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What are the most popular web-based e-mail services. How many subscribers do they have? How much is the service? What are the growth projections over the next 3 years?

Almost all the most popular web-based email services are free for basic use (netscape, yahoo, gmail, hotmail, fastmail, excite). A noteable exception *MIGHT* be AOL. To get nitpicky, it's all web-based :). Some people use a browser and some use an email client :). I'd hazard a guess to say that most services will grow about the same rate or slightly less as internet growth. There is a point of diminishing returns, though. I've been a member of nearly all the top 7 or 8 major email systems for 6 years now. I don't have the time to check them all, and for those who don't have IM notification of new mail, I haven't checked in probably 5 months or more. Something to think about is that almost everyone gets email accounts with their ISP, and generally speaking, most notable ISPs actually have webmail interface to their user's email accounts. Likewise, for those who don't, they can still go to a place like www.mail2web.com and voila! their account is now a web-based email account. Then there are those of us geek types who use SquirrelMail or such to run our own web based email. gmail has been the biggest draw in a while both by parent name recognition and because of the 1GB storage (most mail providers were only allowing free users to have about 10MB or less of available storage). Perhaps that might be something to consider as well in your quest for knowledge. This is a free comment.

Perfect. Hope you have a chance to look at some of my other posted questions. Thanks. Joel

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 ------------------------------------------------------------- ?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 ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------- ?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 ------------------------------------------------------------- Top 10 Free Email Services http://email.about.com/cs/freeemailreviews/tp/free_email.htm ------------------------------------------------------------- War rages over webmail's future http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3871371.stm ------------------------------------------------------------- Search criteria: Web-based Email most popular Trends Web-based Email Future Web-based Email Million users Web-based Email I hope this is helpful. Best regards, Bobbie7

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