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I like how the WSJ laces its articles with statistics. In Media Firms Dig Into War Chests For Latest Assault on the Internet (Sep. 28) we get some good data points:

• Broadband will reach 42 million US households this year (eMarketer Inc.)
• 73 million homes have cable (National Cable Television Assn.)
• Internet ad sales rose 33% in 2004 to $9.6 billion (PricewaterhouseCoopers).
• US advertising market: $141 billion
• The top 10 Internet properties raked in about 71% of the ad revenues in the industry (PricewaterhouseCoopers).
• Yahoo’s revenue last year: $3.6 billion
• Google’s revenue last year: $3.2 billion
• Disney took a roughly $1 billion charge related to the closure of its Go.com portal.
• MySpace.com attracted 17.7 million visitors in June.
• MySpace.com net income for the year ended March 31: $4.5 million
• News Corp. buying MySpace.com parent company for $580 million.

And a graph:

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