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Online visitor engagement specialist Bunchball has appointed former Yahoo! Director Peter Daboll as Chief Executive Officer. He has also held leadership roles at comScore MediaMetrix, IRI and MarketTools. More
US-based comScore Networks is expanding its CPG Marketing Solutions group with the appointment of Joe Famalette as VP of Sales and John Golanty as VP of Client Services. The company has also hired John Miniati as VP of Retail and Technology Solutions. More
A quarter of US computer users have stopped buying online in an attempt to avoid identity theft, according to a study of 1,500 US consumers by Princeton Survey Research Associates for Consumer Reports WebWatch. At the same time, Jupiter Research and comScore both report significant online shopping growth. More
Many Americans turned to the Internet to help hurricane victims last month, according to new data from comScore. However, not all new surfing was altruistic: online share trading and TV web sites also experienced significant growth, and the latest analysis from NetRatings finds that online shopping continues to thrive. More
In June 2005, more than 94 million people in the US viewed a streaming video online, according to the first results from the comScore Media Metrix Online Video Ratings service. The research suggests that online video is a viable advertising medium, particularly for targeting young males. More
Online measurement specialist comScore Networks has appointed Charles Pearson as Head of its CPG Marketing Solutions Group, with responsibility for the company's full suite of CPG research services. More
Celebrities' salaries, photo printing, and an alternative web broswer drove the biggest visitor increases to web sites last month, according to comScore. The figures also reveal Americans using the web to make the most of vacations - from buying cars and sports equipment to booking travel and finding cooking tips. More
comScore Networks has launched two new research solutions for the analysis of return on investment in interactive media: Campaign Metrix and Online Video Ratings. More
Arbitron Inc. and comScore Media Metrix have announced the launch of comScore Arbitron Online Radio Ratings, a new measurement service designed to provide traditional broadcast ratings for the online radio industry. More
comScore Media Metrix has released its monthly analysis of consumer Internet behavior, showing unsurprisingly that the Olympics accounted for the top two gaining properties, while back-to-school sites experienced major increases but the overall level of activity dipped due to late vacations. More
JibJab.com, the online video released in mid-July satirizing John Kerry and George Bush, received 10.4m visitors in July, three times as many as both of the candidates' sites combined, according to comScore Media Metrix' monthly analysis of consumer Internet behavior. Travel and back-to-school sectors also did well. More
Internet audience measurement specialist comScore Media Metrix has released stats for site viewing by US users in June, showing a summertime concentration on travel, movies, music, sporting events and food. The company has announced a number of significant enhancements to its reporting of the Careers category. More
comScore Media Metrix has announced the Top 50 US Internet Properties for the month of April 2004, based on an active online population across home, work and university PCs of 155.1 million people. The biggest gaining web property was NationalGeographic.com, with Americans keen to read up on near-earth meteors among other features. More
Following the revelation that more and more British surfers are sorting out their taxes online, the latest US Internet rankings from comScore Media Metrix also feature big gains for tax and politics sites. More
Broadband continues its rapid growth in the US, overtaking dial-up in a major metropolitan market (San Diego) for the first time, according to the Fourth Quarter 2003 ISP Market Share Report from analysts ComScore. Many other major cities are poised to follow suit, including New York, Boston, LA and San Francisco. More
Nearly a fifth of British men buy a Valentine's card 'because they feel they have to', while half of their American counterparts feel the day 'gets too much attention'. With the red roses still fairly fresh in the vase, DRNO brings you a quick summary of Valentine's Day polls and web site visitor stats. More
Last Sunday's Super Bowl XXXVIII, complete with an array of unscheduled sideshows, produced the usual crop of impactful ads and big increases in Web site traffic for related companies and products, according to two sets of results from comScore and The Claria Corporation. More
Political web sites are making an impact on voter opinions, according to findings from comScore Survey Solutions. Visiting such sites correlates closely with a high level of political activity, and sites often influence the views and intentions of visitors. Meanwhile Howard Dean's web site received nearly twice as many visitors in December as that of any other Democratic challenger. More
In December, a total of 152.1m US Internet users spent an average of 27.6 hours online, an increase of 6% versus November, according to comScore Media Metrix. Sites run by retailers like Sears and Best Buy rose up the Top 50 Properties table, and many of the other changes also reflect traditional holiday activities... More
US Hispanics are spending more time online and viewing far more pages than a year ago, according to data published by comScore Media Metrix. The analysis examines key growth metrics, language preferences and top properties. More
comScore Media Metrix has announced the top 50 US Internet properties for the month of September 2003, together with the news that the total number of US Internet users passed the 150m mark for the first time. More
Internet measurement specialist comScore Media Metrix has announced a major expansion of Local Market Reporting, its system for measuring Internet usage at the local market level. The expansion takes the number of markets covered to more than 100, representing more than 90 percent of all US Internet activity. More
August saw a slight increase in the number of active Internet users, but a slight decrease in the number of hours spent online, according to the latest figures from comScore. Seasonal and one-off events influenced the composition of the top 50 US Internet properties, lifting antivirus and school clothing sites up the table, along with computer hardware and sports sites. More
Internet measurement specialist comScore Networks has announced the signing of a record-breaking contract valued at more than $18 million over five years, at the same time reporting its first quarter of corporate profitability, and the closing of $12 million in a Series E round of funding. More
Despite recent falls in airline ticket sales on and off-line, online travel remains the largest category of consumer spending on the Web and is growing faster than other sectors, according to analysis by comScore. Travel packages are growing fast from a small base and the online hotel booking market is particularly competitive at present. More
American marketers have been reminded of the importance of the Hispanic community by information from the US Census Bureau this week, confirming that Hispanics are the nation's largest minority group. Meanwhile research by comScore suggests that there are more Hispanics online in the US than in any other country. More
The total number of U.S. Internet users remained steady from April to May 2003, according to comScore Media Metrix, but certain types of site always pick up visitors in the summer months while others lose out to outdoor activities. Categories such as clothing, movies, weather and property experienced significant increases in visits in May. More
comScore Networks recently announced the launch of comScore Media Metrix qSearch, a breakthrough system to accurately measure consumer usage in the fast-growing online search industry. qSearch is the first information service to track and report consumers' distinct search queries across 25 major search engines and portals. More
comScore Networks in the USA has announced the results of the first industry-wide study of the impact of consumer online banking and bill payment activity upon bank business performance. The comScore research aims to quantify actual, active usage of bill payment services. More
comScore Networks has this week released the first detailed analysis of the online U.S. Hispanic population based on data obtained from the comScore Media Metrix panel of more than 50,000 U.S. Hispanic Internet users. More
comScore Networks reports that despite growth in most sectors of consumer e-commerce, online sales of recorded music in the USA have continued to decline sharply for three consecutive quarters. At the same time, millions of Internet users continue to use online file-sharing services even as some of these applications have vanished. More
comScore Networks has announced the launch of a revolutionary Hispanic audience measurement service, which accurately reports the online surfing and buying behaviour of the fast-growing online Hispanic population in the States. More
comScore Networks this week reports that the lines between television and Internet media in the USA continue to blur, creating a major opportunity to reach consumers via simultaneous media delivery and interactivity. More
comScore Networks has recently announced the immediate global expansion of its comScore Media Metrix audience measurement service. In September 2002, comScore Media Metrix will deliver audience measurement services covering 25 countries and eight world regions, far exceeding the reach of any other service in the industry. More
comScore Networks has announced the second generation of its widely used, syndicated Internet audience ratings, and detailed plans for its continued industry leadership. More
American researchers comScore Networks Inc. and Jupiter Media Metrix, Inc have jointly announced that comScore has acquired certain assets of the Media Metrix Internet Audience Measurement service in the United States and Canada. More
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