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Expedia Travelocity Priceline Orbitz
Monthly Visits 44,012,920 37,774,389 36,598,177 27,104,442
Visits Monthly Uniques 15,960,823 13,297,720 14,801,353 11,929,307
Avg. Visits per Unique 2.76 2.84 2.47 2.27
Passers-by 57% 57% 59% 61%
Audience Regulars 43% 43% 41% 38%
Traffic
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Addicts 0% 0% 0% 1%
Passers-by 26% 27% 29% 32%
Share of Regulars 72% 71% 70% 67%
Visits
Addicts 2% 2% 1% 1%
Male 44% 44% 44% 45%
Gender
Female 56% 56% 56% 55%
White 77% 79% 77% 78%
African American 9% 8% 11% 9%
Ethnicity Asian 4% 4% 4% 4%
Hispanic 8% 7% 7% 7%
Other 2% 1% 1% 1%
18-24 11% 9% 12% 11%
25-34 22% 22% 23% 21%
35-44 20% 20% 21% 19%
Age 45-54 19% 19% 20% 18%
Demographics 55-64 17% 18% 15% 17%
65+ 11% 12% 9% 12%
$0-$30K 12% 12% 12% 12%
Household $30-$60K 20% 30% 31% 30%
Income $60-$100K 35% 35% 35% 34%
$100K+ 23% 23% 22% 24%
Head of No College 40% 38% 39% 39%
Household College 42% 44% 43% 42%
Education Grad. School 17% 18% 17% 18%
Children 6-17 No 72% 74% 70% 74%
in Household Yes 28% 26% 30% 26%
US 75.0% 86.5% 90.0% 89.5%
China 7.6%
Canada 2.0% 2.5% 2.5% 2.1%
UK 1.9% 1.0% 0.8% 0.9%
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Origins & Country of
Germany 0.7% 0.6%
Destinations Origins
South Korea 0.6%
(Top 5)
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Belgium
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Membership X X X X
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Ranking
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CheapTickets Hotwire Hotels.com OneTravel TravelNow LowestFare Average
26,263,997 16,221,186 14,059,285 1,452,589 874,767 184,202 20,454,595
12,878,336 7,125,182 6,946,071 975,663 678,857 124,780 8,471,809
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64% 66% 65% 48% 38% 50% 61.1%
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58% 57% 56% 58% 56% 58% 56.6%
72% 74% 79% 77% 78% 70% 76.1%
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21% 21% 24% 18% 19% 20% 21.1%
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10% 12% 9% 11% 12% 11% 10.9%
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32% 31% 30% 30% 32% 32% 29.8%
33% 35% 35% 32% 35% 33% 34.2%
21% 23% 23% 24% 21% 20% 22.4%
42% 39% 40% 41% 44% 41% 40.3%
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16% 17% 16% 16% 15% 16% 16.6%
70% 73% 69% 72% 70% 72% 71.6%
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86.8% 91.3% 63.7% 69.0% 50.3% 82.3% 78.4%
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ANALYSIS
• There is a large amount of comparison shopping that occurs within the Travel
category, with nearly 44% of Travel website visits going to another Travel website in
May 2006. The Travel category is more competitive than online retail: In May 2006, 38%
of visits to Shopping & Classifieds websites went to another Shopping & Classifieds
website.
• Search engines are the largest source of traffic for Travel websites: In May 2006,
search engines accounted for 27.6% of all upstream traffic to the category.
• The Travel category is highly competitive, with nearly 44% of Travel website visits
going to another Travel website in May 2006. In comparison, 38.4% of Shopping &
Classifieds category visits went to another Shopping & Classifieds website in May 2006,
demonstrating that there is even more comparative research occurring in the Travel
industry versus online retail.
• Agencies sent 59.1% of downstream traffic to other Travel websites in May 2006,
demonstrating that users were conducting price comparison research.
• Transport websites sent 51.1% of downstream visits to other Travel websites in May
2006, again demonstrating the large amount of comparison shopping that occurs within
the industry.
• Although there are dozens of Consolidator websites, over 95% of the traffic is
concentrated in the top 7 sites, and over 90% among the top 5. The top 7 are: Expedia,
Travelocity, Priceline, Orbitz, CheapTickets, Hotwire, Hotels.com.
• One reason to explain the difference between the top and bottom 5 sites is by
comparing visitor loyalty: for the top 5 sites, there are 2.48 visits per visitor per month;
for the top 7, the average is 2.24; for the bottom 3, the average is 1.42.
• There is not a noticeable difference in the demographics of the visitors to the sites.
The majority of visitors are caucasian, pretty well represented by different age groups,
have household income of over $60K, and have some college education.
• The overwhelming majority of all the users to the sites are from the US, averaging
85% of all users for the top 5 sites and 71% for the bottom 5 sites. There is a significant
drop off from US to the remaining top 4 countries, dropping to 4% for the second
country of origination, and less than 1% to the 5th country.
• There are very few distinguishing characteristics between the top 10 sites in terms of
services offered, with brand recognition playing the biggest difference between the
sites.
• However, Priceline and Hotwire do have distinct business models: Priceline offers
“Name your Price” pricing, which they originated; and Hotwire offers deep discounts on
Hotels and Car Rentals in “Opaque Pricing”.
• Among all the sites, CheapTickets is the only site that shows noticeable drop in traffic
during the course of the year, decreasing from 17 million visitors per month in March
2007 to 10 million visitors in March 2008.
• However, Priceline and Hotwire do have distinct business models: Priceline offers
“Name your Price” pricing, which they originated; and Hotwire offers deep discounts on
Hotels and Car Rentals in “Opaque Pricing”.
• Among all the sites, CheapTickets is the only site that shows noticeable drop in traffic
during the course of the year, decreasing from 17 million visitors per month in March
2007 to 10 million visitors in March 2008.
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Southwest AA Delta
Monthly Visits 41,175,450 20,196,080 15,833,223
Visits Monthly Uniques 9,337,321 5,633,807 5,156,756
Avg. Visits per Unique 4.41 3.58 3.07
Passers-by 50% 54% 55%
Audience Regulars 50% 46% 45%
Traffic
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Addicts 0% 0% 0%
Passers-by 20% 22% 24%
Share of Regulars 78% 72% 73%
Visits
Addicts 2% 6% 3%
Male 47% 45% 45%
Gender
Female 53% 55% 55%
White 82% 74% 81%
African American 8% 9% 9%
Ethnicity Asian 3% 4% 3%
Hispanic 6% 11% 5%
Other 1% 2% 2%
18-24 8% 9% 9%
25-34 19% 19% 20%
35-44 17% 19% 19%
Age 45-54 18% 19% 19%
Demographics 55-64 20% 20% 20%
65+ 18% 14% 13%
$0-$30K 11% 11% 11%
Household $30-$60K 29% 27% 29%
Income $60-$100K 35% 35% 35%
$100K+ 25% 27% 25%
Head of No College 38% 34% 35%
Household College 44% 44% 44%
Education Grad. School 18% 22% 21%
Children 6-17 No 77% 78% 77%
in Household Yes 23% 22% 23%
US 98.3% 85.0% 88.5%
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Canada 0.4% 1.5% 1.3%
UK 0.1% 2.0% 0.8%
Users - India 0.1% 1.0%
Origins & Country of Mexico 0.2% 1.0%
Destinations Origins Puerto Rico 0.9%
(Top 5) Germany 1.4%
Japan
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South Africa
Airline Bookings X X X
Hotel Bookings X X X
Car Rentals X X X
Vacations Bookings X X X
Entertainment Bookings X X X
Site Characteristics
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Ranking
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NWA US Air United JetBlue Continental Alaska Virgin Average
11,528,844 11,268,918 10,091,651 9,241,178 8,973,053 3,938,798 297,491 13,254,469
3,093,017 3,336,645 4,180,560 4,048,752 2,972,064 1,215,189 127,893 3,910,200
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• The top 10 airline websites attract 132 million visitors per month Monthly Vis
which is about 70 million visitors per month less than that of the top
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Consolidator websites, which attract 204 million visitors.
11.95%
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Monthly Visits 9,275,782 9,227,009 8,673,787
Visits Monthly Uniques 4,786,940 4,489,250 5,028,529
Avg. Visits per Unique 1.94 2.06 1.72
Passers-by 66% 66% 69%
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White 84% 80% 87%
African American 8% 10% 6%
Ethnicity Asian 3% 3% 2%
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Income $60-$100K 38% 38% 38%
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Head of No College 34% 33% 38%
Household College 46% 46% 45%
Education Grad. School 19% 20% 16%
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Canada 2.8% 2.8% 3.4%
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Origins & Country of India 1.1% 1.6%
Destinations Origins
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(Top 5)
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Ranking
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20% 21% 22% 24% 25% 23% 22% 22.6%
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19% 19% 15% 14% 15% 15% 19% 16.6%
16% 12% 9% 8% 8% 8% 13% 10.4%
10% 11% 9% 9% 9% 9% 12% 9.5% 100.00%
33% 31% 25% 25% 29% 27% 26% 27.4%
37% 35% 35% 37% 39% 39% 32% 36.8% 80.00%
20% 22% 30% 29% 23% 26% 31% 26.5% 60.00%
42% 42% 33% 34% 37% 37% 32% 36.2%
43% 43% 46% 46% 46% 45% 47% 45.3% 40.00%
15% 15% 20% 20% 16% 18% 21% 18.0% 20.00%
72% 70% 72% 71% 68% 70% 77% 71.0%
28% 30% 28% 29% 32% 30% 23% 29.0% 0.00%
86.9% 58.1% 60.2% 65.1% 54.0% 86.0% 5.4% 62.9%
Mar-
Hilton
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2.6% 2.5%
3.1% 5.8% 4.2% 3.1% 4.2% 2.8% 3.6%
18-24 25-34
1.5% 5.7% 3.1% 2.7% 6.5% 2.3% 8.2% 4.6%
1.5% 3.1% 5.0% 1.3% 2.3% 100.00%
0.6% 3.9% 3.9% 4.4% 16.9% 4.6%
80.00%
3.1% 2.8%
8.1% 21.3% 14.7% 60.00%
0.9% 6.5% 3.7% 40.00%
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Second
Third
Fourth
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Visits Uniques
(~44M) (~24M)
21.01% 18.65%
21.12% 0.37% 20.90% 19.89%0.39%
2.63%
19.75% 1.85%
2.76%
4.28% 12.83% 3.67%
7.85% 4.86%
14.57% 7.31% 6.99%
8.33%
Hilton Marriott Intercontinental Choice Hilton Marriott Intercontinental Choice
Hotels Hotels
Best Western Starwood Hyatt Radisson Best Western Starwood Hyatt Radisson
Wyndham Accorhotels Wyndham Accorhotels
100.00% 100.00%
80.00% 80.00%
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ANALYSIS DEMOGRAPHICS
• The top 10 hotels websites attract about 44 million visitors and 24 Monthly Vi
million unique visitors per month. Overall top 10 Hotel websites 21.01%
attract160 million fewer visitors, and 60 million fewer uniques per
month than Consolidator websites. 19.75%
• Even more so than Consolidators and Airlines, the top 4 hotel chains
dominate the percentage of visitors who visit hotel websites: Hilton, 14.57%
Marriott, Intercontinental, and Choice hotels attract 33 million visitors
Hilton Marriott
(75% of total) and 17 million uniques (72% of total). In case of hotels,
there is a strong correlation between the size of the hotel chain and Best Western Starwood
traffic levels. In this case, the 4 chains with the most locations have Wyndham Accorhotels
the highest traffic levels.
100.00%
• In addition to the number of hotels, the 2nd factor that impacts the
80.00%
traffic is customer loyalty, although the impact of loyalty is
significantly less than that of Consolidators and Airlines. In the case of
60.00%
hotels, the top 4 chains average 1.94 visits per visitor, while the
bottom 6 average 1.54 visits per visitor. However, overall loyalty to 40.00%
the hotel sites is significantly less than that of Consolidators and
Airlines (1.75 vs. 3.15 for airlines & 1.75 vs 2.09 for consolidators), 20.00%
This is at least partially due to the fact that no single hotel chain
enjoys the type of monopoly that airlines enjoy in their hub markets. 0.00%
Hilto
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• The above observation is reinforced by the fact that almost none of
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the visitors to the hotel sites can be considered addicts; that is in stark Male
contrast to the Airlines sites, where almost 3% of visitors are classified
as addicts. 100.00%
• As was the case with the Consolidators and Airlines, there is not a 80.00%
noticeable difference in the demographics of the visitors among the
60.00%
Hotel sites. The main exception to this rule is that of AccorHotels,
which is attracted by more men, more people who are non-Caucasian,
40.00%
and are slightly older than the other chains. In general though, the
Hotel site visitors are slightly less wealthy and have lower college 20.00%
education levels than airline sites.
0.00%
• Unlike Consolidator and Airline sites, the visitors to the Hotel sites
Hilt
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are not overwhelmingly from the US (62% vs. 85% for airlines and 78%
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for consolidators). This is impacted significantly by AccorHotels, 18-24 25-34 35-44
where only 5% of visitors are from US, but even without that outlier,
the average US user percentage is about 64%, still significantly less 100.00%
than Airlines and Consolidators.
80.00%
• There are very few distinguishing characteristics between the top 10
sites in terms of services offered.
60.00%
• Similar to Consolidators and Airlines, there is a distinct seasonality in
traveling, with a higher number of trips in summer than winter time 40.00%
that affects all the sites.
20.00%
• For most parts, the traffic levels for all the sites remain quite stable
during the year, with consistent ranking and patterns across all sites.
0.00%
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80.00%
• There are very few distinguishing characteristics between the top 10
sites in terms of services offered.
60.00%
• Similar to Consolidators and Airlines, there is a distinct seasonality in
traveling, with a higher number of trips in summer than winter time 40.00%
that affects all the sites.
20.00%
• For most parts, the traffic levels for all the sites remain quite stable
during the year, with consistent ranking and patterns across all sites.
0.00%
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TRENDS
DEMOGRAPHICS
Monthly Visits: ~44M Monthly Uniques: ~24M
21.01% 18.65%
21.12% 19.89%
0.37% 20.90% 0.39%
2.63%
3.67%
19.75% 1.85%
2.76% 4.86%
4.28%
6.99%
12.83% 8.33% 7.85%
14.57% 7.31%
Hilton Marriott Intercontinental
Hilton Marriott Intercontinental Choice Hotels
Hotels Choice Best Western Starwood
Best Western Starwood Hyatt Radisson Hyatt Radisson Wyndham
Wyndham Accorhotels Accorhotels
100.00% 100.00%
80.00% 80.00%
60.00%
60.00%
40.00%
40.00%
20.00%
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100.00% 100.00%
80.00% 80.00%
60.00% 60.00%
40.00% 40.00%
20.00% 20.00%
0.00% 0.00%
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100.00% 100.00%
80.00% 80.00%
60.00% 60.00%
40.00% 40.00%
20.00% 20.00%
0.00% 0.00%
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USER ORIGINATION
100.00%
89% 80.00%
0.39%
2.63%
3.67%
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1 2 3 4
Enterprise Budget Avis Hertz
Monthly Visits 5,644,407 5,397,666 3,825,220 3,405,750
Visits Monthly Uniques 3,260,225 2,880,088 2,184,511 1,927,781
Avg. Visits per Unique 1.73 1.87 1.75 1.77
Passers-by 65% 64% 70% 65%
Audience Regulars 35% 36% 30% 35%
Traffic
Composition
Addicts 0% 0% 0% 0%
Passers-by 41% 38% 44% 40%
Share of Regulars 59% 61% 56% 60%
Visits
Addicts 0% 1% 0% 0%
Male 45% 47% 48% 47%
Gender
Female 55% 53% 52% 53%
White 70% 72% 73% 74%
African American 17% 15% 14% 13%
Ethnicity Asian 4% 4% 4% 4%
Hispanic 7% 7% 7% 7%
Other 2% 2% 2% 2%
18-24 13% 9% 10% 10%
25-34 23% 22% 22% 22%
35-44 20% 20% 21% 21%
Age 45-54 19% 18% 19% 20%
Demographics 55-64 16% 18% 18% 18%
65+ 9% 13% 10% 9%
$0-$30K 13% 12% 11% 11%
Household $30-$60K 31% 29% 28% 28%
Income $60-$100K 34% 34% 35% 35%
$100K+ 22% 25% 26% 26%
Head of No College 39% 38% 37% 36%
Household College 45% 44% 44% 45%
Education Grad. School 16% 18% 19% 19%
Children 6-17 No 72% 73% 73% 73%
in Household Yes 28% 27% 27% 27%
US 90.5% 87.1% 76.3% 77.6%
Canada 4.5% 4.1% 4.9% 2.5%
UK 1.8% 1.1% 2.4% 2.1%
India 0.2% 0.6%
Germany 0.8% 1.2%
Users -
Australia 0.5% 5.1%
Origins & Country of
Spain 1.6%
Destinations Origins
Italy 1.5%
(Top 5)
Mexico
Puerto Rico
Guatemala
Thailand
Brazil
Bookings X X X X
Membership X X X X
Site Characteristics Social Networking
Guides X X X X
Last Minute Deals X X X X
Ranking
5 6 7 8 9 10
Alamo Thrifty Dollar National Advantage Payless Average
2,799,715 1,249,467 1,240,211 909,072 238,052 140,011 2,484,957
1,369,511 664,517 668,296 574,094 162,364 88,999 1,378,039
2.04 1.88 1.86 1.58 1.47 1.57 1.75
64% 66% 66% 76% 77% 71% 68.4%
36% 34% 34% 24% 23% 29% 31.6%
0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0.0%
37% 39% 39% 51% 56% 51% 43.6%
62% 59% 61% 49% 44% 49% 56.0%
1% 2% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0.4%
49% 49% 49% 51% 49% 51% 48.5%
51% 51% 51% 49% 51% 49% 51.5%
77% 72% 69% 77% 73% 69% 72.6%
12% 15% 14% 13% 12% 12% 13.7%
4% 4% 6% 3% 3% 7% 4.3%
5% 7% 9% 6% 10% 10% 7.5%
2% 2% 2% 1% 2% 2% 1.9%
8% 7% 9% 6% 9% 9% 9.0%
19% 20% 20% 18% 23% 20% 20.9%
19% 20% 20% 21% 20% 20% 20.2%
19% 21% 21% 21% 21% 20% 19.9%
20% 20% 20% 22% 19% 19% 19.0%
15% 12% 10% 12% 8% 12% 11.0%
10% 10% 11% 9% 12% 13% 11.2%
27% 28% 29% 25% 28% 29% 28.2%
36% 36% 35% 36% 34% 31% 34.6%
27% 26% 25% 30% 26% 27% 26.0%
38% 38% 39% 35% 34% 36% 37.0%
44% 45% 43% 45% 46% 44% 44.5%
18% 17% 18% 20% 20% 20% 18.5%
76% 74% 73% 74% 74% 75% 73.7%
24% 26% 27% 26% 26% 25% 26.3%
80.1% 83.5% 83.5% 83.4% 80.8% 87.4% 83.0%
2.8% 7.6% 3.8% 4.8% 4.4%
2.4% 0.6% 1.7% 1.3% 1.7%
1.0% 2.0% 1.0%
2.3% 0.9% 1.0% 1.2% 2.7% 1.4%
0.7% 2.1%
1.6%
1.5%
1.6% 0.7% 0.5% 1.1% 1.0%
0.4% 0.4%
0.2% 0.2%
0.4% 0.4%
0.3% 0.3%
X X X X X X
X X X X X X
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X X X X X X
First
Second
Third
Fourth
Fifth
ANALYSIS DEMOGRAPHICS
• The top 10 hotels websites attract about 180 million fewer visitors Monthly Vis
per month when compared to Consolidator websites (204 million for 21.72%
consolidators vs. 24 million for hotels). As is obvious from the above
analysis then, the top 10 Consolidator sites have more visitors per 15.39%
month than the top 10 airlines, hotels, and car rental sites combined,
making them far more important on the online travel marketplace
than any other group. The primary reason for their importance is that
they take advantage of the power of the Internet by giving visitors 13.71%
multiple choices along a number of categories.
Enterprise Budget Av
• Please note that in all these cases, Consolidator sites are not the Thrifty Dollar Na
same as referral sites, such as Kayak, Sidestep or Travelzoo. These
sites, although very popular, do not allow for booking on the sites 100.00%
themselves, but rather act merely as a place where visitors can
80.00%
compare prices across Consolidators, Airlines, Hotels and Car Rental
company sites. The Consolidator sites also do not include search
60.00%
engines, such as Google Travel or Yahoo Travel.
40.00%
• Similar to the other categories, the top 5 car rental sites dominate
the percentage of visitors who visit these websites: Enterprise, 20.00%
Budget, Avis, Hertz, and Alamo attract 33 million visitors (88% of total)
and 17 million uniques (79% of total). 0.00%
Avis
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• Unlike hotels and airlines, customer loyalty does not seem to play a
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key role in traffic patterns between the top and bottom 5 sites. The Male
average visits per visitor for the top 5 is 1.83, and for the bottom 5 is
1.67. Furthermore, loyalty to car rental sites is also significantly less 100.00%
than that of the other three categories.
80.00%
• Although demographic differences between the sites is more
60.00%
pronounced than those between the other 3 travel categories, the
differences are still not significant to merit analysis. Certain sites do
40.00%
attract more men than women, have lower Caucasian visitors ratios,
and have higher education levels, but overall the similarities far 20.00%
outweigh the differences.
0.00%
• Similar to Consolidator and Airline sites, the visitors to the Car Rental
Avis
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outside the large triad of Germany, UK and Canada, which is where the
visitors to the top 5 websites originate from.
60.00%
• There are very few distinguishing characteristics between the top 10
sites in terms of services offered. 40.00%
Avis
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patterns across all sites.
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No College Colle
TRENDS
DEMOGRAPHICS
Monthly Visits: ~25M Monthly Uniques: ~14M
21.72% 20.90%
22.71% 23.66%
15.39% 0.56%
0.96% 15.85% 0.65%
1.18%
3.66% 4.17%
4.99% 4.85%
Enterprise Budget Avis Hertz Alamo Enterprise Budget Avis Hertz Alamo
Thrifty Dollar National Advantage Payless Thrifty Dollar National Advantage Payless
100.00% 100.00%
80.00% 80.00%
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80.00% 80.00%
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100.00% 100.00%
80.00% 80.00%
60.00% 60.00%
40.00% 40.00%
20.00% 20.00%
0.00% 0.00%
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1 2 3 4
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16% 11% 13% 14% 11.9% 100.00%
30% 21% 36% 32% 27.4%
80.00%
31% 37% 36% 32% 33.5%
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36% 41% 42% 40% 36.3%
40.00%
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0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.3% 100.00%
0.1% 0.1% 0.3%
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First
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Fifth
Monthly Monthly
Visits Uniques
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57.26% 54.73%
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0.18%
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• The online restaurant reservations industry is not nearly as Monthly Vis
developed as the other travel-related industries discussed so far, and 57.26%
there are in fact only 2 sites with any type of traffic volumes that
approach sites discussed above: restaurant.com and OpenTable.com.
o Restaurants are for most part local establishments that do not 34.55%
require the restaurant OpenTable
global reach of Internet. iseatz DinnerBroker
o The price point for restaurant dining is lower than that of other
travel-related 100.00%
activities, making the overhead associated with centralized
80.00%
booking systems
($1/reservation) less attractive. 60.00%
o The large restaurant chains have their own online reservation 40.00%
systems,
making the need for an independent centralized booking site less 20.00%
appealing.
0.00%
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restaurants that have
the brand recognition that could take advantage of the marketing Male
power of an
online reservation systems. 100.00%
• Having said that, the top two sites account for 80% of traffic to all 8 80.00%
sites. In fact, past the top two, the traffic drops dramatically.
60.00%
• The primary drivers behind the traffic for these two sites are their 40.00%
underlying number of restaurants they represent (OpenTable) and
breath of additional information and their brand name 20.00%
(Restaurant.com). Brand loyalty plays a very small role as an overall
traffic driver, with 0% addict visitor, and visits/visitor ratios of less 0.00%
than 2 across all sites with the possible exception of
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18-24 25-34 35-44
• There is very little in difference in the demographic make up of the
visitors to these sites, and they are all dominated by visitors from US, 100.00%
where over 92% of all visitors are from the US.
80.00%
• In an anomalous trend, the yearly trends are very choppy for some
of the larger sites (restaurant.com), and much more stable for the
60.00%
smaller sites. Overall, OpenTable has shown a steady increase in
visitors, which is directly related to the number of restaurants they
serve. 40.00%
20.00%
0.00%
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taur
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• In an anomalous trend, the yearly trends are very choppy for some
of the larger sites (restaurant.com), and much more stable for the
60.00%
smaller sites. Overall, OpenTable has shown a steady increase in
visitors, which is directly related to the number of restaurants they
serve. 40.00%
20.00%
0.00%
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TRENDS
DEMOGRAPHICS
Monthly Visits: ~4.1M Monthly Uniques: ~14M
57.26% 54.73%
0.04%
0.26%
0.38%
0.57% 0.04%
0.18%
0.37%
0.60%
1.26%
1.16%
5.78% 6.76%
36.06%
34.55%
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USER ORIGINATION
100.00%
80.00%
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0.37%
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6.76%
60.00%
40.00%
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(7) Online Social Networking Sites Ranking
1 2 3 4
MySpace Facebook Flickr Hi5
Monthly Visits 2,321,964,417 1,060,434,100 60,347,904 30,629,072
Visits Monthly Uniques 47,664,905 35,270,111 17,429,488 5,738,909
Avg. Visits per Unique 48.71 30.07 3.46 5.34
Passers-by 23% 32% 69% 35%
Audience Regulars 58% 56% 30% 52%
Traffic
Composition
Addicts 19% 12% 1% 13%
Passers-by 1% 3% 28% 2%
Share of Regulars 26% 34% 47% 24%
Visits
Addicts 73% 63% 25% 74%
Male 42% 45% 54% 45%
Gender
Female 58% 55% 46% 55%
White 70% 74% 80% 42%
African American 11% 14% 6% 29%
Ethnicity Asian 3% 5% 5% 7%
Hispanic 14% 5% 8% 21%
Other 2% 2% 1% 1%
18-24 38% 52% 19% 36%
25-34 22% 13% 23% 25%
35-44 18% 12% 21% 19%
Age 45-54 13% 11% 19% 13%
Demographics 55-64 6% 8% 12% 5%
65+ 3% 4% 6% 2%
$0-$30K 17% 12% 16% 26%
Household $30-$60K 33% 30% 33% 37%
Income $60-$100K 30% 35% 30% 23%
$100K+ 20% 23% 21% 14%
Head of No College 53% 44% 43% 54%
Household College 38% 41% 42% 36%
Education Grad. School 9% 15% 15% 10%
Children 6-17 No 46% 41% 65% 48%
in Household Yes 54% 59% 35% 52%
US 66.5% 41.3% 38.4% 6.4%
China
Canada 7.5%
UK 4.2% 9.6% 4.9%
India 3.6%
Germany 3.5% 5.0%
Mexico 2.4% 13.0%
Italy 2.3% 3.1%
Turkey 3.5%
South Africa 3.1%
Thailand 14.2%
Users - Peru 5.9%
Origins & Country of Portugal 5.7%
Destinations Origins Indonesia
(Top 5) Phillipines
Malaysia
Singapore
Egypt
Iran
Brazil
Pakistan
Japan
Argentina
Spain
Chile
Bookings
Membership
Social Networking X X X X
Site Characteristics
Guides
Site Characteristics
Flexible Travel
Last Minute Deals
Ranking
5 6 7 8 9 10
Friendster Tagged Orkut LinkedIn multiply fotolog Average Monthly
22,173,172 18,933,338 15,508,012 8,081,349 5,577,365 2,130,713 354,577,944 Visits
1,300,847 5,026,441 392,729 4,378,811 794,972 901,592 11,889,881 (~3.5B)
17.05 3.77 39.49 1.85 7.02 2.36 15.91 65.49%
49% 58% 29% 79% 73% 31% 47.8%
44% 39% 56% 20% 25% 52% 43.2%
6% 2% 14% 0% 2% 17% 8.6%
6% 14% 2% 49% 19% 2% 12.6%
MySpace Facebook Flickr H
39% 46% 29% 43% 29% 20% 33.7%
Orkut LinkedIn multiply fo
55% 40% 69% 8% 52% 78% 53.7%
49% 36% 52% 48% 49% 52% 47.2% 100.00%
51% 64% 48% 52% 51% 48% 52.8%
39% 43% 45% 80% 70% 59% 60.2% 80.00%
4% 38% 5% 8% 5% 6% 12.6% 60.00%
50% 3% 27% 6% 19% 6% 13.1%
5% 15% 18% 5% 5% 28% 12.4% 40.00%
2% 1% 5% 1% 1% 1% 1.7% 20.00%
26% 42% 28% 9% 21% 35% 30.6%
39% 21% 33% 28% 20% 23% 24.7% 0.00%
16% 16% 20% 24% 21% 18% 18.5%
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3% 3% 3% 7% 8% 4% 4.3%
23% 22% 23% 11% 21% 27% 19.8% 100.00%
33% 42% 35% 23% 33% 36% 33.5%
27% 24% 25% 35% 28% 22% 27.9% 80.00%
17% 12% 17% 31% 18% 15% 18.8% 60.00%
30% 58% 36% 24% 42% 52% 43.6%
54% 34% 39% 48% 42% 35% 40.9% 40.00%
16% 8% 25% 28% 16% 13% 15.5% 20.00%
70% 43% 69% 76% 69% 54% 58.1%
30% 57% 31% 24% 31% 46% 41.9% 0.00%
Face
8.8% 16.0% 4.3% 62.2% 20.5% 29.4%
Flickr
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7.2% 3.6% 5.4%
7.5%
18-24 25-34 35-44 4
5.3% 6.0%
8.5% 38.3% 5.1% 13.9%
100.00%
2.6% 3.7%
11.7% 9.0%
2.7% 80.00%
3.5%
3.1% 60.00%
5.8% 10.0%
5.9%
5.7% 40.00%
34.9% 23.4% 29.2%
18.8% 12.9% 15.9% 20.00%
11.8% 11.8%
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65.49% 40.09%
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0.44%
0.23%
0.53%
0.63%
0.86%
1.70% 0.76%
0.67%
3.68%
29.66% 0.33%
4.23%
1.09%
4.83%
29.91% 14.66%
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% 100.00%
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60.00%
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US China Canada UK India
Germany Mexico Italy Turkey South Africa
Thailand Peru Portugal Indonesia Phillipines
Malaysia Singapore Egypt Iran Brazil
Pakistan Japan Argentina Spain Chile
ANALYSIS
• Social Networking sites are some of the most popular sites on the Internet,
and their growing popularity has resulted in an explosion in their numbers. 65.49%
Although even the smallest of these 10 sites have traffic numbers that dwarf
some of the larger travel sites in this analysis, they are nonetheless extremely
small when compared to the two biggest social networking sites under
analysis: MySpace and Facebook, which are by some estimates in the top 5-10
sites of all Internet sites, attract over 2 billion visitors a month in the case of
MySpace, and over 1 billion in the case of FaceBook. Combined, these two
sites receive over 95% of all visitors of the top 10 Social Networking sites.
MySpace Fac
• The most important reason for their huge traffic numbers is customer loyalty. Tagged Ork
MySpace has a visits per visitor ratio of over 48, Facebook’s is 30. Orkut, a
hugely popular SN site in Brazil that is run by Google has a very large ratio of 100.00%
39, while the next closest site in terms of customer loyalty is Friendster at 17.
80.00%
The remaining sites average about 3.97 visits per visitor, which is very good
compared to Travel related sites, but significantly less than the four mentioned
60.00%
about.
40.00%
• This loyalty is also reflected in the percentage of traffic that comes from
addicts: 20.00%
o For the top 10 sites, the addict volume make up 54% of all traffic;
o For the top 5 the addict average is 58%, 0.00%
o For the top 2, the average is 63%; and
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o For mySpace, it is an amazing 73%.
• Unlike the travel and restaurant sites, the demographics of Social Network
sites do differ from each other, which is reflective of their core strategy and 100.00%
audience. Social Network sites are by definition driven by commonality among
their visitors, and the sites tailor their sites to attract certain demographic 80.00%
groups; for example:
60.00%
o MySpace: Younger, more media savvy, less college educated (because
40.00%
of age),
and more Caucasian. 20.00%
o Facebook: Originally a social network sites for college students, this is
reflected in a demographic characteristics that is slightly older than 0.00%
MySpace,
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more college educated, and more wealthy.
o LinkedIn: A professional networking site, their demographic 18-24 2
characteristic is
much older than the top 2 sites, more wealthy, more college educated, 100.00%
and less
ethnically diverse. 80.00%
• Of the remaining 7 sites, the top origination country is quite diverse: Thailand 0.00%
Spa
for Hi5; Indonesia for Friendster; US for Tagged; Brazil for Orkut; Indonesia for
My
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Multiply; Argentina for Fotolog. Furthermore, there are also a very diverse
80.00%
• Of the remaining 7 sites, the top origination country is quite diverse: Thailand 0.00%
Spa
for Hi5; Indonesia for Friendster; US for Tagged; Brazil for Orkut; Indonesia for
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Multiply; Argentina for Fotolog. Furthermore, there are also a very diverse
group of countries that round out the top 5 for these sites. No Colle
• In terms of trends, all the major sites have held their own during the course
TRENDS
of the year. The two major exception being LinkedIn which saw a significant
jump in July 2007, and Tagged, which experienced a dramatic drop in the same
period.
DEMOGRAPHICS
Monthly Visits: ~3.5B Monthly Uniques: ~110M
65.49% 40.09%
0.06%
0.16%
0.23%
0.44%
0.53%
0.63%
0.86%
1.70% 0.76%
0.67%
3.68%
29.66% 0.33%
4.23%
1.09%
4.83%
29.91% 14.66%
MySpace Facebook Flickr Hi5 Friendster MySpace Facebook Flickr Hi5 Friendster
Tagged Orkut LinkedIn multiply fotolog Tagged Orkut LinkedIn multiply fotolog
100.00% 100.00%
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40.00% 40.00%
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USER ORIGINATION
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US China Canada UK India
Germany Mexico Italy Turkey South Africa
Thailand Peru Portugal Indonesia Phillipines
Malaysia Singapore Egypt Iran Brazil
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(8) Online Event Ticketing Sites Ranking
1 2 3 4
TicketMaster StubHub Tickets.com TicketWeb
Monthly Visits 28,428,304 4,627,844 2,915,635 927,901
Visits Monthly Uniques 13,217,709 2,377,581 1,616,185 668,094
Avg. Visits per Unique 2.15 1.95 1.80 1.39
Passers-by 62% 75% 68% 78%
Audience Regulars 38% 24% 32% 21%
Traffic
Composition
Addicts 0% 1% 0% 1%
Passers-by 34% 45% 42% 57%
Share of Regulars 64% 47% 56% 39%
Visits
Addicts 2% 8% 2% 4%
Male 43% 51% 46% 43%
Gender
Female 57% 49% 54% 57%
White 79% 84% 92% 80%
African American 8% 6% 3% 6%
Ethnicity Asian 1% 2% 1% 3%
Hispanic 10% 7% 4% 9%
Other 1% 1% 0% 1%
18-24 18% 14% 11% 18%
25-34 28% 27% 26% 32%
35-44 22% 23% 24% 22%
Age 45-54 18% 20% 20% 14%
Demographics 55-64 9% 10% 12% 9%
65+ 4% 6% 7% 4%
$0-$30K 12% 10% 11% 13%
Household $30-$60K 31% 29% 29% 31%
Income $60-$100K 35% 37% 36% 36%
$100K+ 22% 24% 23% 20%
Head of No College 43% 42% 40% 38%
Household College 43% 43% 45% 44%
Education Grad. School 13% 14% 15% 17%
Children 6-17 No 63% 64% 66% 70%
in Household Yes 57% 36% 34% 30%
US 92.3% 92.4% 75.7% 92.6%
Poland
Canada 1.8% 2.7% 1.7% 2.1%
UK 1.2% 0.5% 12.4% 1.1%
India 0.4%
Users -
Germany 0.5% 0.5% 1.8% 0.7%
Origins & Country of
Italy 0.6%
Destinations Origins
Thailand
(Top 5)
Mexico 1.2%
Australia 2.1%
Singapore
Hong Kong
Hungary
Ranking
5 6 7 8 9 10
TickCo Tix BrownPaper CityPass inticketing TicketLeap Average
680,655 315,112 95,168 86,175 41,352 15,903 3,813,405
600,631 215,379 65,627 65,677 36,395 11,457 1,887,474
1.13 1.46 1.45 1.31 1.14 1.39 1.52
88% 74% 61% 79% 78% 80% 74.3%
12% 26% 39% 21% 22% 20% 25.5%
0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0.2%
75% 53% 57% 61% 58% 65% 54.7%
25% 46% 43% 39% 42% 35% 43.6%
0% 1% 0% 0% 0% 0% 1.7%
45% 43% 43% 44% 47% 36% 44.1%
55% 57% 57% 56% 53% 64% 55.9%
86% 89% 76% 82% 74% 99% 84.1%
6% 6% 7% 5% 8% 0% 5.5%
1% 1% 9% 5% 2% 0% 2.5%
6% 3% 7% 7% 13% 1% 6.7%
1% 1% 1% 1% 2% 0% 0.9%
15% 10% 10% 9% 15% 7% 12.7%
23% 19% 24% 27% 24% 21% 25.1%
22% 18% 19% 28% 23% 20% 22.1%
21% 24% 19% 18% 19% 21% 19.4%
13% 16% 21% 10% 12% 14% 12.6%
7% 11% 8% 8% 7% 18% 8.0%
12% 11% 14% 12% 22% 14% 13.1%
32% 33% 35% 34% 39% 36% 32.9%
34% 33% 27% 32% 22% 32% 32.4%
22% 23% 24% 21% 16% 17% 21.2%
41% 45% 31% 35% 35% 39% 38.9%
44% 40% 45% 46% 47% 42% 43.9%
15% 14% 23% 19% 17% 18% 16.5%
64% 71% 80% 66% 75% 78% 69.7%
36% 29% 20% 34% 25% 22% 32.3%
87.1% 89.7% 92.1% 68.1% 87.0% 84.4% 86.1%
0.1% 0.1%
3.0% 2.1% 4.4% 12.2% 3.4% 1.1% 3.5%
1.2% 2.1% 2.6% 3.7% 0.2% 2.8%
0.8% 1.8% 6.2% 2.3%
0.8% 0.1% 0.7%
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ANALYSIS DEMOGRAPHICS
• The top 10 online ticketing sites attract about 38 million visitors and Monthly Vi
18 million uniques monthly. The online ticketing market is dominated 74.55%
by one company: TicketMaster, which attracts 75% of all visitors and
70 % of all uniques. StubHub and Tickets.com round out the top 3 and
attract an additional 12% and 8% of the visitor traffic respectively.
The bottom 7 sites attract the remaining 5% of visitor traffic, which
makes online ticketing an extremely top-heavy industry, just as was
the case with Consolidators, Airlines, Hotels, and Car Rentals.
TicketMaster StubHub
• Although TicketMaster has a higher visits/visitor ratio than any of the TickCo Tix
other sites at 2.15, the difference is not significant enough to explain inticketing TicketLeap
their extreme monopolistic position in this industry. The average ratio
for the remaining 8 sites is 1.45. In this case, the biggest driver for 100.00%
traffic is representation of TicketMaster by venues and events.
80.00%
TicketMaster is the sole ticket processor for most of the entertainment
venues in the US, and they also have exclusive relationshiops with
60.00%
promoters, managers, and booking companies. These monopoly
relationships allow TicketMaster not only attract the most visitors to its 40.00%
online ticket sites, but to also charge monopoly prices for its services.
20.00%
• There is one site in this top 10 list that is considered a green
business: InTicketing, which adopts such sustainable practices as 0.00%
using soy ink with hemp/flax ticket stock, tree-free envelopes, bio-
com
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diesel and hybrid event vehicles, and the first ticketing agency to
develop tree planting initiatives - resulting in the planting of hundreds Male
of thousands of trees since its inception. Although small when
compared to the top three sites in this list, inTicketing does 100.00%
nonetheless attract over 40,000 visitors per month.
80.00%
• The demographic characteristics of the visitors to the ticketing sites
60.00%
are more diverse than the travel sites about, with demographics of the
visitors being influenced substantially by the type of shows and events
40.00%
the ticketing sites sponsor and manage. The customer segmentation
among the ticketing sites is again influenced greatly by the near
20.00%
monopoly power of TicketMaster. With TicketMaster dominating the
overall industry, the remaining sites have to specialize in niche events, 0.00%
thereby greatly affecting the demographics of their core visitor group.
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• In terms of visitor origination, the overwhelming majority of visitors 18-24 25-34 35-44
are from the US, averaging 86% for all the sites, and over 90% for the
top two (92.3% for TicketMaster, and 92.4% for StubHub). 100.00%
• The visitor trends for the last 12 months shows a steady volume for 40.00%
majority of the top 10 sites, with only CityPass showing a major drop in
traffic during the past year in the August. BrownPaperTickets and 20.00%
CityPass both pick up traffic during the first couple of months of 2008.
0.00%
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visitor ratio if 75%, with an additional 12% from UK. For inTicketing,
the US visitor ratio is 68%, with another 12% from Canada. This is
another example of niche marketing in a monopoly industry. 60.00%
• The visitor trends for the last 12 months shows a steady volume for 40.00%
majority of the top 10 sites, with only CityPass showing a major drop in
traffic during the past year in the August. BrownPaperTickets and 20.00%
CityPass both pick up traffic during the first couple of months of 2008.
0.00%
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TRENDS
DEMOGRAPHICS
Monthly Visits: ~38M Monthly Uniques: ~18M
74.55% 70.03%
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Second
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Fourth
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ANALYSIS
• The top 10 Green Sites provide a variety of services and information to help
their visitors make more sustainable life-style choices. What these sites have 72.74%
in common is that they all allow individuals to purchase green products and
services, and to provide them with the background guides on sustainable living
and consumerism. In addition, the majority of the sites offer blogs and activism
opportunities.
TreeHugger
• Overall these 10 sites attract 2.8 million visitors and 2.0 million uniques per
EarthEasy
month, a significant traffic volume given the breath of green sites, and the fact Alternative
that none of these sites are owned by corporations. Surprisingly, this list is Consumer
again dominated by one site, Treehugger.com, which attracts 73% of the total ecosherpa
visits, and 70% of total uniques, which amounts to over 2 million visitors and
1.4 million uniques. Those are significant traffic numbers and it gives 100.00%
Treehugger a top 2,000 Internet ranking.
80.00%
• Of the top 5, the remaining 4 sites attract an additional 23% of visitors and
60.00%
20% of uniques, bringing the total visitor share of the top 5 Green sites to 96%
of visitors and 90% of uniques. 40.00%
• Similar to Ticketing sites, customes loyalty cannot explain the difference in 20.00%
these visitor-share numbers, with Treehugger having only a slightly higher visits
per visitor ratio than the remaining 9 sites (1.51 for Treehugger versus 1.28 0.00%
average for the remaining nine sites).
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• Although it is difficult to ascertain what is contributing to these high traffic
numbers for Treehugger versus the other sites, there are a couple of
hypotheses: 100.00%
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given
60.00%
the grassroots nature of online green movements, it would seem that
reputation and word of mouth would play a very important role in driving
40.00%
traffic volumes for Green sites.
20.00%
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witnessing the current top Green site, which may change in the future. 0.00%
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Lime.com lost over 90% of its visitor traffic during the course of the year, 18-24 2
dropping from an average of 1.4 million visitors per month to 145
thousands. 100.00%
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analysis.
40.00%
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well- 20.00%
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analysis.
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other categories under analysis here.
TRENDS
• Furthermore, the visitors to these 10 Green sites are mostly from 5 countries.
As is the case with the Travel sites, majority of visitors are from US, followed by
Australia, Canada, UK and India. ResponsibleTravel is again an anomaly, where
majority of users are from Australia, rather than US.
DEMOGRAPHICS
Monthly Visits: ~2.8M Monthly Uniques: ~2.0M
72.74% 68.96%
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Eco Retail Analysis Eco Retail Venue
Los Angeles
www.raorganicspa.com Ra Organic Spa
www.dtoxdayspa.com dtox Day Spa
www.recess-la.com Recess
www.thelittleseed.com The Little Seed
www.allshadesofgreen.com All Shades of Green
www.avitastyle.com Avita Co-op
www.undesigned.com Undesigned by Carol Young
www.greenrohini.com Green Rohini
www.nau.com NAU
www.organicrush.com Organic Rush
www.kellygreendesign.net Kellygreen
www.livingreen.com Livingreen
www.boomusa.com Boom
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