Content networks provide a massive content or peer rated content. In many ways that's the appeal. The validation from others helps us sift through the mass of content to help us determine what is of interest.
Content networks are all about findability. YouTube is the second biggest search engine after Google. Slidehare has 60 million monthly users and is in the top 200 websites globally.
Content networks provide great organic search value.
Content networks are all about making it easier to share and reuse your content than to copy it.
It's now the norm to upload slides and videos. This mindset is fast propagating the other types of content networks
Embeddability is the cornerstone of a content network. The ability to embed any content that's uploaded to a content network is the reason people use content networks.
Helping your content to be found and embedded and share are all the reasons people see value from content networks. These are all the social features that remove friction from the process of creating, managing and distributing content across the web.
Content on content networks is easily shared via social networks.
The metrics of how many times a video has been viewed or how many people like a list or how many people follow a particular user on slideshare are all tools to help us filter and sort the information that matters to us.
Metrics drive our behaviour
