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Yahoo! Finance Tops Financial News Destinations

Yahoo! Finance Tops Financial News Destinations

A deeper look at financial news and information seekers including sites, user demographics, advertisers, ad sizes and types.                                   

Top 10 Online Financial News and Information Destinations
(Week ending April 27, 2008 US, Home and Work)

Brand or Channel

Unique Audience (000)

Active Reach (%)

Yahoo! Finance

10,824

7.61

MSN Money

7,272

5.11

AOL Money & Finance

6,348

4.46

CNNMoney

3,820

2.69

Wall Street Journal Digital

3,736

2.63

Reuters

3,126

2.2

Forbes.com

2,316

1.63

Bloomberg.com

1,595

1.12

TheStreet.com

1,488

1.05

Motley Fool

1,368

0.96

Source:  Nielsen Online, NetView

                                

Demographic Data for Financial News and Information Category
(Month of March 2008 US, Home and Work)

Category

Target

Unique Audience (000)

Audience Composition (%)

Total

 

63,477

100.00

Male

 

34,112

53.74

Female

 

29,364

46.26

Age

 2 - 11

 1,026

1.62

 

 12 - 17

 2,482

3.91

 

 18 - 24

 1,768

2.79

 

 25 - 34

 8,308

13.09

 

 35 - 49

 22,222

35.01

 

 45+

 36,019

56.74

 

 55+

 19,177

30.21

 

 65+

 7,600

11.97

HH Income

 $ 0 - 24999

 3,463

5.46

 

 $ 25000 - 49999

 11,973

18.86

 

 $ 50000 - 74999

 14,947

23.55

 

 $ 75000 - 99999

 12,560

19.79

 

 $ 100000 - 149999

 11,228

17.69

 

 $ 150000+

 7,683

12.10

 

 No Response

 1,622

2.55

Source:  Nielsen Online, NetView

Data on Web Media Industry, Finance and Economy Segment
(Week ending April 27, 2008 US, Home and Work)                     

Top 20 Advertisers

Company

Impressions (000)

Share of all Impressions

Entrepreneur Media

176,161

39.0%

The Motley Fool  Inc.

59,051

13.1%

Bankrate  Inc.

49,719

11.0%

PayDayFinder.com

48,819

10.8%

SpendOnLife.com

46,740

10.4%

INVESTools

36,502

8.1%

AvaFX.com

10,817

2.4%

Credit-Land.com

5,365

1.2%

Dow Jones & Company  Inc.

3,102

0.7%

FranchiseEXPO.com

2,464

0.5%

Investor's Business Daily

2,048

0.5%

Investopedia.com

1,977

0.4%

FutureSource

1,813

0.4%

MyPowerMall.com

882

0.2%

Nationwide Card Services  Inc

678

0.2%

Capital One Financial Corporation

640

0.1%

Quote.com

597

0.1%

Forbes  Inc.

520

0.1%

Franchise Solutions Corp.

298

0.1%

General Electric Company

269

0.1%

Total

451,154

100.0%

Source: Nielsen Online, AdRelevance

 

Top Ad Sizes

 

Dimensions

Impressions (000)

Share of all Impressions

Non-Standard Dimension

 

190,276

42.2%

Micro Bar

(88x31)

178,240

39.5%

Leaderboard

(728x90)

41,106

9.1%

Medium Rectangle

(300x250)

29,831

6.6%

Button #2

(120x60)

3,167

0.7%

Square Button

(125x125)

2,576

0.6%

Wide Skyscraper

(160x600)

2,170

0.5%

Button #1

(120x90)

1,391

0.3%

Skyscraper

(120x600)

797

0.2%

Rectangle

(180x150)

757

0.2%

Full Banner

(468x60)

508

0.1%

Large Rectangle

(336x280)

236

0.1%

Square

(250x250)

47

0.0%

Vertical Banner

(120x240)

40

0.0%

Vertical Rectangle

(240x400)

13

0.0%

Total

 

451,155

100.0%

Source: Nielsen Online, AdRelevance

 

Ad Delivery Types

Ad Delivery

Impressions (000)

Share of all Impressions

In-Page

444,664

98.6%

Transitional

6,462

1.4%

Pop-Up

17

0.0%

Pop-Under

12

0.0%

Total

451,155

100.0%

Source: Nielsen Online, AdRelevance

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