alexaholic.com:
Observations:
1. Flickr rules due to web 2.0 features.
2. Photobucket is rising due to ease of use for MySpace users.
3. Webshots is dying.
4. Deviantart still growing.
5. Snapfish stays low.
I’ve never heard of this webshots.com before. I guess CNET bought them in July 14, 2004. Which helped their traffic for six months, but then it quieted down at the beginning of 2005.
What a year 2005 was! It saw the emergence of four new photo services. Looks like flickr won two major battles. One in July 2005 and again in March 2006. What happened to make their service jump so high? The only thing I could figure out for the July 2005 flickr jump is that it was a late reaction to Yahoo buying flickr in March 2005. I’d love to know what happened in the flickr March/April 2006 jump.
I’m happy to see that deviantart is still climbing in pageviews. I’ve been a member of deviantart since 2002 and I always thought they hit their peak years ago. How wrong I am.
yahoo bought flickr in march 2005, but they may not have implemented some Yahoo-related features until March 2006. That may explain the huge jump in March 2006. Often when a company buys out another company they will have a waiting period to transition their processes and such. I am shocked at the growth of deviantart. I thought they were on the decline years ago. However, the more interesting stat for deviantart would be the average sales per customer. Just because a sales-based service like deviantart is growing doesn’t necessarily mean it’s benefitting their customers. It may mean that there’s more and more people unsuccessfully selling prints. Actually, more activity on deviantart.com may be hurting individual sales because there’s more competition between people. That’s how I feel it’s going with ebay. I haven’t seen any specific sales figures, but I’d bet that the amount of ebay auctions ending with a buyer has greatly declined over the years.
whoops. The last line in the previous comment should be, “I’d bet that the PERCENTAGE of ebay auctions ending with a buyer has greatly declined over the years.”