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Brand Track cum usage satisfaction study of telecom service provider for a leading telecom magazine.
  Download: Mobile User Survey 2007(PDF: 3,644 kb).
Study to evaluate employee value proposition for a
leading banking back
office.
Study to understand the IM/ chatting users for a leading media company.

Bench marking usability studies for a leading travel portal based on actual user evaluations.

NRIs visit Cyberia to keep in touch with Mother India
April 20th, 2008
Business Standard
Over 90 per cent of the NRIs surveyed by online research firm Juxtconsult said they access the web daily. Of these, two-thirds access the internet from home. Two-thirds access internet from office.

Attack of the netclones
January 7th, 2008
BusinessToday
"The online players still have to wake up to the world of 'brand building' by creating differentiation. They are still too busy selling products and services," says Sanjay Tiwari, CEO & Co-founder, JuxtConsult.

Indian Startups Go for Web 2.0 Gold
November 30th, 2007
BusinessWeek
For the past year, global networking sites have been growing in popularity among young Indians. According to JuxtConsult, a New Delhi-based online research and advisory company, 44% of Indian online traffic uses the Internet just for social networking. Google's (GOOG) Orkut is the most popular social networking site in India, with a 64% market share. Facebook is also winning many Indian fans, especially students.

Is TV advertising working for online players?
October 24th, 2007
Agencyfaqs
AdMomentux measures "audience mindshare", which indicates the effectiveness of a TV commercial within a particular product category. Audience mindshare is based on parameters like top-of-mind recall, appeal, likeability, relevance and comprehensibility of the ad among consumers, combined with the brand differentiation and preference created by an ad. Higher audience mindshare implies higher effectiveness of an ad.

JuxtConsult identifies most effective ads among urban internet users
October 15th, 2007
Alootechie
According to the Ad Box Office findings for August 2007, Airtel's was the most effective ad followed by Nokia's and Surf Excel's. The other most effective ads in the Top 10 are those of Hutch, UTI/Axis Bank, Lux Soap, Pepsi, LIC, Tata Sky and Cadbury.

JuxtConsult's Ad Box Office finds Airtel to be the most effective ad
October 13th, 2007
Exchange4media
JuxtConsult had recently launched Ad Box Office, which is India's first monthly monitor of the most successful and effective ads among the urban consumers. It has now released its findings for August, which reveal that Airtel's ad was the most effective with an Ad Connect Quotient (ACQ) of 59.7, followed by Nokia with an ACQ of 45.5.

India's top ten television ads
October 3rd, 2007
Economic Times
India's top ten television ads from JuxtConsult Ad Box Office, an ad effectiveness monitor which measures how well advertisements connect consumers and brands.

Orkuting most popular Internet activity among Indians
Sepember 21st, 2007
IBNLive
What do Indians do when they are hooked on to the Net? Most of them are either busy writing or receiving emails, dating online or socialising on networking sites like Orkut. That's the finding of India Online 2007, an Internet users' behaviour survey conducted by online research solutions consultancy firm JuxtConsult.

Orkut leaves dating sites behind
Sepember 21st, 2007
Economic Times
"With almost half the online urban Indians (48 per cent) undertaking it, online matrimonial search has established itself as a 'mainline' online activity. Twelve million online urban Indians are using online matrimonial search, making it the 13th most popular online activity. It has also been one of the biggest 'gainers' in users among the online activities in last one year," says India Online 2007, a survey conducted by JuxtConsult, an online research solutions consultancy firm.

Job search second most popular activity on Internet
Sepember 14th, 2007
Mint
Just 21% of the total number of online job seekers in urban India come from the IT or software area, the JuxtConsult India Employee Speak 2007 study found. The technology boom may have made IT sector the top career choice, but software geeks account for only one-fifth of those scouting for jobs online -- the second most popular activity on the Internet.

Online matrimonial searches on the rise: Study
Sepember 11th, 2007
BusinessLine
Matrimonial search is the 13th most popular activity on the Internet among 12 million urban users in India, says a study by research firm Juxt Consult. Dating/friendship sites are the 10th most popular pastime. E-mail, job search and instant messaging are the top three activities on the Net, in that order, says the study.

Why do India's online numbers vary so sharply?
agencyfaqs
Different studies bring out different numbers of internet users in India. There's IAMAI-IMRB (37 million, September 2006), comScore (22 million, April 2007) and JuxtConsult (30 million, April 2007) -- creating confusion while assessing the real worth of the internet market in India. Kapil Ohri spoke to Rajnish, head of Digital Marketing, Revenue and Strategic Business, Windows Live and MSN India and Sanjay Tiwari, director of JuxtConsult, to find out the reasons behind the data discrepancies.

Small towns are buzzing with e-shoppers
Sepember 9th, 2007
Sify
Small-town India is buying with a mouse, nowadays. Its share of India's online shopping is more than a nibble. According to Sanjay Tiwari, who heads the research group JuxtConsult, two out of three online consumers are from non-metro centres in India. "There are 25.17 million internet users in India of which about 17-18 million (approx 67 per cent) are from 'urban uptowns', or smaller centres," he says. "They make up 37 per cent of buyer base."

Big town Small Town
August 31st, 2007
Economic Times
The CD-Juxtconsult Employee Survey 2007 shows that despite relatively lower salary levels compared to large cities, employees in emerging towns show the highest levels of satisfaction with their current jobs. Interestingly, when asked about the factors defining good company reputation, as much as 70% of the respondents from emerging towns said that it the product or service quality image in the industry that mattered most, while only 60% of the employees in metros felt the same way.

Fret not, the HR is listening
August 31st, 2007
Economic Times
Don't fret over dissatisfied employees. They will move out anyway. Instead, work hard to keep your flock of 'fence sitters' together. Chances of retaining the former into the organisations mainstream, are slimmer than the ones for the latter. With a multitude of reasons to quit an organisation today and the mercenary mindset amongst employees, the HR fraternity has little choice but to ensure that 'fence sitters' don't reach that brink. That's one of the key takeaways from the India Employee Speak 2007 conducted by CD and the Delhi-based online research firm, JuxtConsult.

Sheen missing from blue shirt white collar jobs
August 31st, 2007
Economic Times
In reality, the world of executives is changing – though not as fast and as dramatic. What's the real face of white-collar workers? Where and how do they livework ? What do they aspire for? Has the job-hopping bug hit all? Is salary 'The Factor'? The Corporate Dossier-Juxt-Consult, an online research arm of Indicus Analytics, conducted one of the largest studies to understand and unravel white-collar workers in India. With 16,500 respondents, covering 4,700 companies in 31 cities, the study has been designed to represent 160 million urban Indians.

IT's a Beautiful World
August 31st, 2007
Economic Times
India's booming IT and telecom sectors have for sometime been the posterboys of the country's economic success story. And now the nation's vast army of non IT white collared workforce too wants to jump into the tech bandwagon. Out of the 16,319 people surveyed for the CD-JuxtConsult Employee Speak Survey, barely 5 per cent worked in the IT sector. But a whopping 25 per cent want to hitch the IT ride. Telecom emerged as the second most popular sector – with only 4 per cent of the respondents working there but 21 per cent aspiring for it.

Broadband Flows Into Indian Homes
August 22nd 2007
BusinessWeek
According to a recent survey by online research firm JuxtConsult, the overall Internet population in urban India has grown a healthy 28 percent between April 2006 and April 2007. The country's online user population currently stands at 30.3 million, at a penetration rate of some 3 percent. Among urban Indians, the penetration rate increases to about 9 percent.

Matrimonial websites losing out to dating websites
August 07th, 2007
Business Standard
Matrimonial sites like Bharat Matrimony and Shaadi.com have been around for a decade as compared to dating and friendship sites which are just around three years old in India. Yet, a majority (51 per cent) of Indian youth online are registering with dating and friendship sites rather than marriage websites.

Small-town geeks live their dream
August 07th, 2007
Economic Times
Internet has changed the way companies and executives do business. It is also significantly changing the way India's youth dream, socialise, date and entertain them. Significantly, while the big city-small city chasm continues in the real world, that disparity is flattening in the virtual world, reveals an exclusive online youth survey done by JuxtConsult, an online research firm.

India’s online bazaar
July 30th, 2007
Mint
More Indian are buying online. A survey conducted by Juxtconsult, an online research firm, India Online 2007, shows that 76% of all online Indians search the Web for buys. The number of active online buyers, however, remains stagnant.

India added 6 million Internet users last year, survey finds
July 14th, 2007
Mint
India had 30 million internet users in April, six million than it had an year ago, according to a survey and and 20 million of these users are on the net daily.

Vernacular content sites still need to take off: Juxt survey
July 10th, 2007
agencyfaqs
Although various players are trying to pull traffic by coming up with local language sites – including Yahoo!, Google News, Blogger and Webduniya – it is Google that has captured the throne when it comes to vernacular content. Out of the three million local language content users, 12 per cent prefer Google for searching local language content and 8 per cent local language users log on to Yahoo! for local language content.

eBay, Rediff most preferred websites for online shopping: Study
July 09th, 2007
exchange4media
When it comes to the base of actual online buyers, 43 per cent of all regular online urban Indians have bought online. This means a growth of 76 per cent over the last year, making the online buyer base reach a healthy 10.8 million mark. Despite such tremendous growth in the number of online buyers overall, the base of really 'active' online buyers (those who buy online at least once a month) is almost stagnant at 2.2 million (same as last year).

India gets more Net cool
July 06th, 2007
Hindustan Times
Internet usage in India continues to grow at a slow but steady pace, both in 'spread' and 'depth'. If there are no visible signs of any sweeping or far-reaching growth on the horizon yet, there are no indications of any slowdown either," Juxtconsult said.

Urban India Web Users
July 05th, 2007
Clickz
Urban areas of India are home to 30.32 million Internet users according to a report by JuxtConsult. The Internet population rose 28 percent from April 2006 to April of this year.

Home Internet Usage in India Creeps Up
June 25th, 2007
eMarketer
JuxtConsult claims that the growth of Internet usage in cybercafes drove the total in 2006, but that increased Internet usage at home was the big story in 2007. Home Internet usage in India grew 19% from April 2006 to April 2007.

Smaller cities and towns go e-shopping
June 26th, 2007
Business Standard
There are around 30 million Internet users in India, of which 20 million are online everyday, according to the India Online 2007 survey by Juxt Consult.

India’s Internet Users Reach 30 Million
June 25th, 2007
Marketing Charts
Internet usage in India continues to grow at a slow but steady pace, both in breadth and depth, with the overall internet-using population in urban India reaching 30.32 million - a growth of 28% from April 2006 to April 2007 - according to the "India Online 2007″ study from JuxtConsult.

Indians join the league of e-shoppers
June 14th, 2007
Economic Times
According to the India Online 2007 survey conducted by online research & advisory firm JuxtConsult, as much as 59% of Indian Netizens surf from home, and almost 77% of these home surfers use broadband connections.

Google, Yahoo!, Orkut Me too?
June 14th, 2007
Techtree
Internet research company, JuxtConsult, has published its latest report on the state of Internet in India. The report, titled 'India Online 2007' offers interesting insights on the emerging pattern of Internet usage in the country.
For starters, there are no visible signs of any sweeping, far-reaching changes, nor are there indicators of a slowdown.

Only 41% of India’s 30 million netizens prefer online content in English
June 13th, 2007
Alootechie
According to a study by online research and advisory firm JuxtConsult , only 41 per cent of India's 30 million internet users prefer to browse online in English as compared to 59 per cent a year ago. Hardly a surprise considering the fact that more than half of Indian netizens reside not in the metros but in Tier II and III cities!

20 mn active net users, Google most used brand: Juxt survey
June 12th, 2007
agencyfaqs
Research firm JuxtConsult’s latest report ‘India Online 2007’ puts Indian internet users in urban areas at 30.32 million in April 2007, a growth of 28 per cent over the previous year. Of these, 83 per cent are ‘regular’ users, who log on to the net at least once a month. JuxtConsult estimates that 20 million users are online once a day in the country.

Dotcom reality: Nothing cyber about cafes
June 9th, 2007
Economic Times
Online research & advisory firm JuxtConsult's India Online 2007' surveyed 10,000 offline households in 31 cities countrywide, reflects sharply on the online behaviour of Indians.

Google, Yahoo not so 'user-friendly' in India
March 19, 2007
Zdnetasia
Google and Yahoo may be popular amongst Internet users in India but both Web sites rank low in terms of usability, according to a study released by online research group JuxtConsult.

Shaadi.com adjudged the Most User-Friendly Website in India
March 14, 2007
Moneycontrol
A recent 'usability study' of 121 most popular websites in the country, conducted by online research consultancy firm JuxtConsult, credited Shaadi.com for being the most user-friendly website in India. Shaadi.com has been adjudged as the matrimonial portal with the best practices, achieving a score of above 95 percentile.

50% buy online
March 6, 2007
Business Standard
The latest usage-cum-brand tracking study conducted by JuxtConsult on 'online shopping' notes that 50 per cent of all online Indians have bought a travel product online.

Indian news websites not so user-friendly, finds survey
February 20, 2007
Newswatch
Most Indian news websites score extremely low when it comes to being responsive to its users, a recent survey has found. According to a User-Friendly Index developed by online research consultancy firm JuxtConsult based on 32 individual usability criteria, the most user-friendly news website is Aajtak with a score of 0.656 on a scale of 1.0.

Only 1/5 of websites are customer responsive: JuxtConsultant Study
February 14, 2007
exchange4media
A recent 'usability study' amongst 121 most popular websites in the country, conducted by online research consultancy JuxtConsult, has found that only 19 (or about one in five) of them are really 'customer-responsive'. That is, out of the 121 websites studied, only 19 of them replied appropriately to an email query sent to them either on their 'contact us' id and or their 'feedback id.

Only 20 per cent of websites responsive to customers: JuxtConsult
13 Feb, 2007
Agencyfaqs
In a recent 'usability' study of 121 most popular websites in India undertaken by the online research company JuxtConsult it found that only 19 (or about 1 in 5) of these top websites were really 'customer-responsive'. That is, of the 121 websites tested only 19 websites replied appropriately to a mail query sent to them either on their 'contact us' email id and/or their 'feedback form'.

Gmail set up to catch up with Yahoo! in India: Survey
February 10, 2007
exchange4media
In the latest usage-cum-brand tracking study conducted by online research agency JuxtConsult, Gmail has shown significant rise in its user base, emerging as the second most popular email brand in India, behind only Yahoo! Gmail shows the best brand momentum (or future market readiness) among existing the email brands. The email category has seen a 20 per cent growth in usage in last one year.

Indian portals fail to click, says study
February 09, 2007
Business Standard
"The websites which depend more on generating revenues directly from their user tend to care more for the users' convenience and work towards making their websites easier to use compared with the free content usage websites like portals, email websites, social networking sites, news sites and public information websites," observed Sanjay Tiwari, director, JuxtConsult.

Can desi portals match up?
January 29, 2007
The Financial Express
In fact, Rediff Mail has lost some of its client base both to Gmail and Yahoo, according to JuxtConsult. Its director, Sanjay Tiwari feels both Sify and Rediff have to do much more to understand the needs of the local population.

Online air ticketing scores over rail bookings
December 06, 2006
Business Standard
Online air ticket bookings have overtaken online train ticket bookings as travel portals such as makemytrip.com dominate the top-of-mind category brand recall and the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Ltd ( irctc.co.in ) coming a distant second, according to a recent study conducted by JuxtConsult for the online travel industry.

10 years of free e-mail
December 06, 2006
CIOL
Back home in India, Yahoo rules the roost as the most preferred portal for e-mail, according to JuxtConsult survey in 2005. Yahoo enjoys 38 per cent share with Rediff and Hotmail following with 21 per cent and 18 per cent respectively. Gmail is yet to catch up and has a 5 per cent user base.

Mobitel wins regional award
November 21, 2006
Sri Lanka Daily Mirror (subscription) - Sri Lanka
Speaking at the award ceremony Mr. Sanjay Tiwari from JuxtConsult , Delhi, India, explained the criteria and methodology used in conducting the on-line survey ...

Social networking on the rise
October 17, 2006
Business Standard
A JuxtConsult India online 2006 survey reveals that Orkut which unleashed the potential of social networking in India is among the top ten most recalled online brands among internet users.

'Naukri, twice as big as Monsterindia'
October 10, 2006
Rediff.com
Recently Juxtconsult did a survey of over 25,000 Internet users and sought their preferences. Over 49% of the respondents said that Naukri.com is their most preferred job site as compared to 19% for Monsterindia.

Selling Sentiments: Marketers wake up to the power of NRI's
September 14, 2006
Economic Times
In its latest syndicated study, JuxtConsult, an online research firm, has compiled little known consumption and behaviour patterns of 20- million strong Indian diaspora.

Cash register ringing for internet firms
September 2, 2006
Business Standard
According to the India Online 2006 survey by JuxtConsult, an online research company, 22 per cent new users were added to the urban internet users pie.
Yahoo!, Naukri, Bharatmatrimony among best recalled Net brands
August 29, 2006
Agencyfaqs
There are close to 21 million urban Internet users in India, says India Online 2006, a research study conducted by JuxtConsult , a Delhi based online research ...
Window shoppers invade Net
August 28, 2006
Business Standard
In effect, the real active base of online urban Indian buyers is only about 2.2 million, or about 10 per cent of the urban Internet user population, according to a survey by JuxtConsult , an online research consultancy.
2.2 Million Internet Users In Urban India Actively Buy Online: Survey
August 25, 2006
ContentSutra
According to a Juxtconsult survey, only a quarter of 21 million urban internet population buy online, while just 10 per cent of it are active buyers.
JUXTCONSULT:  India's Leading Websites
TechGoss.com
These and other top websites in the Indian digital space have emerged out of the second JuxtConsult India Online 2006 research released last month. The most preferred websites across 14 categories were unearthed in the research and several have retained their lead vis a vis last year's findings. These include the biggest players including Yahoo, Indiatimes, Rediff, Naukri and Google.
Local Content For Indian Internet Growth
August 17, 2006
GigaOM
A recent survey by New Delhi-based online research consultant JuxtConsult showed that 44 percent of the 30,000 odd people it polled preferred sites in Hindi and 25 percent wanted content in other local Indian languages.
Internet waits for vernacular pilot in India Rise of Hindi Portals
August 13, 2006
The Financial Express
A recent survey by New Delhi online research consultant JuxtConsult among Net users in India showed 44% of respondents preferred sites in Hindi and another 25% wanted content in other local Indian languages.
Rise of Hindi Portals
July 30, 2006
TechTree
Findings from a recent survey conducted by JuxtConsult among the Internet users in India, surprised many in the IT industry, as 44% of the total participants expressed their preference to websites in Hindi, while 25% wanted to read web content in other local Indian languages.
Netted: Some site-seeing this!
85 Per Cent Indians Hooked To Blogging, Says Survey
July 22, 2006
Times of India
A comprehensive study undertaken by New Delhi-based Juxt Consult has thrown up heartening statistics on the blogosphere as well as the Indian online community. The net in India has apparently grown in its spread and depth — the pie of urban Internet users has seen an addition of 22% with the number of users escalating from 17.7 million in 2005 to 21.4 million in 2006 so far.
e-commerce seen logging 300% growth
July 19, 2006
DNA
A recent survey 'India Online 2006' by online research and advisory firm JuxtConsult has shown that the number of Indians shopping online grew 42% over the last year, almost double the rate of growth of the internet medium (22%), which is proof enough that internet shopping is gaining traction with the value-seeking desi consumer despite concerns on online security and vendor trust.
Interactive interplay
July 16, 2006
The Hindu
"Online India 2006" done by an agency called Juxt Consult would have us believe that 51 per cent Indian users come from low-middle class with a monthly income of less than Rs. 10,000, 24 per cent come from the Rs.10,000-20,000 a month income group, 74 per cent users have no credit cards, and only 49 per cent have their own computer. Forty two per cent prefer accessing the Net in an Indian language.
Survey: Yahoo Top Portal, Shaadi And BM Tie In Matrimony
July 12, 2006
ContentSutra
Indian internet research company JuxtConsult has released the various findings of their latest India Online 2006 Report. Now this one is about the popular Indian websites across 14 categories based on a user preference study.
Yahoo! is the most top-of-the-mind brand among the Indian urban internet users.

MSN, Hotmail lag behind Yahoo!, says survey
July 10, 2006
Business Standard
These results which have been thrown up by the second India Online Research by JuxtConsult, which mapped over 20,000 responses from Internet users.

`Net is used more for searching than buying'
June 05, 2006
Business Line
How does online buying fare in India? There may be answers from the online research and advisory, www.juxtconsult.com, which has a feature titled `India Online 2005'. Insights displayed on the site are that 17.5 million urban Indians use the Net, and that the typical Net user is not a tech-savvy professional but an average person.

Net's Cast wider than you thought- India's Net worth at an inflexion point
Economic Times
  In a three part series, ET presents the changing online behaviour patterns of Indian internet users based on JuxtConsult's 'India Online 2006', a 20,000 online users survey.

TV Loosing its Net Worth- Prime Time: 6 pm to midnight- Beware Television Here comes the Net
Economic Times
In the second part of a three part series, ET presents the changing online behaviour patterns of Indian internet users based on JuxtConsult's 'India Online 2006', an online survey of 20,000 online users.

More and more Indians getting hooked
Economic Times
In the concluding part of a three part series, ET presents the changing online buying habits of Indian internet users based on JuxtConsult's 'India Online 2006', an online survey of 20,000 online users.

Net users gearing up towards more digitised way of living
October 07, 2005
Newswatch
Urban Indian net users are increasingly using digital means of entertainment and aspiring to upgrade to a lifestyle that is digitally driven. Not without reason, for consumers now do not buy products or brands – they buy lifestyles, asserts a report of Internet users in the country's urban areas.

'Netsumers' most likely to recall lifestyle brands
October 07, 2005
Agencyfaqs
According to the Emerging Digital Lifestyle report released by JuxtConsult, lifestyle brands like automobiles and consumer durables score highest on the unaided brand recall level.

‘Pepsi, Tata, Sony ads have highest recall among surfers’
October 06, 2005
Financial Express
Bollywood badshah Amitabh Bachchan rules in cyberia, too, as far as the Indians are concerned. A survey on the lifestyles of Indian surfers has revealed that Big B is the most successful icon, followed by cricketer Sachin Tendulkar and actor Shah Rukh Khan.

For Indian Net users, Pepsi most recalled brand, Big B most successful person
October 06, 2005
exchange4media
Amitabh Bachchan, Sachin Tendulkar, Shah Rukh Khan lead the list with Dhirubhai Ambani, L N Mittal and Narayana Murthy following them among the top 10 role models for Net users. President A P J Abdul Kalam is the only exception at No 5, who stands out for his success other than for money or glamour.

Modern Indian Is Digital Indian: Survey
October 06, 2005
ContentSutra
For urban Indian net users, the digital age is slowly but surely dawning. They are using digital means of entertainment more and aspire to upgrade to a lifestyle that is digitally driven.

Housewives have been well & truly netted
October 04, 2005
DNA
Digital is increasingly dominating Net users’ choice of passing time at home. Net surfing is the most preferred pastime at home already for one in every five Net user.

Google, Yahoo!, EBay Tops In India
September 09, 2005
WebProNews
According to JuxtConsult, an online survey of 30,000 Internet users in India revealed that Yahoo!, Google, and eBay topped the list of most visited sites in the subcontinent with a population of about one billion.

What Indians search on the net
September 08, 2005
CIOL
The recent JuxtConsult study on preferred websites of netizens reveals that leading portals dominate the Indian online space.

Yahoo, Google Top Net Survey
September 08, 2005
TechTree
While most net activities fall into categories like tracking news and events, searching for information/employment and social/professional interaction, key insights into the habits and preferences of net users have also been obtained thanks to JuxtConsult's survey.

Yahoo clicks in India; is most popular e-mail host
September 08, 2005
Financial express
Yahoo is the most preferred portal for e-mail and chat for Indians. While Indiatimes takes the lead as event and sports news provider, Naukri rules the roost when it comes to online job search. And when it comes to searching for a spouse, most Indians log on to Shaadi.com.

Yahoo for mail, Indiatimes for Whatever! Survey digs into online habits of Indian netizens
September 08, 2005
exchange4media
When it comes to online preferences, Indian netizens like to go with the best. In a survey carried out by online research agency JuxtConsult, Yahoo India came out as the clear winner as the most preferred communication portal for its e-mail and chat services.

Internet Shopping in India
August 30, 2005
TechTree
Recently, a research outfit, JuxtConsult, conducted an on-line survey of over 30,000 net users in India and came up with some very interesting findings.
It turns out 40 per cent of urban net users are also on-line buyers. From these, nearly 4.2 million users qualify as consistent on-line shoppers. As little as 5 per cent of net consumers, contribute to as much as 42 per cent of the total sales on the net.


Internet Use Remains a Rarity in India
August 15, 2005
eMarketer
Despite India's tech outsourcing muscle, the country's Internet penetration rate is low, and the greatest growth in usage is in increased time online by established users — 80% of Web users in India have been online for more than 3 years, while user growth was only 8% in the past year.

Men buy as women search more in India
August 11, 2005
CIOL
The Internet is used more for searching than buying products and services, the study by JustConsult revealed. Though a significant proportion of net users are also net consumers, only a few of them are driving the online shopping 'momentum'.

Indian Net Users Prefer To Search Than Buy Stuff On The Net
August 11, 2005
ContentSutra
In India, Internet is used more for searching than buying products and services, a study by JuxtConsult revealed. Though a significant proportion of net users are also net consumers, only a few of them are driving the online shopping 'momentum'.

Indian Web Usage Evolves In 'Depth' Than In Spread
August 5, 2005
CXOtoday
In its decade long presence in India, Internet usage has evolved more in 'depth' than in 'spread'. That is, its impact and growth is being driven through 'increased usage' by existing users rather than assimilation of newer ones.

Internet in India at crossroads
August 5, 2005
exchange4media
In its decade long presence in India, Internet usage has evolved more in ‘depth’ than in ‘spread’. That is, its impact and growth is being driven through ‘increased usage’ by existing users rather than assimilation of newer ones. Eighty per cent of urban net users have been wired for more than three years now while only 8 per cent joined the bandwagon less than a year ago.

"Internet grows in depth in India: Study"
August 2, 2005
CIOL
Internet usage has evolved more in 'depth' than in 'spread in its decade long presence in India,' a study said. Internet's impact and growth is being driven through 'increased usage' by existing users rather than assimilation of newer ones, the study conducted by JustConsult said.

"India's Net Userbase Gets Deeper And Not Broader"
August 2, 2005
Content Sutra
In India, Internet user base is growing in depth, not in spread. The already existing users are spending more time on the net while only a few new users are added every year, according to a survey by JuxtConsult, a joint effort of Indicus Analytics and Webchutney.

Net worth: User base is only deepening, not broadening
August 1, 2005
Newswatch
Internet usage in the country, in the last one decade, has evolved more in depth than in spread. The user base has deepened, not broadened.

"India's Net Userbase Gets Deeper And Not Broader"
August 1, 2005
Business Standard
In India, Internet user base is growing in depth, not in spread. The already existing users are spending more time on the net while only a few new users are added every year, according to a survey by JuxtConsult, a joint effort of Indicus Analytics and Webchutney.

"Virtual society has few newcomers"
August 1, 2005
Rediff.com
Internet use growing in depth, not extent: Study.

Press Releases
JuxtConsult launches Ad Box Office: India's first ad effectiveness monitor
October 1, 2007

In a new service which measures effectiveness of ads in terms of how well they connect consumers and brands through their Ad Connect Quotient, Airtel scores the highest on the ACQ for August 07 followed by Nokia and Surf Excel.

Vernacular content users on the web
July 1, 2007

Against 60% of all regular online Indians ‘preferring’ to read in local Indian languages, only 12% actually check local language content online. If we count numbers, it means that on a ‘potential base’ of almost 15 million, only 3 million online Indians check local language content on the net.

The Online Marketplace
June 20, 2007

Three-fourth of all regular online Indians (76%) search for products and services online. This has shown a 60% growth in the base of ‘online shoppers’ in last 1 year, making it 19.1 million strong.

When it comes to the base of actual ‘online buyers’, 43% of all regular online urban Indians have bought online. This means a growth of 76% over the last year, making the online buyer base reach a healthy 10.8 million mark.

Most Preferred Websites
June 10, 2007

Yahoo once again emerges as the most top of mind recalled online brand of all with 30% of all online Indians recalling it as the first online brand coming to their minds. However, when it comes to actual usage it is Google which emerges the frontrunner with 29% of all internet users preferring to use Google the most among all websites.

INDIA ONLINE 2007
June 5, 2007

Internet usage in India continues to grow at a slow but steady pace, both in ‘spread’ and ‘depth’. If there are no visible signs of any sweeping or far-reaching growth on the horizon yet, there are no indications of any slowdown either.

The overall internet using population in urban India has grown by a healthy 28% between April 2006 and April 2007 to reach 30.32 million now.

The online shopping complex
February 25, 2007

JuxtConsult has conducted a brand tracking study also known as BrandMomentux for the online shopping sector and found that it was found that more urban Indians are buying travel tickets online than buying all other products put together.

Most customer responsive websites in India
February 7, 2007
In a recent ‘usability' study of 121 most popular websites in India undertaken by the online research consultancy, JuxtConsult , it found that only 19 (or about 1 in 5) of these top websites were really ‘customer-responsive'. That is, of the 121 websites tested only 19 websites replied appropriately to a mail query sent to them either on their ‘contact us' email id and/or their ‘feedback form'.

The most user friendly websites in India
Feb 6, 2007
A recent ‘usability' study of 121 most popular websites in India undertaken by the online research firm, JuxtConsult found that only 26 (or 1 out of 5) of these top websites really qualify to be called ‘user-friendly.'

Of the 26 highly user-friendly websites identified, 12 websites stood out to form the benchmark or ‘Best Practice' group scoring in the 95% percentile plus range, while 14 websites qualified to form the ‘User-Friendly' group scoring in the 85% to 95% percentile range.

Most preferred Email providers
December 10, 2006
In the latest usage-cum-brand tracking study conducted by JuxtConsult, Gmail has shown significant rise in its user base and is only trailing Yahoo as the most preferred email service.

The sky is the limit
December 4, 2006
JuxtConsult has conducted a brand tracking study also known as BrandMomentux for the online travel sector. BrandMomentux measures the current and future readiness of brands which are either consumer products or fall in the service category. The study reveals that every second internet user has booked a travel ticket online.

The online NRI Connectedness
September 10, 2006
NRI Indians 2006 research identifies NRI internet patterns and preferences and compares behavior of NRI from various parts of the world in staying connected with India. Almost every second online Indian is from South India (54%). North India origin NRI come next at 23%, followed by western regions ones at 19%.

India Online 2006-
The Brimming Melting Pot
July 07, 2006

India Online 2006 is out and the Internet has grown in both spread and depth. While the number of users stands at 25 million, the all India Internet penetration stands at 2.25%. Yahoo is the biggest top of the mind online brand among Indian internet users.

The Preferred Ones
July 11 , 2006

JuxtConsult India Online 2006 identifies top websites in the Indian digital space for the second year. The most preferred websites across 14 categories were unearthed in the research and several have retained their lead vis a vis last year’s findings. These include the biggest players including Yahoo, Indiatimes, Rediff, Naukri and Google.

"The Emerging digital Lifestyle"
October 3, 2005

Consumers do not buy products and brands they buy lifestyles. If that is the scenario, then what are the lifestyles that regular net users are seeking or buying? And how has the Internet impacted and influenced their lifestyle and consumption preferences?

For urban Indian net users, the digital age is slowly but surely dawning. They are using digital means of entertainment more and aspire to upgrade to a lifestyle that is digitally driven.

"The Preferred Ones"
September 07, 2005
The recent JuxtConsult study on preferred websites of netizens reveals that leading portals dominate the Indian online space for the most popular web based activities. Yahoo, Indiatimes, Rediff, MSN and Sify are the established generic portals while Google, Naukri and Shaadi among others have earned good niche audiences.

"Show Me The Money!"
August 10, 2005
The shopping cart is out. The wallet is ready. Although a small segment of 5% heavy spending users drive 42% of online spends, others are fast catching up. As 40% internet users embrace the online market and become e-consumers, this can only bring cheer to an economy which is being fuelled by a healthy purchasing power. Much as the Internet has been heralded as the harbinger of change, it has begun to influence the way we shop. The lull in the storm can be blamed on safety. Threat of abuse of personal information deters the keen yet cautious online shopper.

"Internet in India at Crossroads"
July 27, 2005
In about a decade that Internet has been in India, its usage has evolved more in ‘depth’ than in ‘spread’. That is, its impact and growth is being driven more by the ‘increased usage’ by those who are already using the net for some time, rather than by those who are getting added to the pie as new users.