iWon Ranks As 10th Most Visited Web Site
Destination Portal Passes Competitors Excite, GO.com, and Altavista After Only 11 Months
Irvington, NY, September 18, 2000 - iWon (www.iwon.com), one of the fastest growing sites in the history of the Internet and the leading loyalty-based portal, today announced that it is the 10th most trafficked site on the Internet ahead of Excite, GO, and AltaVista (Media Metrix, week of September 10, 2000).
iWon is also one of the stickiest sites on the Internet. Three criteria for measuring stickiness on the Internet are visits per person, pages viewed per person and time spent per person. iWon consistently ranks among the top three sites on the Internet in each of these stickiness measures. Other sites regularly occupying the top three spots include Yahoo! and eBay (Nielsen Net//Ratings, week of September 10, 2000)
"It is extraordinarily gratifying to be a top 10 site in terms of weekly reach just shy of our one year anniversary," commented Bill Daugherty, iWon Founder and co-CEO. "The entire iWon team appreciates the support that our users have shown and we remain committed to maintaining our singular focus on building the best search engine on the Web and evolving our product on a daily basis."
"Since our October 1999 launch, we continue to work on building a unique and diversified portal with a world-class search directory as well as popular features including Search, Money, Travel, and Celebrity Gossip, appealing to a wide-variety of our loyal users," said Jonas Steinman, iWon Founder and co-CEO. "The report issued by Media Metrix supports what we have developed and establishes ourselves as a leading destination portal."
About iWon
Launched only 11 months ago, iWon currently attracts one out of every nine people who visit the Web from work, and one out of every ten people who visit the web from home (Media Metrix, July 2000). iWon is also ranked #1 in user site and feature satisfaction among the leading search engines and portal sites (NPD Search and Portal Tracking Study). iWon provides users with world-class content and functionality from leading partners such as Associated Press, CBS, Inktomi, CBS MarketWatch, Standard & Poor's Comstock, Reuters, TheStreet.com, Travelocity, and WeatherNews Inc.
As an added incentive, iWon gives away to users $10,000 every day, 30 prizes of $1,000 every week, $1 million every month and $10 million on Tax Day. By simply using the site to search the Web, check email, go shopping, read the news, or perform other regular Internet activities, iWon users earn entries with practically every click. Through the 3-tiered "Refer-A-Friend" program, iWon users will also earn cash prizes, up to $1 million, if someone in their referral network wins a Daily, Weekly, Monthly or Annual prize. To date iWon has given away more than $26 million in cash prizes.
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