ComScore: Forget About Clicks

MediaPost Publications, October 2, 2009 — It's time for online marketers to forgo click-through rates for a better measure of success, according to new data from comScore in conjunction with media agency Starcom USA and behavioral targeting firm Tacoda.

Indeed, the number of people who click on display ads in a month has fallen, from 32% of Web users in July 2007 to only 16% in March 2009. Worse still, an even smaller core of consumers — representing just 8% of the Internet user base — accounts for the vast majority, or 85%, of all clicks.

"Marketers who attempt to optimize their advertising campaigns solely around the click are assigning no value to the 84 percent of Internet users who don't click on an ad," said Linda Anderson, comScore VP of marketing solutions and author of the... continue reading

Omniture, comScore Unveil Partnership On Heels Of Adobe Acquisition

MediaPost Publications, September 21, 2009 — Omniture and comScore plan to unveil a partnership Monday that creates a service giving the online advertising industry a more comprehensive view of data to measure performance and digital audiences. The agreement combines Web site analytics data with audience measurement data, respectively, to provide advertisers and publishers with a unified measurement tool.

Microsoft And comScore Partner To Measure Brand Marketing

MediaPost Publications, July 31, 2009 — To help brand advertisers better measure and track their online ad campaigns, Microsoft on Thursday announced a collaboration with comScore to design a digital media-planning service. The Reach and Frequency Planner — or RF Planner, for short — was developed to help advertisers more easily determine and predict how consumers will respond to their digital ads.

ComScore's Golden Measure

As online publishers face a daunting new year, a report sets out to prove that Internet display ads work.

Forbes, November 18, 2008 — Ever click on an Internet banner ad? No? You're not alone--and that's a problem.

Publishers have "got to come up with evidence or proof for the advertisers or the agencies that this stuff works in some way," says Gian Fulgoni, chairman of comScore (nasdaq: SCOR - news - people ), which tracks the size and demographic makeup of Internet audiences, and sells that data. Now, he says, his company has done just that.

Everyone hates ComScore

As the de facto measuring authority of online audiences, tiny ComScore punches above its weight - and earns some serious coin

FORTUNE, September 26, 2008 — Last winter, when Google lost a third of its market value, analysts blamed a small web-research company based in Reston, Va., called ComScore. The firm had issued a report that said Google's domestic paid clicks - the number of times people click on an ad - had flattened. Analysts initially went berserk. Oh, my God! they gasped (we're paraphrasing here). Google's ad business is tanking!