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June 24, 2006

Photobucket number one in market shares

Pfhitwisegraph_3 While everybody talks about Flickr, a recent post from Hitwise shows that Photobucket is actually the number one site in photo sharing with a huge 44% market shares."It surpassed Yahoo! Photos in January, and its share of visits increased by 34% in the four months from February 2006 to May 2006."

But what is interesting here is the fact that the traffic to Photobucket is mostly coming from MySpace. Photobucket is a quite "plain" photo sharing service with no tagging,  or Ajax stuff for instance. So does that mean that people just want plain photo sharing without fancy features? Or does that mean that picture sharing is only valuable when you have a great community behind like on MySpace?
It will be interesting to follow those stats and the following graphs evolutions.

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Techcrunch, and gigaHOM also talk about it.



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Caterina of Flickr wrote something insightful about that article. The important metric is different for each type of site. It really highlights that the web is still very young in terms of measuring impact or audience in an appropriate manner.

http://www.caterina.net/archive/000990.html

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