• Nielson, Netrating: Netview Usages Metrics
• Politics Pulls Users Online, Clickz 8/12/2004

Language

• National Virtual Translation Center (USG) Languages of the Internet
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• Global Internet Statistics (by Language) (table contains data broken down by language of Internet Access, Percent World Online Pop, Total Pop, GDP, Net Hosts - nice pie chart)
• Online Language Populations: Sept 2002 English English 36.5% - Chinese 10.9% - Japanese 9.7% - Spanish 7.2% - German 6.7% - Korean 4.5% - Italian 3.8% - French 3.5% - Portuguese 3.0% - Russian 2.9% - Dutch 2.0% Source: Global Reach Media Mixing for the Multicultural Market Cyberatlas Oct 2002
• Internet Language 2002

   

	Users by language	Web Content by Language
English	36%	69%
Chinese	11%	4%
Japanese	10%	6%
Spanish	7%	2%
German	7%	6%
Korean	5%	1%
French	5%	3%
Italian	4%	1%
Other	16%	9%

• ITU: Birth of Broadband, ITU Internet Report, (Sept 2003) Figure 4.4 page 63
• Country and language statistics OLCL.org
• Internet Statistics: Distribution of languages on the Internet Chart of Web content (milions of webpages by language) 2002 Source: Das Internet spricht Englisch ... und neuerdings auch Deutsch Netz-tipp.de
• Online Language Populations Cyberatlas 11/8/02
• Global Reach: Global Internet Statistics (by Language)

Advertising

• Top 50 Advertisers by Media Value in January, 2008, Clickz 3/26/2008
• Top 50 Advertisers by Media Value in February 2006, ClickZ (April 2006)

Music

• IFPI Music Market Statistics
• IFPI Digital Music Report 2008 ( PDF )
• Ben Macklin, " Digital Downloading: Music, Movies, and TV ." eMarketer, January 2007

SPAM

• The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, March 2006, Clickz 4/28/2006
• The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, August 2005, Clickz September 2005
• Spam and Phishing, Pew 4/11/2005
• The Deadly Duo: Spam and Viruses, January 2005, clickz 2/18/2005
• The Deadly Duo - Spam and Viruses - 2004 Year-End Recap, clickz 1/11/2005
• OECD Background Paper For the OECD Workshop on SPAM   DSTI/ICCP(2003)10/FINAL page 9  Jan 22, 2004
• AntiSpam Software Statistics
• Bloodgate Spam Statistics
• Brightmail SPAM Stats
• Spam Filter Review Spam Statistics
• Spam stats for a single user since 1996
• Report to Congress: A CAN SPAM Informant Reward System, p. 2 FTC Sept 2004
• "consumers who are now forwarding 300,000 pieces of spam daily to the FTC spam database"
• "as much as 90 percent of spam is untraceable.

Websites

• comScore Media Metrix Ranks Top 50 U.S. Web Properties for April, comScore 5/15/2008
• Top U.S. Parent Companies and Stickiest Brands on the Web, October 2006, Clickz 12/8/2006

News

• Online News: For Many Broadband Users, The Internet is the Primary News Source, Pew Internet (March 2006) 
• Newspaper Circulation Falls as Web Readership Creeps Up, Ecommerce Times 5/9/2006
• Online News: For Many Broadband Users, The Internet is the Primary News Source, Pew Internet (March 2006)
• Tech Stats at Business Week Online (citing Pew Research Center for the People & the Press) News Sources

Phishing

• Anti Phishing Working Group
  • Phishing Activity Trends Report - March 2005

Fraud

• Internet Fraud Statistics, Internet Fraud Watch
• Internet Fraud Complaint Center
• FTC Report, National and State Trends in Fraud and Identity Theft Jan. - Dec. 2004 (Feb. 1, 2005)
• Source:  IFCC 2002 Internet Fraud Report
• Yearly Comparison of Complaints Received via the Internet Fraud Complaint Center web site
  • 2002: 75,063
  • 2001: 49,957
  • 2000:  16,838
• Top Ten IFCC Complaint Categories
  • Auction Fraud: 46.1%
  • Non delivery 31.3%
  • Credit Card Fraud  11.5%
  • Investment Fraud: 1.5%
  • Business Fraud 1.3%
  • Confidence Fraud 1.1%
  • Identity Theft 1.0%
  • Check Fraud 0.5%
  • Nigerian Letter Fraud 0.4%
  • Communications Fraud 0.1%                   Page 6.
• "the mean dollar loss was $1,482 and the median was $299.  Nearly 28% of these referred complaints involved losses of less than $100, while nearly half of all referred complaints (49.2%) had a loss of between $100 and $1,000.  One in five complaints (19%) involved a loss between $1,000 and $5,0000 dollars and only 3.6% had a loss of greater than $5,000.  The highest dollar loss per incident is found among Nigerian letter fraud (median loss of $3400), identity theft ($2000), and check fraud ($1,000) complaints."  Page 6.

News

• Top U.S. Parent Companies and Stickiest Brands on the Web, Clickz 10/30/2006