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Web 2.

0 Expo

Measuring the
Participatory Web

April 17, 2007


Who We Are
• Online Competitive Intelligence Service

• Monitor the largest worldwide sample of


Internet users

• Report on the most online businesses

• Provide daily delivery of information to


drive better business decisions

• Founded in 1997 with profitable operations


in the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand,
Hong Kong and Singapore

• 1,200+ Clients Worldwide


Web 2.0 Two Year Growth 12%

668% Growth 88%

2%

98%
Reference Category Education - Reference Category

Wikipdia
Visits to Wikipedia 26%

Outnumber Encarta
Visits 3400 to 1
Yahoo
Answers
5%
Other
69%

3,272 Sites 1.4% of all Internet


Visits (week ending 4/14/07)
Photo Category Entertainment - Photography Category

Photobucket
Other
41%
44%

2.0 Photo Sites Account for


over 56% of Photo Category
Visits
Rock You!
3% Flickr
Slide
4%
Imageshack 5%
3%

913 Sites 0.63% of all Internet


Visits (week ending 4/14/07)
Participators versus
Viewers
2.0 Percentage of Participation

0% 0% 5%

0.16% 0.2% 0.2%


4.59%

100% 100% 95%

Visits to Video Visits to Photo Visits to Entry


Uploads Upload Edits
View Wikipedia
25.89%
23.53%
19.96% 19.28%

VIEW EDIT
11.33% 14.26%

9.57%
18-34 3.82%
18-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55+

-6.43% 35-55+

Edit Wikipedia
28.85%
27.35%
25.59%
-20.41%

13.53%

4.68%

18-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55+


Visit YouTube
30.55%

22.99%

17.01% 17.13%
Swing: Visitor v. Uploader
12.32%

12.66% 13.43%
18-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55+
18-24 7.13% 55+
25-34 35-44 45-54 -4.61%

Upload to YouTube
35.65% Key Video Upload
30.56%
-28.61%
Demo
24.14%

7.71%
1.94%

18-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55+


Gender Participation

Visits Participation

Male Male

40%
48%
Wikipedia 52%
60%

Male Male

YouTube 24%

51% 49%

76%
Predicting the Next
2.0 Winner
2.0 Product Lifecycle
• Phases of Product Lifecycle Apply
to 2.0 Sites
• Phases are Compressed to Weeks
and Months versus Years

• Key User Segments Appear


in Early Adoption Phase
Source: Geoffrey Moore
Finding 2.0 Early Adopters

6 Weeks!
• YouTube Passes Yahoo! and
Google Video Search in
Three/Six Weeks Respectively

• During Six Week Early Adoption


Phase, Key Segments Were
Over-Represented
Money and Brains Young Digerati Bohemian Mix

6.69% 6.60% 7.31%

4.58% 1.57% 2.59%

4.51% 2.60% 2.28%

14.80% 0% 2.19%

3.27% 1.77% 3.06%

5.12% 0.70% 2.08%

Internet Average 2.21% 1.76% 2.28%


Visit us @ www.hitwise.com , or
Our blog @ www.ilovedata.com

Name: Bill Tancer


Title: GM, Global Research
Email: bill.tancer@hitwise.com
Blog: weblogs.hitwise.com/bill-tancer

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