Sorry, but I just can't get myself to use the word “vlog,” a blogified moniker of video blog. Anyway, the site Mefeedia has been tracking the growth of video weblogs—generally blogs featuring 
indie-produced video content—since 2004. So here are some stats. Impressive.
About 57% of video blogs use their own software solutions for posting. Compared, that is, with posting to YouTube [yuck] or Blip.tv [my fav]. Dailymotion comes in a bit lower than YouTube and Blip; after that, there's little else. So more than half of the group are posting old school, no doubt to keep control of their work.
Here's the amazing stat for the “technology uptake curve” types.
2005: 617
2006: 8,723
2008: 20,913
As Mediafeedia themselves say: “Of course, statistics are only part of the story in videoblogging. Videoblogging has really been about community and connecting people. That connection between viewers and videobloggers, and between videobloggers themselves, has been invaluable in creating some of the most unique, independent episodic videos online.
The vlogosphere has started garnering attention from Hollywood. In January, Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine of ”Ask a Ninja“ signed a deal with Federated Media. It looks like 2007 is going to be an interesting year where ”micro media“ meets ”big media“, or at least they will be talking. From several conversations we have had, it seems that Hollywood is still trying to figure it out. It is a tremendous leap to go from a handful of shows with viewers in the millions to hundreds of shows with viewers in the thousands. [Source]
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