Blogging Sparks Boom In Photo-Hosting Sites

Iria · Sep 14, 2005, 06:32 AM

The massive rise in blogging has sparked an even bigger increase in traffic on photo-hosting web sites, with teenage girls the biggest users of the latter service, a research firm said Tuesday.

Since the beginning of the year, traffic on image-hosting sites overall has shot up 406 percent to more than 14.7 million unique users, Nielsen/NetRatings said. The number of people using the sites represents 10 percent of the total U.S. Internet population.

The top referring sites for the top 5 photo-hosting sites were blog-hosting service providers MySpace.com, Xnga.com, LiveJournal, Blogger and Microsoft's MSN Spaces, the research firm said.
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Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 87	Blogging Sparks Boom In Photo-Hosting Sites The massive rise in blogging has sparked an even bigger increase in traffic on photo-hosting web sites, with teenage girls the biggest users of the latter service, a research firm said Tuesday. Since the beginning of the year, traffic on image-hosting sites overall has shot up 406 percent to more than 14.7 million unique users, Nielsen/NetRatings said. The number of people using the sites represents 10 percent of the total U.S. Internet population. The top referring sites for the top 5 photo-hosting sites were blog-hosting service providers MySpace.com, Xnga.com, LiveJournal, Blogger and Microsoft's MSN Spaces, the research firm said. __________ Read More / Source: TechWeb