Top Social Networks By Traffic
Compete.com published a list of the top 25 social networks by traffic for February 2008. A couple of interesting things stuck me after looking at the data.
The top 25 social media networks delivered over 155 million unique visitors in Feb. 2008 with 70% coming from MySpace, Facebook and Classmates.com. Add in YouTube and Flickr and you get another 60 million visitors, meaning that an estimated 215 million people visited social media sites in February.
Four additional points from the article:
- Myspace was down slightly from February 2007 in terms of total US visits. However, the networking giant still holds a commanding traffic lead over all other Social sites.
- Facebook visits fell slightly from January 2008 to February 2008, but over the year the site has grown by over 75%. In terms of US visitors, it is now about one half the size of Myspace, but receives about 1/3rd as many visits.
- Niche markets are still attractive in terms of Social networking: Cafemom (a social network geared towards mothers), Linkedin (a networking site for professionals) and Fubar (“the first online bar”) all grew by 5X or more from February 2007 through February 2008. Fubar, in fact, exploded into the top 20 networks from relative obscurity one year ago.
- Innovative business models also had success in 2007: Communication platform Twitter, and white label social network Ning, both found a dramatically larger audience in the past year.
Have anyone tried sites like Fubar, Ning, Yuku?
Filed under Social Media Marketing, Social Media Optimization : Comments (2) : Mar 31st, 2008
March 31st, 2008 at 1:30 pm
I just signed up for Fubar…wow, it made my head hurt
April 7th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
wow fubar really shot up. What is it? James comment makes me wonder.