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In the wake of the announcement that Microsoft has made an unsolicited bid to buy Yahoo, Hitwise’s Bill Tancer takes a look at the top web properties of the two companies, as well as rival Google’s, breaking down their respective share of U.S. visits, writes MarketingCharts.
comScore and Nielsen, too, provided a host of related data (see below).
The combined market share of visits for Microsoft and Yahoo would be 15.6 percent of all internet visits, with Google at 7.7 percent, for the week ended January 26, Hitwise found.
The combined content of Yahoo and MSN properties would result in an impressive list of top sites by industry category; according to the analysis, Yahoo accounted for the most-visited sites in six categories for the week ended Jan. 26 (see table).
However, in terms of US search volume, Google accounts for 66 percent, whereas combined Yahoo and MSN Search volume would total 28 percent, according to December’s search share data from Hitwise (see table).
Yahoo Top Ad Publisher, with 19 percent Share of Online Display Ads
Meanwhile, comScore released top U.S. internet properties based on the number of display ad impressions delivered, showing that Yahoo Sites were the top display ad publisher property in November, with 18.8 percent of display ad views. (Nielsen also issued similar - and a host of other - info. See below.)
Fox Interactive (16.3 percent) was next, followed by Microsoft Sites (6.7 percent), Time Warner Network (5.8 percent) and Facebook.com (1.5 percent).
Combined, Yahoo and Microsoft would account for 25.5 percent of U.S. display ad impressions delivered (see table).
Nearly half (49.1 percent) of all display ads seen by U.S. internet users originate on only five properties, illustrating the concentration of advertising among a few properties, according to comScore Ad Metrix, which provides a profile of online display ad views for advertisers and publishers.
Of the top 20 ad publishers, Fox Interactive served the most display ads per user visit to its sites (47.5), a particularly high number that is a function of both site engagement and how many ads are displayed per page. Bebo (27.2), CBS Sports (22.6), Viacom Digital (20.6) and Yahoo Sites (20.5) each served an average of more than 20 display ads per user visit.
Display ads are defined by comScore as any rich media or static images that are served and loaded into a web browser, but do not include video streams, text or paid search ad impressions.
Nielsen Roundup of Top Global and US Web Properties - and Yahoo/Microsoft Buzz
“The combined entity (Microsoft and Yahoo) would be visited by 86 percent of U.S. internet users, account for 15 percent of all time spent online, and represent 59 percent of online display ad impressions sold, really the most significant revenue generator today for most online publishers,” said Ken Cassar, vice-president, industry solutions analytics, Nielsen Online.
Pete Blackshaw, EVP, Nielsen Online strategic services, said: “The proposed transaction…would give Microsoft one of the industry’s strongest portfolios in the growing social-media space that would include FlickR, Delicious and Yahoo Answers, alongside its investment in Facebook.”
The data provided by Nielsen:
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