And the winner, according to Alexa daily reach is: photobucket.com, the site that provides image and video hosting for MySpace, eBay, blogs, and message boards. Similar to Youtube.com, photobucket is riding the nut busting traffic growth of xanga, myspace, etc.
- Photobucket is a likely target according to a recent NYTimes article.
- Low overhead in the company with just eight employees as of 9/05. WSJ article on photobucket.
- The company apparently generates more traffic than Yahoo Photos as well (9.6M unique visitors vs. 12.2m unique for photobucket in September 2005).
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photobucket's not worth much since myspace could block them at any minute and they'd lose 75% of their traffic.
Number of hits suddenly determines quality on a webpage?
How about including some kind of analysis of photo sites that actually focuses on *gasp* having a good business model, like smugmug?
Number of hits does not determine quality on a web page (as you say) but it is a fair indicator of site performance and site worth to potential acquirers.
Business model? Smugmug seems to have a similar b-model (not to mention home page layout) as flickr.
Analysis on photo sites. Positive reviews on smugmug:
http://wsj.consumersearch.com/software/photo-sharing-reviews/reviews.html
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1859063,00.asp
http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/archive.aspx?post=788
http://www.startupjournal.com/financing/capital/20051101-buckman.html
http://tech2.nytimes.com/mem/technology/techreview.html?res=9505E2DB1539F932A35757C0A9629C8B63
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