WebMail Services Global Market Share

Below are statistics representing the global market share of the top 5 webmail/ email service providers. Despite Gmail’s reputation as the most comprehensive of the free email service providers, it remains a distant third to Yahoo Mail and Hotmail/Windows Live.

Source: Comscore- October 2007

Provider           No. of Users (mm)
Yahoo Mail                   262.2
Hotmail/Live                 256.4
Gmail                         87.1
AOL Mail                      48.9
QQ.com                        31.4

For insight into these stats, check out Dave McClure’s Blog Master of 500 Hats.
Note: QQ.com is a Chinese email service provider