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eBay
Facts
Launched in October 1999, eBay.co.uk is the UK's largest online market
place and is now the UK's number one e-commerce site (Nielsen Net
Ratings, May 2003). eBay.co.uk has also achieved the three million live
listings landmark, meaning there are three million items for sale on the
site at any given time
Launched in the UK in October 1999,
eBay.co.uk is the UK's largest online marketplace
eBay.co.uk hit the 10 million users milestone in February 2005
eBay.co.uk has achieved the three million live listings landmark,
meaning there are more than three million items for sale on the site at
any one time
Every third internet user visits eBay.co.uk at least once a month
(Nielsen / Netratings, April 2005)
eBay.co.uk has over 13,000 categories
eBay is the top brand name on the net, according to calculations by net
monitoring company Envisional (Envisional, April 2005)
eBay.co.uk's audience reached 10.4 million in June 2005 (Nielsen /
Netratings, June 2005)
eBay.co.uk's reach was 40% in June 2005 (Nielsen /
Netratings, June 2005, where reach is the percentage of all active
internet users within that month visiting eBay.co.uk)
People in the UK - as is true with Germany -- spend more time in eBay
than any other website (Nielsen / Netratings, April 2005). eBay UK
accounts for 10% of all the time UK users spend on the internet (Nielsen
/ Netratings, April 2005). People in the UK spend more money on eBay
than they spend on going to the movies (Screen International)
In 2004, gross merchandise volume (GMV), the value of all successfully
closed listings on eBay.co.uk reached a record $3.7 billion
The UK continues to grow at very strong rates, and in the process
reached an important milestone: the UK achieved its first ever $100M
revenue quarter in Q2
eBay.co.uk reported year-over-year GMV growth of 94%
Sources :
Nielson/NetRatings (June 2005) and eBay Internal Data (March 2005)
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