Comscore Articles

comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR) is an Internet marketing research company providing marketing data and services to many of the Internet’s largest businesses. comScore tracks all internet data on its surveyed computers in order to study online behavior.
comScore Networks was founded in August 1999 in Reston, Virginia. The company was co-founded by Gian Fulgoni, who was for many years the CEO of market research company Information Resources, Inc. (IRI) and Magid Abraham, who was also an ex-IRI employee and had served as President of IRI in the mid-1990s.
Magid and Gian came up with the idea while working with one of the original investors in the company, Mike Santer, who thought up the concept of creating a very large consumer panel online to track online commerce. The problem was that the traditional methods in which companies were tracking online behavior would not work in tracking commerce, because of the lower incidence of buying online. Normal panels in tracking visitation would be around…

Netflix Users Spend Twice As Much Time On Site As Hulu Users

Maybe Netflix was right after all. No, not in the way they handled their price increase, but maybe in their logic for creating the increase in the first place. See, we've always assumed that Netflix's price hike this summer was about setting the stage for streaming video as the primary service for the future. And ...

Over 200 Billion Monthly Online Video Views - October 2011 comScore Video Metrix

200 billion is a number that neither you nor I can actually picture.  We've never seen 200 billion of anything, just sitting in front of us where we could start counting it.  But together, people of the world, we watched over 200-freaking-billion online videos in the month of October.  I wonder if they'll ever figure ...

October 2011 Sets Video Viewing Record With 21.1 Hours Per Viewer

I pulled out the video advertising and put it into its own article but I still wanted to talk about the rest of the stats that came out of comScore for last month. Like the 21.1 hours per viewer and the 42.6 billion videos both of which set an all time high, along with more ...

Over 7.4 Billion Video Ads In October As Tremor Video Tops A Billion

comScore has released the October 2011 Video Metrix report and the first thing that caught my eye, which I prognosticated on over a month ago, was Tremor Video topping one billion video ads a month, and they did it... and are continuing to close in on Hulu who is just about 250 million ads up ...

Herman Cain Versus Online Video From Newspapers – Just The Stats, Man!

Republican Presidential Candidate Herman Cain made news recently for his campaign cancelling an interview with newspaper this Thursday, saying it didn’t want the interview to be video recorded and arguing that video is only typical for television. But do the latest stats show otherwise?

Did Latest Google Panda Update Really Improve YouTube Ranking?

According to Searchmetrics, YouTube.com was the biggest winner of the recent Google Panda Update, dubbed Panda 2.5.  Supposedly, this means the “SEO visibility of the domain” improved 10% on Sept. 28, 2011. But, before you do anything, you might want to take a look at the Discovery feature in YouTube Insight, which helps you understand ...

Hulu's Dominance In Online Video Ads Slipping? comScore September Video Metrix

It's that time of the month again, when comScore puts out its Video Metrix numbers that show who is ruling the roost in online video. As expected, YouTube is still top dog and it seems that VEVO has cemented itself into the second post overall. More interestingly though, is that Tremor Video looks to be ...

VEVO, Google, Hulu Still On Top In comScore August 2011 Video Metrix

So here we are another month in the books (and this one a full week later than the normal video metrix numbers) and we see the release of the comScore August 2011 video metrix. No surprise that VEVO topped the YouTube partners, Google topped all sites, and Hulu was number one in ad impressions.

2012 Republican Presidential Candidates Offer Lessons in YouTube Marketing Strategy

Internet marketers can learn a lot of lessons about YouTube marketing strategy by watching the 2012 Republican presidential candidates.  For example: Should you use an influence-the-influencers strategy or a mass marketing strategy to reach the 158.1 million U.S. Internet users who watched online video content on YouTube.com in July 2011, according to comScore Video Metrix?

The Weekly Online Video News Round Up - Streaming Internet TV Edition

It was another huge week for online video news, with final bids for Hulu being turned in on Friday. I'm pretty surprised we haven't seen any leaks on those bids as of yet, but it is the weekend. Expect there to be news on the sale of Hulu early next week. Until then... catch up ...

YouTube 2nd Most Popular Website With 790 Million Unique Monthly Visitors

According to just-released June 2011 data from Google, Facebook is still the world's most popular website, with 870 million unique visitors and a whopping 1 trillion pageviews per month. Right behind Facebook--in terms of unique visitors, at least--is YouTube, with 790 million visitors per month and 100 billion pageviews.

YouTube Partner Channels Added To comScore Video Metrix for July 2011

With the July 2011 report, comScore has expanded their monthly video metrix, which tracks online video services and viewers, to include what they call "Select YouTube Partners" (see table below). What that sounds like to me is that they are NOT including all of the top partners, just a select few.

comScore's YouTube Partner Reporting Reveals New Media Moguls in the Making

While Mark Robertson and I were busy speaking at SES San Francisco last week, comScore and YouTube rolled out Partner Reporting, a new feature that highlights the dedicated audiences garnered by YouTube content partners.  Since we were tied up talking about “Next Gen YouTube Marketing” and answering questions in “SEW Labs: The Use of Video ...

The Social Video Blueprint, Part 4: It's About Shares, Not Clicks

Welcome to Part 4 of our Social Video Blueprint series. In Part 3, we talked about how the age of social media is causing brands to be more concerned with views than with old-school impressions, at least as a measure of engagement or campaign success. Today, we're going to take a look at how sharing ...

PBS Sees Huge Success With Online Video & Mobile Video Distribution

It's always nice to see when Public Broadcasting succeeds at something. The something in question this time round is embracing online video distribution and then pushing out a massive quantity of it. 145 million videos in June is pretty impressive considering it's the fruit of new changes and offerings over at PBS.org including a site ...