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June 9, 2007
The Fat Head of User-Generated Content
An interesting report last week from a Bear Stearns analyst looked at the trends in the aggregate percentage of U.S. Internet traffic accounted for by the six top user-generated content sites (i.e., Facebook, Myspace, Youtube, Wikipedia, Blogger, and Digg):- 2004: 0-1%
- 2005: 7%
- 2006: 13%
[Bear Stears via Barrons]
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Of course those are all Long Tail aggregators--each has a Long Tail of content and participants. The same is true in most other online marketplaces/aggregators, from Amazon to iTunes. The aggregators that win tend to be the ones with the widest choice and thus the longest tail.
-c
"Fat head". I like that. Can I steal it?
And are you sure it was a measure of internet traffic and not web traffic? I'd also be curious to see the stats for bittorrent traffic over the same period.
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