{"id":549958,"date":"2006-08-26T00:02:02","date_gmt":"2006-08-26T00:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/549958-user-content-driving-website-growth.html"},"modified":"2006-08-26T00:02:02","modified_gmt":"2006-08-26T00:02:02","slug":"user-content-driving-website-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/549958-user-content-driving-website-growth.html","title":{"rendered":"User content driving website growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Image hosting site ImageShack ranked No. 4 among July\u2019s fastest growing Web brands, increasing 233 percent, from a unique audience of 2.3 million to 7.7 million.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Heavy.com, a video sharing site, took the No. 5 spot, increasing 213 percent, from 965,000 to 3.0 million unique visitors. Photo sharing site Flickr followed at No. 6, growing 201 percent from 2.1 million to 6.3 million unique visitors.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Other user-generated content sites that made it into the top 10 fastest growing Web brands were MySpace, with a 183 percent year-over-year increase, and Wikipedia, with a 181 percent year over-year increase.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cUser-generated content sites have seen significant growth over the past year, owing in large part to their reliance on viral marketing,\u201d said Jon Gibs, director of media analytics, Nielsen\/\/NetRatings. \u201cThey also benefit from their cost-effectiveness &#8211; the content is practically free.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nielsen\/\/NetRatings announced recently that user-generated content sites, platforms for photo sharing, video sharing and blogging, comprised five out of the top 10 fastest growing Web brands in July 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549958"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}