Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus.
In this post we profile the red hot photo sharing space, where the blogosphere darling Flickr is actually trailing in the mass market. Back in June, Hitwise posted their online photo market statistics – which showed Photobucket with a huge market lead at #1 and Flickr at #6. A lot of Photobucket’s lead is due to its high usage in MySpace pages – 56% of Photobucket’s traffic is from MySpace, according to Hitwise. So marketing and being part of a large ecosystem are crucial. But also important is having simple and easy to use features. So we present here a feature-by-feature comparison and also highlight areas where particular services stand out from the pack.
Feature Comparison of Photo Sharing Sites
In the table below (which incidentally we did using Zoho Sheet, Zoho’s online spreadsheet) we list companies from the Hitwise article as well as some additional ‘web 2.0’ photo sharing players.