Media Sites Comprise Top Ten Biggest Audience Gainers In June

Data highlights in June 2000:   

NEW YORK, NY – July 18, 2000 – The Internet ratings report for the month of June 2000 from Nielsen//NetRatings, the Internet audience measurement service from Nielsen Media Research, ACNielsen eRatings.com and NetRatings, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTRT), indicates that half of the sites in the Top 10 Biggest Audience Gainers were media sites, including Napster.com, Real.com, Ugo.com, CBS.com and NetBroadcaster.com.  Each site increased its unique audience at-home by at least 775,000 visitors from May to June, together representing 14 million Web users during June.

“The consumption of rich media content in the form of audio, video and mixed media has risen considerably, accounting for significant growth in Internet activity” said TS Kelly, director of Internet media strategies at NetRatings.  “The blurring of media lines will continue as bandwidth and streaming quality increases.  As we’ve seen, people are flooding to sites such as CBS.com or BigBrother2000.com, using the Internet as a supplemental entertainment medium to television.”

Top 10 Biggest Audience Gainers, May-June, 2000 (Home)

Domain	May Unique Audience	June Unique Audience	Largest Increases in Unique Audience
1.  Expedia.com	3,150,724	4,345,868	1,195,144
2.  Magazineoutlet.com	123,592	1,298,584	1,174,992
3.  Napster.com	2,836,064	3,964,324	1,128,260
4.  Real.com	6,413,921	7,418,211	1,004,290
5.  Ugo.com	902,188	1,815,551	913,363
6.  Alta-vista.net	139,084	976,834	837,750
7.  CBS.com	1,131,814	1,961,509	829,695
8.  Netbroadcaster.com	811,319	1,586,552	775,233
9.  Bluestreak.com	168,727	934,983	766,256
10.  Freestation.com	579,982	1,319,446	739,464

Source:  Nielsen//NetRatings, June 2000

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