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GEORGIAN INTERNET OVERVIEW
Sandro Tarkhan-Mouravi
Structure
• Websitestrends, niches, particular sites, ads
• IT Crowdcompanies, individuals, education
• Environmentinfrastructure, market potential,
legislation
Websites Warez CrazeTop.ge
1 Avoe.ge
2 Myvideo.ge
3 Top.ge
4 Gol.ge
5 Allshares.ge
6 Forum.ge
7 Magtifun.ge
8 Files.ge
9 Games.jeje.ge
10 Myauto.ge
11 File.ge
12 Allmovies.ge
13 Tvali.ge
14 Link.ge
15 Hop.ge
• Popularity• Ease of creation• Ease of maintenance• Lack of control• Empty niches
Top.internet.ge
1 Avoe.ge
2 Myvideo.ge
3 Gol.ge
4 Files.ge
5 Games.jeje.ge
6 Myauto.ge
7 File.ge
8 Link.ge
9 Rustavi2.com
10 Hop.ge
11 Bude.ge
12 None.ge
13 Mus.ge
14 Babajana.com
15 Offline.ge
Websites Blogs
• Location
– Wordpress dominance, blogspot, local bloghosts
• Language
– Georgian, attempts to write in English
• Contents
– About nothing/everything, personal thoughts and experiences
• Updates
– Unstable or seldom
• Usage
– Limited circle,
1000 views, 10-100
comments, 100 blogs
Rocko.ge 100 uv, 200 hits
Jiblog.ge
Bigcrow.wordpress.com
Dodka.wordpress.com 175 uv, 250 hits
Code.ge 30 uv, 70 hits
Ediscourse.wordpress.com 20 uv, 40 hits
Enews.ge 900 uv, 3700 hits
Websites Media• Weak online presence of
traditional media
• Lack of competition in some segments causing relative success of low quality websites
hits unique
Rustavi2.com 50000 12000
Forum.ge 250000 8500
Jobs.ge 49000 7000
Presa.ge 22000 4500
Info.ge 34000 4300
Interpressnews.ge 13500 2200
Saqme.ge 17500 2200
Teen.ge 36000 1300
Eva.ge 16000 1900
Msofsport.com 6700 1100
Enews.ge 3700 900
Asavali.ge 2100 1400
Statia.ge 150 120
Websites More Websites• E-commerce
– Cars, electronics, gifts, clothes
– Purchases from abroad
– No Paypal
• Video hosting: myvideo.ge 743000 hits, 23000 uv, 124000 accounts; tvali.ge
• Social Networks: face.ge 106000 hits, 2400 uv, 9000 accounts
• Info: info-tbilisi.ge 5300 hits, 520 uv
• Photo clubs: boke.ge 57000 hits, 1500 uv; photolife.ws
Websites Ads
• Banner ads $10-$500 per month
• Total income from banners not more than $10000 for one site
• Buying ads by phone
• Most selling
independently;
banners.ge
• Ads in videos
IT Crowd
• Pixel.ge mostly flash, up to $X0000
• Itdc.ge government and enterprise solutions
• We (neuron.ge, in future)• Mostly self-
educated, lack of academic education related to web development and maintenance
• “Information space”
• Little market• Independent
development
Environment
How profitable web projects can be?• Occupying niches, investing in
future• Advertising thyself• Additional income• Little competition• Possibility to bring tested projects
• Internet infrastructure and recent developments, geopolitically unstable
• About 2,000,000 million users potentially; X00,000 active
• users• Taxes close to average, easy
regulations
