THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER -- June 2 -- MySpace saw 49% growth in April compared with the same month last year (Nielsen//NetRatings). Far less than Facebook, which saw a 152% jump, and Bebo, up 109%. The fastest-growing sites were ZoomInfo and LinkedIn, which saw 276% and 210% growth, respectively, compared with April 2006. According to Hitwise, Facebook is second to MySpace with an 11.5% market share of social networking sites in the U.S. for April, dwarfing Bebo, the next-closest competitor, which had a 1.3% share for the month. As the 2008 election heats up, Meetup.com has seen a 149% increase in unique traffic compared with last year, NetRatings said. FULL ARTICLE @ THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
Mark Brooks: Zoominfo is a great resource for researching people’s online bio’s and reputations. It pulls together information from press releases and bio pages. The company that became ZoomInfo was started by Jonathan Stern, who started Corex up in the U.S.A. Corex makes the best card scanners. MySpace is still growing faster if you consider the absolute number of people joining the service rather than the % growth.
