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Historic Growth Rates for Free Web Services Companies
Category: Computers > Internet Asked by: jallen62-ga List Price: $100.00 |
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13 Oct 2005 08:30 PDT
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Hi. I need the following info on 5 companies. The info I need is Year Founded, Launch Date, Total Customers at end of year 1, Total customers at end of year 2, Total customers at end of year 3, Total customers at end of year 4, and Total customers at end of year 5. (If company has not beed around for 5 years, I will take relevant years). I would like this data on the following companies/products...HotMail, Skype, AIM, Yahoo, Gmail. Thanks. | |
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Re: Historic Growth Rates for Free Web Services Companies
Answered By: bobbie7-ga on 14 Oct 2005 11:40 PDT Rated:  |
Dear Joel, Thank you for accepting my findings as the answer to your question. Best regards, Bobbie7 -------------------------------------------------------------- Please download this document. http://people.bu.edu/mgaynor/papers/lastdraft.pdf See page 67 Figure 4.5 Biggest Email Providers Growth 4Q 1995 to 2Q000 Figure 4.5 (a) shows the growth of AOL compared to Hotmail and Yahoo. Note the difference in growth rate between AOL and Hotmail or Yahoo. AOL had flat growth, but both Hotmail and Yahoo have much steeper curves. This shows the rapid shift to the largest centralized email services. The steep growth of services such as Hotmail and Yahoo compared to the shallow growth of AOL shows the magnitude of the shift in management structure. Figure 4.5 (b) highlights this difference by showing the growth rate in mailboxes per quarter. The growth of AOL is constant, but the two biggest Web-based services show periods of explosive growth. -------------------------------------------------------------- From an article written in 1997: Hotmail's Amazing Growth: Hotmail grew a subscriber base more rapidly than any company in the history of the world ...faster than any new online, Internet, or print publication ever. In its first 1.5 years, Hotmail signed up over 12 million subscribers. Source: "Viral Marketing" By Steve Jurvetson and Tim Draper Original version published in the Netscape M-Files, 1997 Edited Version published in Business 2.0, November 1998 http://hackvan.com/pub/stig/etext/viral-marketing.html ======= Hotmail ======= Hotmail was founded by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia in 1995 and was commercially launched on July 4, 1996. Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotmail ----------------------------------------- Users Dec. 31, 1997: Hotmail has 8 million users 1998: 8.5-million-members February 1999, it reported more than 30 million active members. April 2000: MSN Hotmail 67 million active users. May 14, 2001: MSN Hotmail has 100 million active worldwide Sept. 18, 2002: 110 million users of MSN Hotmail worldwide Dec. 3, 2003: 145 million customers worldwide visiting MSN Hotmail Source: Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2002/nov02/11-08MSN8GlobalTimeLine.mspx ----------------------------------------- 1998: 8.5-million members ?Microsoft bought the then-8.5-million-member Hotmail in 1998 for $400 million, seeing it as a vehicle to market its products. Today, it claims more than 110 million total members (and has 34.5 million users a month) ? and the costs associated with processing all that mail are enormous.? USA Today: March 31, 2002 http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2002/04/01/fee-mail.htm ----------------------------------------- February 1999: 30 million From Zero to 30 Million Members in 30 Months World's largest email service delivers speed, reliability, ease of use and a rich set of features. ?Just 2-1/2 years after its July 4, 1996 launch, Hotmail is the world's largest email service, with more than 30 million active members.? Microsoft: February 1999 http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/1999/02-08hotmail.mspx =========== Yahoo! Mail =========== Yahoo was founded in 1994 by two students named Jerry Wang and David Filo. http://www.searchingontheweb.com/sites/portals.htm ----------------------------------------- October 8, 1997: Yahoo! Mail launches http://www.seo-today.com/crawler/topic-50.html Yahoo! Mail was launched in October 1997 ?Launched in October 1997, Yahoo! Mail is one of the Web's largest, most popular free e-mail providers.? http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/040615/280/ew0hb.htm ?Yahoo! Mail was born in 1997 when Yahoo! bought Four11 Corporation and renamed its existing Rocketmail service.? Wikkipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo%21_Mail ----------------------------------------- 17 million members in 2000 ?Yahoo! Mail, the Company's free email service, is one of the most popular on the Web, and the Yahoo! Groups platform enables over 17 million members to communicate with other individuals of similar interests.? YAHOO INC 10-K filed on 03/16/2001 http://www.hoovers.com/free/co/secdoc.xhtml?ID=48043&ipage=1354910&doc=0&attach=on ----------------------------------------- 29 million users December 2002 34 million users October 2003 ?One example was an increase in Yahoo! Mail?s audience. In October 2003, Yahoo! Mail had about 34 million users, up from 29 million in December 2002.? Published: December 30, 2003, York Daily Record (PA) Study: E-mail loved most (includes graphic: Internet usage) The boom in Internet use has hit a plateau, but one thing is certain ? people love e-mail. http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:tRyKZY9dmvsJ:ydr.com/story/business/17146/+%22Yahoo!+Mail+%22++%2210..80+million+users+OR+subscribes+OR+acounts+OR+members%22+++&hl=en ----------------------------------------- 39.9 million users February 2004 ?In February, Yahoo Mail had 39.9 million users, MSN Hotmail 34.4 million and America Online 31.7 million, says industry tracker Nielsen/NetRatings.? USA Today: March 2004 http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-03-31-google_x.htm ----------------------------------------- 40 million users April 2004 ?Yahoo mail had nearly 40 million users, as of April 2004 according to Nielsen//Net Ratings? Forbes: June 2004 http://www.forbes.com/best/2004/0614/001.html ===== Gmail ===== Gmail was launched April 1, 2004 33 million users in July 2004 Google, which introduced its own E-mail service in April 2004, had 33 million users in July, ComScore said. http://www.nydailynews.com/business/story/346414p-295650c.html Google founded on September 7, 1998 ?Google began as a research project in early 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Ph.D. candidates at Stanford. They formally founded their company, Google, Inc., on September 7, 1998 at a friend's garage in Menlo Park, California.? http://encyclopedia.worldvillage.com/s/b/Google ?Google initially invited about 1,000 employees, friends, and family members to become beta testers, with trials beginning on March 21, 2004. Active users from the Blogger.com community were offered the chance to participate in the beta-testing on April 25, and later, Gmail members occasionally received "invites" which they could extend to their friends. One round of invites was sent out on May 1, and another three invitations were given to all active members on June 1; by mid-June, the number of invitations had increased, with many users receiving between three and five invites daily. On February 2, 2005, the invitation interface was changed to make it easier to give invites by simply entering an email address and at approximately 3:00 UTC on February 3, 2005, some Gmail users were awarded 50 invites, suggesting that Gmail would soon go public.? Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail ======== AIM Mail ======== AIM Mail launched in June 2005 AOL purchased MailBlocks on August 4, 2004, to add an application-like web interface. to its AOL Mail service. This interface is also showcased in AIM Mail.? Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM_Mail ----------------------------------------- ?In May, (2005) AOL introduced a free service called AIM Mail integrated with its AIM instant-messaging software. The same sign-in name and password gives people access to both AIM Web mail and instant messaging. The free e-mail addresses end in @aim.com, rather than @aol.com, an address reserved for paying subscribers.? http://www.etmag.com/etmag-news/daily-news/2005/0715/0715c.htm AIM Mail Launches June 7, 2005 ?America Online launched its free Web-based e-mail service this week with an online advertising campaign and a nationwide consumer sweepstakes.? ?AIM has approximately 30 million unique visitors to AIM.com, and 20 million active users who send more than a billion instant messages every day, she said.? Clickz http://www.clickz.com/news/print.php/3510781 ===== Skype ===== Founded: 2002 Launched : August 2003 ?Founded in 2002 by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, Skype offers high-quality voice communications to anyone with an Internet connection anywhere in the world.? http://www.skypejournal.com/blog/archives/policy/ Skype launched in August 2003 ?Since its launch in August 2003? http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:cbzkvuEKKSsJ:home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp%3FndmViewId%3Dnews_view%26newsId%3D20041117005934%26newsLang%3Den+%22Skype+Communications%22+founded+launched&hl=en ?Niklas? newest venture is Skype, the Global Internet Telephony company founded in 2003 based on peer-to-peer principles. Janus Friis, a Danish citizen, 29 years old, is co-founder of Skype, the Global Internet Telephony Company? based on Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technology, which he launched with Niklas Zennström in 2003.? http://www.skype.com/company/founders.html More than 9 million users: August 29 2004 "We celebrated Skype's first anniversary on Sunday (August 29) with more than 9 million users from every country in the world," said Niklas Zennström, Skype CEO and co-founder. "Today we invite the millions of Mac users to connect with people with other operating systems and gain the benefits of 21st century voice communication http://www.skype.com/company/news/2004/macosx_beta.html 9.5 million users: August 2004 ?August 29 marks the first anniversary of Skype software. Today people are Skyping to and from every country in the world, enhancing free borderless knowledge exchange as people maintain contact with others as if they were around the corner, even when they are around the world. Over our first year in operation, the number of broadband users globally has passed the 100 million mark and continues to grow rapidly. Skype has approximately 9.5 million users, consistently more than 500,000 people connected via Skype at a given moment and more than 1.5 million users per day. Skype customers have already spent more than 1.2 billion minutes engaged in free Skype-to-Skype calls. More than 2 million SkypeOut calls have been initiated.? http://www.skype.com/company/news/2004/company_niklas_letter.html 12.9 million users : October 2004 ?Today Skype reached a new milestone and had more than 1 million simultaneous users globally connected to each other at the same time. As of Tuesday, October 19, Skype has served more than 2 billion minutes of free Skype-to-Skype calling.? ?Skype is the fastest growing, globally available communications tool in history, the previous others were Netscape, ICQ, Hotmail & KaZaA. More than 12.9 million users from every country in the world account for over 28 million downloads of Skype software in the first 14 months? Skype.com http://www.skype.com/company/news/2004/1million_online.html 50 million registered Skype Names Aug 2005 http://share.skype.com/share/facts_and_figures_news/ 54 milllion member after 2 years ?In just two years, Skype Technologies SA (SKYP.UL) of Luxembourg has attracted 54 million members to its free Internet-based voice service and is on pace to roughly double in size again within a year.? http://uk.us.biz.yahoo.com/rb/050915/skype_ebay.html?.v=2 54 million members ?One of the fastest growing companies on the Internet, Skype already has 54 million members in 225 countries and territories. Skype is currently adding approximately 150,000 users a day and has created a thriving ecosystem of products, services, developers, and affiliates. Skype is considered the market leader in virtually all countries in which it does business. In North America alone, Skype has more users and serves more voice minutes than any other Internet voice communications provider.? http://www.skypejournal.com/blog/archives/policy/ 51 million people in just 2 years: August 2005 24 August 2005 ?By opening up Skype?s platform to the web, it will now be simple for anyone to connect to Skype?s fast growing member base, which has already passed more than 51 million people in just 2 years.? Skype?s Anniversary Milestones ?In just two years, Skype?s highly disruptive and award-winning software for making free high quality phone calls through the Internet has seen: - over 150 million downloads in 225 countries and territories - over 51 million people registered to use Skype?s free services - over 3 million people using the service concurrently - over 12 billion minutes served (equating to over 45% of all US VoIP traffic ? Sandvine, August 2005) - over 2 million people created accounts for Skype?s paid services Skype's level of growth in both free (51 million) and paid services (2 million) already eclipses the growth of today?s Internet giants. After two years Skype is already twice the relative size of Yahoo! (26 million registered) and over six times the relative size of AOL (303k paying subscribers).? Skype.com http://www.skype.com/company/news/2005/skype_openplatform.html |
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From: bobbie7-ga on 13 Oct 2005 12:43 PDT |
Dear Joel I am posting my findings in the comment box for now. If my research serves your purpose, please let me know and I will gladly repost this information as your official answer and claim the fee. Thanks, Bobbie7 ======= Hotmail ======= Hotmail was founded by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia in 1995 and was commercially launched on July 4, 1996. Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotmail ----------------------------------------- Users Dec. 31, 1997: Hotmail has 8 million users 1998: 8.5-million-members February 1999, it reported more than 30 million active members. April 2000: MSN Hotmail 67 million active users. May 14, 2001: MSN Hotmail has 100 million active worldwide Sept. 18, 2002: 110 million users of MSN Hotmail worldwide Dec. 3, 2003: 145 million customers worldwide visiting MSN Hotmail Source: Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2002/nov02/11-08MSN8GlobalTimeLine.mspx ----------------------------------------- 1998: 8.5-million members ?Microsoft bought the then-8.5-million-member Hotmail in 1998 for $400 million, seeing it as a vehicle to market its products. Today, it claims more than 110 million total members (and has 34.5 million users a month) ? and the costs associated with processing all that mail are enormous.? USA Today: March 31, 2002 http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2002/04/01/fee-mail.htm ----------------------------------------- February 1999: 30 million From Zero to 30 Million Members in 30 Months World's largest email service delivers speed, reliability, ease of use and a rich set of features. ?Just 2-1/2 years after its July 4, 1996 launch, Hotmail is the world's largest email service, with more than 30 million active members.? Microsoft: February 1999 http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/1999/02-08hotmail.mspx =========== Yahoo! Mail =========== Yahoo was founded in 1994 by two students named Jerry Wang and David Filo. http://www.searchingontheweb.com/sites/portals.htm ----------------------------------------- October 8, 1997: Yahoo! Mail launches http://www.seo-today.com/crawler/topic-50.html Yahoo! Mail was launched in October 1997 ?Launched in October 1997, Yahoo! Mail is one of the Web's largest, most popular free e-mail providers.? http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/040615/280/ew0hb.htm ?Yahoo! Mail was born in 1997 when Yahoo! bought Four11 Corporation and renamed its existing Rocketmail service.? Wikkipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo%21_Mail ----------------------------------------- 17 million members in 2000 ?Yahoo! Mail, the Company's free email service, is one of the most popular on the Web, and the Yahoo! Groups platform enables over 17 million members to communicate with other individuals of similar interests.? YAHOO INC 10-K filed on 03/16/2001 http://www.hoovers.com/free/co/secdoc.xhtml?ID=48043&ipage=1354910&doc=0&attach=on ----------------------------------------- 29 million users December 2002 34 million users October 2003 ?One example was an increase in Yahoo! Mail?s audience. In October 2003, Yahoo! Mail had about 34 million users, up from 29 million in December 2002.? Published: December 30, 2003, York Daily Record (PA) Study: E-mail loved most (includes graphic: Internet usage) The boom in Internet use has hit a plateau, but one thing is certain ? people love e-mail. http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:tRyKZY9dmvsJ:ydr.com/story/business/17146/+%22Yahoo!+Mail+%22++%2210..80+million+users+OR+subscribes+OR+acounts+OR+members%22+++&hl=en ----------------------------------------- 39.9 million users February 2004 ?In February, Yahoo Mail had 39.9 million users, MSN Hotmail 34.4 million and America Online 31.7 million, says industry tracker Nielsen/NetRatings.? USA Today: March 2004 http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-03-31-google_x.htm ----------------------------------------- 40 million users April 2004 ?Yahoo mail had nearly 40 million users, as of April 2004 according to Nielsen//Net Ratings? Forbes: June 2004 http://www.forbes.com/best/2004/0614/001.html ===== Gmail ===== Gmail was launched April 1, 2004 33 million users in July 2004 Google, which introduced its own E-mail service in April 2004, had 33 million users in July, ComScore said. http://www.nydailynews.com/business/story/346414p-295650c.html Google founded on September 7, 1998 ?Google began as a research project in early 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Ph.D. candidates at Stanford. They formally founded their company, Google, Inc., on September 7, 1998 at a friend's garage in Menlo Park, California.? http://encyclopedia.worldvillage.com/s/b/Google ?Google initially invited about 1,000 employees, friends, and family members to become beta testers, with trials beginning on March 21, 2004. Active users from the Blogger.com community were offered the chance to participate in the beta-testing on April 25, and later, Gmail members occasionally received "invites" which they could extend to their friends. One round of invites was sent out on May 1, and another three invitations were given to all active members on June 1; by mid-June, the number of invitations had increased, with many users receiving between three and five invites daily. On February 2, 2005, the invitation interface was changed to make it easier to give invites by simply entering an email address and at approximately 3:00 UTC on February 3, 2005, some Gmail users were awarded 50 invites, suggesting that Gmail would soon go public.? Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail ======== AIM Mail ======== AIM Mail launched in June 2005 AOL purchased MailBlocks on August 4, 2004, to add an application-like web interface. to its AOL Mail service. This interface is also showcased in AIM Mail.? Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM_Mail ----------------------------------------- ?In May, (2005) AOL introduced a free service called AIM Mail integrated with its AIM instant-messaging software. The same sign-in name and password gives people access to both AIM Web mail and instant messaging. The free e-mail addresses end in @aim.com, rather than @aol.com, an address reserved for paying subscribers.? http://www.etmag.com/etmag-news/daily-news/2005/0715/0715c.htm AIM Mail Launches June 7, 2005 ?America Online launched its free Web-based e-mail service this week with an online advertising campaign and a nationwide consumer sweepstakes.? ?AIM has approximately 30 million unique visitors to AIM.com, and 20 million active users who send more than a billion instant messages every day, she said.? Clickz http://www.clickz.com/news/print.php/3510781 ===== Skype ===== Founded: 2002 Launched : August 2003 ?Founded in 2002 by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, Skype offers high-quality voice communications to anyone with an Internet connection anywhere in the world.? http://www.skypejournal.com/blog/archives/policy/ Skype launched in August 2003 ?Since its launch in August 2003? http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:cbzkvuEKKSsJ:home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp%3FndmViewId%3Dnews_view%26newsId%3D20041117005934%26newsLang%3Den+%22Skype+Communications%22+founded+launched&hl=en ?Niklas? newest venture is Skype, the Global Internet Telephony company founded in 2003 based on peer-to-peer principles. Janus Friis, a Danish citizen, 29 years old, is co-founder of Skype, the Global Internet Telephony Company? based on Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technology, which he launched with Niklas Zennström in 2003.? http://www.skype.com/company/founders.html More than 9 million users: August 29 2004 "We celebrated Skype's first anniversary on Sunday (August 29) with more than 9 million users from every country in the world," said Niklas Zennström, Skype CEO and co-founder. "Today we invite the millions of Mac users to connect with people with other operating systems and gain the benefits of 21st century voice communication http://www.skype.com/company/news/2004/macosx_beta.html 9.5 million users: August 2004 ?August 29 marks the first anniversary of Skype software. Today people are Skyping to and from every country in the world, enhancing free borderless knowledge exchange as people maintain contact with others as if they were around the corner, even when they are around the world. Over our first year in operation, the number of broadband users globally has passed the 100 million mark and continues to grow rapidly. Skype has approximately 9.5 million users, consistently more than 500,000 people connected via Skype at a given moment and more than 1.5 million users per day. Skype customers have already spent more than 1.2 billion minutes engaged in free Skype-to-Skype calls. More than 2 million SkypeOut calls have been initiated.? http://www.skype.com/company/news/2004/company_niklas_letter.html 12.9 million users : October 2004 ?Today Skype reached a new milestone and had more than 1 million simultaneous users globally connected to each other at the same time. As of Tuesday, October 19, Skype has served more than 2 billion minutes of free Skype-to-Skype calling.? ?Skype is the fastest growing, globally available communications tool in history, the previous others were Netscape, ICQ, Hotmail & KaZaA. More than 12.9 million users from every country in the world account for over 28 million downloads of Skype software in the first 14 months? Skype.com http://www.skype.com/company/news/2004/1million_online.html 50 million registered Skype Names Aug 2005 http://share.skype.com/share/facts_and_figures_news/ 54 milllion member after 2 years ?In just two years, Skype Technologies SA (SKYP.UL) of Luxembourg has attracted 54 million members to its free Internet-based voice service and is on pace to roughly double in size again within a year.? http://uk.us.biz.yahoo.com/rb/050915/skype_ebay.html?.v=2 54 million members ?One of the fastest growing companies on the Internet, Skype already has 54 million members in 225 countries and territories. Skype is currently adding approximately 150,000 users a day and has created a thriving ecosystem of products, services, developers, and affiliates. Skype is considered the market leader in virtually all countries in which it does business. In North America alone, Skype has more users and serves more voice minutes than any other Internet voice communications provider.? http://www.skypejournal.com/blog/archives/policy/ 51 million people in just 2 years: August 2005 24 August 2005 ?By opening up Skype?s platform to the web, it will now be simple for anyone to connect to Skype?s fast growing member base, which has already passed more than 51 million people in just 2 years.? Skype?s Anniversary Milestones ?In just two years, Skype?s highly disruptive and award-winning software for making free high quality phone calls through the Internet has seen: - over 150 million downloads in 225 countries and territories - over 51 million people registered to use Skype?s free services - over 3 million people using the service concurrently - over 12 billion minutes served (equating to over 45% of all US VoIP traffic ? Sandvine, August 2005) - over 2 million people created accounts for Skype?s paid services Skype's level of growth in both free (51 million) and paid services (2 million) already eclipses the growth of today?s Internet giants. After two years Skype is already twice the relative size of Yahoo! (26 million registered) and over six times the relative size of AOL (303k paying subscribers).? Skype.com http://www.skype.com/company/news/2005/skype_openplatform.html |
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Re: Historic Growth Rates for Free Web Services Companies
From: jallen62-ga on 14 Oct 2005 11:37 PDT |
Looks good. Bill me. |
| Subject:
Re: Historic Growth Rates for Free Web Services Companies
From: bobbie7-ga on 31 Oct 2005 19:10 PST |
Joel, Thank you very much for the five stars and nice tip! --Bobbie7 |
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