Fickle MySpace Audience; Google Courts Advertisers

October 30th, 2006

Two Washington Post articles this weekend serve as a reminder of how fast the online communications world is changing. On Sunday, Yuki Noguchi looked at the fickle nature of social networking sites’ audiences, wondering if MySpace will meet the same fate as Xanga and Friendster before it. One caveat: her evidence is largely anecdotal, and the average amount of time users spend on MySpace has stayed around two hours per month for the past year. Still, Facebook seems to be waiting in the wings as the Next Big Thing.

The previous day, Sara Kehaulani Goo examined Google’s aggressive expansion beyond text search ads into video ads and more comprehensive online campaigns. The company already has a 500-person team in Manhattan designed to work with large national advertisers.

As online persuaders, the tools open to us are constantly evolving. I sometimes wonder how we can keep up with them all.

cpd

Share This Article


Robot-Selected "Related" Articles:

Help build e.politics

Make a comment, correct my errors, suggest more tools and tactics, leave a case study, or otherwise make this page a better resource.

Required

Required, hidden

Some HTML allowed:
<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

Trackback this post  |  Subscribe to the comments via RSS Feed




Video

The Latest: Sarah Burris has a beer with e.politics

More e.politics video

Subscribe to e.politics

Enter your address to subscribe via email:


Subscribe via RSS

Follow via Twitter and Facebook

Put e.politics on Your Site

Get this widget!

Highlights

Links

About Colin Delany

Calendar

October 2006
M T W T F S S
« Sep   Nov »
 1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
3031  

Most Recent Posts

home about contact colin delany put e.politics to work