Pop-Unders Pay Off - Internet/Web/Online Service Information

Industry Standard, The, July 23, 2001

The pesky X10 camera surely has the most annoying online ad campaign. But its persistence has earned it another honor: Jupiter Media Metrix says it has the No. 4 Web site in the country, attracting 34 million users in June. That's more visitors than eBay or Amazon.com received during the month.

Counting traffic from these pop-up or pop-under ad campaigns is controversial because surfers don't actively load the Web page on which the ad appears. But Media Metrix believes the traffic counts because the researcher must impartially measure all the content that surfers see.

Competing ratings service Nielsen NetRatings doesn't agree. It manually removes such traffic from its reports. This moves X10.com down to a less-enviable No. 116.

Jupiter Media Metrix
Top Online Properties, June 2001
 1                                AOL Time Warner Network
 2                                Microsoft Sites
 3                                Yahoo
 4                                X10.com
 5                                Terra Lycos
 6                                Excite Network
 7                                About/Primedia
 8                                eBay
 9                                Infospace Infrastructure Services
10                                Amazon.com
11                                Walt Disney Internet Group
12                                CNET Networks
13                                Vivendi-Universal Sites
14                                Viacom Online
15                                Real.com Network
16                                AltaVista Network
17                                Ask Jeeves
18                                NBC Internet Sites
19                                Google Sites
20                                eUniverse Network
Nielsen NetRatings
 1                                AOL Time Warner
 2                                Yahoo
 3                                MSN
 4                                Microsoft
 5                                Lycos Network
 6                                Excite@Home
 7                                About the Human Internet
 8                                Amazon.com
 9                                InfoSpace
10                                eBay
11                                Walt Disney Internet Group
12                                CNET Networks
13                                Vivendi Universal
14                                eUniverse Network
15                                Google
16                                ClassMates Online
17                                Ask Jeeves
18                                NBC Internet
19                                GoTo.com
20                                AT&T
116                               X10.com
Top Online Properties, June 2001  Visitors *
 1                                   72.5
 2                                   61.5
 3                                   59.9
 4                                   34.2
 5                                   33.3
 6                                   26.6
 7                                   25.9
 8                                   23.3
 9                                   21.0
10                                   20.0
11                                   19.3
12                                   19.0
13                                   15.6
14                                   14.3
15                                   14.2
16                                   14.1
17                                   13.9
18                                   13.6
19                                   13.6
20                                   13.6
Nielsen NetRatings
 1                                   76.9
 2                                   68.1
 3                                   62.7
 4                                   39.4
 5                                   32.5
 6                                   27.7
 7                                   24.6
 8                                   23.9
 9                                   23.1
10                                   22.3
11                                   22.0
12                                   19.1
13                                   19.0
14                                   16.6
15                                   14.7
16                                   14.6
17                                   14.4
18                                   14.3
19                                   14.2
20                                   12.1
116                                   3.8
Name and difinition of online
properties can vary between
ratings companies.
(*)Unique visitors in millions.
Sources: Companies listed,
July 2001
Deals CISCO BUYS AURORANETICS
Mergers and Acquisitions
Date  Deal
7/9   Consultant Divine buys customer-
      interaction firm Eshare
7/9   Travelocity.com buys Australian
      travel site WhereTo
7/10  Novell acquires software developer
      Cambridge Technology Partners
7/10  Content services firm Loudeye buys
      assets of Net radio syndicator TheDial
7/10  BEA Systems buys software
      developer Crossgain
7/11  Cisco spends $150 million on fiber-
      optics developer AuroraNetics
7/12  Monster.com parent TMP Worldwide
      acquires scholarship site FastWeb
7/13  EUniverse buys Infobeat newsletter
      from Sony 550 Digital Media Ventures
Countries With Highest Cellular
Phone Penetration
1997                      2000
1     Finland        42%  1     Finland        72%
2     Norway         38%  2     Taiwan         72%
3     Sweden         36%  3     Norway         70%
4     Israel         32%  4     Hong Kong      69%
5     Hong Kong      31%  5     Italy          68%
6     Australia      28%  6     Sweden         68%
7     Denmark        27%  7     South Korea    66%
8     Japan          23%  8     Netherlands    63%
9     United States  21%  9     Portugal       63%
10    Singapore      20%  10    Luxembourg     63%
                          26    United States  40%
(*)Excludes financial services.
Source: Jupiter Media Metrix,
July 2001
Venture Fundings
Value *  Data  Target                Lead Investor
 $48     7/11  Aventail              Oak, GRP
 $43     7/9   Signature BioScience  SG
 $35     7/11  Arbinet               EnerTech
 $25     7/13  Nitronex              TPG
 $23     7/12  GoCo-Op               Invemed Catalyst
 $18     7/9   PHT                   Care
 $18     7/10  MEMS Optical          Summit
 $16     7/9   Lightconnect          Incubic
 $15     7/9   Intransa              US Venture
 $15     7/10  Pagoo                 Cisco
 $15     7/11  Xelus                 Mellon
 $15     7/12  Ness Display          Carlyle
 $11     7/12  Scene7                Moore
 $11     7/10  Corechange            Sterling
 $11     7/12  Think Dynamics        CDP Sofinov
 $11     7/9   Picsel Technologies   Softbank
Value *  Sector
 $48     Extranet services
 $43     Drug-screening tech firm
 $35     Telecom minutes exchange
 $25     Wireless and optical chips
 $23     Hospitality industry
 $18     Biotech data-management
 $18     Optics manufacturing
 $16     Fiber-optic components
 $15     Networked storage sys.
 $15     Voice-over-IP software
 $15     Workforce management
 $15     Handheld LED developer
 $11     Internet imaging software
 $11     Site personalization
 $11     IT infrastructure
 $11     Wireless imaging software
(*)In millions.
Source: TheStandard.com's
Deal Tracker, July 2001
Sector Watch
M-COMMERCE: U.S. NOT READY
U.S. Wireless Commerce * Forecast
2000                               $2
2001                               $22
2002                               $94
2003                               $332
2004                               $1,009
2005                               $2,131
2006                               $3,786
Fewer than 100,000 of the 6.3 million
Americans with Net-enabled mobile
phones or PDAs have used the device
to make a purchase.

Note: Table made from bar graph