Flickr Slide-ing in New Zealand

Slide.com has been getting some much deserved respect in the photo sharing sector this year, beating out Flickr with their unique photo offering amongst Kiwi users.

Slide grew by 228% between the beginning of May and the end of September this year, stepping over the popular Flickr in New Zealand. Slide lets its users upload images from social networks, photo sharing sites and desktops to create custom slideshows with sounds, themes and effects to share amongst friends.

Flickr dropped to third place in New Zealand with a 13.73% market share, and PhotoBucket took second place with 15%. Social networks are driving the new found interest in Slide, with 59.18% of users coming from Facebook App widgets, and 21% from Bebo.

Flickr still keeps users interest, with the average user staying for 9mins, 3mins longer than Slide viewers. As for worldwide users, Flickr is zooming along with over 10 million registered users, and 27 million unique visitors worldwide. Slide however, has been rocking the widget world and managed to serve over 117 million widgets worldwide in April 2007.

Tags: flickr, photo-sharing, slide, web2, web2.0