MySpace Becomes No. 1 Visited Web Site in America

[hextraordinary]

NEW YORK — Online teen hangout MySpace.com ranked as the No. 1 U.S. Web site last week, displacing Yahoo Inc.'s (YHOO) top-rated e-mail gateway and Google Inc.'s (GOOG) search site, Internet tracking firm Hitwise said on Tuesday.

News Corp.'s (NWS) MySpace accounted for 4.46 percent of all U.S. Internet visits for the week ending July 8, pushing it past Yahoo Mail for the first time and outpacing the home pages for Yahoo, Google and Microsoft's (MSFT) MSN Hotmail.

Hitwise does not provide figures for the number of unique visitors to a site.

MySpace, which dominates social networking on the Web, also gained share in June from other sites that aim to create virtual communities online for sharing music, photos or other interests, Hitwise said.

MySpace captured nearly 80 percent of visits to online social networking sites, up from 76 percent in April. A distant second was FaceBook at 7.6 percent.

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. bought MySpace for $580 million one year ago as part of a strategy to rapidly build up the media conglomerate's Internet presence.

MySpace is owned by News Corp., which is the parent company of FOXNews.com.

[odradek]

Yep, there's only one direction from teh top. :D

[WhatiFind]

Well not quite.. Yahoo is still the biggest.. mail, search, directory and news a measured seperately all combined they have about 129 million visitors each month in the US alone and 500 million world wide. Visit http://www.hitwise.com for more info..

[Obelia]

Yet there are whole groups of people who have never even heard of Myspace. It's popular, but is it really number one in America?

[KLB]

Yet there are whole groups of people who have never even heard of Myspace. It's popular, but is it really number one in America?

Like the CNN NY stock exchange reporter who when asked about myspace thought the anchor was talking about "her space". All of these social networking sites are making my head spin. Website promotion and marketing used to be so much easier, but now one has to join all of these social networking sites and create a presence on them that then promotes one's core site. Yuck.

[Mr.Rock]

i dont have myspace acount.. is it availale to every one? whts the requirements to get it?

[bluemouse2]

i dont have myspace acount.. is it availale to every one? whts the requirements to get it?

I don't have one - and I don't plan making one soon :D

[Mr.Rock]

y? bluem??

[odradek]

i dont have myspace acount.. is it availale to every one? whts the requirements to get it?

Then you should get one... because everyone is on myspace.com ... :p

It's free and it's owned by Mr. Murdoch.


myspace is not really popular everywhere, I think it's popular in US and France (relatively), myspace is popular in english speaking countries, here's some info:

google.com/trends?q=myspace&ctab=1&sa=N

unfortunately I can't post links here yet. :D

[odradek]

Like the CNN NY stock exchange reporter who when asked about myspace thought the anchor was talking about "her space".

:D

All of these social networking sites are making my head spin. Website promotion and marketing used to be so much easier, but now one has to join all of these social networking sites and create a presence on them that then promotes one's core site. Yuck.

You're not alone, social networking and bookmarking seems to be teh trend.

[Kristabelle]

Do you think it's slightly inflated?

I know that my 16 year old sister probably goes to myspace about 15-20 times/day and that's no exaggeration.

[ServerUnion]

Proof in point that idiots and 16 year olds prefer nasty looking websites. I have a site but dont log into it. My band has a site which has done really well for local promotion.

Seems to be a great site for 16 year old, peodephiles and music. View the link in my sig for the later of the 3 ;)

[ly2]

http://myspace.com/G

=D

[hextraordinary]

Do you think it's slightly inflated?

I know that my 16 year old sister probably goes to myspace about 15-20 times/day and that's no exaggeration.

I know of people in their 20's who sit on Myspace ALL DAY.

[mcfox]

Nice article on Clickz.com about the market share currently being enjoyed by MySpace.com

NewsCorp-owned MySpace garners the highest U.S. market share of visits on the Web, even beating out Yahoo Mail and portals. That's according to data released by Hitwise.

For the week ending July 8, MySpace had 4.46 percent market share of visits, making it the top site on the Internet. The social networking site surpassed widely-used Web-based e-mail and portal sites including Yahoo Mail (4.42 percent); Yahoo (4.25 percent); Google (3.89 percent) and MySpace's own e-mail site (2.85 percent). eBay ranks eighth on the list with 1.59 percent market share.

MySpace's growth rate was gradual, but it enjoyed a 4,300 percent increase over a two year period. "This site has increased more than we've seen in my memory of any of the sites we track," said Bill Tancer, general manager of Global Research at Hitwise. "There doesn't seem to be any end in sight.
Source, and the rest of the article:
http://www.clickz.com/stats/sectors/traffic_patterns/article.php/3619306

:)

[hextraordinary]

Nice article on Clickz.com about the market share currently being enjoyed by MySpace.com


Source, and the rest of the article:
http://www.clickz.com/stats/sectors/traffic_patterns/article.php/3619306

:)

Nice article. I was under the impression that Friendster and Orkut were much higher on the scale there. And never thought thefacebook had anything going for them at all... I still doubt some of these figures.

[mcfox]

I still doubt some of these figures.
I would count the figures as pretty accurate - Hitwise (the source) is one of the top companies as far as that sort of thing goes and is normally right on the button.

[odradek]

I was under the impression that Friendster and Orkut were much higher on the scale there. And never thought thefacebook had anything going for them at all... I still doubt some of these figures.

What I've understood.

Friendster is totally out. Orkut is really big in Brazil, but that's about it, it's not really big in 'english speaking' countries, linkedin.com is more popular for pros to network. Thefacebook is moving up... but I'm not totally sure.

[Blogmaster]

http://myspace.com/G

=D

how long have you been on there?

[hextraordinary]

How did this thread end up under "Reviews" anyway?

[stupidfly]

http://myspace.com/G

=D

Holy cow! Great url! I wonder what that myspace url is worth?


haha

[free]

this is an article on internetnews.com

"It's official. MySpace is the most popular stop for members having lots of time on their hands. But who cares that the social-networking behemoth is so popular if it isn't making any money?

Not only is MySpace America's most popular social-networking site, having earned 79.9 percent of the market in June according to a Hitwise study released this week, but it is also America's most popular Web site, representing 4.46 percent of all Internet traffic."

the article can be found here
http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/3620211

[wissam]

Check out this article (http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2006/02/13/news/national_world/f32f1d227bba3a7586257114001899d0.txt)
Now I know why u guys jumped on those myspace turnkeys, I use myspace, I know my space and I will build something that a search angine can find, something more then a turnkey lol

[lorien1973]

the study that showed myspace was #1 was completely flawed. I'll have to find the link to that article again.

[shamess]

I haven't read the article (yet), but from what you've quoted, those statistics look like complete bull.

[ClothMaker111]

I don't see what the tremendous appeal of myspace is...but I guess a simple idea can surely catch on...

[Tekntoant]

Myspace has its cool points but it is ironic that the same group of people the make this site a success are also the same group of people (mindless teens) that have made it one huge pop-culture cesspool. I still like the site but the quality has been quite diluted for networking, which is the premise of the site.

[Travis]

I still feel that the vanity of Myspace will eventually wear off...Social Networking sites are popping up all over the place, perhaps we will recall Friendster, Facebook...all those services, they all have their hayday, then all go away lol

[diogenes]

The central question is unique visits. 2% of the population that hits 20 times a day seems like a big deal.

Jim

[lymeq]

i have one,but been long time since i last check it out.

[Blogmaster]

There are actually a lot of webmasters on there. Of course, when guys log into myspace, they easily get sidetracked by the girls, and don't see it. And then they blame MySpace for it :p