New York, US – May 11, 2009 – Nielsen Online, a service of The Nielsen Company, reports April 2009 data for the Top Parent Companies/Divisions and Top Web Brands, as well as average Internet usage.
Table 1: Top 10 Parent Companies/Divisions for April 2009 (U.S., Home and Work)
| Parent |
Unique Audience (000) |
Time Per Person (hh:mm:ss) |
|
Google
|
138,749 |
1:58:39 |
|
Microsoft
|
124,416 |
2:34:55 |
|
Yahoo!
|
120,013 |
3:22:20 |
|
AOL LLC
|
86,809 |
3:45:16 |
|
News Corp. Online
|
79,517 |
1:18:40 |
|
Facebook
|
71,287 |
3:14:36 |
|
InterActiveCorp
|
64,040 |
0:16:00 |
|
eBay
|
63,671 |
1:47:36 |
|
Amazon
|
59,357 |
0:26:35 |
|
Wikimedia Foundation
|
59,072 |
0:17:16 |
Source: Nielsen Online
Example: The data indicates that 59.1 million home and work Internet users visited at least one of the Wikimedia Foundation-owned sites or launched a Wikimedia Foundation-owned application during the month, and each person spent, on average, a total of 17 minutes and 16 seconds at one or more of their sites or applications.
The parent level is defined as a consolidation of multiple domains and URLs owned by a single company or division. The brand level is defined as a consolidation of multiple domains and URLs that has a consistent collection of branded content.
Table 2: Top 10 Web Brands for April 2009 (U.S., Home and Work)
| Brand |
Unique Audience (000) |
Time Per Person (hh:mm:ss) |
|
Google
|
131,595 |
1:22:44 |
|
Yahoo!
|
117,939 |
3:23:58 |
|
MSN/Windows Live
|
100,577 |
2:26:04 |
|
Microsoft
|
98,795 |
0:45:58 |
|
YouTube
|
87,366 |
0:53:23 |
|
AOL Media Network
|
86,809 |
3:45:16 |
|
Facebook
|
71,287 |
3:14:36 |
|
Fox Interactive Media
|
65,828 |
1:21:53 |
|
Wikipedia
|
58,942 |
0:17:04 |
|
Apple
|
52,965 |
1:16:44 |
Source: Nielsen Online
Table 3: Average U.S. Internet Usage, Combined Home & Work, Month of April 2009
| Sessions/Visits per Person |
61 |
| Domains Visited per Person |
108 |
| Web Pages per Person |
2,443 |
| Duration of a Web Page Viewed |
0:00:57 |
| PC Time per Person |
71:55:42 |
| Active Digital Media Universe |
166,950,345 |
| Current Digital Media Universe Estimate |
230,658,452 |
Source: Nielsen Online
Nielsen Online today also provides overall online video usage and top online brands ranked by video streams for April 2009. Year-over-year, total streams, streams per viewer and time per viewer were up, led by a 58 percent growth in time per viewer.
Table 4: Overall Online Video Usage (U.S.)
| |
Apr-08 |
Apr-09 |
Percent Change |
| Unique Viewers (000) |
119,626 |
116,691 |
-2.5% |
| Total Streams (000) |
7,613,847 |
9,452,996 |
24.2% |
| Streams per Viewer |
63.6 |
81.0 |
27.4% |
| Time per Viewer (min) |
130.1 |
205.7 |
58.1% |
Source: Nielsen Online, VideoCensus
Note: Includes progressive downloads and excludes video advertising.
VideoCensus Methodology and Metrics:
Nielsen Online’s VideoCensus combines patented panel and census research methodologies to provide an accurate count of viewing activity and engagement along with in-depth demographic reporting. Online video viewing is tracked according to video player, which can be used on site or embedded elsewhere on the Web. For example, if a “Saturday Night Live” clip from NBC.com is embedded on a personal blog, that video would be attributed to NBC because of the NBC video player.
A unique viewer is anyone who viewed a full episode, part of an episode or a program clip during the month. A stream is a program segment. VideoCensus measurement does not include video advertising.
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