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 China: Only 14percent of people in China know what the Internet is, and nine in ten have never used a computer, results from a Gallup-Fortune survey released Wednesday said. According to Chinese government figures, the country's Internet population nearly doubled from 2.1 million at the end of 1998 to four million in June. (Techserver - September 22)How Many Online? Per Nua Survey, as of the end of June 99, we are 179 million online. (Nua Survey - September)The number of Europeans using the Internet is expected to jump from 34 million last year to 121 million by 2004, according to Fletcher Research. The research firm said that Germany will be the biggest single market with 30 million users followed by the U.K. with 25 million. Together with France, Italy and Spain they will account for 75% of Europe's Internet market. (News.com - August 4)As of June 99, we are 179 million online worldwide, according to Nua SurveysAnother 35.2 million people worldwide will gain access to the Internet this year, according to a study released July 7, bringing the total number of active Internet users to 130.6 million. More than to 75 percent of the world's Web sites are in English. (SiliconValley.com - July 8 )The number of Chinese citizens with access to the Internet is expected to grow from 2.1 million to more than 6.7 million over the next year, a new reports finds. (Wired News - June 28 ) The number of people over 16 in the United States and Canada using the Internet has climbed to 92 million with almost as many women as men online according to a newsurvey released June 17. (Techserver - June 17) Cisco estimates that 60 million people now join the Internet every six months. (BBC- June 15) About 270,000 of the 10.3 million Czechs had regular access to the Internet at the end of last year, mostly at work, according to a recent study by the International Data Corp published in the daily Lidove Noviny. The number is expected to rise by between 34 and 41 percent per year through 2002, the report said. (SilliconValley.com - March 3) The number of people surfing the Internet globally is set to top 250 million in 2002 and 300 million in 2005, a report published by market analysis firm Datamonitor said Monday. (SilliconValley.com - March 1) Fifty-five percent (13.5 million) of Canadians have Internet access, 41 percent (11.3 million) have connected in the past three months, and 26 percent (7.6 million) use the Web each week, ComQUEST found. Weekly usage is up 160 percent from a 1996 survey, and the company expects 33 percent of Canadians to use the Web on a weekly basis in 1999. (CyberAtlas - February 23) Nearly 3 million people, 33% of the population, are connected to the Net in Sweden, with a growth rate of 36& in the past year, according to RelevantKnowledge and its Swedish partner, Sifo Interactive Media. (NUA Survey Internet NewsFebruary 9) As of January 1999, NUA Survey's educated guess is that we are 152.75 million online.E-Mail [E-Mail] |
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| Approximately 48 percent of U.S. consumers said e-mail was the primary reason to go online. (SiliconValley.com September 30)The number of e-mail messages sent on an average day in the US was 300 million in 1995 and will hit 3.5 billion this year. By 2002, the traffic will total 8 billion messages. (Businessweek print edition "The Internet Age"- October 4)Are local print newspapers headed toward a troubled future? Editor & Publisher Company (E & P) conducted a survey of 53,000 'Net surfers at 75 online newspapers, and found that while checking e-mail remains the major focus of 91 percent of those polled, reading newspapers comes in at a close second with 82 percent. (Newsweek July 5)Cisco estimates that e-mail now outnumbers regular post by 10 to one.. (BBC- June 15) The average office worker must sift through 30 e-mails, 22 voice-mails, 18 pieces of regular mail, 15 faxes and 11 Post-it notes every day (ABC News- May 3) CNN, The Associated Press, National Public Radio and The Washington Post are among the news organizations receiving dozens of daily e-mails from inside Yugoslavia. The missives run the gamut from calls for peace to descriptions of destruction to poetry. Tom Reid, London correspondent for The Washington Post, said he began receiving 30 to 50 e-mails per day once the Kosovo bombing commenced on March 24. At AP, anywhere from 50 to 100 e-mails per day were arriving through its Web site, The Wire. Some of the writers send as many as five e-mails per day about the continuing conflict. (Techserver - April 17) An increasing number of companies snoop on their employee's e-mail, computer files and phone calls, according to an American Management Association survey. The share of firms checking e-mail rose to 27% this year from 20% in 1998 and 17% in 1997, according to the survey. The AMA survey also found that overall electronic monitoring of e-mail and other communications rose to 45% from 35% in 1997. The AMA said that about 84% of companies that do monitoring tell their employees of the practice. (Techserver - April 14) In recent days, electronic mail attacking the NATO bombing campaign has been lobbed by at least 25 computers in Yugoslavia, clogging the in-boxes of well more than 10,000 Internet users , mostly in the U.S. (WSJ - April 8) A report just published by Frost & Sullivan entitled «Internet/Intranet Online » has concluded that e-mail has moved right alongside the telephone and fax as a primary means of business communications in the US and Canada. As of the end of last year, e-mail was actually surpassing the telephone as a tool for business communications. According to the report the total number of e-mail mailboxes installed worldwide reached approximately 112.4 million in 1998, up from 48.7 million in 1997. (CNNfn - March 30) An employee who spends one hour a day reading personal e-mail and browsing non-work-related Web sites costs a company an average of $35,000 a year in lost productivity, according to a 1998 report from the Saratoga Institute, a Santa Clara, Calif., human resources researcher. (Silliconvalley.com - March 24) Americans spend more than 30 minutes daily managing the deluge of messages they receive, based on a study by Casio PhoneMate, compared with the roughly 40 minutes they say they spend each week in meaningful conversation with their children (USA Today - March 2) MORE E-MAIL THAN SNAIL MAIL DELIVERED IN '98 - per a study by E-Marketer (CNNfn) Supporting Stats: 81 million Americans use e-mail, at least occasionally The average American sends or receives 26.4 e-mail messages every day On a daily basis, the total number of e-mail messages sent by U.S. internet users is 2.1 billion (81 million X 26.4 messages/day = 2.1 billion) In addition to this 2.1 billion figure, another 7.3 billion "commercial" e-mail messages are sent, and -- you guessed it -- over 96% of these represent SPAMFor Perspective: There were 107 billion pieces of First Class Mail delivered in the U.S. in 1998 84% of net surfers use e-mail to communicate On average, people receive twice as many e-mails as they send on a given day There are now 263 million e-mail boxes worldwide, and over 100 of these are managed by ISPs (Sources: Electronic Mail & Messaging Systems and the Yankee Group) When the House Judiciary Committee and then the full House considered articles of impeachment, as many as 1 million e-mails came storming in each day to both the House of Representatives and the Senate, compared with the average 80,000 that generally show up daily. (The Washington Post - January 26) Since Nora Ephron's romantic comedy «You've Got Mail» opened in movie theaters last month, some online dating sites report as much as a 30 percent surge. (Techserver - January 16)E-Commerce [Commerce Electronique] |
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| U.S. consumers spent $7 billion in 1999 on travel on the Internet up from $2.6 billion in 1998, according to e-travel research firm PhoCusWright Inc. It expects that figure to top $20 billion in 2001. (MSNBC - January 13) B2B. The healthcare industry will reach $370 billion in online transactions by 2004 according to a report from Forrester Research.Total online sales for health and pharmacy-related consumables reached $1.9 billion in 1999 (E-Commerce Times - January 12)U.S. consumers spent $7 billion in 1999 on travel on the Internet (MCNBS - January 13)As the holiday e-nickels are counted, an Ernst & Young survey indicates that the total e-commerce take will surpass estimates by reaching between $10 and $13 billion. If the figures do hold, 1999 will deliver a tally that is 300 percent higher than 1998's $4 billion. E-Commerce Times Amazon.com: Sales at amazon.com are expected to crest 1 billion in 1999 (Time - December 27)The company's net loss could be $ 350 million this year alone (Time - December 27)amazon.com sells 18 million items. (Time - December 27)ebay.com: The company will reach $ 4.5 billion in sales this year - an industry that's all of four years old. (Time - December 27)ebay.com:The company will reach $ 4.5 billion in sales this year - an industry that's all of four years old. (Time - December 27) The company has 7.7 million registered users bidding on on some 3 million items. (Time - December 27)How Many Billions? Online Numbers Vary. It depends on whom you ask. Estimates range from $4 billion (by Forrester Research Inc.) to $9 billion (from Boston Consulting Group) to as much as $15 billion (from Ernst & Young). WSJ - December 6) UPS, plans to ship some 300 million packages between Thanksgiving and Christmas, up slightly from last year. (WSJ - December 1)About $36 billion is likely to be spent at Web "e-tail" stores this year, up145 percent from 1998.That estimate comes from Shop.org, a trade association for online retailers. (The Washington Post - November 28Funeral industry carves niche on Internet. About 35,000 caskets were sold via the Internet last year, only a fraction Online shoe sales of all sellers last year amounted to less than $48 million barely a 10th of 1% of the $37 billion Americans spent on footwear, according to Forrester Research Inc. This year, Forrester expects online shoe sales to total more than $121 million. (WSJ - October 28)The financial impact of site outages : A Zona Research analysis finds slow performance costs e-commerce sites $362 million per month. (The Industry Standard - September 27)Amazon.com sees its sales this year topping $1.25 Billion. (ComputerNews Daily - September 28)Yahoo! Auctions lists more than 770,000 items daily in 3,500 categories. (Internet News - September 23)Online consumer spending in the last two months of this year is expected to total $6 billion according to research released September 21 by analysts at Jupiter Communications. (Tipworld newsletter - September 22)Over 42% of B2B E-commerce Web sites online 3 years or more and which participated in research by ActivMedia say their site is profitable. Of sites online less than 1 year, 27% said they were making money. ActivMedia also reported the average first-year income for a b2b e-commerce site was $94,000 while those operating three years or more took in nearly $30million, on average. (Tipworld September 20)B2B. The value of business-to-business e-commerce conducted in the U.S, will soar to approximately $1.5 trillion by 2004 from an estimated $114 billion this year, Goldman Sachs estimated in a new study. (WSJ - September 16) The online toy market estimated at $43 million in 1998 will grow to $1.6 billion within three years, say analysts at Gomez Advisors. "Online toys in 1999 will be what online books were in 1997," said Gomez's Liz Leonard.New and used automobile sales initiated via the Internet will rise from three percent of all U.S. auto sales in 1999 to 20% in 2002 according to a new Gomez Advisors forecast. (Internet News - September 3)Greenfield's "Surfing Seniors" study found that 92 percent of Web users over age 55 have used the Internet for window shopping and 78 percent have made a purchase online. The online shopping numbers for seniors are significantly higher than those by the Internet population in general, Greenfield Online found. (Cyberatlas - August 31)Software Piracy: The SIIA studied the three most popular online auction sites -- eBay, ZDNet and Excite -- from August 15th to August 20th and found that 60 percent of the software auctioned was illegitimate. (E-Commerce Times - September 1)Over 2 billion orders will be placed over the Internet this year, however, merchants are not well positioned to meet the increasing volume of business, according to Forrester Research. As a result, there will be widespread demand for order fulfilment solutions. (NUA Survey - August)The collective user base of eBay, uBid, and Onsale, grew from 750,000 in 1997 to 3.4 million in 1998. eBay says its user base now stands at some 5.6 million. (News.com - August 16) A new study from Greenfield Online found that online purchases and online "window shopping" fell 3% in the second quarter of 1999. The research firm found that 83% of those surveyed had shopped online in the second quarter, compared 86% in the first quarter. It was the first time the index fell, Greenfield said.(ZDNet - August 2)More than 25 percent of people buying used cars and trucks from 67 percent tap into the Internet to research their purchase according to a study released August 2nd. (SiliconValley.com - August 2)In a survey for its report "Real Numbers Behind the Online Retail Industry," 96 percent of the Web sites surveyed indicated that fraud is of little concern. Only 4 percent of the sites in the survey said they regularly experience fraud problems. Larger online businesses with higher revenues, see more online fraud than average, the survey found. Fraud rates hover just under 2 percent at companies with more than $25,000 in revenues in 1988. (CyberAtlas)The percentage of World Wide Web shoppers who are women as jumped in the last 12 months, to 38 percent from 29 percent, according to a new study. (NY Times - July 12)Slow download times at online shopping sites could place at risk as much as $4.35 billion in U.S. e-commerce revenues each year, says a report released early July by Zona Research. (CNN - July 6)35.2 percent of business-to-business Web sites are currently operating at a profit with an additional 19.1 percent, expecting to be in the black in the next twelve months, according to ActivMedia. (NUA Survey - June 30)Market researcher International Data Corporation believes revenue commerce conducted over the World Wide Web will top staggering $1 trillion by 2003 Tipworld newsletter - June 28)Dell generates $18 million a day in online revenue selling new computers on the Internet. (New.com - June 28)Autobytel.com said that purchase requests to its Accredited Dealer Network are now resulting in car sales of more than $24 million per day, or $1 million an hour. (Internet News - May 28)Amazon vs ebay (Business Week May 31lst)AMAZON Customer base: 8.4 million Profitability: – $124.5 million Brand recognition: 52% (101 million U.S. adults) eBAYCustomer base: 3.8 million Profitability: $2.4 million Brand recognition: 32% (63 million U.S. adults) This year, online counterfeit sales may total as much as $25 billion world-wide, or 10% of the total counterfeit market according to the Counterfeiting Intelligence Bureau of the International Chamber of Commerce. That’s about double the amount of legitimate online retail sales in the U.S and a major threat to an industry that lives and dies on brand identity. (MSNBC - May 16) I-Give.com allows members to earn money from the Internet economy to support their favorite causes either by choosing from one of the more than 4631 causes already supported by their members, or you can list one of your own. I-give has raised, on behalf of their members, over $297319 to more than 4631 causes A new industry study by Intermarket Group's says the top 100 e-commerce sites spent an average $8.6 million each last year to build their online brands and drive traffic to their Web sites. (Internet News- May 5)Internet auctioneer eBay has posted an auction for real people. In April, a seller listed a complete team of 16 Internet service provider engineers, opening the bidding at $3.14 million (Wired News - April 27) In Priceline.com Inc the online reseller of discounted airline tickets and other services, said Monday (April 26) that more than one million people used its services during its first year in business. (SillicoonValley.com - April 27) When Andy Wang put his Impression Webzine up for sale on eBay, he intended it as a joke. He purposefully set the minimum bid at $ 3miilion, thinking no one would bid on the site.But by 7 p.m. PT, Wang already had three bids. (News.com - April 23) In 1998, American companies had $43 billion worth of sales to one another over the Internet five times the consumer retail total, according to Forrester Research. Within four years, Forrester says business-to-business sales online will reach $1.3 trillion, or 9.4 percent of corporate America's purchases. (NY Times - April 19) As parents know--and businesses are figuring out--kids are avid Netheads. According to Teenage Research Unlimited (TRU), a Chicago market research firm, 81% of teens use the Net. Kids use it to research, download photos, and shop. (Fortune - April 12) Autoweb.com said it's the most frequently visited and fastest-growing automotive Internet service, according to Web audience researcher Media Metrix. Autoweb.com's audience reach was estimated at 2.1 percent of the Net's users, in ratings gathered last December. The researchers also said the vehicle site was one of the 15 fastest-growing shopping areas on the Web. (Tipworld newsletter - March 12) Sales of CDs and tapes online increased 500 percent in 1998 , from the previous year, to an estimated $200 million International reported. The researchers estimate online music sales equaled .5 percent of the worldwide total , but that figure will reach eight percent within the next five years , Bloomberg reported. Direct delivery of music, through downloading online, will be worth as much as 15 percent of total Internet sales by 2004, the report said. (Tipworld newsletter - March 10) Sales of CDs and tapes online increased 500 percent in 1998, from the previous year, to an estimated $200 million , London's Market Track International reported. The researchers estimate online music sales equaled .5 percent of the worldwide total, but that figure will reach 8 percent within the next five years, Bloomberg reported. Direct delivery of music, through downloading online , will be worth as much as 15 percent of total Internet sales by 2004 , the report said. (WSJ - March 11) IDC expects 103.2 million PCs to be shipped from factories in 1999, an increase of 14.3 percent from 1998. (News.Com - March 9) When Adam Glickman, founder and president of Condomania, opened his first condom store in New York City in 1991, he envisioned a chain of retail stores. Until he set himself up on the Internet. Since last year, the company's online sales have surpassed store sales. "We are averaging over 4,000 people a day and are shipping products all over the world," says Glickman. (Newsweek - March 9) The age group with the highest concentration of online buyers is the 50 to 64 segment, at 27%; the fastest-growing segment is 65 and over -- just 4% last year, but up to 16% this year. Altogether, 68% of online buyers are over 40, according to a survey released last month by Ernst & Young and the National Retail Federation. (CNN - March 5) Drugstore.com offers a daunting number of choices in every conceivable area -- there are 497 toothbrushes listed over 14 pages. (WSJ - March 2) CompUSA distributes electronically over 131,000 software titles from almost 2,000 publishers. (Tipworld - January 27) Customers are expected to spend $7.1 billion on sales via online auctions over the next four years, Jupiter Communications said in a report. Online auction buyers in the United States will grow to 6.5 million in 2002 from 1.2 million in 1998, representing 11 percent of the total online shopping population in 2002. (Internet News - January 26) According to Market research firm eMarketer "only 43% of business Web sites in the US actually sell products and services online." Most of them do not have e-commerce functionality. 38% of large companies are engaged in some form of electronic transactions, the percentage falls to 12% for medium-sized firms and less than 2% for small businesses. (Tipworld newsletter - January 13)Advertising [Publicité] |
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| 350 million francs will be spent on online advertising in France this year and by 2000 that figure will have doubled to 700 million francs. (Excite News - November 22)Some Internet companies are paying more to advertise on January's Super Bowl telecast they have generated in revenue and have helped push the average commercial price to a record of about $2 million. (Techserver - November28)Advertising on the SuperBowl: According to a report issued in March by Forrester Research spending on auction sites will grow $1 billion in 1998 to an estimated $2.3 billion this year. While none of the auction sites knows how many people have turned electronic auctions into full-time jobs, Ebay estimates that it has about 10,000 "power sellers," who sell merchandise for $2,000 to $25,000 or more each month. (NY Times - September 9)The top 10 online publishers accounted for 75 percent of advertising revenue in the first quarter, according to the latest report from the Internet Advertising Bureau. (Tipworld - August 20)U.S. Internet advertising spending will jump to $11.5 billion by 2003 from $3.2 billion this year with expenditures exceeding the money spent in some traditional media, a Jupiter study says. (News.com - August 18) The top 50 Web sites on the Internet are taking in 95 percent of all advertising dollars spent on the medium, although they represent only 1.1 percent of Web publishers, an Internet advertising research group said June 15. (SilliconValley.com - June 16) Interview: Interrupting Barbara Walters's and Lewinsky's sex-laden discussion were spots - which cost $800,000 apiece - for Victoria's Secret lingerie and Maytag washing machines, the latter of which announced, "Say goodnight, stains." (Newsweek - March 5) The Super Bowl, which last year drew about 133 million viewers, is one of the year's premier advertising opportunities, and time is priced accordingly. This year, 30-second spots on the game being broadcast by News Corp.'s Fox TV are going for about $1.5 million. (Excite News - January 27) Online Trading [Trading en Ligne] |
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| An analysis commissioned by NASAA of 30 randomly selected accounts at the Massachusetts office of All-Tech Investment Group showed 70 percent of customers lost money and only 11.5 percent showed the ability to conduct profitable trading. (SiliconValley.com- August 9)A recent research report from securities firm Credit Suisse First Boston showed online stock deals surging by 47 percent, to 500,000 deals a day between the fourth quarter of 1998 and the first quarter of 1999. (SiliconValley.com - July 6)Data released by Piper Jaffray from the first quarter, shows a wide range of fees charged by the top five online brokerages, with Schwab the most expensive of the group - leading the way with nearly 28 percent of the market. (Newsweek - June 2) Trades per day,: Schwab 138,250 ETrade 65,800 Waterhouse 57,800 Datek 50,345 Fidelity 49,981 Ameritrade 41,252 DJL Direct 19,062 Discover 13,838 Suretrade 11,000 NDB 6,580 others 42,166 E*Trade Group Inc., the third largest U.S. Internet broker, said Monday it had reached one million custsomers accounts, benefiting from the growing popularity of online trading, as it added more new accounts in the first three months of 1999 than it did in all of 1998-. (SilliconValley.com - April 26) Charles Schwab Corp., the nation's largest discount and Internet brokerage,, which signed up 388,000 new accounts in the quarter and now has 5.9 million active accounts . Revenues rose to a record $951.6 million, up 57 percent from $604.4 million a year ago. ( |
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