(keitai-l) Re: popular i-mode sites subsidized by advertising..

I did visit Digital Street last week and the brothers (founders) seemed to
be very exited about the opportunities. Their banner advertising grew 8
times since last year and this year they believe their banner advertising
will grow over 10 times.

According to the guys there are over 600 000 access times / hits per day.

They also mentioned that mostly major foreign Internet players are
interested in to buy the company. These names include Lycos, Yahoo, Excite
etc. Personally i believe it is only matter of time when the guys will cash
out or when a venture capilists takes a share of the company. Jeff pls visit
the company and mail me your thoughs.

Markus Jokinen
New Innovations Team
Terra Mobile (Part of Telefonica & Terra-Lycos)



-----Original Message-----
From: keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net
[mailto:keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net]On Behalf Of jeffrey funk
Sent: 21 November 2000 03:09
To: 'keitai-l@appelsiini.net'
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: popular i-mode sites subsidized by advertising..


Nina from Jupiter Research asked the question: Are any I-mode sites
sustaining themselves with advertising." This is a very difficult question.
The US financial community apparently thought there many web sites that
could survive using advertising since they poured money into them. now it
appears that many of these investments were poorly made.

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