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Nielsen//Netratings Reports Topline U.S. Data for July 2007
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By John Spagnuolo
Published on 08/13/2007
 

Nielsen//NetRatings reports July 2007 data for the Top Sites by Parent Company and Top Brands. In addition, Nielsen//NetRatings reveals the Top Advertisers by Company for July 2007.


Nielsen//Netratings Reports Topline U.S. Data for July 2007

Nielsen//NetRatings reports July 2007 data for the Top Sites by Parent Company and Top Brands. In addition, Nielsen//NetRatings reveals the Top Advertisers by Company for July 2007.

Nielsen//NetRatings Top 10 Web Sites by Parent Company and Top 10 Web Sites by Brand, July 2007

Table 1. Top 10 Parent Companies,
Combined Home & Work (U.S.)
Parent 

 Unique
Audience

Time Per
Person
(hh:mm:ss) 
 1. Microsoft 121,499  2:07:26 
 2. Google 117,705  1:34:07 
 3. Yahoo! 111,390  2:58:43 
 4. Time Warner 104,946  4:05:58 
 5. News Corp. Online 76,705  2:26:30 
 6. eBay 68,203  1:44:26 
 7. InterActiveCorp 61,580  0:22:03 
 8. Amazon 50,747  0:26:23 
 9. Wikimedia Foundation 44,763  0:18:20 
 10. New York Times Company 44,704  0:15:43 

Table 2. Top 10 Brands,
Combined Home & Work (U.S.)
Brand  Unique
Audience 
Time Per
Person
(hh:mm:ss) 
1. Google  111,609  1:08:08 
2. Yahoo!  110,377  2:59:13 
3. MSN/Windows Live  100,523  1:56:13 
4. Microsoft  94,247  0:40:19 
5. AOL Media Network  91,919  4:16:36 
6. Fox Interactive Media  68,421  2:36:02 
7. eBay  59,835  1:46:03 
8. YouTube  55,135  0:49:59 
9. Wikipedia  44,639  0:18:12 
10. Amazon  43,090  0:23:44 

Example: The data indicates that 44.7 million home and work Internet users visited at least one of the New York Times Company-owned sites or launched an New York Times Company-owned application during the month, and each person spent, on average, a total of 15 minutes and 43 seconds at one or more of their sites or applications.

A parent company is defined as a consolidation of multiple domains and URLs owned by a single entity. A brand is defined as a consolidation of multiple domains and URLs that has a consistent collection of branded content.

Nielsen//NetRatings AdRelevance Top 10 Advertisers, July 2007

Top advertisers, ranked by estimated spending, are based on data from AdRelevance, Nielsen//NetRatings' advertising research service. An impression is counted as the number of times an ad is rendered for viewing.

Top 10 Advertisers by Estimated Spending (U.S.)
Advertiser  Total Estimated
Spending 
Impressions 
1. Low Rate Source  $46,321,200  22,059,921 
2. NexTag, Inc.  $43,715,300  21,409,913 
3. Experian Group Limited  $43,405,900  15,674,399 
4. Countrywide Financial Corporation $34,776,800  17,091,495 
5. InterActiveCorp  $27,873,800  6,784,473 
6. Netflix, Inc.  $18,813,600  5,572,255 
7. AT&T Corp.  $18,241,000  5,681,139 
8. Privacy Matters  $16,878,100  5,558,021 
9. Verizon Communications, Inc.  $15,715,000  4,016,248 
10. Reunion.com L.L.C.  $14.113.300  6,830,167 

Estimated spending reflects CPM-based advertising online, and excludes search-based advertising, paid fee services, performance-based campaigns, sponsorships, barters, partnership advertising, advertorials, promotions and e-mail. Impressions reported exclude house ads, which are ads that run on an advertiser’s own or related property and co-branding relationships.

Example: An estimated 6.8 billion Reunion.com L.L.C. ads were rendered for viewing at the cost of approximately $14.1 million during the surfing period.