Who's The Big Boss Of email & Webmail, Hotmail, Yahoo or Gmail?

Probably many of us signed-up a few email services, we needed different account to perform different task! That's how we were caught up with the idea of having a gmail for personal work, then yahoo for family and hotmail because i needed Windows live Messenger.

Many of us wondering, who is actually the big boss of email and webmail service? Who hosted the most accounts? Well i did a search from Google with the word " Mail and Webmail Statistic " and found this

According to "mail-marketing-reports.com"

Hotmail:

• An October 2011 Comscore report put Hotmail's user base at 350 million.
• A July 2011 post on the official Microsoft blog claimed Hotmail served 360 million unique users a month.
• According to August 2011 statistics cited by Yahoo! (see the About page here), Hotmail is the biggest webmail provider with over 330 million unique users.
• The latest Factsheet (albeit September 2010) from Microsoft notes that "Windows Live Hotmail is one of the world's largest e-mail providers with more than 355 million active accounts".
• In March, 2010, a Group Program Manager at Windows Live Hotmail wrote that the service had over 369 million active users.

Yahoo! Mail:

• The October 2011 Comscore numbers (see above) estimated Yahoo! Mail had 310 million users.
• In August 2011, Yahoo! reported independent statistics giving it 302 million unique users globally and double the number of Gmail users in the US market (see the About page here).
• In March, 2011, Miriam Geller (Yahoo! Mail's Director of Product Management) headlined a blog post "Change Email for 270M People with Yahoo! Mail Applications".
• In a May 2010 interview, Yahoo! Mail's Carlo Catajan mentions 275+ million users.

Gmail:

• In January 2012, Google claimed 350 million active users during an earnings call.
• The October 2011 Comscore numbers estimated 260 million users.
• Research from Return Path suggested Gmail ended 2010 with some 193 million users.

Email service provider MailChimp publishes the total number of emails they send to each of the major email address providers. The results for July 2011 saw Hotmail and Gmail addresses as the most "popular" in mailing lists, closely followed by Yahoo! Mail, with AOL way behind.

Data from competitive intelligence service Hitwise suggests Yahoo! Mail is the most used: as of January, 2012, the most popular email websites (based on US Internet usage and in descending order of popularity) were: Yahoo! Mail, Gmail and Windows Live Hotmail (see current rankings.)

Interestingly, the data also suggests that email is a far more important part of the Yahoo empire than Google's. The mail-related domain is the most popular at the Yahoo portal, while Gmail accounts for a small proportion of visits to Google.

Webmail providers like Gmail and Microsoft may also be behind some other domain names, either through POP3 retrieval of email from other accounts or through email hosting services offered to businesses and organizations which retain the latter's domains.

Writer : Andrew

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