Consumption of online video is on the rise. In the U.S., the number of online video viewers has grown from around 55M in 2003 to nearly 140M in 2007, with projections of 160M by 2010. Okay, so video is on everyone's radar by now, but there's a lot more to the story than one might think. here is the URL:- http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/14596.imc
YouTube is the 3rd largest site in the world and now is also the 2nd largest search engine behind Google. A lot of people are now doing searches from YouTube instead of regular search engines. There are ways to get your videos ranked high for specific keywords and the videos will also rank high in Google itself.
Youtube is like a search engine but only for videos on their site. I do agree. Getting your video ranked high in Youtube will get the same video on the 1st page of Google.