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each month (comScore Media Metrix). Respondents were asked to view
commercials and answer several questions about the commercial content and
whether or not the commercial would motivate them to shop at the
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Jerome, Managing Director for France, UK, Scandinavia, Pixmania.

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customer base and reach more than 98 million European online shoppers (Jupiter
2004). Their leadership and depth of content will enable
merchants, such as Pixmania, to receive high quality traffic to their sites.com's presence in France will revolutionize online retailing and
help deliver on the promise of a common European market," commented Daniel
Ciporin , Chairman and CEO of Shopping.com. "This announcement provides
merchants the chance to reach a much larger audience while giving consumers in
France the opportunity to experience first-hand an online marketplace which
combines ease-of-use with unparalleled depth of product and supplier
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who have limited time for shopping the over-stored retail environment,"
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Complimentary Findings


The commercial test was part of BIGresearch's January Consumer Intentions
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