Jallen62,
My search returned the following results regarding the web-based email market.
The most popular web-based e-mail services are Hotmail, Yahoo and Gmail.
Market Share
?According to Forbes Magazine, Hotmail is the biggest webmail provider
with 33 percent of the market, Yahoo's share is 30 percent, and Gmail
is 3rd with 4 percent of the market. This means 33 percent of the
market belongs to companies without the muscle to defend their turf,
and this portion of the webmail market is potentially up for grabs.?
According to MSN International, Hotmail has 170 million accounts, and
an average user views 100 pages on Hotmail each month.
The Webmail Wars: November 13, 2004.
http://www.techuser.net/webmail.html
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?Web mail is booming, with no less than 355 million accounts worldwide
at the start of the year, estimates the Radicati Group, a market
research company in Palo Alto, California. Two giants dominate the
market: Microsoft's MSN Hotmail makes up 37 percent of the total and
Yahoo Mail is 30 percent, says Marcel Nienhuis, Radicati senior
analyst.?
PC World: March 30, 2004
http://pcworld.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,115465,00.asp
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Hotmail has 187 million users
"People are keeping a lot more information in their e-mail accounts
for retrieval at a later date," says Yahoo!
?Web-based e-mail services like Hotmail, Yahoo!, Gmail and AOL Mail on
the Web are becoming databases by default as a growing number of
people use them, to store data and photos so they can retrieve them
from anywhere.?
?The trend has become more pronounced as the services have
dramatically increased their storage capacity in response to upstart
Gmail offering a free service with 1,000 megabytes (Mb) of storage.?
"E-mail is a way of interacting not just with others, but also with
yourself, " says Mr Harik, who is director of Googlettes (new Google
services). "You want to remember something, so you send it to your
mailbox
?The market for web-based e-mail services is still growing. "In the
US, it grew 3% between April and November 2004," said Andreas Gutjahr,
marketing manager, UK & Germany, for Neilsen//NetRatings, a
Nasdaq-listed internet research company.?
Global Audience in Nov' 04
MSN Hotmail 61.25m
Yahoo! Mail 55.50m
AOL E-mail 34.64m
Neilsen / / NetRatings
(User figures cover US, Brazil, Australia, Hong Kong, UK, France,
Germany, Sweden, Italy, Spain and Switzerland)
Web mail storage
Hotmail: 250Mb
Gmail: 1,000Mb
Yahoo! Mail: 250 Mb
AOL Mail on the Web: 100Mb
Hotmail Plus: 2000Mb(£14.99)
Yahoo! Premium: 2000Mb( £11.99)
BBC News: 8 February, 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4167633.stm
See Nielsen/ Netratings top email sites in the U.S. (November 2004) here:
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40790000/gif/_40790569_top_usmailsitesgra203.gif
See Nielsen/ Netratings top email sites in Europe. (November 2004) here:
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40790000/gif/_40790551_top_eumailsitesgra203.gif
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Hotmail is thought to have between 170 million and 180 million active users.
?But the change might create a competitive opening for rivals Google
and Yahoo, which both operate popular Web mail services. Hotmail is
still the leader of the pack, with a 33% percent share of the market,
according to research outfit Radicati Group of Palo Alto, Calif.?
?Yahoo is nipping at Hotmail's heels with 30%. The firm estimates
there are between 300 million and 400 million active Web mail accounts
in use globally. It offers two gigabytes of storage for $20 per year
and allows its users to access their mail with external e-mail
programs via so-called POP3 protocol.?
?!Google's service, which launched in April and unleashed an arms race
to boost storage, is still not out of its public Beta-testing phase,
but has captured a 4% market share, which is sufficient to make it the
third most popular Web mail service on the Internet, says Radicati
analyst Marcel Nienhuis. The remaining 33% of the market has been
carved up by others in the space including Lycos, a unit of
TerraLycos, Sina.com in China and Excite.com, a unit of AskJeeves.?
Forbes : Sept. 28, 2004
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6126905/
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Storage has become a defining topic for web-based email.
According to Marissa Mayer, Google's director of consumer web
products: ?'Our goal is to make sure storage is no longer an issue for
Web mail users.?
?A YEAR after unveiling a free e-mail service with a full gigabyte of
storage, Google Inc is doubling the capacity of each account and plans
to keep bumping up the limit in future.?
?Gmail users will be able to store up to 2 gigabytes of e-mail and
attachments for each account. Even more capacity will be made
available later, the company said.?
?The generous storage allotment prompted rivals Yahoo Inc And
Microsoft Corp to boost the capacity of their own free Web mail
services.?
(. . .)
?When Google introduced Gmail, Yahoo was providing just 4 megabytes of
storage. Microsoft's Hotmail now offers 250 megabytes, up from 2
megabytes at Gmail's launch.?
?Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are in a tight race to get their services
on the world's computer desktops.?
?In recent months, each has launched utilities to help people find
information stored on a PC, block popup ads, conduct Internet searches
and provide other features.?
The Electric New Paper: 06 April 2005
http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/printfriendly/0,4139,86121,00.html
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Many email users enjoy Webmail for two reasons:
(1) Webmail allows them to access their mail from any
Internet-connected computer; and,
(2) Webmail eliminates the need for the user to configure email
software clients like Microsoft Outlook
Compliance Pipeline: August 27, 2004
http://www.compliancepipeline.com/trends/45100002
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Check out the Web-Based E-Mail Comparison Chart from the March 2004
issue of PC World magazine
This chart provides prices, performance and extra features.
http://pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,114149,pg,5,00.asp
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Pricing
?Hotmail and Yahoo keep luring users to paid plans, but also enhance
their free e-mail offerings. The Web mail giants won't disclose how
many of their customers haul out their credit cards for e-mail.
Industry analysts suggest the numbers are significant and growing.?
?Hotmail Extra Storage comes in various plans that start at $20 a year
for 10MB of storage, the ability to send 3MB attachments, and access
via Outlook or Outlook Express. At the high end, you can pony up $10 a
month for MSN Premium, which provides up to 11 accounts, calendar
functions, antivirus software, and a host of other goodies.?
?Yahoo Mail offers plans starting with 10MB of storage (and 3MB
attachments) for an annual fee of $10. Yahoo Mail Plus bundles in
access to POP e-mail, local message backups, and other services at a
cost of $30 yearly and up. Among other options, Yahoo also offers a
Business Edition for small firms; at $10 a month, this gives you five
e-mail accounts with 25MB of storage each and ownership of a domain
name.?
Future:
According to Larry Grothaus, MSN lead product manager, ?Given the
spread of broadband connections and the availability of powerful Web
programming tools, "the lines between Web mail and client mail are
increasingly being blurred,"
He adds that "e-mail is increasingly less about just sending and
receiving messages, and more about life management," "It's a
communications hub."
This trend is expected to accelerate.
Garlinghouse says, "a very large number of the attachments we handle
are photos. We want to make a better experience to manage and share
them, and to order a print."
?Web mail providers expect to continue investing heavily in measures
for zapping spam and viruses. They'll push further into mobile
devices, aiming to improve features and widen distribution on PDAs and
smart phones. They'll watch for incoming technologies to integrate,
such as the RSS (Real Simple Syndication) instant-notification
standard.
And they'll keep offering free versions, probably with the current
level of storage limitations.?
According to IDC's Mahowald, "Web mail is a growing category," and
"There will always be a market for Web mail, cheap or free."
PC World: March 30, 2004
http://pcworld.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,115465,00.asp
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Numbers on the rise
?There are 50,000-100,000 new users every month at Hotmail and Yahoo,
and even 5,000-15,000 new users every month at smaller ISPs like AOL,
Earthlink, Comcast, and Roadrunner. These numbers are obviously on
the rise.?
Only Once
http://onlyonce.blogs.com/onlyonce/2004/11/gmail_i_dont_ge.html
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1.5 million and 2 million people are now registered Gmail users and
this base could grow to between 5 million and 10 million over the next
year
?EmailLabs estimates that between 1.5 million and 2 million people are
now registered Gmail users, and projects that this base could grow to
between 5 million and 10 million over the next year. But the e-mail
marketing software firm points out that Gmail's market penetration is
still quite low, and is still techically in beta mode. Popov and
McDonald note in their ClickZ article, "Gmail will clearly be a force
to be reckoned with for e-mail marketers. With currently negligible
market penetration, marketers should use this opportunity to test,
tweak and analyze their Gmail messages and results."
November 09, 2004: eMarketer Inc
http://web.archive.org/web/20041130091656/http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?1003129
View the following charts:
Title: B2C email list members by email provider
http://www.emarketer.com/images/chart_gifs/060001-061000/060929.gif
Title: B2B email list members by email provider
http://www.emarketer.com/images/chart_gifs/060001-061000/060923.gif
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?Fifty-seven percent of the users with a new Gmail account were
changing from Hotmail, said Return Path's 2004 data, while just 27
percent were switching from Yahoo. The remaining 16 percent was split
between AOL, MSN, and Comcast.?
Internet Week: February 16, 2005
http://www.internetweek.com/e-business/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=60401502
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Top 10 Free Email Services
http://email.about.com/cs/freeemailreviews/tp/free_email.htm
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War rages over webmail's future
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3871371.stm
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