Image hosting site ImageShack ranked No. 4 among July’s fastest growing Web brands, increasing 233%, from a unique audience of 2.3 mln to 7.7 mln. Heavy.com, a video sharing site, took the No. 5 spot, increasing 213%, from 965,000 to 3.0 mln unique visitors. Photo sharing site Flickr followed at No. 6, growing 201% from 2.1 mln to 6.3 mln unique visitors. Other user-generated content sites that made it into the top 10 fastest growing Web brands were MySpace, with a 183% YTY increase, and Wikipedia, with a 181% YTY increase. HSBC Direct, the leading online savings institution, experienced the highest growth.
| Top-growing Web brands in July 2006 | |||
| Audience, 000 | Growth | ||
| Brand | July 2005 | July 2006 | YTY |
| HSBC | 1,290 | 6,377 | 394% |
| Sonic Solutions | 1,098 | 3,740 | 241% |
| Associated Press | 2,901 | 9,692 | 234% |
| ImageShack | 2,324 | 7,745 | 233% |
| Heavy.com | 965 | 3,021 | 213% |
| Flickr | 2,105 | 6,346 | 201% |
| ARTIST Direct | 1,131 | 3,219 | 185% |
| Partypoker.com | 2,127 | 6,043 | 184% |
| MySpace | 16,239 | 46,025 | 183% |
| Wikipedia | 10,387 | 29,176 | 181% |
| Source: Nielsen//NetRatings | |||