Nielsen/Netratings indicate “explosive” growth in web image hosting sites and a sharp corresponding rise in blogging activity.


Nielsen/Netratings report that traffic to image hosting web sites has skyrocketed due to the massive rise in blogging activitiy.

Image hosting sites have grown 406 percent to more than 14.7 million unique users since January 2005, accounting for nearly 10 percent of active U.S. Internet users. Teens index higher than other demographic groups for image hosting.

The top referring sites for the top five image hosting sites during August 2005 included MySpace.com, Xanga.com, LiveJournal, Blogger and MSN Spaces.

Jon Gibs, senior research manager Nielsen/NetRatings says, “The large rise in blogging activity has lifted other Web sites, the primary one being image hosting sites. Simple text-based ‘diaries’ have evolved into a more image oriented presentation”.

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