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Data Gem Sep. 22, 2016 | Share

Facebook retains Social Media crown for UK Millennials

The last few years have seen fierce competition for the Social Media crown. New and upcoming entities have emerged in the market, tackling digital networking in different ways. However, among the Millennials in the UK, one of the largest demographics and the first “digital natives”, no other provider has been able to undermine Facebook’s dominance. Read more

Press Release Sep. 20, 2016 | Share

comScore Study Finds Advertising on Premium Publisher Sites Drives Higher Ad Effectiveness

SÃO PAULO, SP, September, 20th, 2016 – comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR) announced recently in the US the publication of its latest report, The Halo Effect: How Advertising on Premium Publishers Drives Higher Ad Effectiveness. The research and resulting study examines the branding effectiveness of digital display and video ads appearing on Digital Content... Read more

Blog Sep. 19, 2016 | Share

OpenTable, Nike+ and United Airlines Top List of Highest Indexing Apps Among Affluent Users

OpenTable, Nike+ and United Airlines Top List of Highest Indexing Apps Among Affluent Users

In conducting research for the The 2016 U.S. Mobile App Report, it became apparent that the audience composition of an app can widely differ from one to another. With this in mind, we decided to take a look at apps that skew heaviest among users in the higher income brackets, as this can be a particularly valuable demographic segment for marketers.... Read more

Data Gem Sep. 19, 2016 | Share

The Impact of Mobile on the Retail Category in Canada

How is Mobile impacting digital behavior towards the Retail Industry in Canada

How Canadian retailers should adjust their digital marketing strategies to best engage with their multi-devices consumers today? Read more

Blog Sep. 16, 2016 | Share

Part 2: Why the Power of Habit Drives Power Law Distributions in Mobile App Usage

Power Law Distribution

In the first part of this blog post, we discussed the power of habit in driving smartphone app usage and how the biggest names in digital media generally have an advantage as more media consumption shifts to digital. One of the ways we see this advantage manifest is the prevalence of power law distributions in examining usage patterns. A power law distribution... Read more

Presentation Sep. 15, 2016 | Share

Targeting the Millennial Generation

Targeting the Millennial Generation

In this presentation, Mike Shaw, VP Sales UK at comScore looks at the targeting and monetisation of the youth audience for news publishers. Read more

Data Gem Sep. 15, 2016 | Share

Millennials continue to drive the French online market of apparel retailers

Now that the sales season is over in France, the moment feels right to evaluate the state of the online market of apparel retailers in the country. In July 2016, the audience across all sites in the category was close to 18.5 million unique visitors, while more than 86 million visits occurred during the same period. The apparel market in France remains... Read more

Blog Sep. 14, 2016 | Share

Part 1: Why the Power of Habit Drives Power Law Distributions in Mobile App Usage

Power Law Distribution

A few years ago I read the Charles Duhigg’s excellent book The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business. In it he discusses the notion of a “habit loop” governing many of our day-to-day behaviors, which consists of three elements: a cue, a routine, and a reward. The cue is something that serves as a sensory trigger to begin the... Read more

Press Release Sep. 14, 2016 | Share

comScore Introduces Mobile Audience Campaign Reporting in Canada and the United Kingdom

comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR) today announced the expansion of its mobile demographic reporting capabilities in validated Campaign Essentials™ (vCE®) to Canada and the United Kingdom Read more

Blog Sep. 13, 2016 | Share

Have We Reached ‘Peak App’?

Have We Reached Peak App

Recently there’s been quite a bit of talk in the tech and media industries that the app boom is over. The narrative is that consumers already have all the apps they need, that the market is mature, that the introduction of new apps is no longer exciting, that people may even start deleting some of their current ones, and that breaking through as a... Read more