Lagardère Active continues its growth on the web and outperforms on Elle.fr

• With 15.4 million unique visitors, all points of connection combined at the end of September (up 7.5%), Lagardère Active reaches 47.5% of active Internet users (source: Mediametrie/NetRatings);
• The leading French media group in terms of audience ratings (all connection points);
• The Web’s 8th largest player in terms of unique audience (all groups combined).

Focus :

The leader in the “Women’s” segment

• In the rapidly growing women’s segment, Lagardère Active’s website, doctissimo.fr, posted a 6% increase, thus confirming its leadership position (as the No. 1 website targeted at women), while elle.fr registered a 60% increase, infobebes.com a 47% increase and psychologies.com a 6% increase;

Exceeds the symbolic threshold of one million unique visitors in the “Children’s” segment

• With the “Children, games and toys” category expanding on a global scale (increase of one million unique visitors between August and September), the “Lagardère Children’s offer”* exceeded the one million unique visitors mark, remaining the leader in its competitive universe (excluding e-commerce).
  * The “Lagardère Children’s offer” includes the websites Gulli, Canal J and TiJi.

Strong growth in the “News” segment

• In the “News” segment, le jdd.fr, with nearly 1.6 million unique visitors, posted strong growth and Europe1.fr stabilized its audience rating above the one million unique visitors mark.

Main audience figures – Source: Nielsen Netratings
Unique visitors all points of connection combined (in thousands) September 2008