Where are they now? Catching up.

Posted November 4th, 2008 by Kristin

It was an insanely busy summer for us at DIG. Today I finally had time to poke around a bit and check up on some topics and people I’ve written about in the past. So “where are they now?” Let’s find out.

Queen Rania of Jordan and her strife to foster tolerance and acceptance:
Ok, noble as her cause is, I admit I thought this hottie was only doing a few YouTube videos to up her and her husband’s popularity – that it was just something her publicist told her to do. Well since March she’s posted 13 videos. Looks like she’s sticking with it! I’m impressed. The world, and even specifically the U.S., could certainly benefit from more tolerance and acceptance of differences. So you go girl!

Good ole Mitt:
Remember when Mitt Romney wanted to know what you believe is America’s single greatest challenge? His YouTube channel started as a tool for conversing with us. Did he stick with it? Ha. There are now 676 videos posted. Take a look. You’ll see his channel quickly became a tool for shameless self propaganda. I’m not shocked. But boo boy, boo.

Magibon and the freaky fan/stalker site www.magibon.com:
Well the stalker, Frank, was a fake, but not a marketing ploy as I suspected. It was supposedly (honestly I don’t know what to believe anymore) an experiment/art project by Joakim Danung. View the freaky videos and read a statement from the “artist” about his project.

Did people want to dance with Matt?
Hell yes. Hang on until about a minute in. Simply awesome. I don‘t know if it sold more Stride Gum, but it was inspiring to me. And check out the number of views. Today it was well over 11 million.

Did MySpace die as a former colleague of mine predicted?
Let’s look at the US first.
Per Hitwise, in July 2007, MySpace was the #1 ranked site with 6.33% of the market share. As of September 2008, MySpace is the #3 ranked site with 4.01% of the market share.

How about Facebook? In July 2007, Facebook ranked #10 with 1.03% of the market share. September 2008, Facebook ranks #8 with 1.2% market share.

Now what about those wacky UK sheep throwers July 2007, MySpace ranked #8 with 1.28% market share. September 2008, #15 with .66%. There’s a bit of an ouch.

Facebook in July 2007 was at #10 with .94%. September 2008, #2 with 3.16% of the market share. And there’s a nice up trend.

MySpace is going strong in the US. While Facebook is hitting it big with the Brits. Interesting… yes. But clearly, Yianni, MySpace still ain’t dead.

Anon
~k

Entry Filed under: Facebook, Social Networking, YouTube