Most internet services have a peak during the last quarter of the year. But for e-commerce it is much more - most retailers agree that half of their annual revenue is done during the last 4 months.

By experience, the peak of shoppers is during Monday before mid December (this season it was the 12th). Although the December audits of CZ and SK internet are not yet available, a look at November results shows comparison shopping site Heureka is the most visited e-commerce site in both countries.

Source: NetMonitor - SPIR - Mediaresearch & Gemius and AIMmonitor - AIM - Mediaresearch & Gemius

Although online merchants do not usually publish their numbers in this audit, it is unlikely that it would change the top3 order. The same is true for daily deals sites. The top10 would for sure be different if these players were properly measured.

The overall e-commerce numbers also show that Czech has 3,5 times larger e-commerce audience compared to Slovakia.

Congrats to the Heureka team.

Slevomat has acquired a share in Bónusz Brigád, which operates the largest daily deals site in Hungary. It has also agreed to cooperate with daily deals sites across seven countries of Central and Eastern Europe (the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania). As a result, forming the largest group of daily deals sites in the region.

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AdMarket is an advertising agency created to represent all our internet media to the buyers of advertising space. Today we want to announce it has been acquired by Allegro Group, member of Naspers. It will continue to represent Miton websites but will add the huge Allegro audience and work to provide smart and efficient campaigns to our now joint client base.

The same quality team, much larger portfolio. Looks like a great step forward.

We are always on the lookout for great new teams working on ideas that are even bigger. WebExpo Prague is one of the best places where these teams can show their progress and now also get a 1 million CZK (40K EUR) investment from our one-time "The-young-know-what-they-are-doing-more-than-we-do" fund (in short TYKWTADMTWDf).

By the way, if any startup enrols with a name containing TYKWTADMTWD, his chances of winning the prize are increased by 0.003453 %. The chances of the project successfully attracting users are decreased by 99.996547 %. Based on historical statistics.

Startups from Czech Rep. and Slovakia can enrol here: http://webexpo.cz/praha2011/startupshow/.

Slevomat just acquired majority in Zapakatel. Slevomat is the no. 1 daily deals site in Czech rep. Acquiring a stake in the no. 2 and already co-owning no. 3 on the market will bring the power to keep the deals business a sustainable ecosystem in the future and provide the best value to merchants and users.

Along with Stahuj.cz that Centrum Holdings bought in 2007, the software e-shop SW.cz will provide another monetization channel. These two projects were made for each other and we are proud, that they are under one roof with a solid partner that will develop them in the long run.

By merging the separate services comparing financial services we are now launching Chytryhonza.cz (Smart John). The sole purpose of the site is to help users save time and money on any financial service they may need - mortgages, insurance, savings, utilities, you name it. Already have all those? Compare your spendings and find a better deal.

After the online mortgage site Honzovahypoteka.cz we have another service in the line of financial products. Again the "Smart John" will be helping users save money and time - in this case deciding for the right insurance.

Just few days after launch we have agreed to enter Slevomat.cz as a partner and develop the project to become the No. 1 in the newly emerging daily deals segment. This is one of the cases when the company needs to create the market first and then keep being the top innovator to keep being the market leader.

Pixmac, the micro-stock photo company, now offers 7 milion+ photos to their customers. A great milestone after just one year since launch. They also have great t-shirts.