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Men And Women Equal Internet Viewers of News Content

Men And Women Equal Internet Viewers of News Content

A deeper drill-down to look at top current event and global news sites, including viewer demographics, advertisers, ad sizes and delivery types.

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Top 10 Online Current Events and Global News DestinationsWeek ending February 19, 2006 US, Home and Work

Unique Audience (000)

Active Reach (%)

Yahoo! News

15,286

11.83

MSNBC

12,749

9.87

CNN

12,607

9.76

AOL News

9,758

7.55

Internet Broadcasting

5,780

4.47

NYTimes.com

5,691

4.41

Tribune Newspapers

4,675

3.62

Gannett Newspapers

and Newspaper Division

4,554

3.53

Google News

4,214

3.26

USATODAY.com

4,009

3.1

Source: Nielsen//NetRatings NetView

Demographic Data For News CategoryMonth Of January 2006 Us, Home And Work

Target

Unique Audience (000)

Unique Audience Composition (%)

Total

85,860

100

Male

42,963

50.04

Female

42,897

49.96

Age

2 - 11

2,207

2.57

12 - 17

6,201

7.22

18 - 24

4,335

5.05

25 - 34

13,163

15.33

35 - 49

30,518

35.54

45+

40,545

47.22

55+

20,169

23.49

65+

7,701

8.97

HH Income

$ 0 - 24999

4,714

5.49

$ 25000 - 49999

18,687

21.76

$ 50000 - 74999

22,497

26.2

$ 75000 - 99999

16,316

19

$ 100000 - 149999

14,456

16.84

$ 150000+

7,720

8.99

No Response

1,468

1.71

Source: Nielsen//Netratings Netview

Data on the Web Media Industry, World and Local News Segment Week ending February 19, 2006 US, Home and Work

Top 15 Advertisers

Impressions (000)

Share of all Impressions

NewsMax.com

18,553

46.2%

Traffic.com

6,875

17.1%

The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

3,840

9.6%

General Electric Company

1,666

4.1%

Cisco Systems, Inc.

1,342

3.3%

HonestReporting.com

1,143

2.8%

Gawker Media

1,059

2.6%

Berkshire Hathaway, Inc.

772

1.9%

Daily Record

515

1.3%

AWS Convergence Technologies, Inc.

499

1.2%

The Washington Post Company

469

1.2%

Internet Broadcasting Systems, Inc

440

1.1%

The State

372

0.9%

The Hearst Corporation

364

0.9%

Yahoo! Inc.

304

0.8%

Total

40,163

100.0%

Source: Nielsen//NetRatings AdRelevance

Top Ad Sizes

Dimensions

Impressions (000)

Share of all Impressions

Rectangle

(180x150)

9,310

23.2%

Medium Rectangle

(300x250)

7,331

18.3%

Full Banner

(468x60)

6,904

17.2%

Leaderboard

(728x90)

3,924

9.8%

Button #1

(120x90)

2,555

6.4%

Vertical Banner

(120x240)

2,505

6.2%

Skyscraper

(180x150)

1,934

4.8%

Half Banner

(234x60)

1,777

4.4%

Button #2

(120x60)

1,609

4.0%

Wide Skyscraper

(160x600)

1,436

3.6%

Square Button

(125x125)

578

1.4%

Micro Bar

(88x31)

152

0.4%

Large Rectangle

(336x280)

111

0.3%

Non-Standard Dimension

34

0.1%

Square

(250x250)

4

0.0%

Total

40,164

100.0%

Source: Nielsen//NetRatings AdRelevance

Ad Delivery Types

Impressions (000)

Share of all Impressions

Inline

40,124

99.9%

Pop-Under

36

0.1%

Pop-Up

5

0.0%

Total

40,165

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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