Comments on: Social Site Rankings (September, 2007)

By: Imeem Gobbles Up A Young Startup, Anywhere.FM

Imeem Gobbles Up A Young Startup, Anywhere.FM — Sat, 17 May 2008 01:59:35 +0000

[...] monthly uniques and 65,000 new registered users each day according to their own stats. Comscore ranked them the top growing social site last September. If ad supported music is going to succeed, Imeem is the [...]

By: SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES GROW YEAR OVER YEAR | Kriitika Imkamol

SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES GROW YEAR OVER YEAR | Kriitika Imkamol — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:53:27 +0000

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By: Classmates IPO Tries to Cash In On Social Networking Craze

Classmates IPO Tries to Cash In On Social Networking Craze — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:43:06 +0000

[...] (which raised $25 million last April). While Facebook’s U.S. visitors grew 129 percent in September to 31 million (according to comScore), Classmate.com’s shrank 12 percent to 13 million. (Even [...]

By: MyWord or FacePress? « one cool site

MyWord or FacePress? « one cool site — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:25:03 +0000

[...] Social Networking Sites Growth Rates - A look at growth rates of social networking sites. The rules aren’t what you think here, so anything under 100 percent growth year over year is actually BAD. [...]

By: Imeem Adds EMI To Its Stable

Imeem Adds EMI To Its Stable — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 02:35:27 +0000

[...] a few bumps in the road, imeem seems to be hitting its stride. Comscore shows it as one of the fastest growing social sites, with 3.2 unique U.S. visitors in September—although that’s down from a peak [...]

By: CNET Sells Webshots For $45 Million; Other News

CNET Sells Webshots For $45 Million; Other News — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 02:34:14 +0000

[...] be growing pretty fast, though. The site attracted 7.2 million visitors in the U.S. in September, up 25 percent from last year.And just a year ago it was considered a key part of CNET’s strategy to become [...]

By: DigitalBlab » Blog Archive » Strategy: How to Market Music on imeem

DigitalBlab » Blog Archive » Strategy: How to Market Music on imeem — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:56:27 +0000

[...] declared imeem the fastest-growing social network of the past year, after the site posted a monster 1600% swell in unique visitors from September [...]

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Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:41:33 +0000

[...] they would create a strategic partnership with someone like imeem which is currently one of the fastest growing social networks focused on music. Rcrd Lbl does have a social aspect in that a blog is there [...]

By: Joris

Joris — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:22:11 +0000

Superb info!!

I am working on my scripture, its all about social networling sites and this was just the info i was looking for!! Thanx

I’m making this scripture for my interm ship company

http://www.whoozz.com

The goal of my reseach is getting whoozz.com in this website list!

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thanx for the info

By: Michael Myers

Michael Myers — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:38:42 +0000

Erick - Do you have any stats on mobile social networks?

By: Horoscop

Horoscop — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:48:57 +0000

Wow.. thanks for these ranking’s info
@29 aniketh : it’s really strange
@Don’t forget Orkut was buy by Google

By: Weekly Web 2.0 briefing | Connected Internet

Weekly Web 2.0 briefing | Connected Internet — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:04:13 +0000

[...] social network, followed by Facebook. What surprised me a bit this week, is that according to a comScore research, the fastest growing social network website in the US is not Facebook but Social playlist website [...]

By: susan

susan — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:06:43 +0000

The thing about Six Apart and ComScore is it only captures traffic that they host. And I believe it probably doesn’t capture pages such as comment pages? But I’m just guessing on that one.
Don’t forget they also have MoveableType that they don’t host. That number isn’t anywhere reflected in ComScore and from what I know that’s a huge portion of their business.

By: Ben Strackany

Ben Strackany — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:01:01 +0000

I think below a certain traffic threshold, growth % can vary widely & doesn’t matter as much. It’s like penny stocks.

Otherwise I could launch a site tomorrow and grow its traffic by 1,000% in a month (from 1 user to 1,000 users) with some link & ad buys.

I noticed that imeem is at (almost) the bottom of the list in terms of traffic, so that big growth % could be partly explained by an initial growth spike or marketing push.

And while imeem is up a lot over the year, they’re down by at least 30% over the past three months (per compete.com). So is it possible that they’re already a fading star?

Lastly, I agree that the focus & takeaway should be more on the larger properties — 20-30% changes when you’re pulling in millions of visitors is a big shift.

By: ProHipHop

ProHipHop — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:37:47 +0000

I’m seeing a lot of bands and publicists using Imeem but I don’t know how big such sources are for growth.

In terms of music marketing, MySpace and YouTube are the biggest sites and Imeem probably comes in third, just at a much smaller scale.

Facebook and most everybody else of any size has little to no presence in that space. Niche networks do, however, and we’re seeing more such networks and related 2.0 services focused on music marketing.

A lot of the Facebook news has come from the second wave of members, the business community. Some folks have been watching where the former college kid Facebook members have been moving. It would also be interesting to keep an eye on where the bands go as new networks develop because music is a strong driver in this space.

By: jalex

jalex — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:04:41 +0000

know what? this post of yours made me sign up to imeem and facebook.

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:42:52 +0000

Good info! Helps show the trend so you know where to be.
Grace and Peace,
Ed

By: Amit N

Amit N — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:55:15 +0000

This is a really cool report, I did not knew about the site that featured on #1 on the report. I was thinking the Digg will be on #1. But this really comes as a surprise to see that many social sites coming up fast.

By: John McHammond

John McHammond — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:07:32 +0000

Is it just me, or are there too many companies with meaningless names (IMEEM?) fighting for my online social time?

Every time I hear about some new site that will “revolutionize” some aspect of my online life, I want to puke.

Not only do I not have the time anymore to invest into these time wasting sites, either do my friends, who power their very growth. Everyonce in awhile, a friend will get lured by some marketer, to “join the new revolution” of one of these social/viral/ sites. This inevitably ends up in an address book import, an un-authorized spamming of our entire group of friends, with a request to “join sally and MILLIONS of other hipsters” on anothercrapsitewithnorealvalue.com.

Well, I’m not doing it anymore, and either are a surprising number of my friends. I want my real life back.

…

[/rant]

By: aniketh

aniketh — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 05:34:50 +0000

Its surprising to see that Orkut had only 503,000 visitors in the US, considering the demographics given out by Orkut (http://www.orkut.com/MembersAll.aspx) stating that the US is no 2.

By: Top Myspace Users

Top Myspace Users — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:01:36 +0000

go see whos most popular on myspace

http://topmyspacer.com

By: David

David — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:05:44 +0000

Buzznet.com*

By: David

David — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:04:59 +0000

As a clarification, Freewebs is actually 6 years old.

In 2006, it had 4,452 Unique Visitors in the US, giving 48% YoY growth.

The reason that this doesn’t come up in the second comScore list above is due to another MediaMetrix annoyance: switching the classification of a site.

In 2006 Freewebs was counted as [M] (Media?), while today it is classified as [P] (Property?). Unfortunately, MM makes no effort to join the historical data with the current, reclassified site.

This is also the case for Wordpress (392% growth) and (337% growth).

By: Geek And Poke

Geek And Poke — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:41:42 +0000

The Triumph Of The “Social”…

Sorry for this lame joke.But after reading TechCrunchs social site ranking I just could not resist….

By: Erick Schonfeld

Erick Schonfeld — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:48:19 +0000

@10, it’s the trend (up or down) that counts, and 600K is just the number of people who subscribe to the TC feed.

@16, yes this is just U.S. data. Global numbers would turn up another set of sites. My guess is that Friendster would do better on a global list.