Nielsen//NetRatings Releases Expanded Global Internet Index; Coverage of Internet Audiences Reaches 18 Countries.Business Editors STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 1, 2000 Global portal providers retained their leading positions on the latest Nielsen//NetRatings global Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the index, which was released today. Nielsen//NetRatings, the world's largest and fastest growing Internet audience measurement service, is produced by ACNielsen eRatings.com (a venture between ACNielsen Corp., NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :ART and NetRatings, Inc., Nasdaq: NTRT), Nielsen Media Research and NetRatings, Inc. With the addition of information from the Netherlands this month, Nielsen//NetRatings now reports on Internet audiences and advertising in 18 countries worldwide, representing more than 80 percent of the global Internet audience universe. New data from the Netherlands for the global index was added to existing coverage in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. , Singapore, Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. , Brazil, Germany, the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, France and Italy. The total estimated Internet audience universe in these countries is nearly 300 million individuals. The rankings of Internet usage for the month of October show gains for Web properties, including Amazon, CNET (body) CNET - Centre national d'Etudes des Telecommunications. The French national telecommunications research centre at Lannion. Networks, eUniverse Network, Napster and RJB RJB Radio Jura Bernois SA (Switzerland) Telecom. CNET, which rose 8 places on the Index, and Napster, which gained 23 places, showed especially strong growth in Internet traffic Internet traffic is the flow of data around the Internet. It includes web traffic, which is the amount of that data that is related to the World Wide Web, along with the traffic from other major uses of the Internet, such as electronic mail and peer-to-peer networks. during the month (see Table 1.) Nielsen//NetRatings Global Internet Index Table 1. Top 25 Web Properties, At-Home, October 2000 Rank By Change in Time Per Unique Rank vs. Property Unique Audience Person Audience Sept 00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 - Yahoo! 84,882,000 0:58:47 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2 - AOL Websites 72,866,000 0:26:27 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3 - MSN 67,926,000 0:47:37 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4 +1 Lycos Network 45,570,000 0:16:18 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5 -1 Microsoft 44,288,000 0:07:22 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6 - Excite@Home 33,265,000 0:26:32 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7 - Walt Disney Internet Group 25,119,000 0:20:28 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8 - AltaVista 21,926,000 0:13:23 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9 - About The Human Internet 20,276,000 0:09:09 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10 +2 Amazon 18,994,000 0:11:59 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 11 - NBC Internet 18,929,000 0:09:41 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 12 -2 Time Warner 18,757,000 0:14:27 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 13 +8 CNET Networks 16,648,000 0:10:15 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 14 -1 Ebay 14,952,000 1:36:25 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 15 -1 FortuneCity 14,361,000 0:04:44 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 16 -1 Real Networks 13,627,000 0:05:37 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 17 - LookSmart 13,180,000 0:07:25 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 18 +1 eUniverse Network 13,101,000 0:16:14 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 19 -1 Go2Net 13,086,000 0:10:22 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 20 - Ask Jeeves 12,825,000 0:09:24 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 21 -5 Macromedia 11,556,000 0:04:46 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 22 +23 Napster. 11,322,000 0:10:50 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 23 - Sony Online 9,551,000 0:13:40 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 24 - American Greetings 9,167,000 0:11:33 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 25 +2 RJB Telcom 9,068,000 0:04:37 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Source: Nielsen//NetRatings CNET's acquisition of ZDNet helped drive its traffic up, said David Day David Day may refer to the following persons:
Yahoo!, AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Websites and MSN (1) (MicroSoft Network) A family of Internet-based services from Microsoft, which includes a search engine, e-mail (Hotmail), instant messaging (Windows Live Messaging) and a general-purpose portal with news, information and shopping (MSN Directory). retained their positions as the top three global Web properties in October, while Lycos Networks moved into fourth place and knocked Microsoft down to fifth. In addition, most measures of Internet usage by at-home users increased in October (see Table 2). "The rise in click rates for top banners suggests that talk of the death of banner advertising Banner Advertising A common form of advertising on the internet. The banner is an advertisement of 460x68 pixels, usually placed at the top of the page Notes: For an example, just look at the top of a page on almost any popular web site. has been very premature," commented David Day. "At the same time, the duration of users' Internet sessions and their page views are holding steady. What this tells us is that Internet users Internet user n → internauta m/f Internet user Internet n → internaute m/f are becoming more efficient as the medium matures, though they will still click through on the right offer. "The European European emanating from or pertaining to Europe. European bat lyssavirus see lyssavirus. European beech tree fagussylvaticus. European blastomycosis see cryptococcosis. online market is still driving this growth," Day added, "and as the market matures we can expect further convergence of the European and US numbers." Nielsen//NetRatings Global Internet Index Table 2. Average Usage, At-Home, October 2000 Average Usage October-00 September-00 % Change ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of Sessions per Month 17 16 3.9 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Page Views per Month 675 644 4.7 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Page Views per Surfing Session 40 40 1.9 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Time Spent per Month 8:40:15 8:23:29 3.3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Time Spent During Surfing Session 0:30:56 0:30:39 0.9 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Duration of a Page viewed 0:00:46 0:00:47 -1.3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Average Click Rate for Top Banners 0.51 0.46 9.7 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Total Internet Audience Sample 152,292 142,826 6.6 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Active Internet Universe 164,969,909 157,524,999 4.7 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Current Internet Universe Estimate 299,017,227 288,321,951 3.7 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Source: Nielsen//NetRatings About Nielsen//NetRatings Through strategic partnerships between NetRatings, Nielsen Media Research and ACNielsen, the Nielsen//NetRatings audience measurement service collects real-time data Real-time data denotes information that is delivered immediately after collection. There is no delay in the timeliness of the information provided. Some uses of this term confuse it with the term dynamic data. from more than 190,000 individuals with access to the Internet around the world. The U.S. panel sample currently consists of 62,000 individuals with Internet access See how to access the Internet. at home and 8,000 individuals with Internet access at work. International panels are under development with over 120,000 individuals with access at home currently being measured in 18 countries, representing over 80 percent of global Internet browser See Web browser. activity. These panels collectively represent the largest research sample of Internet users in the industry. Nielsen//NetRatings uses unique technology capable of measuring both Internet use and advertising to provide the most timely, accurate and comprehensive Internet usage data and advertising information in the global marketplace. Nielsen//NetRatings tracks the entire spectrum of Internet user behavior, leveraging proprietary data-collection technology from NetRatings, Nielsen Media Research's 50 years of expertise in research and audience measurement, and ACNielsen's international leadership in offering market research information covering more than 100 countries. For more information, please visit www.nielsen-netratings.com. About ACNielsen eRatings.com ACNielsen eRatings.com is a venture between ACNielsen (NYSE: ART) and NetRatings Inc. (Nasdaq: NTRT). ACNielsen is the world's leading market research firm, offering measurement and analysis of marketplace dynamics, consumer attitudes and behavior, and new and traditional media in more than 100 countries, and NetRatings is the leading provider of Internet audience measurement technology and analysis. 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