80% of Internet users to have avatars by 2011

Gartner Media estimates that by 2011, 80% of Internet users worldwide will have an avatar, making animated online personas as common as screen names.

Published on: May 16, 2008 Department: WWW

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Top video sites in UK in March 2008
Asia-Pacific Internet search market in April 2008
Top video sites in UK in March 2008
39% of US households will rent videos online by 2012
Top Web companies in June 2008
What Web sites people visit on mobile phones
Virtual economies employ 400,000 people in 2008
Fifteen most buzzed-about athletes
Gymnasts ranked by online buzz
Web site categories with heavy reliance on search engine traffic, June 2008
US visits to social networking sites in June 2008
Top search query generators in UK in June 2008
Time spent on social networks in June 2008
Traffic to Apple.com after iPhone and iPhone 3G launches
Online political activities by age
Who visits online banking sites in Canada
Top US domains by traffic in June 2008
Growth in political content sharing and creation since fall 2006
Top 5 online video US sites, May, 2008
Top social networks in UK
74% of all e-mail in Q2 2008 was spam
Premium Internet video to generate $6 bln by 2013
Top Russian Internet advertisers: Ford, MTS, Megafon, GM, Vympelkom
Political activities of US Internet users as compared to total population
$68 mln of domain sales conducted in the first half of 2008
30% of online ads was sold through ad networks in 2007
Top Canadian online banking sites in April 2008
Top video sites in Germany in May 2008
Top German sites in May 2008
Demographics of financial news and research sites
36% of online Democrats, 21% of Republicans and 28% of independents have a profile on a social networking site
Top US online video sites in May 2008 by videos per user
Worldwide spending on Internet ads will total $65.2 bln in 2008
Top US online video sites in May 2008 by number of videos
Total mortgage loan applications submitted online in Q1 2008
18% of Obama supporters likely to sign an online petition
Top US search engines in June 2008
Online ad spend for 2008 Olympics to reach $100 mln
35% of all adults have watched a politically related video
Top banking-related searches in Q1 2008
Top ad carriers in June 2008
42% of social networking profile owners say the internet connected them to their candidate
Location-based mobile social networking to generate $3.3 bln by 2012
66% of online Republicans and 58% of online Democrats think that the internet is full of misinformation
Top US search engines in May 2008
Top US sites in June 2008
10% of social network users engage in political activity of some kind
Top German online video sites in May 2008
20% of television viewing now occurs online
Traffic to popular UK football sites
Stats on accessing Internet via mobile device around the world
Top US social networking sites
Global spending on Internet ads will total $65.2 bln in 2008
19% of all online users are seriously into sports
Fastest-growing US web sites in May 2008
Top social networking sites in France in April 2008
Top online ad campaigns by fast food chains
Google has 77.4% of US search ad market
Top US Web sites in May 2008
New and returning visitors to social networks in May 2008
Online tools used by those who use the internet in their housing search
Time spent on social networking in May 2008
Top US Web companies in May 2008
29% of new house buyers believe online information helped them get a better price on their house or apartment
Fastest-growing US web categories in May 2008
Top 10 Web sites by video streams for April 2008
What do people do when they start looking for a place to live?
Top online video destinations for US users ages 12-17
39% of cell phone buyers research phones on the internet
Top online video destinations for US users ages 2-11
Top search sites in April 2008
US monthly online video consumption in April 2008
What online users do after buying music
15% of consumer time is spent online, 9% of ad budgets are currently online
Top US advertising carriers in May 2008
US Internet user profile by age
Top US online video sites in April 2008
Top US search engines in May 2008
59% of cell-phone buyers ask an expert for advice
How cell-phone buyers learn about their future cell phone
83% music buyers find their music from hearing a song on the radio, on TV, or in a movie
27% of internet users downloaded music from the internet in 2008
Top food-related search terms
Online ad spending to reach $43.4 bln by 2013
By the end of 2008 online ads will attract 10% of global ad spending
60% of new house buyers consulted the internet during their search
What do music buyers do after buying music online?
Internet ads grew by 23.9% to $7.1 bln in Q1 2008
Fatest-growing Web sites in Canada in March 2008
Top domains by time spent browsing per month in UK in March 2008
UK most popular online banking sites in January 2008
Video ads will grow 7x from $0.5 bln in 2007 to $3.8 bln in 2012
How much extra audience does a Web site gain by having a mobile version?
Fastest-growing Web categories in Canada in March 2008
Top French online video sites in January 2008
Top domains by time spent browsing per month in United States in March 2008
Top visited US TV websites in 2006-2008 TV seasons
Most popular broadcast networks, 2006-2008
More .cn domains registered than .net
UK Internet ads to overtake UK TV ads
Top search engines in April 2008
Q1 2008 Internet ad revenues reached $5.8 bln
Where Latin American Internet users come from in April 2008
Top 10 fastest-growing search terms in April 2008
Top UK online newspapers in March 2008
Top US online video sites by videos per user
Top US online video sites in March 2008
Fastest-growing Web categories in March 2008
Top US ad carriers in April 2008
Top Web sites in US in April 2008
Top search terms in April 2008: myspace, ebay, myspace.com
Top airline searches
Top US search engines in April 2008
What people do when they start the process of looking for a place to live
Referers to wikipedia.org
Top Web companies in April 2008
Norwegian online advertisers spend 133 euros per user
Online tools used by those who search for a place to live
5% of internet users who found a place to live discussed their new place or neighborhood in an online forum or community
4% of Americans discussed cell phones in an online forum or community
29% of Americans said online information helped them get a better price on their house or apartment
Top dating search terms
89% of girls and 76% of boys comment on a friend’s picture
58% of US teens have a profile on a social networking site
US Internet penetration by demographic profile
What teens do inside social networks
37% of social network profile owners write a journal
63% of black teens use social networking profiles for communication
Mobile social networking reach in US and Europe
39% of teens say they talk with their friends in person outside of school
Top US social networking sites in April 2008
80% of Internet users to have avatars by 2011
How internet users who have bought music in 2007 use online resources to learn about music
Russian Internet usage in February 2008
60% of Internet users in Latin American countries are using social networks
The most popular social network in Latin American countries is Orkut
45% of US adults like sites that use personal information for advertising or content
The recruitment sector is the leader of advertising market with 25.7% share
Top-growing sites in Russia in February 2008
Online video viewing in December 2007
Top 5 Video sites in December 2007 across the world
Insurance leads from different sources and quote completion stats
Growth in Online Auto Insurance Quotes
Top URLs in March 2008
Top US video sites in 2007
What people do after seeing an ad with an URL
Interest in Web services among financial industry players
Top 5 independent online video sites in US in 2007
Online video consumption in Q1 2008
65% of women watch less television due to writers’ strike
Most commonly searched prescription brands in February 2008
Who watches video on Presidential candidate sites
Top 10 video sites by number of video streams for March 2008 in US
76% of young adults say they find Internet content targeted
59% of internet users use social media to vent about customer-care experience
Americans aged 35+ check out local/national news first
Top US online video sites
Web 2.0 spending to reach $4.6 bln by 2013
Top German WEb sites in February 2008
17.2 bln Yellow Pages searches in 2007
60% of Americans feel uneasy about Web site personalization
Fastest-growing search terms
70% of newspaper editors think requiring real names would improve comments
Top-growing web categories in Japan in February, 2008
37.6% of Libertarians and 26.9% of Democrats blog
75% of China’s online gaming market is virtual item sales
Top blogging sites in February 2007
28% of those online users who listen to radio have a MySpace page
New Web sites in financial top 100 in December 2007
Top social networking sites in US in February 2007
33 mln Americans listen to online radio stations
Top financial Web sites by visits in January 2008
In December 2007 MySpace received 72.32% of US social networking visits
MySpace got 76% of US social network traffic in 2007
21.3% of bloggers seek advice before purchasing products
Fastest-growing sites in February 2008
49.7% of iPhone users accessed a social network in January 2008
Top downstream industries in January 2008
Top upstream industries in January 2008
Fastest-growing Web categories in February 2008
14% of mobile phone owners watched video on their cell phone
Top 20 websites in January 2008
38% of sports fans will download a game online in the next 2 years
Top video sites by videos streamed
Top Web sites in February 2008
Top financial search terms in January 2008
Top 10 Web companies in February 2008
Top-growing Web categories in Japan in January 2008
Online games market in China to reach $3 bln by 2010
Top 10 Web advertisers in February 2008
Top video sites
Top Downstream Search Engines in January 2008
Top Upstream Search Engines in January 2008
Top video sites by number of videos in January 2008
Websites dropped out of top 100 in January 2008
55% of online shoppers think about payment methods when checking out
Top US video sites in January 2008
49 out of top 100 sites use Apache
US online ad spending to reach $24.8 bln in 2008
Top-growing German media sites
Network TV Web site visitors overlap
32 mln insurance quotes were submitted online in 2007, 2 mln policies bought
54% of movie goers see movie trailers online
Insurance e-servicing visits grew 15% in 2007
Most of heavy bloggers read blogs more than other sites
Top sites on user engagement
28% of online teens consider themselves an internet expert
84% of Internet users search, 83% use maps
60% of wealthy Americans use social networks
Fastest-growing German Web categories in January 2008
22% of Americans read blogs regularly
Fastest-growing German sites in January 2008
Top German Web sites in January 2008
Fastest-growing Web categories in Japan in December 2007
Fastest-growing Web categories in Canada in January 2008
70% of users research everyday grocery products online
Fastest-growing Canadian sites in January 2008
43.74% of Web traffic to health sites is from search engines
Top Web companies in January 2008
37.6% of Libertarians regularly/occasionally blog
43% of Web users cannot find commercial information online
95% of MySpace December 2007 traffic was repeat visitors
17% of Web users think official product sites are useless
Top-growing Web categories in Canada in January 2008
26% of adults say they regularly or occasionally blog
In-game ads generated $295 mln in 2007
73% of Web users watched 6.2 bln video streams in December 2007
Widget and social app ad spending to reach $40 mln in 2008
Top Web sites in Canada in January 2008
35% of Americans aged 65+ get their news online
What Superbowl viewers did online on Superbowl dat
22% of young US women watch network TV Web videos
Top 10 online video sites in December 2007
93% of Veoh visitors go to Youtube
Top US search Engines in January 2008
Top German sites by share of international visits
Top US video sites for kids in December 2007
Top online advertisers in January 2008
70% of bloggers are white
Platform A ads reach 91% of Americans
Fastest-growing US Web sites in January 2008
34% of North Americans use IM monthly
$21.1 bln spent on Internet ads in 2007
Global ad market reached $600 bln in 2007, 7.4% of it was Internet
70% of young Brits log onto social networking sites
Top-growing US web categories in January 2008
56% of low-income Americans go shopping once a week or more often
33.5 bln professional video streams delivered in 2007
78% of online consumers spend 10+ minutes reading reviews
63% of Americans use roughly the same password for different online accounts
33% of online teens say they work on pages for others
Top US dating sites
People spend 17 min 7 sec per visit to a dating site
Newspaper sites viewership by month, 2007
Traffic to Presidential candidate Web sites in January 2008
Top US social networking sites in December 2007
73% of social networking teens posting pictures, 22% - posting video
3.25 hours of online video per user watched in December 2007
60% of Americans get news about the presidential election from television
77% of social network users creating some type of content
141 mln Americans viewed an online video in December 2007
Top US video sites in December 2007
Fastest-growing sites in Japan in December 2007
Top European job sites in Q4 2007
41% of online users used the Web to self-diagnose or self-treat a condition
59% of young Web users read campaign news online
Spending by dating sites in Q1-Q3 2007
Super Bowl advertiser websites by US visits in 2008
Online dating will increase to $1.9 bln in 2012
34% of health searchers use social media to find useful information
59% of adults use online resources to obtain health information
Where dating services spend money, Q1-Q3 2007
50% of Asian companies see Web 2.0 as a significant business opportunity
24% of Americans saw a campaign-related online video
66% of young Americans use social networks for candidate information
Presidential campaign news sources for younger Americans: MSNBC, CNN, Yahoo!
Click fraud at 16.6% in Q4 2007
Top video sites: YouTube, MySpace
155 bln sites in December 2007
34 bln user-generated video impressions in 2008
25% of Americans under 30 use social networks for campaign information
60% of users search online health resources at least monthly
78% of Internet users visited government Web sites
59% of online adults seek health info online
50% of companies block some of Web 2.0 services
14% of health searchers turn to social networks
25% of media will be consumed online by 2011
Mobile search and display revenues will reach $1.91 bln by 2012
US online ads to reach $50.3 bln by 2011
66% of online doctors forwarded content to colleagues
Presidential candidates in blogs: Barack Obama - 0.59%, Hillary Clinton - 0.51%
51% of marketers cannot track campaigns across multiple channels
Paid video streams will reach 2.4 bln by 2012
There were 155 mln sites in January 2008
US kids download video clips to a device 7.1 times a month
14% of Americans post videos online
81% of Chinese Internet users have IM, 56.5% use e-mail
20% of employees casually browse Internet, use P2P at work
Top-growing Web categories in Japan
Firefox reached 28% in Europe by year-end 2007
Top social networking sites in US in December 2007
User-generated content and birth control attitudes
37% of all large US companies use just 1 language on their Web site
Women and younger consumers have higher levels of engagement online
Most streamed Internet songs in 2007
15.4% of Web users can turn the television off if Hollywood writers’ strike continues
55% of US teens have a social networking profile
Ads should be on 15-20% of visible Web page
Where women turn to for health information
57% of online users navigate their favorite sites from the home page
91% of US teens use social networks to stay in touch with friends they see frequently
Social shopping grew 8x in 2007
Top online activities by US teens in 2007
60% of young adult Americans get their political news from TV
In 2006 6% of ad money was spent online in Japan
50% of Americans network with colleagues on community sites
Top Web server developers in December 2007
59% of online Americans looked up health information on the Web
Social network ad market to grow to $2.2 bln in 2008
82% of US teens use social networks for messaging
Americans viewed 9.5 bln Web videos in November 2007
Top video sites in November 2007: Google/YouTube, Yahoo!, AOL, MSN
42% of teens who are on social networks also have a blog
Web server numbers, September 2000 - December 2007
27% of online teens creating their own Web pages
55% of online content created by girls
42% of US adults get their political news from the Internet
70% of young adults visit video-sharing sites
Internet ads to grow 14.4% in 2008
69% of Americans think PCs are more entertaining than TV
Firefox and IE market shares in December 2007
48% of Americans visit video-sharing sites
53% users of video-sharing sites are male
20% of companies use wikis
IM attacks: 45% on MSN Messenger, 20% on Yahoo! IM, 19% on AIM
Online backup services to generate $715 mln by 2011
22 bln views of user-generated videos in 2007
45% of US Internet users are creating and sharing content
UK Internet ad spending to grow 30.8% in 2008
Only 16% of small businesses use blogs and podcasts
38% of US consumers watching TV shows online
Online dating revenues up 10% in 2006, 8% from now on
Online video to generate $9.7 bln by 2011 just in the US
65% of video consumers prefer professional video to user-generated
86% of Internet users download video content monthly
Top video sites by visitors in September 2007
Top video sites in September 2007
24% of Internet users read reviews
Only 31% of Web sites do A/B testing
42% of Chinese Internet use addicted to the Web
Top blogging sites in October 2007
Top social networks in October 2007
Top newspaper Web sites in October 2007
43% of US teens use IM for things they would not say in person
39% of Web users know what widgets are
62% of online users bought travel online in 2006, 68% in 2005
72% of social networking users would never pay to use the site
44% of large organizations have log files of 1 TB and more
By 2011 only 16% of global population to be Americans
24% of US kids and teens visit online worlds
12 mln Americans paid for online video content
Social networks made $400 mln in revenues in 2006
183 mln online video viewers by 2011
34% of US Internet users play online games regularly
66% of online US females watch videos online
33% of UK Web users prefer video content
Only 20% of movie downloaders would download again
Less than 5% of Internet users have purchased a movie download
67% of tech journalists cite blogs as their sources
Online photo services generated $450 mln in 2006
36% of US online users feel positive towards Google, 32% - towards Yahoo!
34% of adult US Internet users play games online
1 bln Internet users to watch videos in 2012
Online users trust newspaper articles and customer reviews most
47% of time spent on the Web is viewing content, 33% on communications tools
93% of IT professionals use online communities for help
4% of US youth have been asked for sexually explicit photos
15.8% of clicks in Q2 2007 were fraudulent
Fewer than 2% of US Internet households pay for Internet video
Asia-Pacific online gaming to grow at 15.7% a year
13 mln unified messaging clients to ship by 2011
40% of MySpace users use other social networks
Online game revenues reached $4.5 bln in 2006
11% of online Americans listen to podcasts
Number of online gamers to increase by 51% between 2006 and 2012
Online game market generated $4.5 bln in 2006
Top UK video sites in April 2007
76% of Americans have streamed video online
Time spent Republican and Democrat videos on YouTube
Top widget companies: Slide, RockYou, PictureTrail, PhotoBucket
E-books to generate $9.4 mln by 2010
12% of online users have bought video on the Internet
Online entertainment services infrastructure to reach $4.1 bln by 2011
75% of users 18-25 are generating content
Paid video will peak in 2007 with $279 mln in revenues
60 mln US households to pay bills online by 2012
35% of Americans do online research before visiting a new restaurant
30% of social network users pay for premium features
$80 mln earned off user-generated content in 2006
51% of online Hispanics prefer a Spanish language Web site
80% of Internet users to have a second life by 2011
54% of girls and 40% of boys post photos online
Only 6% of teens post their firstname and lastname online
84% of social networking users have posted on the walls
US social networking breakdown: MySpace - 85%, Facebook - 7%
85% of parents of online teens have rules on sites the kids can and cannot visit
40% of teens think their profiles do not divulge any personal info
64% of boys with social networking profiles post fake info
55% of online teens have social networking profiles
49% of social network users use social networks to make new friends
32% of online teenagers have been contacted by complete strangers online
89% of employers are open to video resumes
Only 22% of US Internet users downloaded a full-length movie or TV show
Internet video streaming up 38.8% in 2006
Premium video to generate $277 bln by 2010
34% of US online users have talked to other online users about health issues
92% of Web productivity tools users use Google Docs and Spreadsheets
Internet movie and TV show downloads to top $4 bln in 2011
697 mln Internet coupons printed out in 2006
Internet video services to generate $7 bln by 2010
57% of teachers rely on Internet news
80% of Americans who downloaded a movie online used P2P sites
47% of all online videos are user-generated
Global online video sales 2006-2010
5% of Internet video viewers have paid for a movie download
6 mln US households downloaded P2P video, 1.2 mln paid for legal videos
81% of broadband users run pop-up blockers and spam filters
500 mln pounds to be spent on online videos by 2011
Mainstream audience for podcasts: males with 6+ years of Internet experience
20% of Americans use Internet as their primary source of science news
Sites visited by mobile Web surfers
Top video sites by unique visitors: Yahoo!, MySpace, YouTube
Top video sites by the number of streams: MySpace, Yahoo!, YouTube
49% of men and 39% of women read political news on the Internet
What cancer searchers do after researching cancer on the Internet
Online movie download market: iTunes - 67%, MovieFlix - 19%, CinemaNow - 9%
YouTube.com streaming statistics
80% of American Internet users researched health topics online
Top news sites in September 2006: Yahoo! News, MSNBC, CNN
Top personals sites in North America, UK, France and Germany
13% of current peer-to-peer downloaders would pay $20 per movie
Broadband video ASP market to generate $1.9 bln by 2011
163 mln concurrent video streams to be delivered by 2011
Newspaper Web sites get 55.5 mln unique visitors a month
65 bln pageviews on user-generated content sites by 2010
55% of social network visitors view streaming videos
1,150,000 Russian blogs, LiveJournal.com the most popular community
34 mln blogs in China
66% of students get their news online
49% of moviegoers research the movie on the Internet before going
Total number of US video uploaders is comparable to US online gamblers
19% of US Internet users get political news off the Internet
Video on demand to generate $12.6 bln by 2006
46% of online users watch an online video at least once a week
98 mln instant messaging users in China
YouTube facts
USA hosts 67.23% of generic TLDs
828.6 mln IM accounts in China
16% of portable videos to be delivered over the Internet by 2011
9.2 mln Americans have downloaded a podcast, 5.6 mln downloaded video
13% of teenagers have received a sexual solicitation online
Most domain registrations by country in European Union
23% of broadband households would buy downloadable movies at $10 a pop
131 mln households to subscribe to online content services by 2010
UK Internet users spend 43 minutes a week on gambling sites
Top 10% of YouTube videos generate 79% of plays
Fewer women bet on sports in the UK
Video and music downloads generated $1.4 bln in sales in 2005
Third of all new vehicles in 2012 to support Bluetooth
Top-growing nameservers in US, Germany, Canada, UK, China
$12 bln was spent in offshore casinos in 2005
$1.1 mln spent on online movie rentals in 2005
85% of kid-centered brands provide games online
30% of US small business still do not have a Web site
In July 2006 Firefox has 12.93% of global market share, IE - 83.05%
Video streaming market shares: WindowsMedia - 60%, Flash - 19%, Real Video - 10%
30% of 18-24-year-olds worry about being stalked online
WWW is the primary media for getting news at work
Top TLDs: .com, .de, .net, .uk, .org
58% of B2B site visitors complete their tasks successfully
Ads on parked domain ads to reach $1 bln by 2007
3.7 bln online videos viewed in March 2006, 52% of online video audience are males
Employees surf Internet for personal reasons 3.1 hours a week
48% of RSS publishers spend $250K+ on RSS deployments
14% of teens have met face-to-face with strangers they met online
4% of Americans have gambled online
5,851 domain names sold for $29 mln in 2005
30 mln .com domains registered monthly, 90% of them dropped
8% of Internet users delete their cookies very frequently
Streaming video and music to generate $27 bln by 2011
23 mln Western Europeans to trade online by 2010
53% of European Internet users are passive Internet surfers
In 2006 only 43% of US kids and teens downloaded copyrighted content
Domain trade generated $14.2 mln in Q1 2006
1 454 128 .eu domains, 1 352 984 .biz domains registered
Top online banking sites: Wachovia, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Chase
In 2005 33% of new online savings applications went to ING Direct
33% of new online banking customers are lured by free banking products
40 mln Americans used online banking in Q4 2005
49% of Europeans and 37% of Americans use instant messengers
500,000 domains registered in Russia
Internet video services will generate $1.7 bln by 2010
21% of young Internet users read blogs regularly
14.9 mln video streams of NCAA games originated from CBS sites
2 mln Americans have met their spouses online
24% of Internet users watch videos at least once a week
45% of Internet users have registered at news sites to gain access to news
62% of broadband Americans have explored political news online
6% of Internet users have paid for news content
39% of all Internet users and 44% of broadband Americans head to portals for news
Top registrars by new domains added between Sep 2005 and Feb 2006: GoDaddy, DirectNIC, eNom
82% of US teens have a PC, 71% have Internet access, 44% buy online
50 mln Americans read news on the Internet
Only 39% of Internet users view dating site users as desperate
74% of single Americans have explored online dating
Paid online content spending reached $2 bln in 2005
Top video sites: MSN Video, YouTube, Google Video
Online gambling reached $10.9 bln in 2005
Number of new domains by registrars in the past 6 months
Bebo is the most popular brand among UK teens who are online
24% of customer support requests in multichannel businesses are handled through Web
66% of online users never read blogs
9.67 mln simultaneous P2P users in January 2006
100 mln casual game players online
66% of teenagers send more IMs than e-mail
For eating out online users head to Yahoo! and MSN
Flickr has 100,000,000 photos
10 bln IM messages exchanged daily
29% of digital magazine subscribers use RSS feeds
87% of Canadian students use IM, webcam or telephone for sex
Most quoted news sources in blogs: NYT, CNN, Washington Post, Yahoo! News
13% of Internet users watch movie previews online, 5% download movies
5% of Internet users paid for dating sites
US spending on digital content generated $987 mln in the first half of 2005
70-80% of Netflix rentals are long tail
39% of singles have met someone via online dating
20,000 new video uploads daily on YouTube.com
45% of UK Internet users bank online
2.3 mln people took online courses in 2004
11% of visitors to local radio stations download podcasts
20% of adult industry revenues are Internet-driven
MySpace has 47.3 mln members
Top gaming sites in October 2005: Yahoo! Games, Pogo, Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Football
Top US online banks: Wells Fargo, Citibank, Bank of America
78% of podcast listeners are male
30% of Internet users go to cable TV sites for news
10-20% of blogs are spam blogs
51% of UK online banking users interested in mobile banking
Top news sites: Yahoo! News, MSNBC, CNN, AOL News
75 mln podcast users by 2010
87% of North American 15-year-olds use IM
32% of online consumers prefer electronic statements and bills
Online maps market: MapQuest - 71%, Yahoo! Maps - 32%, Google Maps - 25%
72% of US small businesses have a Web site
50% of US Internet users went online for hurricane news
47 mln of US households will pay bills online by 2010
Online dating attracted $245.2 mln in Jan-Jun 2005
Most popular newspaper sites: NY Times, USA Today, Washington Post
26% of online Americans visit newspaper sites
52 mln Americans use file-sharing apps
Only 17% of companies use Web analytics
66% of teens send more IMs than e-mails
58% of small businesses have a Web site
14% of online travel researchers turn to major portals
5K podcasting feeds in May 2005
US spending on online content up 16% in the first half of 2005, music spedning up 45%
57% of US teens created content online, 19% run blogs
50% of 16-18-year-olds downloaded software and music online
16% of active Russian Internet users aware of blogs, LiveJournal claims the largest mindshare
19% of small businesses use online banking
56% of Americans have watched streaming video online
28% of Internet users know what podcasting is, 2% subscribe to podcasts
RSS users make more money
27% of Web users consume RSS content, most on personalized start pages
28 mln enterprise instant messaging users worldwide, 1 bln messages daily
Sales of .org domains in India up 31% in Q1-Q3 2005
Browser usage for September 2005: IE - 88.46%, Firefox - 7.86%
10% of Web users read blogs at least once a week
28% of UK taxi drivers, pub owners and hairdressers know about blogs
30.1% of Washington DC Web users read WashingtonPost.com
Average bank site is offline 15 hours a week
RSS users are 78% male, 48% Internet users, but 83% are not aware they are using RSS
76.5% of adults listen to music over the Internet, 65.4% play Internet games
Top celebrities online daters hope to meet: Jennifer Aniston, Orlando Bloom
Top Web annoyances: pop-ups, requiring extra software, dead links
70% of offline mobile phone buyers researched online
Online newspaper revenues up 36% in 2005
32% of online banking customers increased monitoring of their accounts
6% of US Internet users read blogs, 2% use RSS
32% of Web users would allow click and purchase tracking for better personalization
15% of home buyers discovered their new home on the Web in 2004
12 mln fantasy players in the US
Online map site shares: Yahoo! Maps - 41%, MapQuest - 33.4%, Google Maps - 9.45%
51% of men and 51% of women have used online banking in the past 30 days
50% of Web users have never heard of RSS
5% of Web users use desktop RSS aggregators, 6% use Web aggregators
Browser market share in July 2005: IE - 87.2%, Firefox - 8.07%, Mozilla Suite - 0.52%, Opera - 0.49%
82% of consumer magazines plan to up their Web efforts within the next 12 months
Political and current events blogs get 43% of visits
Top blog sites: Blogspot, Livejournal, Typepad, Xanga
30% of US population visited blogs in Q1 2005
Online banking usage highest among 18-24 year olds
59% of online Hispanics use instant messaging, 55% listen to music online
What people consider when dating online: photo, description, hobbies
14% of men and 14% of women try out online dating to find true love
Most popular ways to find dates: friends, bars, online, work
New Zealand Internet users learn about new sites from friends, families, search engines
57% recall using Web site for help, then calling customer service and still receiving no help
Online poker to reach $2.4 bln in 2005
Online airfare shoppers visit 3.2 sites on average before buying
Top RSS aggregators: My Yahoo! - 59.02%, Bloglines - 10.42%
30 mln Americans will purchase mobile video content by 2010
38% of online travel companies have unclear privacy policies
60% of men but only 44% of women know what adware is
79.8% of 18-24-year-olds use instant messaging, 29.6% read blogs
26% of Internet users have no idea what RSS feed is, 23% have never heard of podcasting
In Japan and Korea at least 80% of all security trading is happening online
Online content market worth $1.1 bln in China, $93 mln in India
13.9 bln instant messages are sent a day, 46.5 bln daily by 2009
13% of Web sites of top 100 companies will share personal information without customer’s permission
52% of North American women and 39% of men play online games monthly
5 mln bloggers in China
30% of consumer magazine Web sites offer RSS
33.7% more digital magazines in the second half of 2004
More than 60% monitor their bank balances online
63% of online Americans use online bill payment
Rich people more likely to delete cookies
NYTimes.com RSS feeds get 7.3 mln hits monthly
2.76 mln new domains bought in June 2005
US online donations reached $3 bln in 2004
83% of prospective online investors seek low fees, 82% - fast and reliable sites
Just 1% of online daters have less than average looks
21% of video-on-demand users are interested in buying movies over the Web
2% of online maps are wrong
8% of adult online Americans participate in fantasy leagues
16% of online Americans have used Web cams
64% online users check their bank balances primarily online
51% of journalists read blogs on a regular basis
16.7% of online retailers reject third-party cookies
Online donations up 63% in 2004
73.7 mln Web users went to porn sites in April 2004, 70.7 mln in April 2005
Most popular Web sites among gays and lesbians: Google, Yahoo!, Amazon
MSNBC.com delivers 30 mln video streams monthly
70% of Web users would rather have their cars broke into than computers
Online newspaper pageviews up 38% in March 2005
42% of online users applied for loans online, 83% applied for credit cards online
53.4 mln blogs by year-end 2005
50% of employees access Internet for personal reasons
Micropayments to reach $1.8 bln by 2009
53% of online banking customers use other online services
Corporate blogging exists in 4% of major US corporations
Average blogger household income is $57,900
Web analytics to generate $275 mln in 2005
12% of US young adults don’t read newspapers anymore, 44% daily visit a Web portal
3.35 mln Japanese Web users have blogs
Only 35% of Web users wishing to delete cookies know how to do it
15% of blog readers ever leave a comment
67% of local buyers research online
Craigslist facts: 2 bln monthly pageviews
22% of French Internet users gamble online
44% of US 18-34 year-olds get their daily news online
News sources most frequently quoted by blogs: Yahoo! News, NYT, CNN
2.6 mln Americans enrolled in online classes in fall 2004
26% of online adults use Web as main source for news
Top digital magazines: eWeek, Computer Weekly, Microsoft Certified Professional
In March 2005 users spent 37.4% of their time on news sites, 17.8% on shopping, 40.3% on communication
10% of UK teenagers visit adult Web sites
40% of online US adults have read a political blog
4.5 mln MSN Spaces blogs, 170,000 updated daily
3% of Americans read blogs daily
Reports of child pornography online up 300%
73.9% of women and 62.1% of men research health topics online
Online poker is a $1.4 bln industry
BBC audio streams demand reaches 6.8 mln hours in February 2005
Spending on online content reached $1.8 bln in 2004, up 14%
35-40% of US small businesses have a Web site
Web classifieds was a $2 bln industry in 2004
Satisfaction with online banking up 5.5% compared to 2004 level
33% of British companies give staff instant messaging access
39% of Internet users delete cookies on a monthly basis
66.3 mln domains registered globally, 5 mln in Q3 2004
Craigslist facts: 19 countries, 99 cities, 5 mln postings a month
20% of online consumers look to others for medical advice
29% of US adults used Internet for political news in 2004
Online gambling generated $9.2 bln in 2004, driven mainly by poker
47% of Americans know about downloading movies, only 4% do it
Firefox share climbs to 8.45% in February 2005
Video revenues to reach $36 bln in 2009, IPTV to grow at 24% a year
2.5 mln single Americans pay for dating sites
47% of online Americans increased online news usage, 4% decreased
13% of online Americans use Web cams
By year-end 2005 8-10% of instant messages to be unsolicited
5% of Web users watch streaming video daily
14.2 bln videos streamed over the Internet
5 mln domains registered in Q3 2004
ProFlowers traffic up 156%, FTD up 106% before Valentine’s Day
Online dating revenues to grow 9% in 2005
44% of online Americans bank online
5% of Internet users watch online video daily
Gambling revenues to top $10 bln, poker revenues top top $2 bln
24% of travel companies never answer customer inquiries
36% of electronics buyers looked up to the Web media for advice
Only 55% of teens browse the Web successfully
Roughly 55,000 Web users pay for online storage, 500,000 users pay for .Mac
Only 5% of mortgages will be obtained online in 2009
53 mln North Americans use instant messaging
Internet Explorer share slips to 90.3% in December 2004
Online job boards’ revenues up 47% in Q3 2004, newspaper ads up 16%
Online classifieds sites generated $217 mln in Q3 2004
Web users spent 40.1% of time on communication, 38.7% on browsing content, 17% on e-commerce
94% of car dealers have a Web site
IntelliSeek points to the most popular news items for blogs in 2004
Blockbuster.com traffic surpasses Netflix
Top movie sites: IMDB, MovieFone, Yahoo! Movies, NetFlix
For 81% of small businesses Web sites generated leads
95% of users hate pop-ups, 69% use pop-up blockers
US business publications earned $1.2 bln online in 2004
5.1 mln domain registrations in Q3 2004
Americans 18-34 prefer browsing Internet (46%), watching TV (35%), reading a book (7%)
Web usage among kids under 12 grows 36%
Microsoft still owns 88.79% of the Web browser market
$583 spent on online content in first half of 2004
NewsStand readers on newspaper readers online
55% of child pornography produced in the US, Russia is second with 23%
87% of online Americans participate in online communities
Adults 18 to 54 choose Internet and TV as primary media outlets
On election night Bush’s site got 317K visitors, Kerry’s - 306K
41% of online Americans believe free trade is bad for US economy
70% of online Americans oppose gay marriage
53% of online Americans support war in Iraq
More than 40% of Americans online get their political information online
Females who support George Bush visit family and sports sites, females who support John Kerry visit finance and advice sites
5 mln copies of Firefox Web browser downloaded
40% of UK companies banned instant messaging
Online dating market to grow 19.4% in 2004
16% of visitors to online dating sites are above 55 years old
38% of Americans (52% of online Americans) rely on Internet for election coverage
Nielsen surveys 37K users, comScore 1.5 mln for audience measurement
64% of online Canadians use online banking sites
81.5% of visits to United Nations Web site look for English pages
86% of enterprise instant messenger buyers are not affected by AOL and Yahoo! exit
29 mln users are running Claria adware
Free car giveaway increases traffic to Oprah.com by 800%
38.8% of Internet users generate 73% of page views
18% of F500 use instant messaging
Asia-Pacific Web hosting market to grow at 15% a year
Online movie downloads make up 0.3% of movie rental industry
MSN Messenger overtakes AOL AIM and ICQ as top instant messenger
Average user to need 14.7 MB for messaging
Netflix owns 90% of online DVD rental market
182 mln people to use instant messaging in 2007
Micropayments to generate $11.5 bln in 2009
40.3% of online time spent communicating, 37.1% - reading content
South African online media attracts 3.5 mln readers monthly
28% download porn at work
53 mln Americans use instant messaging
57% of travelers prefer third-party sites to hotel sites
19.1% of site visitors use search functionality
Macromedia Flash market penetration
Two-thirds of small business prefer online banking to offline
Nascar.com visitors buy the most charcoal
Male Internet users 18-34 are ok with pop-ups
45% of Web sites use a .com address
21% of blog readers are bloggers
Only 7 of top 20 news domains belong to newspapers
BitTorrent beats Kazaa, accounts for 53% of P2P traffic
Real estate sites experience double-digit growth

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