Exactly one year ago I asked:

Will YouTube break the Top 10 within 12 months (~50 million visitors)? I think it is more likely that YouTube will hit that milestone than not. We’ll just have to wait and watch.

YouTube did it, and in record time. Faster than MySpace, Digg and Facebook. In June 2007 (within 8 months of my post) they broke into the top 10 with just over 50 million unique visitors.

Take a look at the chart below:

Now let’s take a look at how some of their other key metrics have performed under Google’s watch:

Nothing but good news here. Today, more people are visiting YouTube, they come back to the site more often, spend more time on the site each time they visit, and view more videos. All in all, Google is doing well with YouTube, and is managing to hold on to a good thing. However, I hope they keep doing more.

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The 2007 MITX awards finalists have just been announced — and I’m proud that Compete.com is a finalist yet again this year!

Last year Compete’s blog won the award for “Best Community/Blogs”, and this time around Compete’s new Search Analytics product is a finalist under the “Applied Technology” category and going up against VistaPrint, Outsight Interactive/FootJoy, John Handcock and MarketSight.

MITX Awards Ceremony is on:
Thursday, November 8, 2007
6:00pm - 9:00pm
Boston Marriott Copley Place
110 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA

Hope to see you there!

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Three big events rocked the web 2.0 universe this summer. Internet rock stars Guy Kawasaki (Truemors), Jason Calacanis (Mahalo), and Kevin Rose/Leah Culver (Pownce) launched new companies.

In the chart below, you see how all three have done extremely well thus far. Any startup would kill for these sort of results in their first two months. I know I would :)

Now you’re probably wondering, what actually drives traffic to these sites, right? Take a look at the table below. It details the top 10 domain level referrals to Pownce, Mahalo, and Truemors for August. This table will give you clues on how you may want to go about driving traffic to your own startups — perhaps even a launch strategy blueprint.

* % of total domain referrals
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Inc. today ranked Compete, Inc. 824th on its first-ever Inc. 5,000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the country.

Much much more to come!

Complete information on this year’s Inc. 5,000, can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000.

The methodology behind the Inc. 5,000

To be considered for the Inc. 5000, a company must be privately held; based in the U.S., and have at least four full years of sales. Rankings are based on average annual revenue growth for 2003-2006. More here.

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About one year ago, we started the Compete Blog, and today it is on CNN and ranked in the top 3k on technorati :)

The blog now has some great authors and analysts contributing very compelling content often. It’s super cool to see a project blossom into something from nothing. This sort of thing simply pumps me up to do more.

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