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