Top 20 Social Networking Websites December 26, 2009
The following chart shows websites for the industry ‘Computers and Internet – Social Networking and Forums’, ranked by Visits for the week ending 12/26/2009.
Twitter Leapfrogs from 48th to 4th Place in Top Social Media Sites in One Year
As Myspace.com continues its strategic move toward becoming an “entertainment portal,” the growth to Myspace Music should help cement their presence in this space. Since the site’s launch in September 2008, unique visitors to the music.myspace.com subdomain have increased 190 percent — growing from 4.2 million unique visitors to 12.1 million in June 2009. [...]
New Study Indicates Social Media Pays
A new study released today from Wetpaint and the Altimeter Group confirms that deep engagement with consumers through social media channels correlates to better financial performance. The ENGAGEMENTdb study (www.engagementdb.com) showed significant positive financial results for the companies who measured as having the greatest breadth and depth of social media engagement. These “Social Media [...]
Americans Viewed a Record 16.8 Billion Videos Online in April
US internet users watched 16.8 billion online videos during April 2009, a 16% increase vs. March, according to monthly data from the comScore Video Metrix service. A significant increase in video viewing at YouTube during April contributed to the month’s sizeable gains.
Total viewing time amounted to 6.4 hours per viewer for the month, [...]
Time Spent on Facebook up 700 Percent, but MySpace.com Still Tops for Video
As theories circulate about the actual dollar value of sites like Facebook and Myspace—just last week analysts placed Facebook’s worth at $10 billion—there is no question that people continue to gravitate towards social networking and blog sites. In the U.S. alone, total minutes spent on social networking sites has increased 83 percent year-over-year. In [...]
Why You and Your Business Should Be on Facebook
Facbook Statistics January 2009
General Growth
More than 150 million active users
More than half of Facebook users are outside of college
The fastest growing demographic is those 25 years old and older
User Engagement
Average user has 100 friends on the site
2.6 billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day (worldwide)
More than 13 million users update their statuses at [...]




