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Yik Yak, the app that’s becoming a social media staple on college campuses in the U.S., saw its downloads dip and flatline right around the time…
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Yik Yak, the app that’s becoming a social media staple on college campuses in the U.S., saw its downloads dip and flatline right around the time…
It has certainly been an interesting month for messaging apps in the U.S. Around the same time the New York Times penned…
Today the question heard around the (tech) world: MySpace is still a thing? The Wall Street Journal reported that MySpace’s user numbers are…
Secret, the anonymous messaging app that captured the attention of Silicon Valley in the months after its January launch, is struggling. Almost…
Recent data suggests that people’s interest in apps is waning. But is that what’s actually going on?
If a recent sales estimate is in the ballpark, then Amazon hasn’t sold many Fire Phones at all. So how do you explain that it is the best-selling on-contract handset on Amazon?
Nearly 2 out of 3 U.S. smartphone owners don’t download a single app in a given month. Isn’t this the age of the mobile app economy? It is, but most of the growth is long over at this point in the cycle.
For the first time since May 2011, Yahoo tops the list of most trafficked websites in ComScore’s Media Matrix.
Sixteen percent of Canadians have stopped viewing traditional TV in favor of online video sources, according to a recent survey.
Months and months of the same data are pointing to one conclusion: iPhone and Android really can’t be compared. In fact, they’re on two different trajectories.
Yahoo wants to buy Tumblr. We hear Facebook might spoil the party. But the question is: is Tumblr the fountain of youth that Yahoo badly needs or will this be case of a pathetic old-middle aged guy hanging with youngsters trying to be hip.
The U.S. smartphone story didn’t change too drastically in the first quarter of 2013: Android is still used by more than half of all smartphones and the iPhone is still by far the most popular smartphone in the U.S.
Watch out, Crackle: Zurich-based VOD startup Viewster is starting to rack up more views than some of its established U.S. competitors.
Even though it fell 1.3 percent between October and December to 52.3 percent share, Android still is the most popular smartphone operating system in the U.S. Apple’s share grew 3.5 percent to 37.8 percent.
You’d think that during the final quarter of last year, when Microsoft introduced Windows Phone 8 and Nokia debuted a new flagship Lumia, the platform would gain momentum. You’d be wrong.
Millions of people now consume content on mobile devices but the analytics tools used to measure websites has failed to account for them. Now, a system has come along that measures these mobile users — and shakes up some of the traditional rankings.
Gmail has been claiming the top spot for worldwide email providers since this summer. New outside data finally shows it’s true.
Long gone are the days when broadcast and cable networks, magazines, and radio were the gateways to customers. Today brand advertisers must go to much greater lengths to find their audiences. Savvier than those a decade ago, these marketers want integrated campaign measurement and key performance indicators (KPIs) from media companies across every channel at a level of granularity that previously was relegated to the direct marketing channel.
More people watched video on the Internet through YouTube than any other site by a wide margin during August, as Google continues to enjoy the benefits of having the most engaged online viewers. Still wondering if Google is a media company?
When it comes to online video, there are three companies that dominate the conversation – YouTube, Netflix and Hulu. But don’t overlook, IAC-owned Vimeo, the single most interesting video platform. A little boost from friends like Apple and Kickstarter, and suddenly it is starting to find growth.
Apple has sought to use the cloud to heighten the value of its tightly woven ecosystem by integrating its own cloud-based services into the core functionality of its devices and in doing so has created consumer lock-in
Between February and May, Apple’s iPhone saw a sliver of growth in U.S. smartphone market share at 1.7 percent. Android saw smaller growth (0.8 percent) but is still most prevalent and is on a little over half of all smartphones, according to a report released Monday.
Once the fastest growing content supplier in the online video business, Vevo has seen its U.S. internet audience shrink by 20 percent over the last year, according to numbers released Monday by comScore. The measurement, however, does not reflect migration to mobile platforms.
After years away, Rags Gupta returned to online publishing only to discover a brave new world in advertising. But although the formats, tools and technologies have changed, there are truisms that continue to hold. Gupta warns that we would be well-advised to remember them.
Smartphone owners are driving tablet demand in the U.S. as 23.6 percent of those with a smartphone now own a slate: Nearly 1 in 4 consumers with a smartphone purchased a tablet between February and April of this year. Half of those slates are video players.
Facebook’s rise has come on the back of astonishing international growth — but it needs to keep expanding everywhere, and in every way, to keep up with investors’ expectations. Where can it find the silver bullet? And how will it happen?
Aggressive investments into professional-grade (and semi-professional-grade) video content have dramatically increased the average amount of time viewers on YouTube and Yahoo spend watching shows each month. The competition, meanwhile, has seen its usage decline in a big way. We crunch the comScore video numbers.
According to estimates, 30 percent of online ads are seen by no one at all.
“Fraud is the elephant in the digital room” according to a report on digital ad campaigns published today by metrics company comScore (NSDQ:…
Machinima is rocking it on YouTube: The video game content publisher clocked close to 350 million domestic video views in January alone. That’s more than all the views of the next seven biggest publishers combined. Worldwide, Machinima had 1.3 billion YouTube views in January.
What will 2012 bring to our mobile world where tablets are trying to take the place of PCs and we’re carrying small computers in our pockets? ComScore helps predict 2012 by looking at 2011 in its Mobile Future in Focus report, published on Thursday.
Users are downloading more e-books, music, TV shows and movies than ever: Digital content and subscriptions were the fastest-growing retail…
In addition to Cyber Monday being a lot more convenient than Black Friday, it turns out that shopping online can be a lot greener than shopping in stores.
Even as online video viewing has expanded, audiences at YouTube continue to outpace the market. The latest evidence? ComScore’s September Video Metrix report, which shows that nearly half of all videos viewed online in September were delivered by the Google-owned online video site.
Samsung and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) continue to clean up in the U.S. smartphone market while it now seems clear that the launch of the Verizon iP…
Everyone likes to talk about the boom in smartphone use, but the reality is that even in the most advanced markets, there is still a long wa…
comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) is one of the biggest analytics companies out there, and its statistics about internet usage are quoted constantly in…
Android continues to gain strength in the U.S smartphone market ahead of the pending debut of the iPhone 5, according to the most recent num…
Audience analytics firm comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) is acquiring ad campaign effectiveness firm AdXpose for $22 million in a mostly stock-based tr…
New mobile market share numbers out from Comscore (NSDQ: SCOR) indicate that Android handsets are expanding their lead over rival platforms…
Looks like we might be at a tipping point in the market for mobile apps and how they are becoming the go-to place for digital content. A new…
Six months of U.S. smartphone market share data neatly underscores why Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) is scrambling to get new products out…
The contrast between the mobile-computing fortunes of Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Research in Motion (NSDQ: RIMM) in the U.S. were neatly illust…
At first glance, the latest comScore smartphone market share figures paint a bleak picture for anyone that isn’t Android, but there’s plenty of reason to believe that iOS is holding its own. The Verizon iPhone is one, and we’ve only just begun to see its effect.
In a move by the Nielsen Company that could spark a more drawn-out legal battle, the ratings company has accused rival comScore (NSDQ: SCOR)…
According to the latest comScore report, Android has overtaken iOS in the U.S. when it comes to smartphones and taken the lead in overal market share. iOS shows flat growth compared to last quarter, but a few new moves could turn things around.
Last week, market researcher comScore released its U.S. Digital Year in Review report that’s chock full of useful data for the industry. Implications arising from the numbers include Facebook’s ad value problems, communications platform evolution, and potential social commerce growth barriers.
E-commerce rebounded last year, buoyed by rising consumer confidence and the fast emergence of deal sites like Groupon and Living Social, according to ComScore’s U.S. Digital Year in Review, which looked at the changing face of digital media as it expanded through social, mobile and video.
Smartphone usage has grown by an astounding 60 percent in the last year in the U.S., but the latest figures from comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) show…
Using clicks to measure for digital ad value may be easy but it’s not the best gauge — and it could be hurting. Some reasons, according to…
Online video advertising is fast becoming big business, with ad spend expected to grow from $1.4 billion in 2010 to $5.2 billion in 2014. Despite that growth, the online video ad market will still lag the growth of online video viewership unless publishers increase ad loads.
The free availability of popular TV shows online could eventually lead to the destruction of one of the main pillars of the TV industry, Dish exec Bruce Eisen said during a panel at Streaming Media West today. His remedy? A 30-day window for Hulu & Co.
Maybe web video junkies have the back-to-school blues? According to new numbers released by comScore today, there was a slight dip in online video viewership last month, with the total number of Internet users watching online video dropping from 178 million in August to 175 million.
Although feature phones still outsell smartphones, a greater number of smartphone users accessed mobile content in apps and browsers than consumers with feature phones for the first time ever in the U.S., says comScore. But the app economy is helping feature phones too, says one company.
Today on the Net: British file sharers will continue to face lawsuits, Facebook.com is now the second most visited online video site, Apple approves the PlayOn video app,Hulu tweks its iOS app, and more.
Feel like you’ve been seeing a lot more ads on Hulu lately? Guess what, you’re right: New numbers from comScore show that close to 84 percent of all videos shown on Hulu are now advertisements. That makes Hulu by far the biggest video ad network.
Traffic to the Twitter.com website more than doubled last year, according to the latest results from comScore, with more than 92 million unique visitors visiting the site in June 2010. The fastest-growing market was Latin America, where usage of the social networking service more than tripled.
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) acknowledges that its pageviews are dropping– but not as much as comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) has said they are. In a press rel…
Due to immense takeup of the company’s Watch Instantly streaming video service, Netflix traffic growth is “off the charts,” according to comScore. The number of Netflix visitors spiked 46 percent year-over-year in June, which is the fastest year-over-year growth comScore has seen in five years.
Audience measurement firm comScore has bought the product division of Nexius, a company that provides consumer insights to telcos. The big q…
Online video viewing numbers continue to climb with the passing of time, according to data released today by comScore. Users watched nearly 34 billion videos in May 2010, with both Vevo and Facebook climbing in the ranks.
Today on the Net: comScore will begin measure video views and ads separately beginning with its June Video Metrix numbers, startup VidMe launches with a new site for sharing personal videos with a select group of friends and NASCAR and Turner are rolling out 3-D.
Today on the Net: comScore’s April numbers show YouTube dominating, Hulu flat and Vevo taking a big leap; NBC chief Jeff Zucker will get a $30-$40 million exit deal after the Comcast deal closes and Steve Jobs says Google and Adobe are picking fights with Apple.
Online video analytics, distribution — and now advertising — firm TubeMogul announced a new publishing product today that will allow its publisher…
For those that questioned the acquisition of Joost by ad firm Adconion last year, or the subsequent transformation of the online video…
New numbers released by comScore today (s SCOR) show record engagement for Hulu in February, with an average of 2.4 hours of…
“Read Later – ?4”. I live my life by it. I find an interesting article but have no time to read it…
Facebook redesigned at the beginning of February, moving its search box from the right side to the top middle of its home page, and it seems to have paid off, with the company’s U.S. search queries growing 10 percent in February, according to comScore.
comScore (s SCOR) released its Video Metrix numbers for January today, showing a decline across the board for all the major video…
Audience measurement firm comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) has acquired ad researcher ARSgroup. This is the latest in a growing list of analytics compa…
YouTube and Hulu are frequently touted as the top destinations for viewing online video — but while those sites frequently top the…
People that watch online video — and there are more and more of them every month — didn’t let the holidays get…
Mahalo founder Jason Calacanis has called for a public boycott of comScore because of a controversial change in the way it measures web traffic, and has pulled Union Square VC Fred Wilson into the fight as well.
Long-time AOL (NYSE: AOL) executive Eric Bosco is joining comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) as the measurement company’s chief product officer. Bosco ha…
U.S. Internet users watched close to 31 billion videos in November, according to new numbers released by comScore (s SCOR) today. The…
Flurry, a San Francisco-based mobile app analytics company that recently merged with Pinch Media of New York, has teamed up with comScore in a deal that will marry Flurry’s analytics with comScore’s mobile panel data. The combined results, in turn, will be sold to comScore’s clients.
The concept of Cyber Monday — when online retailers offer sweet deals to e-shoppers the first Monday after Black Friday — might…
Data so far shows that online spending and visits to online retailers are up this holiday season, but has the spending and traffic hit a peak ahead of Cyber Monday? If so, does it render Black Friday and Cyber Monday moot as indicators for holiday spending?
The holiday shopping season has shifted into full gear. But while online retailers are sure to see stronger sales than their offline rivals, the desperate discounts happening across the board threaten to erode any profits they may have once hoped for this season.
Well the cat was kinda let out of the bag yesterday when the Internets spoiled the news that Hulu had a huge…
Hulu got a nice shot in the arm in October, according to the latest comScore numbers, indicating that newteevee is a lot…
Looking at the latest data on smartphone market share from research firm Canalys, it would appear that while Apple (s appl) is…
Motorola Looks to Unify 3-D TV Experience; company talks up set-top boxes that could convert 3-D TV video into any 3-D format.…
In an effort to give publishers and advertisers a better read on how their campaigns are performing, *comScore* and *Omniture* are partnerin…
Play Sushi, a gaming portal, has attracted 3 million visitors less than three months after launching, reports site owner Future Ads, yet…
Remember the days when Numa Numa was passed around as an email attachment? People don’t find online video like that anymore. Blogs…
As video advertising networks grow in reach and importance, and start to play a bigger role in distributing content online, we wanted…
Hulu is none too happy with Nielsen after the online ratings company found Hulu’s unique visitor count dropped for the third straight…
I was looking at some extended comScore stats for another article and saw something pretty striking: Facebook is very nearly a top…
Hulu continues to claw its way up the U.S. video charts, and in March surpassed Yahoo (s yhoo) to claim the No.…
— comScore: Kenneth Tarpey has joined the company as CFO; he’s succeeding John Green, who will move into the role of EVP and head of human…
Though we’ve worried that Hulu’s success might make it a victim, by driving its content providers to limit their offerings and provoking…
YouTube is the reigning king of the online video world, especially in the U.S., and it’s branched out into the search domain…
ComScore sent us its overall VideoMetrix numbers for January, plugging in a few of the holes leftover from the rankings we received…
The mobile web and the PC web may not be all that different, but data out today from comScore implies that the…
Companies are more dependent than ever on metrics to make business decisions, but that hasn’t helped comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) on the profit fro…
comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) is hiring Mike Read to be SVP and MD of its European operations. He will also lead Mid East and African ops as the rol…
Last week we added up all the numbers of video streams released by the various outlets for their Obama Inauguration day traffic,…
Hulu’s unique visitors dropped to 4.8 million in November from 5.3 million in October, according to numbers released today by comScore. It’s…
Online retailers are not immune to the current credit crunch and are feeling the heat in a big way. The New York…
According to comScore, Hulu went from 2.85 million unique visitors in September to 5.34 million uniques in October, for an 87 percent increase. NBC Universal jumped from 16 million uniques in September to almost 24.8 million uniques in October, for a 33 percent bump.
Tania Yuki, Senior Product Manager at comScore, sure isn’t kidding when she says online video metrics aren’t usually thought of as interesting.…
Jason Kilar, the CEO of Hulu — everyone’s favorite way to watch studio shows online — discusses the three forces that are…
The interminable U.S. presidential campaign season will come finally come to an end tomorrow night. If you’re looking for a map with…
Diller: Web in Early Stages of Ad Potential; IAC Chairman says ad models based on oldteevee will play a greater role in…
Brand.net Raises $10 Million; ad network gets money from Norwest Venture Partners and previous investor InterWest Partners. (CNET) Animoto comes Out of…
Following comScore’s (NSDQ: SCOR) nearly $50 million acquisition of M:Metrics, co-founder, chief product architect and senior analyst Seamus…
This does not come as a surprise — three weeks after internet measurement firm comScore bought M:Metrics for about $50 million, including c…
Magid Abraham, comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) president, CEO and co-founder, explained this morning in a conference call why his company, focused on…
Quickly following the announcement that comScore acquired Seattle-based mobile measurement firm M:Metrics for $44.3 million in cash, I talke…
Well-known Internet measurement firm comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) said today that it has acquired M:Metrics, a leader in the mobile measurement bus…
Well-known Internet measurement firm comScore said today that it has acquired M:Metrics, a leader in the mobile measurement business, for $4…
Despite an initial dip, the market decided pretty quickly that the whole Google (NSDQ: GOOG) earnings confusion wouldn’t have much bearing o…
After taking a beating last night, comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) is out defending itself from the charge that its Google (NSDQ: GOOG) paid click num…
More on the “gotcha mongers” theme: So who was the big loser from this evening’s Google (NSDQ: GOOG) report? It looks like comScore (NSDQ: S…
Widgets are taking social media by storm and becoming a valuable online marketing platform for interaction with consumers. Last June, comScore estimated…
Last month, some ugly paid clicks data from comScore helped trigger a sell-off in Google (NSDQ: GOOG) shares, though the reaction prompted t…
Our friend Mark Mahaney, Internet Analyst at Citicorp, has issued a note parsing the latest search query data from comScore. He notes:…
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A comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) report indicating a decline in Google’s January click-through rates helped send the search giant’s stock similarly d…
Online measurement firm comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) reported Q4 revenue of $25.3 million, up 38 percent from $18.2 million in the year-ago quarter…
MySpace’s growth may have peaked. Annual page views for the social network fell 7 percent from December of 2006 to the same…
More evidence of a weakening market environment: Online measurement firm ComScore has decided to cancel a planned share sale just a few week…
The first concrete analysis of Radiohead’s innovative pay-what-you-like plan for latest album In Rainbows shows thirty-eight percent of thos…
Web measurement firm comScore has reported Q3 revenue of $22.4 million, up 39 percent from last year’s $16.1 million. Net income rose 138 pe…