1st In Video - Music World, Inc.

According to Nielsen/NetRatings, eBay’s unique visitors increased to 61 million in March 2007, up 10% from March 2006. The second most visited retail site with 42 million unique visitors was Amazon.com, #1 on the Internet Retailer Top 500. This is one of the reasons eBay does anywhere from 20-50% of all online sales. There are a lot of people (221 million registered users in 2006) looking for items on eBay.

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A recent Hitwise report showed that search engines account for 25% of visits to US shopping sites. Google alone accounts for almost 16% of visits to US shopping sites. In the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide, Hitwise has Your Electronic Warehouse receiving 46% of it’s traffic from search engines. MySpace’s partnership with Google seems to be working well. MySpace accounted for 3.2% of visits to shopping sites.

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Currently in the US, almost 3 in 4 households have internet access, and another three-quarters of those are using broadband. Broadband access is currently not available to only 7% of US households. It is projected that by 2012, broadband usage will grow from 50 million households to as high as 90 million households. That will make broadband penitration at 94% in 2012.

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Internet Retailer recently published their 2007 Edition of the Top 500 Guide which ranks Internet Retailers by their 2006 sales.  1st in Video - Muisc World was ranked at #435 and listed as one of the top 50 fastest growing e-retailers. On average e-commerce retailers had a 25.9% increase from 2005.  In 2006, online retail sales reached $136.2 billion.  The Inernet Retailer Top 500 companies’ sales totaled $83.6 Billion, which was 61% of all retail sales. Read Full Story: The Top 500 Guide