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Worldwide Online Gambling Revenues to Top $10 Billion in 2005

November 15, 2005 -- NEW YORK, NY Revenues from worldwide online gambling will top $10 billion in 2005, according to a new report from eMarketer. US consumers are spending roughly twenty times the amount on gambling pursuits that they spend on digital music downloads, and some ten times higher than another well-known vice online porn. That's a lot of chips on tables everywhere.
"Online gambling is quickly moving to the mainstream, and it's being driven by the televised poker craze and growth of broadband," says Ben Macklin, Senior Analyst at eMarketer and author of the Online Gambling report.

Financial Spread Trading Nearly 20 million US Internet users visited gambling or sweepstake Web Sites in February 2005, equating to nearly 15% of all US Internet users, according to Nielsen//NetRatings data. In Europe, 14 million Internet users visited gambling/sweepstake sites, with the largest number of users originating from Germany. As a percentage of Internet users, however, France and Sweden top the list.

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Football Betting Spread More recent data from comScore Media Metrix showed that in July 2005 30 million US Internet users (18% of all Internet users) visited gambling sites that month. This is comparable to the number of Internet users who visit retail music sites and is double the number who visited gambling sites in December 2001.

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Commodity Spread Trading Online poker helped spur phenomenal growth for online gambling during the last few years, says Mr. Macklin. "Poker has received all the headlines over the last few years, but the online gambling sector is much more than just poker," says Mr. Macklin. "It consists of online sports betting, online betting exchanges, online wagering on horse races, online casinos, online lotteries, online bingo, online skill games played for cash and more."

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Nfl Betting Spread EMarketer's Online Gambling report answers these key questions:
What's the size of the online gambling market?
Which companies are leading the way?
What is the legal status of online gambling and online gambling advertising?
Is the current poker craze just a fad?
Why do people gamble online?
And many more...

Online travel spending in the U.S. during the 2005 holiday season (November 1 through December 31, 2005) totaled $8.6 billion, percent increase on last year. Last year U.S. consumers spent $7.4 billion during this period, according to comScore Networks. For the full year consumers spent $60.9 billion, percent increase on the previous year. Total Internet spending for the full year 2005, including travel, reached $143.2 billion, up 22 percent over the $117.2 billion spent online in 2004.

Advanced Commodity Spread For more information on eMarketer's new Online Gambling report, visit eMarketer.

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