Milan, 5 May 2008 – www.ilsole24ore.com recorded a historic high of 3,149,291 unique users in April, +69.91% compared to last year, and page views of 38,435,564, +67.22%year–on-year.
Impacting these results was the exceptional performance recorded on Monday, 14 Aprilon the occasion of the political elections, with the special coverage dedicated to the elections bringing in record high users and pages views with 429,266 users and 3,166,000 page views.
Some of the news in April includes introduction of the new Cinema Section with news, special features, movie theatre listings, and trailers of the films currently showing in theatres.
Excellent results in terms of e-commerce at shopping24.it with April turnover reporting a rise of 55% with respect to the same month in 2007 and an increase in January to April 2008 of +32% versus the same period last year.
Advertising sales on www.ilsole24ore.com, handled by WebSystem, reported superior performance, with a + 59.8% rise in commissions for the month of April 2008 versus April 2007 and a progressive January to April 2008 performance up 40.5% versus the same four months in 2007.