Shock: Flickr isn’t number one, it’s number six!
June 26th, 2006 Zeid Nasser (Admin)
Bloggers in the Arab World only talk about Flickr, as the main photo sharing site they use.
But, that’s not the case worldwide.
A study published by Hitwise shows that Flickr is actually the number six photo sharing site, with a market share of only 5.95%.
Less hyped sites like Yahoo! Photos, Webshots Community, and Kodak Gallery all rank higher than Flickr.
But here’s the surprise. The number one site with over 43% of the world’s photo-sharing traffic is PhotoBucket.com.
I must admit, up until reading this report, I had never heard of it!
In the past few months, a couple of GCC country’s governments blocked Flickr. Obviously, they hadn’t heard of PhotoBucket either.
So, maybe, we should be using it 
Visit PhotoBucket.
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1. Ibrahim Owais | June 26th, 2006 at 2:33 pm
But i think photobucket.com is also blocked in Saudi Arabia, that was the case when i was in Saudi Arabia …
But anyway i think flcikr made a revolution in photosharing, by adopting the web 2.0 technology.
Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake the Co-founders of Flickr is now became a poster couple for the Web 2.0 movement.
many users and photographers prefer flickr more than any other sites to share their photos.
and dont forget that Flickr is still Beta and they built a big successful brand withen a short time.
I think what made other photsharing sites at the top of the list that they were offrening their services since a long time, and flickr is still new in this business.
in the other hand, what made Flickr so popular betwean internet users, is the simplisty of their site interface and the way how they categorize subjects “Tags” which is somthing from web 2.0 .
aside subject: check this List for The 50 people who matter now … according to Business 2.0 Magazine
http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/21/technology/50whomatter.biz2/index.htm
and you can see that Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake the Co-founders of Flickr is number 13 in the list.
2. Isam Bayazidi | June 26th, 2006 at 3:39 pm
One should mention some facts that explain the numbers:
- PhotoBucket is not a photo-sharing service, but a photo storage one.. all images in eBay (for items to sell, etc..) and MySpace (the very popular community site) are hosted in PhotoBucket as per Business-to-Business agreement between eBay/MySpace and Photobucket
- Webshots is as well not a photo-sharing site, main reason for it’s popularity is a desktop application that uploads a random windows background everyday for thousends of computers. It is mainly a “Random Windows Background”application with a site
- Other sites mentioned are not “Photo-Sharing” sites.. ImageShack is “Photo Hosting Service”
So, saying that Flickr is #6 in photo-sharing, and listing non-photo-sharing sites at topping it won’t be accurate..
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