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TOP TEN COMPANIES IN INTERNET

TOP TEN BRANDS IN INTERNET

TOP TEN ADVERTISERS BY COMPANY

TOP TEN COUNTRIES IN INTERNET

Top Ten  Companies in Internet

According to Nielsen NetRatings
( PARENT COMPANIES OWNING MULTIPLE DOMAINS OR URLs)

#

Company or Parent

Unique Audience
May 2005

Time per Person
( hh:mm:ss )

1

Microsoft 107,450,000

2:01:06

2

Yahoo!

97,499,000

3:00:30

3

Time Warner

96,911,000

5:24:41

4

Google

77,327,000

0:41:18

5

United States Government

53,881,000

0:26:34

6

eBay

53,416,000

2:07:10

7

InterActiveCorp

40,949,000

0:22:31

8

Amazon

38,694,000

0:22:12

9

RealNetworks

32,906,000

0:42:54

10

Walt Disney Internet Group

32,332,000

0:33:14

       

Source: The Top 10 Parent Companies in Internet Statistics, combined home and work data, have been provided by NetRatings, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTRT), considered the global standard for Internet audience measurement and analysis and is the industry's premier source for online advertising intelligence. Covering 70 percent of the world's Internet usage, the Nielsen//NetRatings services offer syndicated Internet and digital media research reports and custom-tailored data to help companies gain valuable insight into their business.

The Top Ten Brands in Internet

According to Nielsen NetRatings

#

Company or Parent

Unique Audience
May 2005

Time per Person
( hh:mm:ss )

1

Yahoo! 96,930,000

3:00:53

2

Microsoft

90,822,000

0:42:13

3

MSN

88,631,000

1:43:21

4

Google

75,796,000

0:40:32

5

AOL

71,174,000

6:45:06

6

eBay

50,963,000

2:05:45

7

MapQuest

36,580,000

0:12:19

8

Amazon

34,294,000

0:19:49

9

Real

32,300,000

0:41:13

10

Weather Channel

28,610,000

0:25:59

       

Source: The Top 10 Brands in Internet Statistics, combined home and work data, have been provided by NetRatings, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTRT), considered the global standard for Internet audience measurement and analysis and is the industry's premier source for online advertising intelligence. Covering 70 percent of the world's Internet usage, the Nielsen//NetRatings services offer syndicated Internet and digital media research reports and custom-tailored data to help companies gain valuable insight into their business..

The Top Ten Advertisers in Internet

According to Nielsen NetRatings

#

Advertiser *

Impressions
May 2005

1

InterActiveCorp 3,120,962,000

2

Vonage Holdings Corp

2,916,792,000

3

LowerMyBills.com, Inc.

2,170,360,000

4

Dell Computer Corporation

2,111,319,000

5

Verizon Communications, Inc.

2,046,221,000

6

Netflix, Inc.

1,914,033,000

7

SBC Communications, Inc.

1,762,111,000

8

Monster Worldwide, Inc.

1,545,699,000

9

Apollo Group, Inc.

1,468,174,000

10

Scottrade, Inc.

1,463,286,000

     

Source: The Top 10 Advertisers in Internet Statistics, excluding house ads which are ads that run on an advertiser's own web property, have been provided by NetRatings, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTRT), considered the global standard for Internet audience measurement and analysis and is the industry's premier source for online advertising intelligence. Covering 70 percent of the world's Internet usage, the Nielsen//NetRatings services offer syndicated Internet and digital media research reports and custom-tailored data to help companies gain valuable insight into their business.

 

TOP TEN COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD WITH
THE HIGHEST INTERNET PENETRATION RATE
( PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATION USING THE INTERNET)
 

10 COUNTRIES WITH THE HIGHEST
INTERNET PENETRATION RATE
( PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATION USING THE INTERNET)

#

Country or Region

Penetration
(% Population)

Internet Users
Latest Data

Population
( 2005 Est. )

Source of
Latest Data

1

Sweden

73.6 %

6,656,733

9,043,990

Nielsen//NR June/05

2

Hong Kong

70.7 %

4,878,713

6,898,686

Nielsen//NR Feb./05

3

Denmark

68.7 %

3,720,000

5,411,596

C-I-A Mar./05

4

United States

68.5 %

202,888,307

296,208,476

Nielsen//NR June/05

5

Norway

68.2 %

3,140,000

4,606,363

C.I.Almanac Mar./05

6

Australia

67.2 %

13,784,966

20,507,264

Nielsen//NR June/05

8

Netherlands

66.2 %

10,806,328

16,322,583

Nielsen//NR June/04

7

Iceland

67.1 %

198,000

294,947

CIA - Mar./05

10

Canada

63.8 %

20,450,000

32,050,369

C-I-A Dec./03

10

Korea, South

63.3 %

31,600,000

49,929,293

KRNIC Dec./04

           
TOP TEN Countries

68.0 %

271,283,058

398,796,375

IWS - July 31/05
Rest of the World

11.1 %

667,427,871

6,021,306,347

IWS - July 31/05

Total World Penetration

14.6 %

938,710,929

6,420,102,722

IWS - July 31/05