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Who's the king of photos? Hint: It ain't Flickr
LeeAnn Prescott from web analysis company Hitwise has an interesting article on her blog about the market shares of the web's most popular photo sharing and hosting sites. While it's true that Flickr gets most of the buzz, it turns out it's not at the top of the heap-it's at #6. Prescott isn't clear on how they measure market share (trade secret, I'm sure), but by Hitwise's count Photobucket leads by an enormous margin over Yahoo! Photos, CNet's Webshots, Kodakgallery.com (formerly Ofoto), ImageShack, and finally Flickr. Interestingly the primary source of traffic for ImageShack, Photobucket and recent startup Slide (at #9) are all-you guessed it-MySpace. Apparently 1.39% of all photo traffic from MySpace goes to Photobucket, and Prescott hypothesizes that MySpace itself could be the reason for Photobucket's surge in market share. Prescott's post is an interesting look at how social networking sites are fueling the photo-hosting market.
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Robotrock said 8:55AM on 6-23-2006
Myspace should consider adding photo hosting to grab some of that share...of course their code needs some serious cleaning up before they try branching out
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Ruben LLibre said 9:00AM on 6-23-2006
i wonder if they realized photobucket is used MOSTLY (in cantity) by amateur and otherwise porn uploaders?
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Tush said 1:16PM on 6-23-2006
The thing is that all those sites are for sharing pictures, but they do that in different ways. It's hard to compare them like that. Personally, I like flickr because of it's community aspect.
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Neal Saferstein said 8:52PM on 6-23-2006
Flickr is the best so far.
Neal Saferstein
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Claudiu Spulber said 4:09AM on 6-26-2006
Flickr received some negative buzz lately, especially because their policy on "burrying" accounts that have more than 50% (?) screenshots. Plus, Photobucket also allows video uploading, a service that Flickr doesn't yet provide.
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