NEW YORK , NY - July 11, 2006 - Hitwise, the world's leading online competitive intelligence service, today announced that, for the first time, MySpace.com is the number one ranked website in the U.S. based on market share of visits. The MySpace website accounted for 4.46 percent of all Internet visits in the U.S. for the week ending July 8, 2006. MySpace.com has received a larger market share of visits for the past two weeks propelling the website past Yahoo! Mail.

Among Top Social Networking sites in June 2006, MySpace accounted for 79.9 percent of the total market share of visits. Following MySpace, was Facebook which received 7.5 percent of visits, ranked third was Xanga with 3.8 percent. Yahoo! 360 and Bebo rounded out the top five sites with 1.1 and .98 percent respectively. The remaining social networking websites from the custom category accounted for 6.5 percent of U.S. visits. Bebo increased its market share of visits by 21 percent from May 2006, the largest percentage increase among the Social Networking websites.

"MySpace continues its meteoric rise, to now claim the number one spot for all Internet visits in the U.S.," said Bill Tancer, general manager of Global Research at Hitwise. We are still discovering the Internet laws of gravity as it relates to a site's potential to grow on the Internet. The fact that MySpace was virtually unknown by the mainstream Internet users two years ago and now claims the top position, demonstrates how hyper-competitive the Internet really is.

About Hitwise:

Hitwise is the leading online competitive intelligence service. Each day, Hitwise monitors how more than 25 million Internet users interact with over 500,000 websites across 160 industry categories.

By monitoring more people, more websites, more often, Hitwise provides marketers with timely and actionable marketing insights on how their online presence compares to competitive websites. Companies use this information to maximize the return on their online investment, in efforts such as affiliate programs, search marketing, online advertising, content development and lead generation.

Hitwise collects Internet usage information via a combination of ISP data partnerships and opt-in panels, and complies with local and international privacy legislation as audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers. Founded in 1997, Hitwise is a privately held company, headquartered in New York City and operates in the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore.

More information about the Hitwise Competitive Intelligence service is available at www.hitwise.com. For up to date analysis on online trends, please visit the Hitwise Intelligence-Analyst blog at http://weblogs.hitwise.com.

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