"Rambler" first went into plus

Rambler Media first released a detailed report on its financial results. A 20-page document describes the results of the first half of the current year ( PDF ). This segment can be called very successful. Total revenues almost doubled to $ 15.8 million (including $ 684,000 from the share in “Runner”), while revenues from Internet business increased 2.37 times to $ 12.3 million. For the first time in its ten-year history “Rambler »Went ahead for such a time period, having received a profit of $ 2.5 million for six months (in the first half of 2005 a loss of $ 2.3 million was recorded). The main income the company receives from banner and search advertising.

Over the year, the Rambler portal audience grew by 50% to 21 million unique visitors per month, while Lenta.Ru’s audience grew to 2.7 million unique visitors per month. The number of portal page views increased by 80% to 1.5 billion per month.

An important stage in business development during the reporting period was the purchase in January of a 51% stake in Price Express, which gave Rambler control over the Price.Ru project (catalog of 40 million goods), Domoteka.Ru and Tyndex.Ru . Investors' money also went for the purchase in June of a 51% stake in the women's social network Damochka.Ru (1.7 million registered users).

Rambler also underlines the success of the Rambler-ICQ instant messaging service with ICQ, which was launched last year and has already acquired 1.6 million users. Due to this program, ICQ’s audience in Russia has grown from 2 million to 3.6 million people.
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The leadership of Rambler calls the Internet boom continuing in Russia, the growing number of users (+ 25% per year) and the emergence of new Internet services in the Russian segment of the World Wide Web as the main reason for the rapid growth.

In the near future, "Rambler" is going to hold a number of high-profile presentations. Among them is the official opening of the new gaming site "Ramblas" , which is still in beta.