Posts Tagged ‘ MySpace ’
Social networking has continued to be one of the most activities online with online users, second only to search (and likely to surpass soon). The Social Networking category has experienced a resurgence of growth as websites like Facebook and Twitter have increased in popularity. Visits to a custom category of 155 Social Networking websites increased [...][ READ MORE ]
I was living vicariously through WSJ’s Julia Angwin’s Mogul-fest tweets last week (ironically throughout the week she tweeted that several moguls didn’t see the future in Twitter). While in Sun Valley, Angwin reported a brief interchange with Murdoch regarding the future direction of MySpace. Murdoch stated that MySpace needed to be re-focused “as an entertainment [...][ READ MORE ]
On Wednesday, April 11, MySpace blocked videos and slideshows hosted by Photobucket from appearing on the site due to an apparent violation of the MySpace terms of Service agreement. Did this blockage have any effect on Photobucket’s traffic, and how much traffic do the two sites share? The market share of visits to Photobucket was [...][ READ MORE ]
In my daily blog reading this morning, I noticed Steve Rubel’s post regarding the Washington Post’s initiative to build reader comments and profiles into their site, a step towards social news networking. Just today, we issued a press release that commented on the percentage of traffic that search engines drive to our Shopping & Classifieds [...][ READ MORE ]
Now that we’ve reached the one week point since Google added the Google Video link to the front page, I thought it would be a good idea to check in on the data. First to John Battelle’s point that the traffic spike to Google Video is probably just an “initial hit,” here’s a new daily [...][ READ MORE ]
Yesterday morning (prior to the deal being announced) I presented on the Search Engine Landscape Panel at SES San Jose. During the second half of my presentation, I discussed the opportunity/threat that MySpace poses to the search engines, primarily Google. In January of this year, Google received a little over 4% of their traffic from [...][ READ MORE ]
Here’s a great example of how a competitive intelligence mindset can cause you to look at things from a completely different angle. While the Blogosphere was buzzing about the MySpace outage on the weekend of 7/22 & 23, most posts discussed MySpace’s vulnerability, problems with redundancy, even connections with global warming. My first reaction was [...][ READ MORE ]
Today Hitwise issued a press release reporting that for the first time, www.myspace.com has surpassed Yahoo! Mail as the most visited domain on the Internet for US Internet users. To put MySpace’s growth in perspective, if we look back to July 2004 myspace.com represented only .1% of all Internet visits. This time last year myspace.com [...][ READ MORE ]
Back in April of this year LeeAnn Prescott identified a surge in traffic to the Myspace Vdeo page, that she pegged as being caused by a video link placed on every Myspace profile. In subsequent interviews we predicted that due to a lack of user loaded video content on Myspace, the spike in traffic to [...][ READ MORE ]
Today we issued a press release on the growing popularity of online video sites and the dominance of YouTube in that category. The chart in the release showed the trend in market share of visits for YouTube, MySpace Video, Yahoo! Video Search and Google Video. The late March/early April spike in visits to MySpace Video [...][ READ MORE ]
