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comScore Releases Top Online Email and Instant Messenger Applications for Brazil in December 2009

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

"Microsoft continues to have a firm grip on many consumer applications in the Latin American marketplace," said

Top Web-Based Email Applications

In December, more than 24 million Brazilians age 15 and older visited web-based email sites from home and work locations, up 18 percent versus last year, with a large majority of these users (20 million) accessing Hotmail.  Google Gmail ranked second with 8.4 million visitors, up 51 percent from last year, followed by Yahoo! Mail with 7.1 million visitors (up 20 percent) and UOL Mail with nearly 4 million visitors (up 14 percent). Interestingly, 34 percent of Hotmail users also visited Gmail, while a far higher 81 percent of Gmail users also visited Hotmail.

    
    
    Top Web-Based Email in Brazil
    December 2009 vs. December 2008
    Total Brazil, Age 15+ - Home & Work Locations
    Source: comScore World Metrix
    -----------------------------
                                                Total Unique Visitors (000)
                                                ---------------------------
                                            Dec-2008     Dec-2009     % Change
                                            --------     --------     --------
        Total Internet : Total Audience       27,688       33,315           20
        -------------------------------       ------       ------          ---
        e-mail                                20,422       24,019           18
        ------                                ------       ------          ---
        Windows Live Hotmail                  16,987       20,102           18
        --------------------                  ------       ------          ---
        Google Gmail                           5,572        8,393           51
        ------------                           -----        -----          ---
        Yahoo! Mail                            5,940        7,126           20
        -----------                            -----        -----          ---
        UOL Mail                               3,481        3,977           14
        --------                               -----        -----          ---
        iG Mail                                1,985        1,974           -1
        -------                                -----        -----          ---
        Terra Brasil E-mail                      N/A        1,015          N/A
        -------------------                      ---        -----          ---
        GloboMail                                256          732          186
        ---------                                ---          ---          ---
        UMAIL.COM.BR                              96          441          359
        ------------                             ---          ---          ---
        DIRECTMAILS.COM.BR                       310          386           24
        ------------------                       ---          ---          ---
        Oi Mail                                  389          337          -13
        -------                                  ---          ---          ---

Top Instant Messenger Applications

Microsoft holds an even more commanding position in the Brazilian instant messenger market, accounting for 96 percent of the 22.4 million visitors to the category. However, while the category on the whole is growing significantly more slowly (up 5 percent) than the total Brazilian Internet audience (up 20 percent), several smaller players in the instant messenger category are growing at substantial rates. Second ranked EBuddy.com grew 330 percent in the past year to 1.8 million visitors, followed by Meebo with 840,000 visitors (up 103 percent) and Iminent.com with 686,000 visitors (up 1,236 percent).

    
    
    Top Instant Messengers in Brazil
    December 2009 vs. December 2008
    Total Brazil, Age 15+ - Home & Work Locations
    Source: comScore World Metrix
    -----------------------------
                                               Total Unique Visitors (000)
                                               ---------------------------
                                            Dec-2008     Dec-2009     % Change
                                            --------     --------     --------
        Total Internet : Total Audience       27,688       33,315           20
        -------------------------------       ------       ------          ---
        Instant Messengers                    21,385       22,431            5
        ------------------                    ------       ------          ---
        Windows Live Messenger                21,133       21,561            2
        ----------------------                ------       ------          ---
        EBUDDY.COM                               419        1,802          330
        ----------                               ---        -----          ---
        Meebo, Inc                               415          840          103
        ----------                               ---          ---          ---
        IMINENT.COM                               51          686        1,236
        -----------                              ---          ---        -----
        Yahoo! Messenger                         244          495          103
        ----------------                         ---          ---          ---
        Skype Instant Messenger (App)             28          352        1,166
        -----------------------------            ---          ---        -----
        PONTOSMS.MOBI                            N/A          338          N/A
        -------------                            ---          ---          ---
        PLUGOO.COM                               310          270          -13
        ----------                               ---          ---          ---
        Google Talk (App)                        171          162           -5
        -----------------                        ---          ---          ---
        IMO.IM                                    27           95          248
        ------                                   ---          ---          ---

comScore

comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR) is a global leader in measuring the digital world and preferred source of digital marketing intelligence.

SOURCE : comScore, Inc.

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