A propos de Skyrock

Semaine 40

- Création de es.skyrock.com, befr.skyrock.com, etc.
- Les commentaires des blogs sont maintenant triés par date. (dans gérer mon blog).
- Ajout d'un bouton répondre à un commentaire (dans gérer mon blog).

Semaine 39

- Modifications page d'inscription : ajout d'un champ e-mail , suppression du bouton refuser, mémorisation du mot de passe.
- Autocompletion pour la recherche sur les profils.
- Invitation "automatique" des ami-e-s après l'inscription
- Ajout du bouton répondre pour les messages archivés.

Semaine 38

- Possibilité de changer son âge et son sexe depuis « mon compte »
- Possibilité de changer son sexe sur la page chat.
- Auto-complétion des pseudos pour la recherche blog.
- Recherche Skyrock intégrée à Firefox
- Compteur dynamique en home page de Skyrock.
- Sonorisation du blog ! il est maintenant possible d'ajouter son morceau préféré (depuis un blog music) sur son blog.
- Ajout du Nombre de visites du mois et du Nombre total de visites dans le top blog
- Dans les profils : Par défaut les tops sont maintenant affichés en fonction du sexe recherché. (quand on est authentifié).
- Page d'inscription dédiée aux utilisateurs provenant de Google adwords

Semaine 37

- Possibilité d'associer une vidéo dailymotion aux articles des blogs.
- Tops vidéos pour les profils.
- Statistiques sur la home page chat.
- Nombre de visites sur la colonne de droite du blog.

Communiqué de presse - Vendredi 21 septembre 2007

Les différents sites de Skyrock Network, éditeur notamment de Skyrock.com, poursuivent leur croissance en août 2007 en France. Ces performances exceptionnelles positionnent Skyrock Network parmi les groupes Internet les plus puissants en France.

C'est un nouveau succès pour Skyrock Network qui gagne plus de 300.000 visiteurs uniques[2] par rapport au mois précédent et totalise plus de 9.4 millions de visiteurs uniques[2] en France.

Sur les 15-24 ans, le succès du groupe ne se dément pas : Skyrock Network confirme son leadership et s'impose une nouvelle fois comme le 1er groupe Internet de France[1] devant entre autres Google Sites, Microsoft Sites et eBay, en nombres de pages vues.

Skyrock Network regroupe les sites : skyrock.fm, entièrement dédiée à la radio ; skyrock.com, journaux personnels ; tasanté.com, consacré aux sujets de santé ; yazata.com, réseau d’entraide scolaire ; bonbiz.net, site d’achats et de ventes d'occasion ; skymobile.com, pour la personnalisation des mobiles ; chantefrance.com, site de la radio; tropmalin.com, le site des
petites annonces de la Nouvelle Génération ; ladiz.com, site dédié aux jeunes filles chics et urbaines et radiopourtous.com, base de données sur la bande FM.

[1] Comscore Media Metrix – France – Août 2007 – cible 15-24 ans – Top 100 Properties, Ranking en Pages vues – Property Skyrock Network

[2] Comscore Media Metrix – France – Août 2007 – cible ensemble – Visiteurs Uniques – Property Skyrock Network (Evolution en valeur par rapport à Juillet 2007).

Skyrock has been named as the largest social network in France, according to the latest comScore World Metrix report on French social networking sites.

The popularity has been attributed to its focus on the French language, and its appeal to other French-speaking countries, including Belgium and Switzerland. With 13.2 million unique visitors from within France for the month of July, Skyrock claims 50% of the country's entire online population. For July, MySpace came in second place, with 2.3 million unique visitors. The thought for MySpace's launch in France was that it would be a direct competitor to Skyrock, but it's clear that Skyrock's blogging platform and social network has remained dominant so far.

Another interesting point brought up by comScore is that fact that Facebook has been unable to successfully penetrate the French market, despite its rapid growth in Europe since January. This may go back to the point that Skyrock's attention to the specific country of France, and the French language, has enabled it to become a hometown favorite, and largely unaffected by larger global social networks. In another recently published comScore report, educational and sports sites have gained in traffic for the month of August. See here for the top 50 sites.

http://mashable.com/2007/09/19/skyrock-comscore/

The number one French blog platform, Skyblog.com is also the first French social network. According to a new study from ComScore, this subsidiary of Skyrock Networks now attracts more than 9.1 million French internet users each month, far beyond MySpace (2.2 M), Badoo.com (1,3 M), NetLog.com (0,827 M), Hi5.com (0,754 M), Lexode.com (0,675 M), Dada.net (0,495M), FaceBook.com (0,31 M), MSN Group (0,31 M) or Viadeo (0,27 M).

“Social networking sites are founded on their ability to allow Internet users to communicate quickly and informally with one another. The dominance of Skyrock Networks in France is a strong indication that language is a key factor. The provision of local language pages has allowed some of the multi-national sites to penetrate the French market as well.” explains Delphine Gatignol, comScore's Business Development Manager for France.

To be honest, I'm a bit disappointed by this study. Firstly, I consider that SkyRock.com is a blog platform and not a “social network” even if its members can link to each other blogs. Second, I don't understand why ComScore show Badoo.com or NetLog.com, two social networks with a really bad reputation because they simply promote themselves by spamming your hotmail contacts.


Finally despite a 422 percent growth across the continent, Facebook still remains a small player in the French market even if many early adopters support it.

http://fr.blognation.com/2007/09/19/which-are-the-most-popular-social-networks-in-france/

Half of all French and 45 percent of Germans do it. That's social networking. ComScore (NSDQ: SCOR) data for July has given an insight in to the growth of the phenomenon (and who's most successful at it) in what George Bush liked to call the Old Europe:-

- France: Here, 13.2 million people visited a social network in July. Skyrock, the national radio station where listeners have created nearly 11 million blogs since 2002, is streets ahead of any social networking competition. The hip-hop/R&B radio site - which is nowadays given over entirely to blogs, chat, friend profiles and messaging - clocked up 9.1 million unique visitors from at home in the month. In a distant second on 2.3 million visitors is MySpace which, on a continent-wide basis, is nevertheless Europe's top social network. After Badoo in third on 1.3 million visitors, everyone else - even Facebook with just 331,000 and MSN Groups with 310,000 - is chasing up the rear. Netlog, Hi5, Lexode and Dada place higher than those two big names, underscoring the importance of social networking in the native tongue. (More in release).

- Germany: 14.8 million people went to a social network here in July and MySpace, the leader, attracted 3.7 million unique visitors. Domestic sites StudiVZalso and Jux.de were next on 3.1 million and 2.6 million. Facebook doesn't even register in the top 10, with a paltry 177,000 visitors, and there's a greater prevalence, too, of Netlog, Stayfriends.de and SevenLoad. (More in release).

There are two themes here. First, MySpace, whilst dominant on a European basis, is easily second best in France. Yet this is not so much down to any particular weakness on its part (indeed, MySpace's traffic is not massively dissimilar in either France or Germany), but to the overwhelmingly popularity of Skyrock itself. Second, Facebook's poor showing - whilst the former US college network has become a UK zeitgeist with 7.6 million July visitors, in France and Germany it's a bit player. This can doubtless be put down to the lack of a local-language offering.

http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-french-german-social-net-fans-love-skyrock-but-facebook-is-a-bit-player/