Friday, May 13, 2005

New Release of Winamp Drives Surge in Traffic

Alexa's #1 Mover today, edging out 1800flowers.com and ftd.com, is Winamp. Yes, Winamp is still around and very popular, ranked 617 in the Alexa global rankings. Winamp just released version 5.09 which drove an impressive surge of customers to their site. They may have sold out to AOL, but that hasn't hurt their traffic. Take a look at their graph: link. Winamp has the most consistent traffic graph I've ever seen... until late last week when the traffic skyrocketed. Frankly I'm surprised that iTunes hasn't taken a big chunk out of their user base.