Which Are The Most Popular Social Networks In France?

JeromeB

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).

ComScore-SocialNetworks-July2007

“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 shows Badoo.com, a social network with a really bad reputation because they simply promote themselves by spamming your hotmail contacts.

Skyrock.com

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.

ComScore-SocialNetworks-July2007table

Company Index: Skyrock, MySpace, lexode, Viadeo, Netlog NV/SA

Lorenz

Says:
September 19th, 2007 at 11:18 pm

The ComScore ranking based on pageviews is as follows :
1. Skyrock
2. Netlog
3. Badoo
4. Myspace
5. Facebook

Jerome, I don’t see why Netlog should have a bad reputation? The site doesn’t spam contacts and has never done so. Netlog allows importing of contacts like most sites including LinkedIn and Facebook do. I know Badoo has a bad reputation for this, but Netlog??

Says:
September 20th, 2007 at 12:01 am

Before the summer, Netlog was spamming hotmail contacts. They may have changed their policy but i’ve noticed that Badoo still do it. Honestly, i’m really surprised by ComScore figures about these sites.

Mike

Says:
October 1st, 2007 at 2:59 pm

Hey Jerome, I actually joined Badoo a couple weeks ago and then read your comments about their policies. So I made a test hotmail account to test out what would happen before I trusted my real one with them. As far as my experiment went, I was able to choose which contacts I sent invites to and which ones I didn’t. Maybe I just didn’t understand your comments, but everything works fine for me.

Which sites would you recommend me to check out?

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October 5th, 2007 at 2:44 am

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October 24th, 2007 at 6:20 pm

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