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MySpace The McDonalds Of Ad Serving

Fox Interactive Media tops Comscore's list of top display advertisers in June, serving up 52.3 billion ads (15.9% of the market) to 83.7 million people. MySpace accounted for 51.5 billion of those views. Yahoo, in second place with 10.5% market share, was significantly behind MySpace and Fox in terms of ad views, serving up 34.6 billion, but dwarves all other contenders in terms of audience reach. Over 130 million unique visitors viewed ads on Yahoo.

Facebook Hits Milestone. What's it Mean?

Facebook has reached the 100 million user milestone (if that is the real number). Some have reached different figures, and if you include inactive profiles, the number may even be much greater.More Significant?

One Area Where MySpace Has Facebook Beat

There has been a lot of Facebook hype in recent memory. This is fueled by the fact that the site's growth has more than doubled, in no small part thanks to localization around the world.

Fox News Tweaks Facebook Profile

Fox News Channel said today that it will add a number of enhancements to the network's Facebook profile on Tuesday.

Facebook Basking in Glory

It seems Facebook is all the rage, and MySpace is so over. At least that's the impression you'd get perusing news articles about them.

Social Networking A Global Affair

Depending on where you are, MySpace, Facebook, or LinkedIn may be the most popular destination for social networking.

Social Networks' Popularity As Determined By Search

MySpace is on top in the U.S., Facebook follows, and so on; we're all familiar with the usual social network rankings.  But here's some interesting news: Orkut seems better suited to Iran than America.  And Facebook, while successful here, should consider relocating its headquarters to Turkey.  Or so imply some new stats, anyway.

Facebook Sees Significant Growth In Japan

The Japanese language version of Facebook had more than triple the amount of visitors to its site in the past year according to comScore World Metrix.The leading social network in Japan was Mixi.jp with 12.7 million visitors in June. Facebook, which recently launched a Japanese language version of the site, has seen significant growth in the past year, gaining 213 percent to 538,000 visitors. MySpace captured 1.2 million visitors, up 10 percent over a year ago; Orkut attracted 638,000 visitors and Gree brought in 455,000 visitors.

MySpace Announces Decison08 Contest Winners

MySpace and NBC have announced the winners of the Decsion08 Convention contest for citizen journalists.Close to 50,000 MySpace users cast votes and selected Matt Britten and Sara Pat Badgley to act as citizen journalists at the 2008 Democratic and Republican conventions.

Parents Monitoring Kids Social Network Use

Close to a quarter of children in the UK between the ages of 8 and 12 are able to get around age restrictions imposed by social networks Facebook, Bebo and MySpace, according to a survey by online identify firm Garlik.Because of this the majority (72%) of parents are monitoring their kids online activity. Twenty-five percent of parents secretly login to their child's social networking page and over a quarter (26%) have created their own social networking profile to monitor their kids.