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Are Web Mail Sites Best for Ads?
SEPTEMBER 11, 2007
It depends on who you are targeting.
The Web-based mail service Windows Live, formerly Hotmail, is a hot property for advertisers. So are
Yahoo! Mail, AOL and other e-mail services.
E-mail sites are by far the largest online advertising revenue generators, according to study by
Nielsen//NetRatings's AdRelevance, as cited in MarketingCharts.
"The e-mail numbers are all from ads that users see outside of the e-mail itself," said David Hallerman,
eMarketer senior analyst, "because the ads embedded in e-mail don't bring in that kind of revenue."
People use their e-mail accounts frequently, so it makes sense that advertisers would want their
placements there. E-mail sites are also good for viral campaigns. If a user likes an ad and wants to pass it
along, he or she is already at the right site to do so.
But is e-mail really where users spend the most time? An Online Publishers Association study found that
although Internet users in 2003 spent the most time on communications, including e-mail, they have since
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