WEB monthly report (June’12)

Source: Gemius Data: National base Period: June 2012 Internet audience: A14+

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* Based on Bulgarian population 7 021 407 (4+ y.o.)

In June the internet penetration marks fall of 2% compared to the beginning of the year in terms of number and fell to a level of 50%.

Source: Gemius

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Men outnumber women a little (due to EURO 2012), but the overall distribution remains relatively equal.

51,0% 49,0% 50,5% 49,5% Men

Women

June 2012 June 2011

Gender

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Source: Gemius

# Website Category Visitors

(Real Users) Page Views

Average time spent by visitor [hh:mm:ss]

Reach

1 vbox7.com entertainment 1 833 557 405 487 789 04:25:33 52,12%

2 abv.bg mail 1 823 407 356 452 555 02:42:59 51,84%

3 dir.bg portal 1 069 828 82 291 326 01:27:02 30,41%

4 bg-mamma.com forum 788 950 23 436 177 00:48:28 22,43%

5 btv.bg news 788 546 15 220 103 00:18:18 22,42%

6 vesti.bg news 738 641 16 420 094 00:28:42 21,00%

7 mobile.bg cars 659 912 157 016 287 01:48:48 18,76%

8 sportal.bg sport 603 289 53 939 860 02:11:26 17,15%

9 bgmaps.com information 593 176 4 370 010 00:06:38 16,86%

10 sinoptik.bg weather forecast 591 838 12 129 907 00:11:06 16,82%

11 prodavalnik.com online sales 590 372 110 739 683 01:58:40 16,78%

12 svejo.net entertainment 543 936 3 546 832 00:21:13 15,46%

13 jobs.bg career 537 266 83 708 001 01:11:43 15,27%

14 dnes.bg news 529 564 20 950 795 00:54:33 15,05%

15 start.bg catalogue 512 573 4 318 754 00:07:39 14,57%

16 framar.bg health portal 474 304 4 006 511 00:10:26 13,48%

17 blog.bg blogs 456 449 4 016 915 00:08:35 12,98%

18 dariknews.bg news 440 682 8 416 858 00:21:10 12,53%

19 dnevnik.bg news 405 862 8 753 946 00:29:50 11,54%

20 blitz.bg news 402 139 20 368 879 01:17:39 11,43%

Top 20 websites – June 2012

Analysis of the effect of the championship on the sports websites in Bulgaria

EURO 2012

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# Website Visitors

(Real Users) Page Views

Average time spent by visitor [hh:mm:ss]

Reach

1 sportal.bg 603 289 53 939 860 02:11:26 17,15%

2 sportni.bg 365 402 7 303 330 00:19:55 10,39%

3 gong.bg 170 263 6 113 210 00:41:42 4,84%

4 gol.bg 148 056 6 236 209 00:51:30 4,21%

5 winner.bg 139 907 7 369 603 01:09:21 3,98%

6 btv.bg/sport 133 482 1 043 345 00:07:52 3,79%

7 football.dir.bg 131 944 2 420 517 00:24:14 3,75%

8 topsport.bg 105 045 3 672 073 00:39:59 2,99%

9 football24.bg 64 060 1 314 032 00:20:34 1,82%

10 livesport.bg 52 626 1 063 633 00:28:03 1,50%

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Top 10 sports websites – June 2012

Source: Gemius, TG: All 14+

Sportal.bg is the absolute leader among the sports websites in Bulgaria with almost two times more unique visitors than the second (sportni.bg) and seven times more page views.

The following comparison takes into consideration the top 10 sports websites for June 2012.

The parameters that we will look at include real users and average spent time by visitor.

We will track the percentage change of those parameters between May‘11 & June‘11 and between May’12 & June’12 for a target group of men 18-49.

Having in mind the seasonality of internet as a media, there should be a drop in the number of visitors on websites between the months of May and June.

Therefore, if EURO 2012 has had a positive effect on the sports websites, we could expect that this drop should be a smaller percent than last year.

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Methodology

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Real Users (Visitors)

Source: Gemius, TG: M 18-49

-10% -15% +6% 0% -27% -49% -21% -43% -4% 0% +6% 0% +23% -5% -8% -23% +5%

6 out of the 10 websites (the ones with rectangles) show a smaller drop in May-June’12 compared to May-June’11. This we can assign to EURO 2012. In other words, the championship allowed those websites to keep a part of their visitors, who they would have otherwise lost, due to the summer season.

Sportal.bg & gong.bg had separate websites for the EURO, which are not monitored. Otherwise, sportal.bg and gong.bg follow the same tendency.

*No data for sportni.bg, topsport.bg, and livesport.bg is available from Gemius for 2011

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May 2011 June 2011 May 2012 June 2012

2% -8% +4% -2% -59% - 33% +1% 16% -17% -17% -17% -10% -23% -7% 22% -34% +24%

Source: Gemius, TG: M 18-49

Although EURO 2012 has helped the sports websites to keep some of their visitors and page views, which they would have lost, because of the summer, this trend is not so valid regarding the average time spent by visitor.

*No data for sportni.bg, topsport.bg, and livesport.bg is available from Gemius for 2011

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Mobile Versions

We should take into consideration that six out of the ten sports websites considered have a mobile version and applications of their websites. Also, mobile traffic in Bulgaria grows steadily with time. Sites especially dedicated to EURO 2012 as well as mobile versions of sports websites were not tracked, therefore the effect of EURO 2012 may have been even stronger.

Sportal.bg – mobile.sportal.bg Sportni.bg – m.sportni.bg Gong.bg – m.gong.bg Football.dir.bg – smart.dir.bg/corner Gol.bg – m.gol.bg Football34.bg – football24.bg/mobile

Web campaigns making use of the sports theme

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Website: sportal.bg Brand: NIVEA FOR MEN Format: wallpaper branding

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Website: sportal.bg Brand: Adidas Format: wallpaper branding banner 300x250

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Website: sportal.bg Brand: Kamenitza Format: wallpaper branding banner 300x250

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Sportal.bg – NIVEA FOR MEN Facebook Application

NIVEA FOR MEN created a special Facebook application in the sportal.bg’s Facebook fan page. Users were supposed to vote for different soccer players, who they considered “player of the round.”

The prices included 200 vouchers from vivasport.bg and 10 soccer balls NIVEA FOR MEN.

Users could vote only once per day.

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Website: winner.bg Brand: LG Smart TV Format: wallpaper branding banner 300x250

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Website: winner.bg Brand: Coca-Cola Format: wallpaper branding 2 x banner 300x250

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Website: gong.bg Brand: bet365 Format: wallpaper branding

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Formats – Observations

Major brands like NIVEA FOR MEN, Kamenitza, LG, Coca-Cola , Adidas (the last two being official EURO 2012 partners) and others targeted men through sports websites during the period of EURO 2012 by using wallpaper brandings as their main format.

This format is more of a standard nowadays, however, the brands relied on good-looking sport-themed wallpaper brandings, which fit well with the sports websites themselves, without being too intrusive.

Often brands synchronized the wallpapers with different banner formats, so that they appear at the same time. This allows the advertisers to be sure that their brand is the only one that appears on the loaded page.

Thank you! For more details contact:

ZenithOptimedia,

118, Bulgaria Blvd., Abacus Business Building, Sofia 1618 Reception: +359 2 43 40 710

v.karaivanova@zenithoptimedia.bg