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Maktoob.com confirms biggest Internet audience in Arab world

  • United Arab Emirates: Tuesday, November 06 - 2007 at 12:00
  • PRESS RELEASE

Maktoob.com today announced that a recent third-party audit of its Internet audience has confirmed its leading position as the largest and most popular Arab online community in the Middle East, with a monthly audience of almost 7 million unique users.

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  • Ahmed Nassef, Vice President of the Maktoob Group and General Manager of Maktoob.com.
    Ahmed Nassef, Vice President of the Maktoob Group and General Manager of Maktoob.com.
The biggest website in the Arabic-speaking world conducted its first audit in June 2007. The audit was conducted by UK-based ABC Electronic, which is recognized worldwide for its data certification. The ABC Electronic certificate issued for Maktoob.com confirms that during the month of June 2007, 6,969,475 unique users visited the website, with a daily average of 463,105 unique visitors.

ABC Electronic audited data provides the online media industry with a trusted and robust currency on which media space can be bought and sold, and delivers to marketers and advertisers independent assurance that a website is attracting the size of audience it claims.

"At Maktoob, we are privileged to be a major part of the Internet story in the Arab world. And with that role, we recognize that we have an overarching responsibility to both our rapidly growing audience—to deliver world-class Arabic-language information and communications services—and to our advertising partners—to ensure the full transparency and best-of-breed tools that foster confidence in our medium,"


explained Ahmed Nassef, Vice President of the Maktoob Group and General Manager of Maktoob.com.

"The move toward transparency and data accuracy is a sign that our company, and our industry, is indeed coming of age, and at Maktoob, we will continue to be fully committed to international online advertising best practices," he added.

Richard Foan, Managing Director of ABC Electronic said: "It is highly encouraging that Maktoob.com is delivering both comparability and transparency by committing to having its site traffic figures independently verified to industry agreed standards."

"ABC Electronic audited figures continue to provide the online media industry with an important tool to support media buyers and advertisers in their buying decisions, and for the market as a whole to demonstrate accountability of spend online," Foan added.

"We are delighted about the results of the ABC Electronic audit," said Hussein Freijeh, Senior Sales Manager at Maktoob.com. "The results of this audit confirm that the Internet in the region is undergoing unprecedented growth - the Middle East being one of the fastest-growing online emerging markets in the world. This also marks a paradigm shift as marketing as well as advertising professionals can now confidently move a greater percentage of their advertising budgets towards online media."
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About Maktoob.com:

Maktoob.com was founded in the year 2000 as the world's first Arabic/English email service. In a few years, Maktoob has grown to become a full-service web portal, offering world-class communications and information tools that empower the Arab Internet user. In addition to its popular email, chat, discussion forums and full array of entertainment and information content, Maktoob.com offers from the latest in Web 2.0 communication tools in Arabic including blogs, video- and photo-sharing, and social networking services.

Maktoob's main mission is to maintain and grow its position as the world's leading Arab Internet portal by constantly offering its users a unique experience and by providing them with new services and products that encourage open communications and community building.

About Maktoob Group:

Maktoob Group comprises a network of leading online media companies and websites. In addition to the Arab world's leading portal, www.maktoob.com, the Maktoob Group network includes Souq.com (www.souq.com) auctions and marketplace, Araby.com (www.Araby.com) the first Arabic search engine, and cashU (www.cashu.com) the electronic payment solution, in addition to several other leading sites and services in the region. In 2005, Abraaj Capital, a leading regional private equity firm, acquired a stake in Maktoob.

For more information about the Group, please visit www.maktoobgroup.com

About ABC Electronic
ABC Electronic (www.abce.org.uk) was established in 1996 as the industry owned, tri-partite, not for profit organisation, which works on behalf of advertisers, media buyers and media owners to provide third party independent verification and certification for data related to electronic media (Internet, Email, SMS, Interactive TV, WAP, PDA and Streaming audio and video) in the UK and Ireland.

ABC Electronic serves the online media communities in the UK and Ireland, and is leading an international network setting global standards for electronic media. ABC Electronic delivers global measurement standards for local markets through its work as Chair of the IFABC web standards group. www.ifabc.org

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Sue-Ellen Lazrado
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Tel: 009714 - 2289655

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