Email Information

This information comes from eMarketer © 1999 CMP Media, Inc.

• Some 3.4 trillion email messages were delivered in the U.S. in 1998.
• Daily, the total number of email messages sent by U.S. Internet users is 2.1 billion.
• Another 7.3 billion “commercial” email messages are sent daily – more than 96 percent of these represent spam
• 81 million Americans use email at least occasionally.
• High-tech workers get more than 200 messages per day.
• On average, people receive twice as many emails as they send.

You can imagine what the statistics are today, eleven years later…