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WBMD » Topics » We face significant competition for our healthcare information products and services

This excerpt taken from the WBMD 8-K filed Jul 2, 2009.
We face significant competition for our healthcare information products and services
 
The markets for healthcare information products and services are intensely competitive, continually evolving and, in some cases, subject to rapid change.
 
  •  Our public portals face competition from numerous other companies, both in attracting users and in generating revenue from advertisers and sponsors. We compete for users with online services and Web sites that provide health-related information, including both commercial sites and not-for-profit sites. We compete for advertisers and sponsors with: health-related Web sites; general purpose consumer Web sites that offer specialized health sub-channels; other high-traffic Web sites that include both healthcare-related and non-healthcare-related content and services; search engines that provide specialized health search; and advertising networks that aggregate traffic from multiple sites. Our public portals also face competition from offline publications and information services.
 
  •  Our private portals compete with: providers of healthcare decision-support tools and online health management applications, including personal health records; wellness and disease management vendors; and health information services and health management offerings of healthcare benefits companies and their affiliates.
 
Many of our competitors have greater financial, technical, product development, marketing and other resources than we do. These organizations may be better known than we are and have more customers or users than we do. We cannot provide assurance that we will be able to compete successfully against these organizations or any alliances they have formed or may form. Since there are no substantial barriers to entry into the markets in which our public portals participate, we expect that competitors will continue to enter these markets.
 
This excerpt taken from the WBMD 10-Q filed May 11, 2009.
We face significant competition for our healthcare information products and services
 
The markets for healthcare information products and services are intensely competitive, continually evolving and, in some cases, subject to rapid change.
 
  •  Our public portals face competition from numerous other companies, both in attracting users and in generating revenue from advertisers and sponsors. We compete for users with online services and Web sites that provide health-related information, including both commercial sites and not-for-profit sites. We compete for advertisers and sponsors with: health-related Web sites; general purpose consumer Web sites that offer specialized health sub-channels; other high-traffic Web sites that include both healthcare-related and non-healthcare-related content and services; search engines that provide specialized


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  health search; and advertising networks that aggregate traffic from multiple sites. Our public portals also face competition from offline publications and information services.
 
  •  Our private portals compete with: providers of healthcare decision-support tools and online health management applications, including personal health records; wellness and disease management vendors; and health information services and health management offerings of healthcare benefits companies and their affiliates.
 
Many of our competitors have greater financial, technical, product development, marketing and other resources than we do. These organizations may be better known than we are and have more customers or users than we do. We cannot provide assurance that we will be able to compete successfully against these organizations or any alliances they have formed or may form. Since there are no substantial barriers to entry into the markets in which our public portals participate, we expect that competitors will continue to enter these markets.
 
These excerpts taken from the WBMD 10-K filed Feb 27, 2009.
We face significant competition for our healthcare information products and services
 
The markets for healthcare information products and services are intensely competitive, continually evolving and, in some cases, subject to rapid change.
 
  •  Our public portals face competition from numerous other companies, both in attracting users and in generating revenue from advertisers and sponsors. We compete for users with online services and Web sites that provide health-related information, including both commercial sites and not-for-profit sites.


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  We compete for advertisers and sponsors with: health-related Web sites; general purpose consumer Web sites that offer specialized health sub-channels; other high-traffic Web sites that include both healthcare-related and non-healthcare-related content and services; search engines that provide specialized health search; and advertising networks that aggregate traffic from multiple sites. Our public portals also face competition from offline publications and information services.
 
  •  Our private portals compete with: providers of healthcare decision-support tools and online health management applications, including personal health records; wellness and disease management vendors; and health information services and health management offerings of healthcare benefits companies and their affiliates.
 
  •  Our Publishing and Other Services segment’s products and services compete with numerous other offline publications, some of which have better access to traditional distribution channels than we have, and also compete with online information sources.
 
Many of our competitors have greater financial, technical, product development, marketing and other resources than we do. These organizations may be better known than we are and have more customers or users than we do. We cannot provide assurance that we will be able to compete successfully against these organizations or any alliances they have formed or may form. Since there are no substantial barriers to entry into the markets in which our public portals participate, we expect that competitors will continue to enter these markets.
 
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face significant competition for our healthcare information
products and services


 



The markets for healthcare information products and services are
intensely competitive, continually evolving and, in some cases,
subject to rapid change.


 
















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Our public portals face competition from numerous other
companies, both in attracting users and in generating revenue
from advertisers and sponsors. We compete for users with online
services and Web sites that provide health-related information,
including both commercial sites and not-for-profit sites.





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We compete for advertisers and sponsors with: health-related Web
sites; general purpose consumer Web sites that offer specialized
health sub-channels; other high-traffic Web sites that include
both healthcare-related and non-healthcare-related content and
services; search engines that provide specialized health search;
and advertising networks that aggregate traffic from multiple
sites. Our public portals also face competition from offline
publications and information services.


 


























  • 
Our private portals compete with: providers of healthcare
decision-support tools and online health management
applications, including personal health records; wellness and
disease management vendors; and health information services and
health management offerings of healthcare benefits companies and
their affiliates.
 
  • 
Our Publishing and Other Services segment’s products and
services compete with numerous other offline publications, some
of which have better access to traditional distribution channels
than we have, and also compete with online information sources.


 



Many of our competitors have greater financial, technical,
product development, marketing and other resources than we do.
These organizations may be better known than we are and have
more customers or users than we do. We cannot provide assurance
that we will be able to compete successfully against these
organizations or any alliances they have formed or may form.
Since there are no substantial barriers to entry into the
markets in which our public portals participate, we expect that
competitors will continue to enter these markets.


 




EXCERPTS ON THIS PAGE:

8-K
Jul 2, 2009
10-Q
May 11, 2009
10-K (2 sections)
Feb 27, 2009

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