Posts Tagged ‘ Social Media ’
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
Since my post last month on YouTube and the SNL Chronicles of Narnia rap, YouTube has continued to gain market share against other video search sites, and since surpassing Google Video, it has also surpassed Yahoo! Video Search in the past few days, as you can see on the chart below. I also added iFilm, [...][ READ MORE ]
An article appeared recently that mentioned Hitwise data in reference to Wikipedia and the New York Times. Indeed, Wikipedia recently eclipsed the New York Times in terms of market share of Internet visits as shown in the chart below. But is Wikipedia taking over as a news site? Let’s see: Wikipedia gets most of its [...][ READ MORE ]
