Here is why Google was so eager to buy the ad-server company DoubleClick : their combined market share reaches 69% of unique visitors, according to Attributor, a start-up specialized in tracking monetization on the web (January numbers). The split gives 35% for Google itself and 34% for DoubleClick. And, if we measure by domains (instead of Unqiue Visitors), it’s even better — or worse, depending on your free market beliefs: Google contros 77% of the market and DoubleClick less than 6%. Basically, as Attributor puts it, DoubleClick owns the head of the market, Google owns the tail, as shows the table below : audience*……<100kUV…………..100-1m UV…………….>1m UV DCLK……………… 9.1 %……………… 29.9%………………48.0% Google ………….. 71.4% ………………41.6%………………15.9% …………………………………………………………………………………… * in Unique Visitors per month In comparison, on a global UV basis, Yahoo has a market share of 11.5%, MSN 10%, AOL 5%. To measure this, Attributor crawled 68 million domains and 25 billion pages instead of using the traditional panel. Attributor plans to release such data on a monthky basis.
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