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Food and Cooking Destinations Capture Fifty Million Readers in Mid-June

Food and Cooking Destinations Capture Fifty Million Readers in Mid-June

A deeper look at the consumer demographics, destinations, advertisers and ad types for food, cooking and beverage consumer goods segments.

Top 10 Food & Cooking Destinations (Week ending June 17, 2007 US, Home and Work)

Brand or Channel

Unique Audience (000)

Active Reach (%)

Food Network

2,342

1.72

Kraft Foods

2,153

1.58

OmahaSteaks.com

2,062

1.51

Allrecipes

1,459

1.07

About.com Food & Drink

1,403

1.03

Yahoo! Food

1,199

0.88

Cooks.com

1,152

0.85

Betty Crocker

629

0.46

Pizza Hut

590

0.43

Recipezaar

532

0.39

Source:  Nielsen//NetRatings NetView

                                

Demographic Data for Food & Cooking Category (Month of May 2007 US, Home and Work)

Category

Target

Unique Audience (000)

Audience Composition (%)

Total

 

49,547

100

Male

 

20,493

41.36

Female

 

 29,054

58.64

Age

 2 - 11

 980

1.98

 

 12 - 17

 2,550

5.15

 

 18 - 24

 2,167

4.37

 

 25 - 34

 7,840

15.82

 

 35 - 49

 18,120

36.57

 

 45+

 23,755

47.94

 

 55+

 11,900

24.02

 

 65+

 4,251

8.58

HH Income

 $ 0 - 24999

 2,784

5.62

 

 $ 25000 - 49999

 10,626

21.45

 

 $ 50000 - 74999

 12,540

25.31

 

 $ 75000 - 99999

 9,670

19.52

 

 $ 100000 - 149999

 8,357

16.87

 

 $ 150000+

 4,602

9.29

 

 No Response

 968

1.95

Source:  Nielsen//NetRatings NetView

Data on the Consumer Goods Food & Beverage Segment(Week ending June 17, 2007 US, Home and Work)                     

Top 20 Advertisers

Company

Impressions (000)

Share of all Impressions

The Coca-Cola Company

430,945

55.3%

Altria Group Inc.

36,861

4.7%

PepsiCo, Inc.

35,764

4.6%

Mars, Inc.

25,991

3.3%

Nestle USA, Inc.

25,754

3.3%

Bacardi Ltd.

22,323

2.9%

Kellogg Company

20,802

2.7%

Pernod Ricard

18,531

2.4%

The Procter & Gamble Company

11,855

1.5%

Merial

11,229

1.4%

Cadbury Schweppes

9,092

1.2%

Diageo PLC

7,908

1.0%

Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.

6,999

0.9%

Campbell Soup Company

6,828

0.9%

Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.

6,031

0.8%

Bayer Corporation

5,713

0.7%

Unilever

5,227

0.7%

SABMiller plc

4,821

0.6%

Land O'Lakes, Inc.

4,508

0.6%

Pharmavite

3,906

0.5%

Total

779,148

 

Source: Nielsen//NetRatings AdRelevance

 

Top Ad Sizes

 

Dimensions

Impressions (000)

Leaderboard

(728x90)

436,764

Wide Skyscraper

(160x600)

123,160

Medium Rectangle

(300x250)

82,495

Skyscraper

(120x600)

31,844

Non-Standard Dimension

 

27,269

Vertical Banner

(120x240)

22,675

Rectangle

(180x150)

19,051

Micro Bar

(88x31)

7,616

Large Rectangle

(336x280)

6,621

Full Banner

(468x60)

5,711

Half Banner

(234x60)

4,465

Button #1

(120x90)

3,892

Square Button

(125x125)

3,817

Button #2

(120x60)

3,245

Vertical Rectangle

(240x400)

463

Square

(250x250)

58

Total

 

779,146

Source: Nielsen//NetRatings AdRelevance

 

Ad Delivery Types

Ad Delivery

Impressions (000)

Share of all Impressions

In-Page

721,374

92.6%

Expanding

40,040

5.1%

Over-Page

9,053

1.2%

Transitional

4,406

0.6%

Pop-Under

4,157

0.5%

Pop-Up

114

0.0%

Total

779,144

100.0%

Source: Nielsen//NetRatings AdRelevance

Note: Nielsen//NetRatings AdRelevance reporting data reflects advertising activity served on pages accessible via the World Wide Web and not within AOL's proprietary service.

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