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Social media is an interesting phenomenon for how it has helped to define interaction between and among peoples. Facebook in particular has redefined what it means to be sociable and is fast rewriting the way people in different parts of the world behave. Now thanks to ComScore, we can begin to quantify the use of [...]
December 25th, 2012 by Anthony West
The shopping madness is over, and yes, I said ‘madness’. comScore has tallied the numbers and for the first time ever, Black Friday spending online has topped the $1 billion mark. Who says consumerism is dying? According to comScore, the $1.042 billion spending spree represented a 26% jump on online sales for 2011 and marks [...]
November 26th, 2012 by Anthony West
The traffic stats for the month of October 2012 are out and thanks to the always insightful data supplied by comScore, we are seeing a few shifts in the rankings that are worthy of noting. Top of the list is of course Facebook who for many months in the past have occupied a slot in [...]
November 24th, 2012 by Anthony West
The elections are over; the Atlantic hurricane season is nearly done so there’s pretty much nothing standing in the way of American consumers as they look to spend their worries away this year. And some spending it will be according to comScore, the marketing insights and analytics curator for all things online. The latest data [...]
November 22nd, 2012 by Anthony West
2012 Is a great year to travel – that seems to be the take of many Americans who still have some value from the USD, following a slight improvement, at least for now. The travel industry is unpredictable at the best of times and holiday sales agents are breathing a sigh of relief at growth [...]
November 8th, 2012 by SiteTrail
Yahoo’s got a new CEO, full of promise and she’s even brought a bit of warmth to the job by having a baby. But despite all this promise the company is still looking shaky and in search, where the company has struggled for a long time, things just got a little bit uglier. New data [...]
October 12th, 2012 by Anthony West
People in India love the internet and social networking so much that they spend a whopping 25% of their time online surfing, chatting and networking. This is what is coming out of ComScore who took the time to measure the level of internet use among Indians. Based on data analyzed, social networking as a past [...]
September 10th, 2012 by Anthony West
Much of what becomes established on the internet is first pioneered by the web’s earliest adopters—Americans. This sort of explains that Americans are at the vanguard of the video-watching culture that is emerging on the internet. A new study conducted by comScore into the video-watching phenomenon of Americans is revealing that US internet users watched [...]
March 29th, 2012 by Anthony West
The internet and social networks has been a tremendous blessing and help for those who use it; but it has also been a curse. Cyberbullying is one those things that doesn’t get talked about much unless something bad happens but be under no illusion; it’s a massive problem for many kids. But perhaps what’s even [...]
March 19th, 2012 by Anthony West
Just a few days ago we wrote about the tremendous numbers that mobile traffic generated over 2011, so it comes as no surprise that ComScore is releasing yet more stunning figures surrounding mobile and its relentless march to the top of the heap. The latest data released by ComScore shows that a total of 64.2 [...]
March 9th, 2012 by Anthony West
The online traffic paradigm changes by the minute and the latest shift seems be skewed towards mobile traffic and its overall impact on web surfing behavior. According to a recent report released by comScore, mobile phones accounted for 10% of all internet traffic in 2011 and this figure is expected to grow even more this [...]
March 8th, 2012 by Anthony West
For many in the tech space, it’s only a matter of time before the TV is banished from the living room and is replaced by large screens hooked up the internet. At the heart of that very gloomy picture for Television is the rise and rise of video. Many predict it will account for more [...]
February 22nd, 2012 by Anthony West
The web’s free ethos has always been backed by the understanding that on the back of all that free stuff, advertisers would have free reign. That free reign accounts for more than $40 billion spent annually on online advertising. But there’s a fly in the ointment. According to data coming out of ComScore, a whopping [...]
January 28th, 2012 by Anthony West
The movie ‘The Social Network’, chronicling the rise of Steve Zuckerberg and Facebook, the world got a glimpse into the social network and its ever increasing reach into our daily lives. That reach gets measured in many ways, and the latest measurement from ComScore suggests that the relentless pace of growth is surging ahead. According [...]
January 17th, 2012 by Anthony West
10 years ago, the web’s biggest activity was perhaps checking email. Today, its social networking and as an activity, it is growing at an alarming rate. According to new data released by ComScore, social networking is now so pervasive that a whopping 82% of the world’s population count it as their number one online activity. [...]
December 30th, 2011 by Anthony West
The 2011 Christmas holiday season looks set to shatter records despite the looming poor economy and general unrest in parts of the US. According to ComScore, the first 20 days of November produced excellent results for online retailers; even topping the figures posted for the same period in 2010. The actual increase is around 14% [...]
November 29th, 2011 by Anthony West
As an ISP, AT&T is no slouch and is considered one of the top providers on internet connectivity in the world. This view tends to shape the way the company operates at the consumer level and so it comes as no surprise that AT&T controls over 20% of the U.S. internet business traffic. The figure [...]
November 20th, 2011 by Anthony West
The relentless march of online video seems to be getting more and more pronounced and there’s little evidence to suggest that the web won’t become a video-based network in the next few years. In fact, one estimate puts the next couple of years as a target for when online video will account for more than [...]
November 17th, 2011 by Anthony West
