Internet and Social Media

Internet Companies – Years & Users

• Microsoft – 1975
• AOL – 1983 – 33 million unique monthly visitors
• Amazon – 1994
• Lycos – 1994/1995 – over 4 million unique monthly visitors
• Yahoo – 1995 – 160 million unique monthly visitors
• MSN – 1995
• Excite – 1995 – over 1 million unique monthly visitors
• AltaVista – 1995
• Ebay – 1995 – 100 million active users
• Ask (originally known as Ask Jeeves) – 1996 – 125 million active users
• Hotmail – 1996 – 286 million users
• Google – 1998 – 900 million unique monthly visitors
• PayPal – 1998 – 117 million users
• Bing (previously known as Live Search / MSN Search) – 2009 (Bing and Yahoo! search merged in April 2012) – 165 million unique monthly visitors

Last updated May 2013, estimations taken from eBizMBA.

Social Media Companies – Years & Users

• WordPress – 2003 – 74 million blogs
• LinkedIn – 2003 – 225 million users
• Myspace – 2003 (Acquired by Specific Media & Justin Timberlake in 2011) – 25 million users
• Flickr – 2004 (Acquired by Yahoo! in 2005) – 87 million users
• Facebook – 2004 – 1.11 billion monthly active users
• YouTube – 2005 (Acquired by Google in 2006) – 1 billion users
• Reddit – 2005 – 43 million users
• Twitter – 2006 – 500 million users
• Tumblr – 2007 – 170 million users (Acquired by Yahoo! in May 2013)
• Instagram – 2010 (Acquired by Facebook in 2012) – 100 million users
• Pinterest – 2010 – 48.7 million users
• Google+ – 2011 – 343 million active users

Last updated May 2013, estimations taken from Digital Marketing Ramblings…