Buzzgain

Jeremiah talked about what’s on the mind of several startup Marketing VP’s and Venture Capitalists yesterday. We get requests daily from many of the same on another question that’s top of mind. The magic Million users number.

So using BuzzGain Analytics dashboard, we the “All Star Cast” of Web 2.0 companies – StumbleUpon, Upcoming, Delicious, Flickr, MyBlogLog and Twitter. The reason we chose them was 3 fold – the year the started, their relative success (either acquisition or tremendous traction) to date and our ability to discern and analyze quality data from that property.

The oldest company in the list is StumbleUpon (2001) and the youngest is Twitter (2006). The one with the most number of users is delicious (9.54 Million) and the least is Upcoming (230K).

In terms of fastest growth to a million users it has been another player in an adjacent space – Skype.

This is explained more clearly in the “network effects” and the “viral nature” of the product. Its useful for the individual (like Upcoming) but awesome in a network (Skype).

Of these 6 players the fastest growing has been Twitter.