Posts Tagged ‘ Social Networks ’
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 ]
On June 27, NBC and Youtube announced a pact to promote select content on the Youtube site. Upon hearing the news I was intrigued by NBC’s choice to feature The Office, Jay Leno and SNL content on Youtube. I remember previously looking at the search terms driving traffic to NBC site, and thinking it was [...][ READ MORE ]
Recently I’ve seen some posts that have hypothesized that Digg could be as big as the New York Times online, based on extrapolations from Digg’s reported stats, which surely includes visitors wolrdwide. Heather Hopkins reported last month on Digg’s popularity in the UK. According to the Hitwise US sample of 10 million internet users, Digg [...][ 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 ]
In the SF tech bubble that I live in, most of the talk about photo sites has been centered on Flickr. In fact, you could get the impression from most people I meet that Flickr is the ONLY site at which you can share and store photos. Examination of the category however, shows that Flickr [...][ 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 ]
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 ]
