China, where Facebook remains officially banned, represents one obvious stumbling block in Facebook's quest for complete worldwide domination, while VKontakte and Odnoklassniki remain popular in Russia.
Elsewhere, Russia is dominated by Vkontakte and Odnoklassniki, sites that are also quickly expanding into other Eastern European countries. EMarketer predicts there will be a massive 1.43 billion social network users in 2012, representing a 19.2...
Yandex announced Monday that it will add public profiles from popular Russian social networks – including VKontakte, Facebook, LiveJournal, and Odnoklassniki – within its search results. Russia’s top search engine Yandex has made two big moves on...
The company is taking care of ad and/or search elements on Russia's Bing.com, Odnoklassniki, Livejournal.ru, Mail.ru, Nigma.ru, and Qip.ru. While Google has dominion in most countries, in Russia it's just a footnote to Yandex, the country's leading...
According to comScore, the biggest social networks in Russia are VKONTAKTE.RU with close to 73 percent reach, Odnoklassniki with some 39 percent reach, and Mail.Ru - My World with close to 33 percent.
Coming in at number four in total social media saturation, Russia's market is dominated by local networks, including VKontakte and Odnoklassniki. Social media networking sites continue to be one of the hottest commodities in the international...
Traffic within Russia itself was dominated by local services such as Vkontakte.ru, with 14.3 million visitors, Odnoklassniki.ru with 7.8 million visitors, and Mail.ru with 6.3 million visitors. Recent data from comScore's World Metrix audience...
