  Web video is often used as a source of data in various fields of study. While
specialized subsets of web video, mainly earmarked for dedicated purposes, are
often analyzed in detail, there is little information available about the
properties of web video as a whole. In this paper we present insights gained
from the analysis of the metadata associated with more than 120 million videos
harvested from two popular web video platforms, vimeo and YouTube, in 2016 and
compare their properties with the ones found in commonly used video
collections. This comparison has revealed that existing collections do not (or
no longer) properly reflect the properties of web video "in the wild".
