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comScore Releases Inaugural Report, “The 2010 Mobile Year in Review”

By Guest PostFebruary 14, 2011Technology3g penetration, alex kozloff, commerce, Comscore, comscore 2010 mobile year in review, eu5, Europe, Germany, inaugural report, Japan, jeremy copp, mark donovan, mobile, mobile industry, nokia, smartphone adoption, technological innovations, u s

*Report Highlights 2010 Mobile Trends in U.S., Europe and Japan*

BARCELONA, SPAIN, February 14, 2011 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released The comScore 2010 Mobile Year in Review. This inaugural report recaps key trends in the mobile landscape in 2010 throughout the U.S., Europe (EU5) and Japan. The report highlights important components of the mobile market including device trends, smartphone adoption, browser/application usage and mobile content consumption, with a look at how marketers can utilize the mobile medium in 2011.

“2010 was a game-changing year for the mobile industry,” said Mark Donovan, comScore senior vice president of mobile. “Smartphone adoption, 3G penetration and unlimited data plans drove a surge of mobile media consumption across geographies and deepened the integration of mobile devices into everyday life. And, the coming year has the potential to be even more exciting. As the mobile ecosystem continues to develop, including progress in mobile advertising and commerce, it’s clear that mobile is destined to become an increasingly important platform for digital marketers across all industries.” (more…)

comScore Releases January 2011 U.S. Search Engine Rankings

By Guest PostFebruary 12, 2011Technologyask network, bing, Comscore, core search market, digital world, google sites, microsoft sites, monthly comscore qsearch, powered by, search landscape, search marketplace, search queries, u s, Yahoo

RESTON, VA, February 11, 2011 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. Google Sites led the explicit core search market in January with 65.6 percent of searches conducted.

U.S. Explicit Core Search

Google Sites led the U.S. explicit core search market in January with 65.6 percent market share, followed by Yahoo! Sites with 16.1 percent and Microsoft Sites with 13.1 percent (up 1.1 percentage points). Ask Network accounted for 3.4 percent of explicit core searches, followed by AOL LLC Network with 1.7 percent. (more…)

comScore Reports December 2010 U.S. Mobile Subscriber Market Share

By Guest PostFebruary 8, 2011Technologyapple accounted, Comscore, comscore mobilens, google android, Microsoft, mobile, mobile phone industry, motorola, nokia, oems, original equipment manufacturers, os, Samsung, smartphone operating system, top handset manufacturer, u s

*Number of Smartphone Users Up 60 Percent Versus Year Ago*

RESTON, VA, February 7, 2011 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data from the comScore MobiLens service, reporting key trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry during the three month average period ending December 2010. The report ranked the leading mobile original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and smartphone operating system (OS) platforms in the U.S. according to their share of current mobile subscribers ages 13 and older, and reviewed the most popular activities and content accessed via the subscriber’s primary mobile phone. The December report found Samsung to be the top handset manufacturer overall with 24.8 percent market share, while RIM led among smartphone platforms with 31.6 percent market share. (more…)

comScore Publishes White Paper on the Impact of Cookie Deletion on Website Audience Measurement in Australia

By Guest PostFebruary 3, 2011Technologyaustralia, brazil, Comscore, cookie deletion, france, Germany, internet users, new zealand, online audiences, serial cookie deleters, third party cookies, white paper

*Study Finds that Without Proper Adjustments, Site-Server Estimates can Overstate Audience Size by Factor of up to 2.7x*

Sydney, Australia, February 3, 2011 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its white paper, The Impact of Cookie Deletion on Site-Server and Ad-Server Metrics in Australia: An Empirical comScore Study. The study addresses the key sources of discrepancy between server-based and panel-based data and reveals that cookie deletion can lead to large overstatements in servers’ measurement of the size of online audiences. Without appropriate adjustments, site-server measurement of the size of website audiences in Australia can be inflated by up to 2.7 times the actual number of unique visitors. (more…)

comScore ARS Research for Canadian Market Shows Strong Correlation Between Creative Strategy and Performance

By Guest PostJanuary 27, 2011Technologyad campaigns, brent bernie, canada, Comscore, comscore ars, creative strategy, digital advertisers, digital advertising campaigns, fair share benchmark, gian fulgoni, iab, market, tv

*Study Shows Creative Quality Drives More Than Half of the Sales Changes for Brands Analyzed*

RESTON, VA, January 27, 2011 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released findings from comScore ARS indicating the importance of a strong upfront strategy and creative execution in driving campaign effectiveness for TV and digital advertising campaigns in Canada. Extensive research conducted by comScore ARS also shows that creative quality drives more than half of the sales changes for brands analyzed, four times higher than the impact of the specific media plan involved, highlighting the importance of optimizing creative in ad campaigns. (more…)

comScore Releases December 2010 U.S. Online Video Rankings

By Guest PostJanuary 21, 2011Technologyadap, brightroll video network, Comscore, comscore video metrix, Google, hulu, online video, tremor media video network, tv, us internet online video content, vevo, viacom digital, Yahoo, YouTube

*VEVO Rakes in 50 Million Viewers One Year After Its Launch*

RESTON, VA, January 21, 2011 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data from the comScore Video Metrix service showing that 172 million U.S. Internet users watched online video content in December for an average of 14.6 hours per viewer. The total U.S. Internet audience engaged in nearly 5.2 billion viewing sessions during the course of the month. (more…)

Email Evolution: Web-based Email Shows Signs of Decline in the U.S. While Mobile Email Usage on the Rise

By Guest PostJanuary 20, 2011Technologyamericans, Comscore, comscore media metrix, data, demographic characteristics, digital communication, email, email behavior, internet users, mark donovan, Media, mobile devices, mobilens, period of time, smartphone era, smartphone population, social media, web based email sites

*Growing Number of Communication Channels Prompts Shift in Consumers’ Email Behavior*

RESTON, VA, January 20, 2011 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released results from a study on U.S. consumers’ evolving email behaviors using data from its comScore Media Metrix and MobiLens services. The study found that in November 2010, the number of visitors to web-based email sites declined 6 percent compared to the previous year, while email engagement declined at an even greater rate. During the same time period, the number of users accessing email via their mobile devices grew by 36 percent as an increasingly complex digital environment influenced consumers’ communication habits. (more…)

comScore Releases December 2010 U.S. Search Engine Rankings

By Guest PostJanuary 15, 20112 commentsTechnologyalgorithmic explicit searches, aol llc network, ask network, bing, Comscore, comscore qsearch, core searches, digital world, Google, google sites, Microsoft, organic search, powered by, search landscape, share, total core search queries, u.s. search marketplace, yahoo! Sites

RESTON, VA, January 14, 2011 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. Google Sites led the explicit core search market in December with 66.6 percent of searches conducted. (more…)

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