New York, NY, February 22, 1999 -- Media Metrix, Inc., the leader in Internet and Digital Media measurement, today announced the Top 25 Digital Media*/Web Properties and Web site ratings for January 1999. Starting this month, Media Metrix will release the Top 25 Digital Media and Web Properties and sites, from its monthly Digital Media report. The Media Metrix Digital Media report was launched in early 1998 and includes audience usage statistics for the World Wide Web plus proprietary online services, e-mail services, and other non-Web based ad-supported digital applications.

"Media Metrix' unique ability to measure the complete Digital Media universe allows us to provide advertisers and marketers with audience estimates for a wider array of online advertising opportunities such as proprietary online and e-mail services," said Mary Ann Packo, president, Media Metrix. "Measuring the complete Digital Media universe is becoming increasingly important as new and traditional media converge.""

Media Metrix, Inc., with offices in New York City, Atlanta, San Francisco and Port Washington, NY, provides leading advertising agencies, new and traditional media companies, e-commerce marketers, financial institutions and technology companies with comprehensive coverage of all digital media (including more than 15,000 Web sites and online properties), monthly, weekly, and real-time data collection and reporting, and a sample of more than 40,000 people under measurement.