January U.S. Comscore stats for MySpace are released on Monday, but we’re hearing they’ll show a big surge in a number of key areas. Average time spent on the site increased to 204 minutes (up 14%), the highest it has been since August 2007. Unique visitors are supposedly up 13%, with Facebook showing a decline of 800,000 or so unique visitors in the same period.
We’ll try to get our hands on the actual stats tomorrow to verify. But it should be noted that these will be U.S. numbers only; worldwide numbers for January, where Facebook is showing most of its growth, won’t be released until later.
I’ve noticed MySpace porn spam emails/invites have dropped significantly.
Their video set up is good too – they always have 4 shocking/funny videos on login page – unlike YouTube which has WAY too many random video choices on home page.
That was just me checking out all the hotties. We might merge with MySpace. I’ve been negotiating access to the accounts of all the hot girls.
facebook ftw
Michael,
comScore is slow. Compete.com numbers are already out.
http://siteanal...m+facebook.com/
MySpace:
UVs: +2.4%
Visits: +8.5%
Average Stay: +4.8%
Pages per visit: +7.3%
Attention: +6.4%
i think its because of they fact they say they have a new platform coming out, i even went there.
anyway go facebook
that’s very surprising…
This would correspond nicely with the myspacepicstorrent fiasco.
That would be all the people logging in on January 30th, National Delete your MySpace Account Day.
many colleges were off until the 10th (1/3 of the month) this may explain the decline
uh oh
Isn’t it because in December traffic slows down due to the holidays? Sounds like a chance to misrepresent traffic statistics.
I’m really surprised that this article fails to mention or point to the International Delete Your MySpace page day that was all over the interwebs in January. The mission of the event clearly stating to not be excited over more traffic in January, as it would only be because of users logging in to delete their accounts.
Here’s the link: http://digg.com...our_MySpace_Day
I find Facebook covered more often than MySpace on TechCrunch. Any reason for that?
RK
http://theindia...t.blogspot.com/
@RK – to annoy you?
I was surprised to find that you could watch all of the Super Bowl ads on Myspace…and it was advertised heavily during the Super Bowl. I wonder if that helped the numbers?…and it would be a U.S. only set of numbers.
That was all the people going on to delete their profiles after they discovered Facebook.
Facebook…no one was in school for winter break. Was less of a need to log in.
Facebook…Also, the 800,000 less page views…still probably from the whole new ajax picture viewing thingy…they don’t refresh the page anymore when going through an album…just the pictures.
Myspace, everyone was told to delete their myspace during Janurary. Makes since.
This makes sense to me. ComScore had previously reported a sharp decline in Myspace users between October and December. December could have been a slow month if users went on vacation… Then when we get back home and back to our boring jobs we return to our favorite procrastination tools. This increase is just Myspace bouncing back.
Maybe it has to do with MySpace hosting the Super Bowl commercials… ?