Information about sites will be arranged in ascending order of views.
The most visited site will be located at the end.
You will learn what these sites are and how they achieved success.

1. Amazon.com – 163 million unique visitors

What it is: An American company, the largest online store selling electronics, clothing, sporting goods and even food.
How it became successful: Amazon started with a few people packaging and shipping books. Since then it has grown and sells everything under the sun.

2. Sina.com.cn – 169 million unique visitors

What it is: A Chinese portal that brings together content generated by the media and users themselves.
How it became successful: In the early 2000s, Sina was called the Chinese Yahoo. In 2009, Sina launched the microblogging service Weibo and has 400 million users.

3. WordPress.com – 170.9 million unique visitors

How it achieved success: WordPress attracted a huge number of users by offering the simplest tools for blogging and publishing materials online. Due to its public availability, WordPress has easily surpassed other platforms that require licensing fees in popularity.

4. Apple.com – 171.7 million unique visitors

What it is: A platform dedicated to Apple products and software.
How it became successful: Apple.com combines the functions of an Apple store and technical support for users of the company’s products. The site is programmed as Homepage default Safari browsers, which are installed in all Apple-related products that have Internet access - and there are hundreds of millions of them.

5. Sohu.com – 175.8 million unique visitors

What it is: Chinese portal and search engine
How it became successful: Sohu launched in 1997 as China's first search engine. Since then it has grown into a large portal that combines both a gaming portal and a real estate sales site.

6. Bing.com – 184 million unique visitors

What it is: Search engine.
How he achieved success: Bing was promoted by Microsoft, and he also put a lot of effort into making the search engine as easy to use as possible, adding a “social” sidebar to it and improving the algorithms. Additionally, Microsoft pays other websites to link to Bing.

7. Twitter.com – 189.8 million unique visitors

What it is: Platform for exchanging short messages.
How I achieved success: Since the project launched in 2009, Twitter has become the most popular place for millions of people. in a convenient way stay up to date with all world events. The presence of news agencies, politicians and experts in other fields has made Twitter a primary source for information of all kinds.

8. Taobao.com – 207 million unique visitors

What it is: Chinese online store offering clothing, accessories, jewelry, food, electronics and much more.
How it became successful: Taobao is the Chinese equivalent of eBay and Amazon and one of the largest online stores in the world. In 2003, this project was launched by Alibaba; its difference was that there was no fee for users. As a result, the project quickly turned into a giant search engine for sellers and buyers.

9. Ask.com – 218.4 million unique visitors

What it is: A search engine that specializes in finding answers to questions.
How it became successful: The project was launched in 1990 under the name AskJeeves. When parent company IAC acquired About.com, Ask was able to add more content to its site. In essence, it is now something like an updated Google.

10. Blogger.com – 229.9 million unique visitors

What is it: Blog platform
How it got there: Blogger started out as a tiny San Francisco company that at one point found itself on the brink of bankruptcy. Google helped save the company by purchasing it in 2002.

11. MSN.com – 254.1 million unique visitors

What it is: Internet provider, web portal and search engine
How it became successful: MSN has evolved from an Internet service provider to a portal similar to Hotmail and MSN Messenger.

12. Baidu – 268.7 million unique visitors

What it is: Chinese search engine for websites, audio and images.
How I achieved success: Baidu is one of the most popular search engines in China. The company employs thousands of the best Chinese engineers who are constantly improving the quality and speed of the system.

13. Microsoft.com – 271.7 million unique visitors

What it is: A site where you can purchase Microsoft products, download software and get updates.
How it achieved success: The site became popular due to the huge number of computers using Microsoft Windows and those in need of technical support and other services provided by the company.

14. QQ.com – 284.1 million unique visitors

What it is: Chinese search engine and portal
How it became successful: QQ.com was created with the support of Tencent as the largest instant messaging system in China. The company managed to attract more than 700 million active users.

15. Live.com – 389.5 million unique visitors

What it is: New multifunctional Email from Microsoft.
How I achieved success: Microsoft did both of its own postal services– Outlook and Hotmail available through Live.com. If you log into Hotmail.com, you will be redirected to Live.com. Same thing with Outlook.com.

16. Wikipedia.org – 469.6 million unique visitors

What is it: a free universal encyclopedia
How I achieved success: Anyone can post and edit Wikipedia articles, making it a popular source of information.

http://www.sqad.com

The website of the company SQAD, known since the 1970s as Spot Quotations And Data, Inc., but gradually expanded the range of its interests and services and in 2001 adopted this, already popular, abbreviation as its official name. Today the company specializes in predictive prices for advertising media, based on information about current prices and actual advertising purchases coming from the media, advertising and buying agencies. Using a special methodology, excluding random factors and comparing this information with data over the past few years, as well as taking into account emerging trends, SQAD issues forecast prices for advertising media (national and local, by time zone, by block and by program) for the coming year. At the same time, in collaboration with a number of research and rating services, the company publishes weekly already calculated comparative data (CPM, CPP and others) on various media and their individual segments, thus providing its clients with information about how much and what advertisers actually paid for.

http://www.tns-mi.com

TNS Media Intelligence (until 2000, before its acquisition by the TNS Group, known as CMR - Competitive Media Reporting) is one of the world leaders in the field of marketing information, in particular in the field of information support advertising and media business. For its 16 thousand clients, the company monitors more than 3 million brands and tracks advertising (on television, radio, in the press, on the Internet, outdoor advertising and advertising in cinemas) in 23 countries, including Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia . The site presents almost the entire range of products and services, systematized by type of business, including - specifically for advertising agencies, which are offered reports on advertising expenses of companies in certain sectors, tracking compliance with the release or broadcast schedule of the client’s advertising, urgent (within 3–12 hours) notification of the start of an advertising campaign by one of the client’s competitors and other services.

http://www.srds.com

Website of SRDS (Standard Rate and Data Service), which for over 85 years has maintained one of the richest databases of rates and other information on the media (press, radio and television), as well as direct marketing and, more recently, , online advertising - in total more than 100 thousand items from all over the world, updated monthly and available in print and online form on a subscription basis. The site also has a rich “collection” of calculators (with definitions and formulas) for calculating the main indicators needed when drawing up a media plan - CPM, CPP, Rating, Share, HUT, PUT, GRP, TRP, Reach, Frequency, as well as BDI and CDI; There is even a foreign currency exchange rate calculator.

http://www.webrf.com

MediaPlan WEBRF. On this site you can use a fully functional system to determine the required saturation and frequency of the output of television advertising. Users can customize the program according to the following parameters: the target audience(potential consumers), effective frequency of advertising, attractiveness of advertising for viewers, Feedback and competitor activity. The results are available in flowchart form. The frequency and volume of advertising can be determined according to the Nielsen method using the appropriate Control Panel.

http://www.imsms.com

Website of IMS Media Solutions, offering Information Systems and software for the media industry. In addition to paid products, the site presents one of the richest collections of online calculators for media planning on the web, allowing you to calculate CPT and CPP, derive GRPs from Reach and Frequency or Share from HUT and Rating (or vice versa), as well as determine brand development and development indices categories.

http://www.amic.com

A web resource called Advertising Media Internet Center (AMIC) from AMIC.COM Inc. – member of the Telmar Group of Companies ( cm. http://www.telmar.com), which provides computerized information and services in the field of media planning and media buying in 85 countries. The AMIC website discusses the advantages and disadvantages of various advertising media, pricing methods for advertising services, sources of media data, and provides many useful links. Many materials are available after free registration.

http://www.telmar.com/indexB.html

Website of the Telmar Worldwide company, specializing in the creation of software products and computerized databases (more than 4 thousand) for media planning, which can be accessed via the Internet (http://www.etelmar.net).

http://www.knowledgenetworks.com

In addition to other services, Knowledge Networks, Inc. offers its MultiMedia Mentor™ (http://www.knowledgenetworks.com/info/main/products.html#mm) as a way to overcome the complexities of creating mixmedia plans.

http://www.medialifemagazine.com

The online magazine Media Life is positioned as a resource “for media planners and media buyers.” Daily latest news from the media industry: newspapers, magazines, television, new media, research, media economics. You can sign up for a free daily newsletter, as well as weekly newsletters about the newspaper industry and outdoor advertising. You can also search the news archive for the last 7 years.

http://www.fasttrackllc.com

An interesting site for a relatively small company, Fast-Track Media, engaged in media planning and media buying.

http://www.vmr.com/index.php

The site of the company Virtual Media Resources, engaged in media research, media planning and media buying.

Research

Russian

http://www.tns-global.ru

The TNS Group website includes TNS Gallup AdFact (Russia's largest supplier of advertising monitoring data for various advertising media), TNS Gallup Media (a company specializing in research only in the field of media and advertising) and TNS Marketing Information Center (TNS MIC one of the largest companies in the marketing research market in Russia). Various syndicate projects are presented in detail: marketing research; media audience measurements (press, radio, television and Internet); monitoring of advertising (in the press, on radio, television, outdoor advertising and advertising in cinemas); media monitoring and press clipping. A separate page is devoted to the possibilities of specialized research for the media. The “Research Results” section presents reports on advertising monitoring (in the press, radio, television, cinema and outdoor advertising - Top 10 categories and Top 10 advertisers by quarter), as well as on measuring media ratings: press - NRS, radio – Radio Index, and television – TV Index. (Summary information about the audience in Moscow and Russia in four report versions - Top 100, Top 10 by channel, Top 10 by genre and average daily share - is updated weekly on Thursdays.) Specialized Galileo software is presented separately.

http://www.comcon-2.ru

COMCON company website: methods, research data, including information about the audience of Russian media (television, radio, press, Internet). Subscribe to news about media research.

Website of the Research Holding ROMIR Monitoring, one of the largest Russian companies specializing in marketing and sociological research. The website also presents the main areas of media research:

research of media preferences, research of the media market and advertising market, annual monitoring of electronic and print media in Russia with the publication of reviews on the audience of TV, radio, press and the Internet. The site also has a “shop” of ready-made reports.

http://www.socismr.com

Website of the research company Socis, specializing in marketing and sociological research, as well as media measurements in the cities of Yaroslavl, Kostroma, Cherepovets, Vologda, Ivanovo and others. The website contains excerpts from the regular media audience research “MediaMIX-Russia” and a presentation of the regular initiative omnibus-type research “Barometer”, in which companies and organizations can add their own exclusive questions to the standard questionnaire.

http://www.rprg.ru

The website of the research group RPRG (Russian Public Relations Group) presents the main areas of its activities: marketing research, media monitoring (media clipping), advertising and sponsorship monitoring, audit of advertising companies.

http://www.gfk.ru

Russian website of the German company GfK Group, operating in more than 50 countries. Media and Internet research is one of the main areas of her activity. The “Store of ready-made reports” contains data on the audience (television, radio and press in a number of Russian cities) collected as part of the “Russian Media Map” project.

http://www.gortis.info

"GORTIS" - marketing research, consulting. Articles on marketing research, advertising and media preferences. The results of our own research and reviews of the markets of St. Petersburg. Socio-demographic characteristics of Moscow, St. Petersburg and Russia.

http://www.validata.ru

Website of the Valideyta company, specializing in marketing research and public opinion research, including the study of consumer behavior, image research, advertising research and media research.

http://www.wciom.ru

The website of the oldest state research organization in Russia - the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM), which has been engaged in socio-economic, political, and marketing research since 1987. The website presents the types of research conducted and the methods used for this, as well as the quarterly journal “Monitoring”.

Foreign

http://www.casro.org

The site of the Council of American Survey Research Organizations (CASRO), founded in 1975, whose members include almost 300 companies in the United States, Mexico and Canada. On the website you can familiarize yourself with the activities of the Council and some of its conclusions about industry development trends. There you can also find one of the best collections of useful links to advertising and media companies.

http://www.themediaaudit.com

The Media Audit is a multi-media audience study that tracks more than 450 indicators, such as socioeconomic characteristics, lifestyle, purchasing plans, purchasing habits of products, brands, stores, eateries, banks, insurance and healthcare institutions, preferred type of holiday. The study can be purchased in printed form, or with specially developed software. You can subscribe to a free newsletter with the latest news.

http://www.acnielsen.com

Website of ACNielsen Worldwide, a company engaged in marketing research in more than 100 countries. Its founder is the famous Arthur Charles Nielsen. Today the company is a division of VNU (http://www.vnu.com). In the field of advertising, the company's services are largely related to the study of the results of advertising influence.

http://www.nielsenmedia.com

Website of Nielsen Media Research, a subsidiary of the world leader in information services for the media industry, VNU Media Measurement & Information Group. Nielsen Media serves the information and marketing needs of advertisers and advertising agencies, as well as representatives of mass media, Internet resources, music and film companies. But the company is best known for its TV ratings. It recently reaffirmed its leadership in this area by declaring that it will henceforth monitor television viewing, regardless of where and how viewers ended up in front of the television screen - in pubs, in World Wide Web or watching the “box” on a cell phone. On the company's website you can find out what services it offers and what research it conducts, how data is collected and how it is used; you can see some of the latest media measurement data, with interesting articles and undergo terminological education in the field of media measurements. Most data is inaccessible without a password. Weekly primetime television ratings compiled by Nielsen Media Research can be viewed through USA Today (http://www.usatoday.com/life/enter/tv/nielsen.htm).

http://www.nielsennetratings.com (and also http://netratings.com/) Site of the Nielsen and NetRatings project for studying consumer and business use Internet, namely: to measure Internet audiences and online advertising as a platform for targeting marketing and advertising efforts in Internet media planning, buying and selling. There you can also get information about WebRF - probably the first and most intelligible “device” for planning coverage and frequency ( cm. http://www.webrf.com).

http://www.agbnielsen.net

The site of a joint venture between AGB Group and Nielsen Media Research International to compile TV ratings in 28 countries (post-Soviet republics include Georgia and Moldova) on four continents (excluding North America) under the AGB Nielsen Media Research brand.

http://www.mediamark.com

Mediamark Research Inc. website (MRI), one of the leading US companies in the field of measuring media audiences on a national scale and across multiple parameters. It has information about consumers in almost all possible sectors (450 categories, 6 thousand brands). Among its main services, programs and databases are MEMRI (the largest consumer database), MRI+ (the richest database with search engine, which provides information about consumer and business publications necessary for a media planner - http://www.mriplus.com) and others. Lots of interesting and useful information is in open access.

http://www.arbitron.com

Website of the international company Arbitron Inc., one of the pillars of marketing and media research, specializing mainly in the field of radio broadcasting, network and online radio stations, as well as outdoor advertising in the USA, Mexico and Europe. The results of recent studies, surveys and ratings are publicly available.

http://www.comscore.com

The website of the company comScore Networks, which specializes in researching the characteristics and purchasing behavior (not only online) of the audience of Internet sites and provides consulting and information services. There is almost no free information.

http://www.scarborough.com

The website of the research company Scarborough Research, which since 1975 has specialized in measuring newspaper audiences, and since the early 90s has greatly expanded the range of objects of study (products in general and media in particular) - today it studies purchasing patterns, lifestyle and media consumption skills of adults of the US population at all levels - local, regional and national. Of particular interest to specialists (marketers in general and media planners in particular) is the company’s VALS system for segmenting media consumers according to their value system and lifestyle.

http://www.smrb.com

The website of the research company Simmons Market Research Bureau, which has been studying consumer behavior and preferences, including media preferences, for more than half a century. The company's most famous product is the National Consumer Study (NCS), which has received accreditation from the MRC, the Media Rating Council ( cm. http://www.mrc.htsp.com). The site is interesting in its way of organizing an online research store, where in three steps you can select the time and geographical boundaries of the research, product category and brands of interest and immediately find out the cost of the requested information. For example, data on eight (out of 16 possible) brands in the mobile phone category for the fall period of last year throughout the United States would cost a site visitor $150.

http://www.jupiterresearch.com

Website of the JupiterResearch company, specializing in research, analysis and consulting in the field of new consumer technologies and, in particular, the Internet, as an area of ​​business development. With a free guest registration, you can access some of the company's market research and analysis library, as well as sign up for the newsletter.

http://www.esomar.org

The European Society for Opinion and Marketing Research (ESOMAR) website has a rich directory (with search engine) of research organizations around the world.

http://www.interview-nss.com/ems

The page is dedicated to EMS (European Media and Marketing Survey) - Europe's largest research source of media (national and international, TV and print) and marketing data, both on national markets and on the Western European media market as a whole. In the winter of 2006 - the first information on Central Europe. The company plans to begin moving towards Russia in 2007. Information is freely available, but not much.

Audit

Russian

http://www.mediakomitet.ru

Website of the Non-Profit Partnership “Media Committee”, created in 2001 with the aim of developing quality standards for the television and radio audience measurement system, broadcast recording and monitoring systems, and conducting professional examination of television and radio audience measurement systems.

Foreign

http://www.mrc.htsp.com

Website of the Media Rating Council (MRC) - an industry non-profit organization created to audit and guarantee the independence and reliability of various media audience studies. The organization arose in 1964 at the instigation of the US Congress after hearings caused by problems in this area. By the early 1960s, it had become vital to advertising and media companies. Council members include representatives of broadcast, cable, online and print media, as well as advertising agencies. MRC-accredited research services include Arbitron, Mediafax, MRI, Nielsen, RADAR, Scarborough and several others.

http://www.accessabc.com

The website of the world's first organization engaged in auditing the circulation of printed publications, founded in 1914 - Audit Bureau of Circulations. Its activities are financed by three groups of stakeholders - advertisers, advertising agencies and publishers. Most of the reports are not available to non-ABC clients, but some information about the circulation, as well as the composition of subscribers and readers of the largest publications is still publicly available. The organization of such audits itself, as well as the form in which such material is presented, is also of interest.

http://www.bpaww.com

The website of the independent company BPA Worldwide, founded in 1931 by a group of advertisers, publishers and agencies to audit free publications (Business Press Audits, BPA). Today it operates in 20 countries and audits more than 3,000 consumer and business media, including not only newspapers and magazines, but also websites, direct mail and e-mail newsletters, free giveaways promotional materials. The website has detailed information, what audits the company conducts, how such reports and information can be used, and how the price for such studies is determined. You can subscribe to the quarterly newsletter for media buyers.

http://www.verifiedaudit.com

The website of the Verified Audit Circulation (VAC) company, founded in 1951 to audit the circulation of freely distributed publications, today audits and studies audiences not only of this type press, various reference publications, yellow pages and websites, but also distributed freely in retail outlets or door-to-door advertising materials, product samples. On the site you can view the circulation of free publications in the United States and Canada by title of publication or publisher, by release date, by postal code distribution areas and so on.

http://www.audioaudit.com/index.html

Website of the AudioAudit company, specializing in technologies and services for monitoring the release of commercials.

http://www.tabonline.com

Website of the non-profit organization Traffic Audit Bureau for Media Measurement, Inc. (TAB), founded in 1933 (and led by three stakeholder groups - advertisers, advertising agencies and media companies), with the purpose of auditing the circulation of outdoor advertising in the United States. Her main task is to count the number of people who had the opportunity to see a particular outdoor advertisement. Today, the annually updated TAB database contains half a million advertising points, systematized not only by owner, but also by market.

Press

Russian

Website of the Guild of Periodical Publishers. Interesting materials about the media and their audiences are regularly published.

www.journalist-virt.ru

Website of the magazine "Journalist". Mostly all publications are about journalism, but there are also some about advertising in the media.

Foreign

http://www.naa.org

The website of the Newspaper Association of America (NAA), founded in 1992 after the merger of seven organizations serving the newspaper industry. The association represents almost 90% of US daily newspapers, as well as a number of publications with other periodicities and from other countries. The site has a lot of information available not only to members of the Association. For example, the NADbase (Newspaper Audience Database), updated twice a year, provides information on the readership of print and online editions of more than a hundred major newspapers. You can also subscribe to several newsletters and magazines with different frequency and topics, or browse archives.

http://www.newspapersoc.org.uk

Newspaper Society of Great Britain - information on regional local markets.

http://www.nna.org

Website of the National Newspaper Association, founded in 1885.

http://www.magazine.org

The website of the Magazine Publishers of America (MPA), an organization founded in 1919 and representing approximately 250 U.S. and more than 80 international publishing companies. Its goal is to promote magazines as an advertising medium, and therefore the site has free access to many analytical and statistical materials and studies regarding the use of magazines as an independent advertising medium or in mixed campaigns, as well as the characteristics of the magazine audience (constantly updated Media QuadMaps show the skills of media consumption by various demographic and consumer groups).

Radio and television

Russian

http://www.radioportal.ru

Russian radio portal - media and show business news, media research and ratings (up-to-date data on radio audiences), links (with detailed coordinates) to the most famous research companies and some media organizations in the country and neighboring countries.

http://www.radiostation.ru

The “Broadcasting Technologies” website is dedicated to the issues of creating private commercial radio companies in Russia - how to register media outlets, how to obtain a license, how to obtain permits, what to do after creating a radio station: how to manage it, program it, promote it.

Foreign

http://www.nab.org

The website of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), which has been representing the radio and television industry to public and government institutions for 75 years. There is a lot of information intended, rather, for the journalistic, managerial and technical staff of radio and television enterprises, but for media planners there will also be interesting information supplied by research companies such as Nielsen and Arbitron. The association also publishes a dozen newsletters on various topics and at varying frequencies, two or three of which, including the daily NAB Smart Brief, are available to all website visitors. A well-organized selection of useful links.

http://www.rab.com

The website of the American Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB), an organization with a half-century history, whose main goal is to promote radio as an advertising medium, for which it promotes the study of radio audiences and the effectiveness of radio advertising, as well as the training of personnel selling radio advertising opportunities. There is a lot of publicly available material on the “selling power” of radio (compared to other media), as well as the characteristics of radio listeners and their purchasing behavior.

http://www.rab.co.uk/rab2004/news.aspx

Website of the British Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB), founded in 1992. The resource is well organized and very rich in analytical materials and research of a medialogical rather than news nature. It is divided into several sections dedicated to different topics and designed to various groups visitors - media planners, advertisers, advertisers, marketers. The site also has an audio library of commercials from the last 10 years, consisting of more than 20 thousand storage units. All materials are freely available.

http://www.tvb.org

Website of the Television Bureau of Advertising (TVB), an American non-profit professional association of television broadcasters. The studies presented on the website (many of which are available free of charge to non-members of the association) are systematized by object of study - market, consumers, viewers, media, advertising revenues. Particularly popular is the Trends in Advertising data collection, which contains information on annual advertising revenues of all media (including television, newspapers, magazines, direct mail, billboards, the Internet, yellow pages and others) from 1948 to 2005.

http://www.onetvworld.org

The website of the Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau association (http://www. cabletvadbureau.com), created to promote cable television as an advertising medium. The site has a lot of freely available analytical materials on cable television and advertising on it, latest ratings and audience research reports for various channels, as well as quarterly and annual statistics on TV advertising costs by category and brand. The section “Media Mathematics” presents various formulas and examples of ways to calculate television audiences. There is also a system for finding the desired cable operator or network.

http://www.spotcable.com

Website of National Cable Communications (NCC), a company specializing in advertising on cable television. The site may be of interest due to the range of research products presented.

Internet

Russian

http://promosite.ru

Foreign

http://www.clickz.com

One of the richest analytical and statistical resources in the field of interactive marketing. A site visitor can also use the online CPM calculator for free (knowing the cost advertising campaign and number of impressions). The coordinates of companies that sell software systems for tracking online advertising are also given.

http://www.valueclickmedia.com/index.shtml Founded in 1997, ValueClick Media is one of the first online advertising networks and probably the first to use an impression-based payment model for online advertising. Today it is one of the largest advertising networks, reaching approximately two-thirds of the US Internet audience.

http://www.doubleclick.com

On the DoubleClick website you can find in the public domain a lot of the latest data and analytical materials on trends in the development of online advertising and live examples of increasing advertising effectiveness on the World Wide Web, and also subscribe to the newsletter.

Russian

http://www.ooh.ru

The goal of the Out of Home project is to unite Russian market outdoor advertising into one information space, so that advertisers and owners of advertising surfaces can quickly find each other, regardless of their location. News and review materials about the outdoor advertising market. Catalog of advertising surfaces with the ability to search by type of advertising medium, region, city, street and house number. Free placement and registration of advertising surfaces.

http://outdoor-ad.rus.net

Official website of the Association of Outdoor Advertising Enterprises. The site has a directory of advertising companies where you can leave your link.

http://www.outdoormedia.ru

Foreign

http://www.oaaa.org

The website of the Outdoor Advertising Association of America (OAAA), founded back in 1891, which represents more than a thousand companies earning a total of 90% of the money in this industry. Except reference information about members of the Association, there are many reports on audience measurements on the site various types outdoor advertising, analyzes that until recently were only available for a fee (Research Reports), as well as a rich portfolio of cases organized by product categories.

http://www.postar.co.uk

Website of the British company POSTAR (Poster Audience Research).

An interesting document is presented: “The Postar Classification Guide”, which systematizes in great detail the types of billboards and their installation locations, as well as criteria for assessing their visibility and, accordingly, cost.

Direct mail

http://www.the-dma.org

Website of the Direct Marketing Association (DMA), founded in 1917 and with almost 5 thousand members from more than 40 countries. After free registration on the site, non-members of the organization can familiarize themselves with a number of studies and case studies, as well as subscribe to one of the daily newsletters (MyDMA Newsletter), the content of which can, to some extent, be independently shaped by selecting the sections from which information is needed.

http://www.womma.com

Website of the Word of Mouth Marketing Association WOMMA (Word of Mouth Marketing Association) - the official industry association for word-of-mouth marketing, whose goal is to promote and develop word-of-mouth marketing and turn it into a mainstream component marketing mix. You can sign up for our free newsletter to stay informed about the latest strategies and successes, as well as word-of-mouth marketing research and surveys.

Directories and Catalogs

Russian

http://bookchamber.ru

Website of the Russian Book Chamber, founded in 1917, which maintains bibliographic and statistical records of books published in the territory Russian Federation publications A list of publishers in Russia can be found in the online database. The site contains a search system for articles from periodicals published since 2004, as well as a list of newspapers and magazines, articles from which are included in the database.

http://www.media-atlas.ru

The site contains atlases of Russian media managers and content managers (with biographical data and a list of publications), as well as detailed atlases of Russian media companies, television, radio stations, central and regional press. Latest media and advertising market news, interviews, publication announcements and other information.

http://www.mediaguide.ru

Press catalog (all publications and publishing houses with the ability to search by various parameters, as well as Media Guide’s own ratings of publications by topic and region for a certain period). News from the advertising market, publishing business and media industry on the website and in the newsletter.

Foreign

http://www.allnewspapers.com

Catalog of world media and news agencies with search by country and media type. Since replenishment of the resource is voluntary and free, the information in it is somewhat fragmentary (for example, Russian magazines there are only two).

http://www.kidon.com/media-link

http://www.mediafinder.com

Mediafinder is another press directory that bills itself as the largest database of periodicals in the United States and Canada.

The result of the analysis of citation rates of Russian media resources is the rating of IT and telecom publications. Data collection was carried out from January 1 to December 31 of last year and covered more than 37 thousand sources. When compiling the rating, in addition to the citation index of the most popular IT sites in Russia, the share of the publication in the field of new technologies was also taken into account. The most widely read IT resources are:

10. Habrahabr

9. Comnews.ru

Positioned among Russian IT resources as a daily online news newspaper, this resource is very voluminous and offers the reader a rich library of knowledge in various IT areas. Here you can subscribe to news or RSS mailings, conduct surveys, and publish announcements of conferences and exhibitions.

8. Appleinsider.ru

The resource, specializing in users of Apple gadgets, also falls into the ranking of the popularity of IT resources, occupying eighth position. A happy owner of an Apple device will be able to find answers to almost any questions here, learn about new technology from a renowned manufacturer, as well as the release date of new models and software versions. More than 100,000 users visit the site every day.

7. Ferra.ru

This resource offers visitors sections with reviews of new hardware and software, news and video sections, where you can not only learn about the release of new products and see them in dynamics, but also video blogs from leading Russian IT specialists are available. Fans of life hacks will also be pleased, there is also a section for them.

6. 3dnews.ru

A resource with 20 years of knowledge in the field digital technologies is rightfully considered one of the most authoritative among useful and popular sites for IT specialists. Whether you are a lover of fashionable gadgets, or computer games or a super professional, for a system engineer, programmer and overclocker or “teapot” - here you will find answers to all questions.

5. Roem.ru

The roem.ru resource greets the user with an event feed, updated several times a day. Here you can find out the most relevant news for the past week, subscribe to the RSS newsletter, and get advice in the appropriate section. Convenient contextual search will help you navigate the abundance of information.

4. Tdaily.ru

On this site you can find out news in the field of television (satellite, cable, IP) and telecommunications, which distinguishes this resource from other top Russian sites about information Technology. Fixed and wireless connection divided into areas, payment systems are given special attention. Information about upcoming forums and exhibitions is also posted here.

3. Hi-Tech Mail.Ru

The top three is opened by HiTech on Mail.ru. Among the regular Internet users, there is not one who does not know about this site. Articles and reviews, a catalog of gadgets with descriptions of characteristics and advice on selection, a reference section and a section with video reviews will not leave the user without an answer. In addition to computer equipment, various models of household and wearable technology are reviewed and compared.

2. Cnews.ru

We do not dispute the title of cnews as the largest publication in the field of high technology in the Russian Federation and the CIS countries. Reviews on CNews examine innovative developments, interesting projects, pay attention to the financial issues of the business of IT companies, trends in the development of the IT industry, and provide the latest scientific developments.

1. VC.ru – the most popular IT resource

The undisputed leader in research with the highest rate of frequency with which online resources, magazines, newspapers, news agencies and TV referred to materials published in this publication. This popular site is designed primarily for new entrepreneurs focused on implementing business ideas in the IT field. The most important news, reviews, opinions and analytical calculations are published here every day. Special attention is paid to startups and new earning models.

Virtual beauty salon - taaz.com - a foreign site that allows you to select, completely free online, from a photograph (your own or from a database) various styles of makeup, hairstyles, accessories; you also have the opportunity to try on ready-made styles of various show business stars and actors .

isleoftune.com - Music tracks

isleoftune.com is an original music site where you don’t download music, but... write it yourself. The sequence of creating music is as follows: go to the site, click the Skip button, then Create island, a working field opens where you can build paths, install houses, bushes, lanterns, etc. All of these listed items are musical instruments with different tones. Machines are a kind of musician's hands that help reproduce sounds in the process of approaching the listed objects. You can watch and listen on the website finished works other participants (located in the View shared islands section).