If MySpace Loves You, Everybody Loves You

Did you know Photobucket controls 41 percent of photo-sharing market? Do you know why they do? Answer: MySpace, MySpace, MySpace. The News Corp.-owned social networking phenom is showing that if you really want market share, you have to win over MySpacers.

YouTube and Slide may be an interesting one to watch. Not the typical photo-sharing web service, Slide lets users become visual storytellers (a hipper version of your Aunt Gertrude's mind-numbing vacation slide shows). But Slide gets over 70 percent of its traffic from MySpace, and has grown by more than 2000 percent in the past year.

Yes, 2000 percent.

So what are learning about online marketing here? Well, we know that if you want to be found, you turn to Google. But if you want to build buzz and loyalty, you turn to MySpace. The social network's impact on web-services that have become household names now is (dare I say it?) indisputable.

If you're developing a widget, a web app, a social network, a concept – whatever – then getting adopted by MySpace users should send you straight to the top. And once again, we're on, on

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