Due to the recession, the idea of a 0.3 percent drop sounds like nothing at all; plunges of 5, 10, and 20 percent are the norm now.  Still, Compete has released its description of the search market in January, and the report's sure to turn a few heads with that exact figure.  read more...

Indian traffic to social networking sites increased by 51% year over year with about 19 million visitors to social networing sites in December 2008. Orkut still tops the list with a total of 12.8 million visitors and a Y-o-Y change of 81%. Facebook came in second with about 4 million visitors but Y-...

Last week we added up all the numbers of video streams released by the various outlets for their Obama Inauguration day traffic, and were impressed to see that the number exceeded measures of TV viewers — 70 million streams vs. 37.8 million TV watchers. Now comScore, which has the infrastructu...

So we should be proud of ourselves as everyone reading this online (and you hardly have other options to read it, to tell you the truth) should be a little proud about being a part of something truly massive and large-scale as the internet measurement firm comScore reports that the internet audience...

In tough times companies are forced to make difficult decisions. Sometimes they make wrong ones. Best Buy made an epically dunderheaded one this week when it announced via email that affiliate commissions for two of its best selling product lines was being dropped from 1% to .25%. A quarter of a per...

comScore is out with their latest U.S. online video report today. Back in May comScore listed Hulu for the first top in the top 10 with 88 million videos viewed. Today Hulu has moved up in comScore's online video report for October to sixth position with 235 million videos viewed. Pretty amazing gro...

Positive Black Friday and Cyber Monday Numbers The largest shopping weekend of the year showed that online retailers could still put up solid numbers despite the recession. ComScore reported Cyber Monday sales at $846 million up 15% over last year. According to the National Retail Federation shopper...

Barry Ritholtz points out the hype and spin in the media coverage of Black Friday. Journalism 101 instructs writers to understand your sources and what their motivation may be. But the media often don't seem to let that get in the way of a good story. Much of the reporting of Black Friday focused on...

Yesterday I saw (and twittered) a comScore report on online spending this holiday season. So far this holiday season (comScore calls Nov & Dec the holiday shopping season), $8.2bn has been spent online which is down 4% versus the same time period last year. The report goes on to say: comScore’...

A nice corrective to the stories about venture capital drying up: Investors are still willing to write checks for digital ventures–particularly if they’re for media companies with hockey stick growth charts. The Times UK and PaidContent say that the Huffington Post has raised another $15...