CONSUMER ACTION
Published: May 02, 2006
The Quest for Maps
 

MapQuest overwhelmingly snagged the top spot on the list of most visited travel sites for the week ending April 16.

Weekly NetView and AdRelevance data from Nielsen//NetRatings.

Top 10 Online Travel Destinations

Brand or Channel Unique Audience
(000)
Active Reach
(%)
Time Per Person (hh:mm:ss)
MapQuest 15,004 11.55 0:06:52
Expedia 5,343 4.11 0:08:40
Southwest Airlines 4,729 3.64 0:19:06
Travelocity 3,756 2.89 0:07:50
Orbitz 3,638 2.8 0:11:17
American Airlines 2,751 2.12 0:17:38
United Airlines 2,516 1.94 0:06:07
Google Earth 2,292 1.76 0:18:12
Yahoo! Travel 2,087 1.61 0:02:02
Sabre Travel Network 2,030 1.56 0:06:28
Source: Nielsen//NetRatings


Top 10 Online Education & Careers Destinations

Brand or Channel Unique Audience
(000)
Active Reach
(%)
Time Per Person (hh:mm:ss)
CareerBuilder 5,316 4.09 0:08:20
Monster.com Network 4,683 3.6 0:08:50
Yahoo! HotJobs 1,871 1.44 0:04:54
Merriam-Webster 1,533 1.18 0:04:31
U.S. Dept. of Education (ED) 1,028 0.79 0:16:23
Yahoo! Education 877 0.68 0:01:36
University of Texas 873 0.67 0:05:39
About Homework Help 833 0.64 0:02:51
MSN Encarta 825 0.63 0:03:30
umich.edu 817 0.63 0:11:44
Source: Nielsen//NetRatings

Week Ending April 16, 2006
US, Home and Work

Note: NetView traffic figures incorporate AOL Proprietary Channels and Internet Applications Tracking with regular web traffic data. This data CANNOT be trended against data prior to week ending Nov. 10, 2002.



Top 10 Entertainment Advertisers
Company Impressions
(000)
The News Corporation Limited 60,991
The Walt Disney Corporation 60,487
General Electric Company 51,056
Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. 42,198
Aura 36,370
Sony Corporation 25,903
Discovery Communications, Inc 21,617
Time Warner Inc. 20,750
Viacom Inc 19,403
Brinker International, Inc. 17,681
Source: Nielsen//NetRatings


Top 10 Consumer Goods Advertisers
Company Impressions
(000)
The Clorox Company 151,397
Limited Brands, Inc. 126,850
Hydroderm Beverly Hills 48,548
Altria Group Inc. 45,694
The New York Times Company 38,662
Rodan & Fields 33,047
General Mills, Inc. 26,029
Unilever 24,924
Knowledge Universe 22,416
PepsiCo, Inc. 18,613

Source: Nielsen//NetRatings AdRelevance
Week Ending April 16, 2006
US, Home and Work

Note: All online advertising data excludes house ads which are advertisements run on an advertiser's own web property.

Note: Nielsen//NetRatings AdRelevance reporting data reflects advertising activity served on pages accessible via the World Wide Web and not within AOL's proprietary service.