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Top U.S. social-networking site MySpace.com’s audience was up 8 percent in March compared with March ‘07, but second-place Facebook’s doubled, growing 98 percent from a year earlier, according to custom lists compiled by Nielsen Online, writes MarketingCharts.
See table of top 10 social networking sites (U.S., home and work), March ‘08.
LinkedIn increased its unique audience a whopping 319 percent from a year earlier, reaching nearly 7.9 million in March, compared with 1.9 million a year earlier - and surpassing Windows Live Spaces to take the No. 4 spot.
MySpace’s unique audience totaled 60.4 million in February, more than double Facebook’s 24.9 million.
Top 10 Blog Sites
View table of top 10 blog sites (U.S., home and work), March ‘08.
Google’s Blogger remained atop the blog site rankings with 38.7 million unique visitors, up 51 percent from 25.6 million in March ‘07.
WordPress was again up - an impressive 162 percent from March ‘07 - increasing its unique audience to 17.3 million.
Fifth-place HuffingtonPost.com also maintained its impressive growth: Its unique audience grew from 1.2 million in March ‘07 to more than 5.3 million - or 350 percent.
Meanwhile, AOL Sports blog The FanHouse burst into the top 10 with nearly 4.4 million unique visitors in March, taking the No. 6 spot.
Broadcasting company Radio One has struck a deal to sell ads on hip-hop news site AllHipHop.com.
The agreement spans five years and gives Interactive One, Radio One’s digital division, exclusive access to AllHipHop’s ad inventory, writes MarketingVox. AllHipHop boasts five million…
Tribune Co.’s sale of Newsday to Cablevision allows Tribune and its new chairman, Sam Zell, to put $600 million in expected cash proceeds toward its roughly $13 billion debt. This buys Tribune Co. more time to implement plans to turn…
Apple’s new model of the iPhone, which will provide 3G access and faster data connection speeds, is imminent, if the shortage of the current model means anything.
Apple’s website announced yesterday that the company is out of stock on previous…
NBC’s unusual upfront garnered mixed reviews from the media crowd; some blamed the network for using the new format to draw attention away from a weak programming slate, while others liked the innovative format.
Yesterday’s upfront event drew advertisers through…
Sirius losses shrunk in the first quarter, while XM’s losses widened, the companies announced yesterday, in what they hope will be their last quarterly financial reports as stand-alone companies.
Sirius’s loss of $104 million was an improvement over last year’s…
Budget Travel magazine is allowing readers to frolic through its pages in a whole new way: nearly all of the text and photography of the June issue was generated by readers.
The magazine pulled in 2,800 pitches, for a final…
