Comments on: Global comparisons: Fastest Growing Online Properties

By: Jomamma

Jomamma — Sun, 18 May 2008 08:33:31 +0000

Youtube is gettin’ bigger, negro!

By: Anne

Anne — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:32:19 +0000

I am sceptical about the stats. Eg. “reach”, what does that mean? Registered users? A large proportion of the MySpace accounts are spam accounts. If the stats are not taken into consideration qualitative factors (eg., is it real persons), they dont really say much…

By: Ross Dawson

Ross Dawson — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:38:01 +0000

Hi Stephen, I’d love to be more comprehensive in the data, but we have to cut off somewhere.. :-). Australia’s included because I’m primarily based here, and it is a more distinct market than Canada, which tends to have similar characteristics to the US market (a gross generalization I know…).
In both this and last year’s report we focused on a small set of country comparisons. There’s in fact no particular reason to focus on English-speaking nations, though beyond the US, the UK is also a highly distinctive market. The ones I’d really like to include beyond the core nations are Japan, China, India, South Africa, Brazil, and France or Germany. Hopefully we’ll be able to fit them in next year.

By: Stephen Downes

Stephen Downes — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 08:42:35 +0000

The four top English speaking nations are the U.S., Britain, Canada and Australia.
Canada has 33 million people, almost as large as Britain and much larger than Australia.
Is there any reason why Canada would be omitted from these comparisons?