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SmartAds should target email users

This month there have been a couple of interesting reports on Internet activity.

Nielsen/NetRatings provided July Internet usage statistics. Yahoo had 110,377,000 unique visitors. This was good enough to earn the portal 2nd place just behind Google as most trafficked site owner.

Also mentioned in this report is that Yahoo users spent way more time on the Yahoo suite of web sites (almost three hours) than users did on Google's (just over one hour). What are Yahoo's users doing during this time?

The answer can be found in an article at eMarketer .com that describes the most popular subdomains within each portal. 67% of Yahoo visitors are using email. This means Yahoo is getting a ton of traffic from the best kind of visitors: the ones who are registered at the site.

It seems clear that a good way for Yahoo to increase profitability is to get SmartAds deployed on the email subdomain. User's are spending plenty of time in this area of the portal reading and writing email, not jumping off to other sites. This translates into lots of ad impressions. As returning registered users, Yahoo should have been able to collect some kind of demographic information and hopefully some data on their web habits. This seems a perfect application for SmartAds: high traffic site where Yahoo has knowledge of the user base.
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Unknown said…
You figure, most people go to Google to search for something and most people go to Yahoo for the content they provide - not a big surprise to me.
August 18, 2007 at 8:46:00 PM EDT
TradeRadarOperator said…
I agree. The surprise, as I described in previous posts on the Yahoo-Google rivalry, is that Yahoo isn't making as much money as Google despite having more content.
August 19, 2007 at 6:42:00 AM EDT

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