plot development. Viewers will be able to chat online and post comments on the individual character profiles. Fans opinions could be used to influence the outcome of the plot.

As part of the launch, the 2008 Ford Focus will act as a series sponsor offering products that will be integrated into the storyline in multiple episodes.

"Whether it’s network television shows, original web productions, or user-generated genius, we’re committed to offering our users the most exciting content anywhere on the net," said Jeff Berman, GM of MySpaceTV. "We’re thrilled to see that MySpaceTV is quickly becoming Hollywood’s digital playground."

"This is the most exciting project I’ve worked on in a very long time, and part of that is the level of creative autonomy we can have on the Internet. For better or worse, ‘quarterlife’ is truly our own vision," said Marshall Herskovitz.

The "quarterlife" series is a drama that focuses on six people in their twenties. The central character is a young woman who reveals her personal secrets as well as her friends on her video blog.

MySpaceTV will create a "quarterlife" video channel and a MySpace profile page to feature exclusive series content including character profiles, behind-the- scenes video footage and storyline secrets. The series will have 36 episodes that are 8 minutes in length.

"When Emmy award-winning producers come to MySpaceTV – you know this is reaching a whole new level," said Chris DeWolfe, CEO of MySpace. "We’re proud to offer the creative community a blank canvas and open platform to express their vision."

MySpace has had success with other Internet based shows including Lonelygirl15 and Prom Queen, which was created by former Walt Disney CEO Michael Eisner’s company.

MySpace and MTV have announced a series of solo dialogues with the major presidential candidates in an effort to appeal to the youth vote. The events will take place on college campuses, air on MTV, mtvU, and be Web cast live on both MTV.com and MySpaceTV. The first presidential dialogue will be with former Senator John Edwards in New Hampshire on Thursday, September 27.

People will be able to participate in the discussions by submitting questions through MySpaceIM, mobile devices and email while watching the live Web cast on MTV.com or MySpace. Each event will be an hour in length.

"These Presidential dialogues will bring individual candidates directly to voters – one at a time," said Chris DeWolfe, co-founder and CEO of MySpace. "We are lowering the barriers to entry, setting a high-water mark for direct engagement between Presidential candidates and average Americans."

Presidential candidates scheduled to perform, I mean participate, include Democrats Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Christopher Dodd and Bill Richardson. Republicans include Rudy Giuliani, Duncan Hunter, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, John McCain, and Sam Brownback.

"For years, young people have trusted MTV to inform and engage them on the issues that matter most, from politics to sexual health to the environment," said Christina Norman, President, MTV.

The Onion will provide audio and video content, articles, blogs and "news" to MySpace and MySpaceTV. The Onion will also have its own profile on MySpace.

"The news business is like the tobacco business: you want to reach new readers at as young and impressionable an age as possible," Onion president Sean Mills said. "MySpace was, of course, a natural partner in that regard."

Along with offering online video and audio content, The Onion will also have a staff blog on MySpace that will provide a behind the scenes look into the "892" offices of The Onion.

"The Wall Street Journal is all well and good, but The Onion News Network represents the best in hard-hitting investigative journalism (at least on MySpace)," said Jeff Berman, GM of MySpaceTV. "Also, we lost a bet."

 The Onion says that they have 4 million online readers each month and 3 million readers who read the print edition.

Other content partners on MySpaceTV include: LonelyGirl15, Sony (Minisode Network), NBA, NHL, The Producers Guild, National Geographic, The New York Times, Reuters, and lifestyle outlets including Animation Show, The Daily Reel, Expert Village, Flow, FOX’s IGN Entertainment, Kush TV, LX.TV, Octane TV, Ripe TV, Studio411, VBS.tv (from the makers of Vice Magazine), and Young Hollywood.

Starting tomorrow Friday, August 3 at 8 am a new video of the LonelyGirl15 season finale will be available on MySpaceTV every hour for 12 hours in a row.

"With more than 115 million potential friends on MySpace, LonelyGirl won’t be lonely any more," said Jeff Berman, GM of MySpaceTV. "By joining Sony Minisodes, Prom Queen, and all of our branded channel partners coming online this month, LonelyGirl will be in good company on MySpaceTV."

The LonelyGirl15 episodes are between 1 to 4 minutes in length and will follow the cast as they try to find their missing friend. The second season of LonelyGirl15 starts the week of August 6 on MySpaceTV.

"We’re thrilled to give LonelyGirl15 the global platform it deserves via MySpaceTV," said Greg Goodfried, co-creator and producer of LonelyGirl15.

"The artistic concept of LonelyGirl15 is that the characters are real, live in the real world, and interact with the fans," added Miles Beckett, co-creator and producer of LonelyGirl15. "We expect MySpace users to welcome the show with open arms."

"MySpaceTV is quickly becoming a popular destination for Internet TV, but that convenience and popularity is diminished if it takes too long for a video to load or if the playback experience is poor," said Justin Chapweske, founder and CEO of Swarmcast.

"Internet TV viewers want broadcast-quality reliability as well as the convenience of on-demand. Autobahn Accelerator is designed to make that easily possible, even with standard broadband and the average home networking set-up."

Autobahn Accelerator for MySpaceTV was developed by Swarmcast, the provider of multi-source streaming technology for online video delivery. It is the second in a series of accelerators following the launch of the Autobahn Accelerator for iTunes, which shortens the download times of music, movies and TV episodes from the iTunes store.