Tiscali is the first among European brands

Milan, 30th June 2004 - Tiscali ranked at first place ahead of all the other European brands in the European Regional Index on Internet audience for the month of April 2004, published by Nielsen//NetRatings.

With 13,7 million Unique Visitors, Tiscali portal is first ahead of Lycos Europe, Wanadoo and T-Online, second only to USA brands.

Top 10 Brand Unique Audience Active Reach:
MSN  50,294,521 49.24%
Google  49,597,190 48.56%
Microsoft  41,693,205 40.82%
eBay  27,895,381 27.31%
Yahoo!  27,260,351 26.69%
Tiscali 13,664,649 13.38%
Lycos Europe 13,202,137 12.93%
Wanadoo 13,158,174 12.88%
T-Online 13,134,850 12.86%
Amazon 12,200,047 11.94%

Mario Mariani, SVP Business Development of Tiscali Corporate, said: "Our portal is a very important tool for customer acquisition and retention, thus putting in a strategic and crucial position the content selection and organization. The result of the Nielsen//NetRatings’ research is a further confirmation that we are going in the right direction. Europe is our market and after the important integration process that we have implemented, being today the first online European brand means to us great satisfaction".