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Top video sites in Germany in December 2008
| Property | Videos (000) | Share of Videos (%) | Videos per Viewer |
| Total Audience | 3,388,086 | 100.0% | 118.8 |
| Google Sites | 1,711,577 | 50.5% | 88.3 |
| ProSiebenSat1 Sites | 62,827 | 1.9% | 9.7 |
| Universal Music Group | 55,950 | 1.7% | 6.5 |
| RTL Group Sites | 34,414 | 1.0% | 8.4 |
| Megavideo.com | 31,154 | 0.9% | 15.1 |
| Microsoft Sites | 14,641 | 0.4% | 5.9 |
| Yahoo! Sites | 12,169 | 0.4% | 8.0 |
| Sport1 online | 11,963 | 0.4% | 33.6 |
| Dailymotion.com | 10,500 | 0.3% | 8.6 |
| Viacom Digital | 8,426 | 0.2% | 7.0 |
| Source: comScore | |||
Fastest-growing sites in Gemany in January 2009
| Property | Jan-2008 | Jan-2009 | % Change |
| Total Internet : Total Audience | 33,904 | 37,646 | 11% |
| Yasni.de | 323 | 2,037 | 530% |
| Facebook.com | 556 | 3,143 | 465% |
| Pennergame.de | 697 | 1,793 | 157% |
| Quoka Verlag | 1,118 | 1,977 | 77% |
| The Mozilla Organization | 4,205 | 7,219 | 72% |
| Deutsche Post AG Sites | 2,752 | 4,033 | 47% |
| Preisroboter.de | 1,184 | 1,674 | 41% |
| United Online, Inc | 2,222 | 3,018 | 36% |
| Gameforge Sites | 1,805 | 2,442 | 35% |
| ZDF Sites | 1,824 | 2,342 | 28% |
| Source: comScore | |||
Top-visited Web brands in February 2009
| Brand | Audience, 000 | Time Per Person |
| 1. Google | 127,142 | 1:27:40 |
| 2. Yahoo! | 113,564 | 3:27:12 |
| 3. MSN/Windows Live | 102,069 | 2:21:40 |
| 4. Microsoft | 98,360 | 0:42:13 |
| 5. YouTube | 83,429 | 0:50:49 |
| 6. AOL Media Network | 83,083 | 3:45:59 |
| 7. Facebook | 65,704 | 2:59:54 |
| 8. Fox Interactive Media | 64,288 | 1:24:46 |
| 9. Wikipedia | 57,561 | 0:17:08 |
| 10. Apple | 52,037 | 1:13:35 |
| Source: Nielsen | ||
37% of US adults visit SNS sites daily
How often do you visit your primary online social network profile?
| % Profile owners | |
| Every day | 37% |
| Every few days | 23 |
| Once a week | 15 |
| Less often | 23 |
| Source: Pew Internet Project | |
Top Web sites in Germany in January 2009
| Jan-09 Rank |
Jan-08 Rank |
Property | Audience, 000 |
| N/A | N/A | Total Internet | 37,646 |
| 1 | 1 | Google Sites | 30,370 |
| 2 | 3 | Microsoft Sites | 21,939 |
| 3 | 10 | ProSiebenSat1 Sites | 20,147 |
| 4 | 2 | eBay | 19,614 |
| 5 | 5 | AOL LLC | 18,208 |
| 6 | 4 | United-Internet Sites | 17,837 |
| 7 | 8 | Arcandor AG | 17,500 |
| 8 | 6 | Wikimedia Foundation Sites | 16,782 |
| 9 | 9 | T-Online Sites | 16,629 |
| 10 | 18 | Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck | 15,910 |
| 11 | 12 | Yahoo! Sites | 13,854 |
| 12 | 7 | Otto Gruppe | 13,087 |
| 13 | 13 | Amazon Sites | 12,841 |
| 14 | 21 | Axel Springer AG | 12,702 |
| 15 | 32 | Hubert Burda Media | 12,588 |
| 16 | 23 | RTL Group Sites | 12,508 |
| 17 | 11 | Deutsche Telekom | 11,273 |
| 18 | 15 | freenet AG | 9,924 |
| 19 | 16 | Lycos Europe Sites | 9,442 |
| 20 | 14 | Vodafone Group | 8,430 |
| 21 | 20 | Fox Interactive Media | 8,144 |
| 22 | 36 | The Mozilla Organization | 7,219 |
| 23 | 22 | ARD Sites | 7,102 |
| 24 | 28 | Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe | 5,851 |
| 25 | 34 | Apple Inc. | 5,577 |
| Source: comScore | |||
97% of MySpace users, 97% of Facebook users, and 65% of LinkedIn users stay in touch with their friends on social networks
| MySpace users | Facebook users | LinkedIn users | |
| % | % | % | |
| Stay in touch with friends | 97% | 97% | 65% |
| Make plans with friends | 66 | 62 | 9 |
| Make new friends | 52 | 52 | 10 |
| Organize with others for an event, issue or cause | 43 | 56 | 13 |
| Promote yourself or your work | 27 | 22 | 47 |
| Make new business or professional contacts | 26 | 20 | 67 |
| Flirt | 20 | 22 | 0 |
| Source: Pew Internet Project | |||
US video usage in February 2009
| Jan-09 | Feb-09 | Percent Change | |
| Unique Viewers (000) | 135,617 | 127,613 | -5.9% |
| Total Streams (000) | 10,457,785 | 8,897,943 | -14.9% |
| Streams per Viewer | 77.1 | 69.7 | -9.6% |
| Time per Viewer (min) | 178.6 | 169.3 | -5.2% |
| Source: Nielsen | |||
Top US video sites in February 2009
| Video Brand | Streams, 000 | Audience, 000 |
| YouTube | 5,158,727 | 88,136 |
| hulu | 308,806 | 9,473 |
| Yahoo! | 250,425 | 24,085 |
| Nickelodeon Kids and Family Network | 209,465 | 6,039 |
| Fox Interactive Media | 194,255 | 14,376 |
| ABC.COM | 187,128 | 6,716 |
| MSN/Windows Live | 162,900 | 12,198 |
| Turner Sports and Entertainment Digital Network | 125,067 | 5,961 |
| MTV Networks Music | 100,076 | 4,410 |
| CNN Digital Network | 99,846 | 8,377 |
| Source: Nielsen | ||
Top Web sites among Latin American Region in December 2008
| Dec-08 Rank | Nov-08 Rank | Property | Visitors, 000 |
| N/A | N/A | Total Audience | 74,906 |
| 1 | 1 | Google Sites | 71,782 |
| 2 | 2 | Microsoft Sites | 71,067 |
| 3 | 3 | Yahoo! Sites | 41,032 |
| 4 | 4 | MercadoLibre | 32,174 |
| 5 | 5 | Terra Networks | 29,178 |
| 6 | 6 | Wikimedia Foundation Sites | 22,769 |
| 7 | 7 | UOL | 22,608 |
| 8 | 8 | Facebook.com | 20,963 |
| 9 | 9 | Batanga | 20,093 |
| 10 | 10 | WordPress | 18,118 |
| 11 | 11 | Organizacoes Globo | 17,077 |
| 12 | 12 | Grupo Brasil Telecom | 16,568 |
| 13 | 13 | HI5.COM | 15,931 |
| 14 | 16 | Hi-Media Group | 12,165 |
| 15 | 14 | Ask Network | 12,110 |
| 16 | 15 | AOL LLC | 11,874 |
| 17 | 19 | Fox Interactive Media | 11,200 |
| 18 | 20 | BuscaPé.com Inc. | 10,270 |
| 19 | N/A | NetShelter Technology Media | 10,231 |
| 20 | 21 | Adobe Sites | 9,739 |
| 21 | 22 | RapidShare AG | 9,587 |
| 22 | 18 | Orange Sites | 8,769 |
| 23 | 23 | Grupo Carso | 8,719 |
| 24 | 26 | Apple Inc. | 8,388 |
| 25 | 25 | Spil Games | 8,323 |
| Source: comScore | |||
Top video sites by unique viewers in December 2008
| Property | Audience, 000 | Videos per Viewer |
| Total Internet | 149,587 | 95.7 |
| Google Sites | 100,092 | 59.0 |
| Fox Interactive Media | 56,895 | 7.8 |
| Yahoo! Sites | 42,761 | 7.7 |
| AOL LLC | 31,522 | 6.3 |
| Microsoft Sites | 29,534 | 8.4 |
| Viacom Digital | 27,370 | 10.6 |
| Hulu.com | 24,572 | 9.8 |
| Turner Network | 20,499 | 9.0 |
| Time Warner – Excl. AOL | 17,294 | 2.8 |
| CBS Corporation | 14,840 | 3.7 |
| Source: comScore | ||
Top stocks and finance sites in the US
| Rank | Web site | Domain | February 2008 | February 2009 | Growth, YTY |
| 1 | Yahoo! Finance | finance.yahoo.com | 23.63% | 22.21% | -6% |
| 2 | MSN Money | moneycentral.msn.com | 8.14% | 7.32% | -10% |
| 3 | CNN Money | money.cnn.com | 2.35% | 7.16% | 205% |
| 4 | Scottrade | www.scottrade.com | 2.52% | 5.48% | 118% |
| 5 | TD AMERITRADE | www.tdameritrade.com | 5.13% | 4.40% | -14% |
| 6 | Fidelity Investments | www.fidelity.com | 4.97% | 4.06% | -18% |
| 7 | Vanguard | www.vanguard.com | 3.04% | 2.42% | -20% |
| 8 | Market Watch | www.marketwatch.com | 2.14% | 2.26% | 6% |
| 9 | Kitco | www.kitco.com | 2.03% | 2.25% | 11% |
| 10 | E*Financial | www.etrade.com | 2.75% | 2.12% | -23% |
| Source: Hitwise | |||||
Top German Online Video Sites Ranked by Total Unique Viewers in December 2008
| Property | Dec-2007 | Dec-2008 | % Change |
| Total Internet : Total Audience | 25,955 | 28,516 | 10% |
| Google Sites | 13,086 | 19,379 | 48% |
| Universal Music Group | 7,160 | 8,552 | 19% |
| ProSiebenSat1 Sites | 4,759 | 6,508 | 37% |
| RTL Group Sites | 1,568 | 4,076 | 160% |
| Microsoft Sites | 1,292 | 2,462 | 91% |
| Fox Interactive Media | 2,447 | 2,229 | -9% |
| Megavideo.com | 161 | 2,068 | 1,183% |
| Warner Music | 545 | 1,837 | 237% |
| Axel Springer AG | N/A | 1,569 | N/A |
| Yahoo! Sites | 1,269 | 1,519 | 20% |
| Source: comScore | |||
Top video sites by videos viewed in December 2008
| Property | Videos, 000 | Share, % |
| Total Internet | 14,318,722 | 100.0 |
| Google Sites | 5,905,854 | 41.2 |
| Fox Interactive Media | 444,865 | 3.1 |
| Yahoo! Sites | 330,025 | 2.3 |
| Viacom Digital | 290,558 | 2.0 |
| Microsoft Sites | 247,903 | 1.7 |
| Hulu.com | 240,585 | 1.7 |
| AOL LLC | 197,135 | 1.4 |
| Turner Network | 183,948 | 1.3 |
| Disney Online | 148,434 | 1.0 |
| ESPN | 102,542 | 0.7 |
| Source: comScore | ||
US category upstream traffic from search engines and Google in February 2009
| Category | Percentage of category traffic from search engines – February 2009 |
Percent change in share of traffic from search engines – February2009- February 2008 |
Percentage of category traffic from Google – February2009 |
Percent change in share of traffic from Google – February2009- February2008 |
| Health and Medical | 46.52% | 4% | 34.06% | 16% |
| Travel | 36.24% | 10% | 27.08% | 22% |
| Shopping and Classifieds | 24.54% | -3% | 17.49% | 7% |
| News and Media | 21.79% | 2% | 15.88% | 13% |
| Entertainment | 26.41% | 9% | 18.61% | 23% |
| Business and Finance | 20.15% | 15% | 14.24% | 29% |
| Sports | 15.75% | 16% | 11.46% | 31% |
| Online Video | 35.64% | 24% | 26.88% | 41% |
| Social Networking | 17.29% | 10% | 11.30% | 25% |
| Source: Hitwise | ||||
Fastest-growing Web categories in December 2008
| Dec-07 | Dec-08 | % Change | |
| Total Audience | 183,619 | 190,650 | 4 |
| Job Search | 12,445 | 18,826 | 51 |
| Women | 69,854 | 102,146 | 46 |
| Coupons | 21,624 | 31,574 | 46 |
| Politics | 8,384 | 11,992 | 43 |
| Gay/Lesbian | 2,367 | 3,340 | 41 |
| Online Gambling | 12,741 | 17,340 | 36 |
| Radio | 50,285 | 65,386 | 30 |
| Family | 55,607 | 71,832 | 29 |
| Online Gaming | 67,457 | 85,977 | 27 |
| Classifieds | 41,688 | 52,813 | 27 |
| Source: comScore | |||
Top Web sites in France in January 2009
| Property | Jan-08 | Jan-09 | % Change |
| Total Internet : Total Audience | 23,243 | 27,074 | 16% |
| Google Sites | 12,181 | 15,166 | 25% |
| Dailymotion.com | 10,041 | 11,478 | 14% |
| Microsoft Sites | 4,176 | 4,972 | 19% |
| Groupe TF1 | 4,231 | 4,795 | 13% |
| Orange Sites | 1,439 | 4,370 | 204% |
| France Televisions Interactive | 1,031 | 3,378 | 228% |
| AOL LLC | 1,619 | 3,320 | 105% |
| AlloCine Sites | 2,275 | 2,680 | 18% |
| Kewego | 2,093 | 2,591 | 24% |
| Megavideo.com | 755 | 2,362 | 213% |
| Source: comScore | |||
Top Web parent companies in February 2009
| Parent | Audience, 000 | Time Per Person |
| 1. Google | 133,983 | 2:00:55 |
| 2. Microsoft | 125,692 | 2:28:15 |
| 3. Yahoo! | 114,130 | 3:27:19 |
| 4. AOL LLC | 83,083 | 3:45:59 |
| 5. News Corp. Online | 77,569 | 1:21:13 |
| 6. Facebook | 65,704 | 2:59:54 |
| 7. InterActiveCorp | 65,693 | 0:16:17 |
| 8. eBay | 63,066 | 1:51:13 |
| 9. Amazon | 59,389 | 0:24:33 |
| 10. Wikimedia Foundation | 57,910 | 0:17:10 |
| Source: Nielsen | ||
Fastest-growing sites in Latin America in December 2008
| Property | Nov-2008 | Dec-2008 | % Change |
| Total Internet : Total Audience | 73,698 | 74,906 | 2 |
| American Greetings Property | 1,434 | 2,471 | 72 |
| Glam Media | 2,665 | 3,489 | 31 |
| Sony Online | 2,716 | 3,531 | 30 |
| Mattel Sites | 2,573 | 3,183 | 24 |
| Megaupload.com | 4,409 | 5,426 | 23 |
| Disney Online | 4,705 | 5,754 | 22 |
| Travian Games | 2,020 | 2,467 | 2 |
| The Mozilla Organization | 6,686 | 8,137 | 22 |
| Mediafire.com | 2,488 | 3,028 | 22 |
| Conduit.com | 5,221 | 6,315 | 21 |
| Source: comScore | |||
Overall Online Video Usage in the US in December 2008
| Nov-08 | Dec-08 | Percent Change | |
| Unique Viewers (000) | 124,262 | 124,611 | 0% |
| Total Streams (000) | 9,548,267 | 9,593,320 | 0% |
| Streams per Viewer | 76.8 | 77 | 0% |
| Time per Viewer (min) | 177.9 | 170.7 | -4% |
| Source: Nielsen | |||
Top-growing web categories in UK in December 2008
| Category | Nov-2008 | Dec-2008 | % Change |
| Total Internet : Total Audience | 73,698 | 74,906 | 2 |
| e-cards | 6,849 | 10,970 | 60 |
| Retail – Flowers/Gifts/Greetings | 3,144 | 4,937 | 57 |
| Retail – Fragrances/Cosmetics | 1,646 | 2,553 | 55 |
| Travel – Ground/Cruise | 1,059 | 1,436 | 36 |
| Hobbies/Lifestyle – Food | 4,156 | 5,112 | 23 |
| Retail – Sports/Outdoor | 2,444 | 2,943 | 20 |
| Retail – Toys | 3,033 | 3,615 | 19 |
| Retail – Jewelry/Luxury Goods/Accessories | 1,088 | 1,273 | 17 |
| Shipping | 1,959 | 2,271 | 16 |
| Retail – Food | 452 | 520 | 15 |
| Source: comScore | |||
Fastest-growing web sites in January, 2009
| Dec-08 | Jan-09 | % Change | Rank | |
| Total Audience | 190,650 | 191,863 | 1 | N/A |
| TaxACT | 549 | 5,883 | 972 | 205 |
| H&R Block | 1,611 | 6,073 | 277 | 196 |
| IRS.GOV | 4,313 | 14,663 | 240 | 69 |
| Intuit | 6,139 | 16,172 | 163 | 60 |
| Oprah.com | 2,539 | 5,077 | 100 | 232 |
| Gamevance.com | 6,644 | 12,170 | 83 | 91 |
| Usmagazine.com | 3,117 | 5,057 | 62 | 234 |
| ABC.com | 5,496 | 8,760 | 59 | 126 |
| ED.gov | 4,469 | 7,080 | 58 | 163 |
| Indeed | 5,167 | 7,541 | 46 | 157 |
| Source: comScore | ||||
Fastest-growing web categories in January, 2009
| Dec-08 | Jan-09 | % Change | |
| Total Internet : Total Audience | 190,650 | 191,863 | 1 |
| Business/Finance – Taxes | 8,935 | 24,703 | 176 |
| Travel – Ground/Cruise | 8,942 | 13,028 | 46 |
| Career Services & Development – Job Search | 18,826 | 26,702 | 42 |
| Career Services & Development – Career Resources | 38,911 | 48,900 | 26 |
| Retail – Computer Software | 30,186 | 37,545 | 24 |
| News/Information – Politics | 11,992 | 13,710 | 14 |
| Travel – Hotels/Resorts | 26,671 | 29,976 | 12 |
| Government | 80,564 | 89,662 | 11 |
| Travel – Online Travel Agents | 35,565 | 38,973 | 10 |
| Business/Finance – Online Trading | 10,758 | 11,743 | 9 |
| Source: comScore | |||
Top news Web sites in February, 2009
| Rank | Website | Share |
| 1. | Yahoo! News | 7.38% |
| 2. | The Weather Channel – US | 3.44% |
| 3. | CNN.com | 3.36% |
| 4. | MSNBC | 3.11% |
| 5. | Google News | 2.60% |
| 6. | Drudge Report | 2.35% |
| 7. | USA Today | 2.22% |
| 8. | Fox News | 1.84% |
| 9. | The New York Times | 1.82% |
| 10. | Yahoo! Weather | 1.67% |
| Source: Hitwise | ||
Top Web sites in January, 2009
| Rank | Property | Unique Visitors (000) |
|
| Total Internet : Total Audience | 191,863 | ||
| 1 | Google Sites | 151,010 | |
| 2 | Yahoo! Sites | 146,131 | |
| 3 | Microsoft Sites | 125,568 | |
| 4 | AOL LLC | 108,441 | |
| 5 | Fox Interactive Media | 90,510 | |
| 6 | Ask Network | 74,742 | |
| 7 | eBay | 72,160 | |
| 8 | Amazon Sites | 64,768 | |
| 9 | Wikimedia Foundation Sites | 62,737 | |
| 10 | FACEBOOK.COM | 57,232 | |
| 11 | Glam Media | 55,293 | |
| 12 | Turner Network | 54,877 | |
| 13 | Apple Inc. | 54,194 | |
| 14 | CBS Corporation | 53,539 | |
| 15 | New York Times Digital | 49,110 | |
| 16 | Viacom Digital | 46,510 | |
| 17 | Weather Channel, The | 40,056 | |
| 18 | craigslist, inc. | 39,437 | |
| 19 | AT&T Interactive Network | 38,184 | |
| 20 | Adobe Sites | 35,315 | |
| 21 | Comcast Corporation | 33,940 | |
| 22 | Wal-Mart | 33,513 | |
| 23 | Superpages.com Network | 32,558 | |
| 24 | Verizon | 32,412 | |
| 25 | Disney Online | 30,345 | |
| 26 | Target Corporation | 28,628 | |
| 27 | Time Warner – Excluding AOL | 27,209 | |
| 28 | Weatherbug Property | 26,944 | |
| 29 | Bank of America | 26,322 | |
| 30 | United Online, Inc | 26,048 | |
| 31 | Gorilla Nation | 25,585 | |
| 32 | AT&T, Inc. | 25,574 | |
| 33 | Answers.com Sites | 25,563 | |
| 34 | Demand Media | 25,447 | |
| 35 | CareerBuilder LLC | 24,750 | |
| 36 | Everyday Health | 24,717 | |
| 37 | Shopzilla.com Sites | 24,097 | |
| 38 | Photobucket.com LLC | 23,928 | |
| 39 | WordPress | 23,730 | |
| 40 | Real.com Network | 23,359 | |
| 41 | Expedia Inc | 22,703 | |
| 42 | JPMorgan Chase Property | 22,399 | |
| 43 | Monster Worldwide | 22,244 | |
| 44 | Gannett Sites | 21,829 | |
| 45 | WorldNow – ABC Owned Sites | 21,586 | |
| 46 | WebMD Health | 21,185 | |
| 47 | iVillage.com | 21,002 | |
| 48 | NBC Universal | 20,974 | |
| 49 | WhitePages | 19,351 | |
| 50 | ESPN | 19,266 | |
| Source: comScore | |||