3. Robert Metcalfe Co-Inventor of Ethernet General Partner, Polaris Venture Partners Gordon E. Moore Co-Founder, Intel Moore’s and Metcalfe’s Laws have led to… Big Opportunity
4. The rise of Global Networks and… … the rise of the Web as an information distribution platform. Big Opportunity
5. Digitization of Media and the increasing reliance on the web as an information resource. Leading to big changes in media consumption and media dollar allocations. *Source: ComScore MediaMetrix Winter 2006/2007 Big Opportunity
6. Big Opportunity Source (Media Usage): Veronis Suhler, via Booz Allen Hamilton; Source (Advertising Spending): eMarketer, October 2006 Internet & New Nedia Percentage 24% 2001 Media Usage 2007 Media Usage Television Radio Newspapers/Magazines 2001 Ad Spending 2007 Ad Spending Media Usage vs. Ad Spending Trends (2001 – 2007) 51% 31% 14% 43% 28% 5% 40% 14% 41% 43% 12% 35% 4% 5% 10%
7. Internet Consumption: Senior Executives Source: GartnerG2/Forbes.com Day in the Life of C-Level Executives Study Part VII, Sept 2006 Big Opportunity #3 39% Share of Voice #1 Rank of Internet in media consumption Newspapers 12% Magazines 11% Television 22% Radio 16% Internet 39% #1
8. Big Opportunity Online as Percent of Total Advertising by Category (2006) Retail Stores Auto-motive Comm. Entertain-ment Fin. Services Health Insur./ Real Estate Direct Response Gov’t/ Politics Travel Food & Drink Tech. Source: TNS – includes top 12 spending categories Average: 6.42% Category Total Spend $18.9B $19.9B $9.5B $8.7B $8.7B $9.4B $6.6B $6.5B $5.8B $5.3B $14.0B $4.3B
9. The Printed Word: Where a few communicated with a few more The Dawn of Magazines: The first real mass media Radio and Television: A time when limited numbers of outlets (networks) communicated with nearly everyone in the society The Entwined Era: An on-demand world where consumers find the immediate information they want, when they want it, in the way they want it The Evolution of Media General Media 1 st Age 2 nd Age 3 rd Age 4 th Age
11. Phase 1: Dissemination & Aggregation Phase 2: Web 2.0: Community Phase 3: Hyper-Personalization Phases of The Web “ My Internet”
12. 175 Million Per Month 125 Million Every Day Source (Worldwide): ComScore, July 2006; Source (US): ComScore, August 2006 How many people are online... … and how frequently? 718 Million Per Month 400 Million Every Day
13. Global Opportunity Total Population 1.3 Billion Internet Audience 123 Million Internet Penetration 9.4% CHINA Total Population 1.1 Billion Internet Audience 60 Million Internet Penetration 5.4% INDIA Total Population 184 Million Internet Audience 25.9 Million Internet Penetration 14.1% BRAZIL Top 10 Countries with Highest Number of Internet Users Source: Internet World Stats 2006 Internet Penetration Internet Users Total Population Country 184,284,898 59,115,261 61,004,840 50,633,265 60,139,274 82,515,988 1,112,225,812 128,389,000 1,306,724,067 299,093,237 25,900,000 28,870,000 29,521,451 33,900,000 37,600,000 50,616,207 60,000,000 86,300,000 123,000,000 207,161,706 14.1% 10. Brazil 48.8% 9. Italy 48.4% 8. France 67.0% 7. Korea (South) 62.5% 6. United Kingdom 61.3% 5. Germany 5.4% 4. India 67.2% 3. Japan 9.4% 2. China 69.3% 1. United States
20. Forbes.com: Reaching over 16 Million Unique Visitors Worldwide Average Monthly Unique Visitors Source (2000-2005): ComScore MediaMetrix Worldwide Unique Users; Source (2006): Internal number source Omniture
21. Forbes Branded Media… … Reaching 20+ million affluent business decision makers around the globe.
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