comScore Media Metrix Releases Top 50 Web Rankings for March

Mon Apr 14, 2008 11:46am EDT
 
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Yellow Book Network and MLB.com Lead Top-Gaining Properties

RESTON, Va., April 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- comScore, Inc.
(Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its
monthly analysis of U.S. consumer activity at the top online properties for
March 2008 based on data from the comScore Media Metrix service. March saw
traffic increase to online radio, gambling and retail-health care sites.
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    "American sports factored in prominently for the top gaining categories
and properties in March," said Jack Flanagan, executive vice president of
comScore Media Metrix. "The NCAA tournament drove substantial traffic to
online gambling sites during the month, while the start of spring training
made MLB.com one of the top gaining properties. Both events also contributed
to ESPN.com's surge in the top properties rankings."
    Top-Gaining Sites for March
    Yellow Book Network secured the top-gaining site position for the month,
with a 54-percent gain to 13.5 million visitors due, at least in part, to a
new partnership with addresses.com. Baseball spring training and fantasy team
drafts prompted a flood of earnest fans to MLB.com, which jumped 50 percent to
9.8 million visitors. Bankrate.com Sites witnessed a 46-percent increase to 5
million visitors with the addition of the InsureMe.com entity in March.
    Radio Sites See Surge in Visitation
    Radio sites experienced a sharp increase in traffic in March with the
category growing 27 percent to 61.8 million visitors, making it the
top-gaining category for the month. AOL Music led the category with 21.9
million visitors (up 5 percent), followed by Yahoo! Music with nearly 20.8
million visitors (up 4 percent) and Clear Channel Online with 11 million
visitors (up 2 percent). Other significant increases were experienced by
Pandora.com (up 9 percent), Citadel Broadcasting Corporation (up 11 percent),
and Disney Music (up 17 percent).
    Online Gambling Traffic Propelled by March Madness
    The NCAA basketball tournament, also known as "March Madness," attracted a
flurry of online bettors, prompting a 14-percent gain to the online gambling
category. Sportingbet PLC increased 35 percent to 975,000 visitors,
UPICKEM.net jumped 174 percent to 396,000 visitors and SportsBetting.com rose
114 percent to 145,000 visitors.
    Walgreen Co. Leads Retail - Health Care Category
    Retail - Health Care sites experienced a 12-percent increase in March to
26.3 million visitors, as Walgreen Co. led the category with 5.4 million
visitors (up 10 percent). Drugstore.com, Inc. captured the second position
with 3.7 million visitors, followed by CVS with nearly 3 million visitors.
    Top 50 Properties
    The top 10 properties maintained their positions from February with Yahoo!
Sites continuing to lead as the top property with 139.5 million visitors,
followed by Google Sites with 137.5 million visitors and Microsoft Sites with
121 million visitors. ESPN jumped 12 spots on the popularity of March Madness
and anticipation of the 2008 Major League Baseball season. Gains were also
experienced by AT&T (up 8 spots to #18 with 31.3 million visitors), Target
Corporation (up 5 spots to #20 with nearly 30 million visitors), and CBS
Corporation (up 6 spots to #24 with 28.6 million visitors).
    Top 50 Ad Focus Ranking
    The top 10 Ad Focus properties also maintained their February rankings
with Platform A, the ad network combining Advertising.com, Tacoda, AOL, and
Quigo, leading the ranking in March, reaching 91 percent of Americans online.
interCLICK gained 9 spots in the ranking to position 14, reaching 58 percent
of the 188 million Americans online. Real Cities Network and YuMe Video
Network both entered this month's rankings in positions 38 and 43,
respectively.


    comScore Top 10 Gaining Properties by Percentage Change in Unique
    Visitors* (U.S.)
    March 2008 vs. February 2008
    Total U.S. - Home, Work and University Locations
    Source: comScore Media Metrix
                                      Total Unique Visitors (000)
                            Feb-08       Mar-08       % Change      Rank by
                                                                     Unique
                                                                   Visitors
    Total Internet :
     Total Audience        185,017      188,010            2          N/A
    Yellow Book Network      8,801       13,523           54           75
    MLB.com                  6,519        9,799           50          104
    Bankrate.com Sites       3,441        5,027           46          218
    Craveonline              5,806        8,254           42          128
    Six Apart Sites          9,749       13,680           40           74
    Break Media              5,845        7,876           35          131
    Bidz.com                 3,755        5,049           34          217
    Eversave.com             3,666        4,865           33          226
    wikiHow.com              3,561        4,678           31          240
    Reunion.com              6,875        9,003           31          117

    *Ranking based on the top 250 properties in March 2008



    comScore Top 10 Gaining Categories by Percentage Change in Unique Visitors
    (U.S.)
    March 2008 vs. February 2008
    Total U.S. - Home, Work and University Locations
    Source: comScore Media Metrix
                                           Total Unique Visitors (000)
                                     Feb-08          Mar-08       % Change
    Total Internet :
     Total Audience                 185,017         188,010             2
    Entertainment - Radio            48,508          61,786            27
    Gay/Lesbian                       2,479           3,114            26
    Online Gambling                  11,082          12,592            14
    Retail - Health Care             23,596          26,318            12
    Teens                            27,824          30,738            10
    Coupons                          19,986          22,009            10
    Retail - Movies                  25,070          27,457            10
    Technology - News                44,320          48,226             9
    Pharmacy                         15,384          16,730             9
    Gaming Information               42,197          45,802             9



    comScore Top 50 Properties (U.S.)
    March 2008
    Total U.S. - Home, Work and University Locations
    Unique Visitors (000)
    Source: comScore Media Metrix
    Rank      Property       Unique       Rank       Property      Unique
                           Visitors                               Visitors
                              (000)                                 (000)
      Total Internet :
        Total Audience      188,010
    1   Yahoo! Sites        139,518         26   Superpages.com
                                                 Network           27,672
    2   Google Sites        137,480         27   Disney Online     27,302
    3   Microsoft Sites     121,013         28   Comcast
                                                 Corporation       25,780
    4   AOL LLC             111,832         29   Shopzilla.com
                                                 Sites             25,714
    5   Fox Interactive
        Media                88,284         30   Expedia Inc       25,089
    6   eBay                 81,874         31   Yellowpages.com
                                                 Network           24,962
    7   Wikipedia Sites      58,705         32   Bank of
                                                 America           23,638
    8   Amazon Sites         58,683         33   United Online,
                                                 Inc               22,992
    9   Ask Network          55,437         34   ESPN              22,357
    10  Time Warner -
        Excluding AOL        55,108         35   Gannett Sites     22,290
    11  Apple Inc.           48,374         36   Monster
                                                 Worldwide         21,932
    12  New York Times
        Digital              47,755         37   Photobucket.com
                                                 LLC               21,861
    13  Viacom Digital       44,826         38   CareerBuilder LLC 21,823
    14  Weather Channel,
        The                  40,731         39   WebMD Health      20,200
    15  Facebook.com         35,510         40   Real.com
                                                 Network           19,979
    16  CNET Networks        34,598         41   E.W. Scripps      19,938
    17  Glam Media           34,461         42   Demand Media      19,903
    18  AT&T, Inc.           31,297         43   Cox
                                                 Enterprises Inc.  18,875
    19  Adobe Sites          31,098         44   WordPress         18,846
    20  Target
        Corporation          29,873         45   AmericanGreetings
                                                 Property          18,841
    21  Verizon
        Communications
        Corporation          29,488         46   iVillage.com:
                                                 The Womens
                                                 Network           18,494
    22  Wal-Mart             29,474         47   Hearst
                                                 Corporation       17,875
    23  Gorilla Nation       29,085         48   Atrinsic, Inc.    17,752
    24  CBS Corporation      28,583         49   NBC Universal     17,661
    25  craigslist, inc.     28,563         50   WorldNow -
                                                 ABC Owned Sites   17,634



    comScore Ad Focus Ranking (U.S.)
    March 2008
    Total U.S. - Home, Work and University Locations
    Unique Visitors (000)
    Source: comScore Media Metrix

    Rank     Property     Unique  Reach  Rank  Property    Unique    Reach
                        Visitors     %                    Visitors      %
                           (000)                            (000)
     Total Internet :
       Total Audience    188,010  100.0
    1   Platform-A**     170,537    91%  26   CPX
                                              Interactive** 73,768    39%
    2   Advertising.com**167,500    89%  27   MySpace.com*  72,753    39%
    3   Yahoo! Network** 160,336    85%  28   eBay.com      69,452    37%
    4   Google Ad
        Network**        152,048    81%  29   Undertone
                                              Networks**    68,190    36%
    5   Specific Media** 145,554    77%  30   Gorilla
                                              Nation Media  67,180    36%
    6   ValueClick
        Networks**       140,091    75%  31   YouTube.com   64,754    34%
    7   Yahoo!           137,819    73%  32   MSN.com
                                              Home Page     57,474    31%
    8   Tribal Fusion**  135,640    72%  33   Ask
                                              Network       55,437    29%
    9   Google           132,349    70%  34   Quigo**       54,141    29%
    10  Casale Media
        Network**        129,399    69%  35   Kontera**     53,186    28%
    11  DRIVEpm**        124,333    66%  36   Vizi Inc**    51,466    27%
    12  adconion
        media group**    117,469    62%  37   Ybrant/
                                              AdDynamix
                                              Network**     48,688    26%
    13  AOL Media
        Network          111,832    59%  38   Real Cities
                                              Network       47,843    25%
    14  interCLICK**     108,818    58%  39   MapQuest      47,799    25%
    15  MSN-Windows
        Live             105,925    56%  40   IB Local
                                              Network       47,738    25%
    16  Traffic
        Marketplace**    105,420    56%  41   AMAZON.COM    47,575    25%
    17  Tremor Media     101,143    54%  42   Turn,
                                              Inc**         46,512    25%
    18  Collective
        Media**          100,151    53%  43   YuMe Video
                                              Network       44,927    24%
    19  24/7 Real
        Media**           94,525    50%  44   Precision-
                                              Click**       44,767    24%
    20  ADSDAQ by
        ContextWeb**      94,459    50%  45   Business.com
                                              Network       42,691    23%
    21  Burst Media**     93,291    50%  46   EBAY.COM
                                              Home Page     42,492    23%
    22  AOL               92,254    49%  47   About         40,935    22%
    23  AdBrite**         84,114    45%  48   The Nabbr
                                              Network       39,996    21%
    24  Centro            81,427    43%  49   IACAS
                                              Network       39,353    21%
    25  Vibrant
        Media**           73,931    39%  50   Facebook.com  35,510    17%

    Reach % denotes the percentage of the total Internet population that
    viewed a particular entity at least once in March.  For instance, Yahoo!
    was seen by 73 percent of the more than 185 million Internet users in
    March.

    *  Entity has assigned some portion of traffic to other syndicated
       entities.

    ** Denotes an advertising network.


    About comScore Media Metrix
    comScore Media Metrix provides industry-leading Internet audience
measurement services that report details of online media usage, visitor
demographics and online buying power for the home, work and university
audiences across local U.S. markets and across the globe. comScore Media
Metrix reports are used by financial analysts, advertising agencies,
publishers and marketers. comScore Media Metrix syndicated ratings are based
on industry-sanctioned sampling methodologies.
    About comScore
    comScore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR) is a global leader in measuring the digital
world. For more information, please visit http://www.comscore.com/boilerplate
SOURCE  comScore, Inc.

Sarah Radwanick of comScore, Inc., +1-312-775-6538, press@comscore.com

 

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