A couple of days back, the Guardian reported that Youtube had outstripped Myspace as the number one social site, mentioning that since May its reach has surpassed the big Daddy of TV websites the BBC*.

Today the Business 2.0 blogs reports that Youtube has outstripped Cnn.com and links to this Alexa graph.

and in case you think that Alexa’s rankings are not to be trusted, try Hitwise’s.

Youtube is now in pole position not merely to dominate the social site space but to grow out of it to become the premiere global TV distribution platform. Social networks work.

*Full disclosure: I co-founded www.bbc.co.uk in 1997 as commissioning editor.

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