Posts Tagged ‘ MySpace ’
Earlier this week, the Financial Times reported that MySpace was in talks with either Google or Microsoft. As I reported previously in this post, MySpace was the #1 source of traffic for Google, providing over 8.2% of its traffic for the week ending May 6, 2006. I took a closer look at MySpace and its [...][ READ MORE ]
Heather Hopkins’ post yesterday about the growth of Bebo in the UK prompted some questions on its growth in the US. The short answer: MySpace has such a huge piece of the social networking pie in the US that it would take some time for any of its growing legion of competitors to chip away [...][ READ MORE ]
A regular MySpace user clued me in on the phenomenal increase in visits to MySpace Videos on March 31, 2006 that I mentioned last week. On that day, MySpace began including a “videos” link on all profile pages, as shown below in the profile of Tom Anderson, one of the MySpace founders. Clicking on the [...][ READ MORE ]
On March 31, 2006 the market share of visits to MySpace Video increased by 1,242%, sending it far ahead of YouTube and the other video search services. As I’ve written before, MySpace is the leading source of traffic for YouTube, accounting for 23% of its upstream visits for the week ending April 1, 2006. It [...][ READ MORE ]
