For those about to RockYou.com, we salute you!
Written by Andrew Pearlman (contact - e-mail) -- June 19th, 2009 |
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I stumbled upon a new site last month, rockyou.com, while I was perusing the top sites for attention every month. Just in case anyone was confused on what exactly that attention metric we talk about is; let’s use Facebook as an example. In June facebook.com accounted for 6.55% of all seconds spent for every single person online across the entire US! That means for every 2 minutes spent in cyber land, 13 of those seconds were spent online stalking old colleagues on Facebook. Well, rockyou.com is not quite as prevalent but at rank 39 it still accounted for over .1% of all time spent online in April.
So that’s what got this site on my radar which has been operational since mid 2006 and was closely involved with making widgets for Myspace and is the most prevalent widget maker (in terms of downloads) for Facebook since December 2007. (I don’t know what I would do without Wikipedia). Well since then they have teamed up with a bunch of the big time social networks and increased the site traffic year-over-year from 5 million unique visitors in April ’08 to almost 29 million in April ’09, over 5x!
I’m sure there are a ton of great widgets that you can use to pimp up your profile and continue to push Facebook attention off the charts but the hot new offering is their “Best Slideshow Ever!” app. In the name of responsible journalism and morbid curiosity, it was my duty to try out the tool. After careful examination I was pleasantly surprised with the results. As always, our readers have the final say on whether or not it can produce The Best Slideshow Ever but for my test show I think it did the trick. Let us know what you think of RockYou.com.
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June 20th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
What’s with the big decrease from April to May?
June 22nd, 2009 at 8:41 am
Hard to pin point exactly why there was a big decrease in traffic for May.
If I had to guess, it is because the application was no longer new for the social networks and is not probably buried under a bunch of other apps. That is not how I found out about the domain though, so I’m speculating.
One did metric did increase M-o-M, the number of visits per person went up from 4.7 to 5 on average and it might be because people are having fun making videos with the site.
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July 27th, 2009 at 1:56 am
Nice info