FreeRealTime.com Page Views increase 189% to a Record 298 Million Page Views
in March, Registered Members Reach Record Level of 1.1 million
IRVINE, Calif., April 12 /PRNewswire/ -- FreeRealTime.com. Inc.,
(OTC Bulletin Board: FRTI), a leading provider of online, real-time stock
market data and financial services, today announced substantial increases in
its Web site traffic for the fiscal 4th quarter ended March 31, 2000. For
March 2000, the last month of the fiscal 4th quarter, the company saw a 189%
annual increase in traffic at its Web site, freerealtime.com, over
March 1999. The company's results for the month of March 2000 represents an
increase of 189% in monthly page views and an increase of 120% in the
registered member base over the same period last year, when the company had
approximately 500,000 registered members and generated approximately
103 million page views during the month of March 1999. The overall member
base continued to grow rapidly as well totaling over 1,100,000 members at
March month end, an increase of over 200,000 new registrations for the
quarter.
Monthly page views increased from 182 million page views in December 1999
(the last month of the fiscal 3rd quarter) to 298 million page views for the
month of March 2000, an increase of 64%.
"Our traffic results as we completed the 4th quarter continued to be very
strong, reflecting a consistent trend in our performance over the entire
year," said Brad Gunn, President and Co-CEO. "Our continued growth and
success reinforces that our members see FreeRealTime.com as an online
financial destination of choice. As such, the team at FreeRealTime.com will
continue to provide our membership with valuable tools and content in order to
help them make savvy investing decisions."
About FreeRealTime.com
FreeRealTime.com, Inc. is a leading digital financial media company
providing an array of stock market data, business information and
sophisticated research and management tools for institutional investors,
brokers, and independent investors. FreeRealTime.com has been recognized as a
leader by such notable sources as CNBC, Online Investor, Forbes, The Wall
Street Journal, Nielsen//NetRatings, and The Los Angeles Times. Visit
FreeRealTime.com's Web site at freerealtime.com.
Certain matters discussed in this news release relating to the Company's
traffic, business expansion and subscriber growth, and site usage reflect
current information and involve certain risks and uncertainties, including,
without limitation, changes in product demand, changes in competition and
other economic conditions. These statements may or may not be indicative of
future demand. Freerealtime.com undertakes no obligation to release publicly
the result of any revisions to these statements that may be made to reflect
events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of
unanticipated events.
SOURCE FreeRealTime.com, Inc.
-0- 04/12/2000
/CONTACT: Michael Neufeld, Chief Financial Officer of FreeRealTime.com,
Inc., 949-833-2959, ext. 120; or Jeffrey Goldberger of Stern & Co.,
212-888-0044, for FreeRealTime.com, Inc./
/Web site: freerealtime.com
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