• What is the trend in my market share?
• How fast is my market growing?
• From which sites am I attracting visitors?
• How much business am I losing to competitors?
• How effective are my customer acquisition strategies relative to those of my competitors?
• Am I utilizing search marketing less effectively then my competitors?

We also measure cause and effect. As an example, marketers need to know if their investment in online media helps build their business and, ultimately, increases sales. comScore delivers this critical information. Publishers use this information to sell advertising; marketers use it to measure the ROI from their advertising spending.

• 5 of the top 6 cable companies
• 7 of the top 10 credit card companies
• 5 of the top 6 consumer banks
• 7 of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies

• A two-year lead over competitors in terms of historical data, product development and relevancy of service offerings.
  
  
• World class technology that operates on a massive operational scale and which includes one of the world's largest Windows-based data warehouse (157 TB of storage). We use a distributed processing architecture with a standardized, modular data center that allows us to expand linearly at a low incremental system and bandwidth cost and which has the inherent flexibility to allow us to measure the expanding set of activities that are occurring online.
  
  
• An opt-in consumer panel consisting of approximately 2 million members across over 150 countries that enables us to measure Internet usage on a worldwide basis. We continuously collect a comprehensive set of data from these panelists – using passive measurement — that provides an accurate view of online behavior. For example, we can measure what happens when consumers are exposed to an ad, how much of their purchasing is immediate versus latent, at what sites the buying occurs and how much of their buying occurs online versus offline.
  
  
• A blue-chip customer base of more than 750 clients spanning multiple consumer-facing industries.
  
  
• Strong brand equity developed in part as a result of comScore data being frequently cited in the financial and popular press. comScore data are quoted in the media as frequently as 100 times per day.
  
  
• A strong track record of innovation highlighted by the fact that comScore was first to:
  
  
  • Build a longitudinal panel of more than 2 million people along with the associated data collection and statistical projection systems
  • Measure and report on e-commerce
  • Measure the search market (qSearch)
  • Measure global online behavior (comScore World Metrix)
  • Measure online video streaming (comScore Video Metrix)
  • Measure the online audience for widgets
  • Measure ad effectiveness using behavioral data (Campaign Metrix)
  
  
  
• A robust, profitable and recurring-revenue business model that is subscription-based with strong operating leverage, resulting in excellent operating cash flow-through as revenue grows.
  
  
• An experienced management team with a track record of building world-class public information companies and thereby creating substantial shareholder value.

• Deepen the relationships with our current blue-chip customer base.
• Grow our customer base as the digital media, commerce, marketing and communications sectors continue to grow.
• Expand our digital marketing intelligence platform by extending our track record of innovation with new product offerings.
• Extend our technology leadership by leveraging the scalability and functionality of our database and computational infrastructure.
• Build our brand awareness through increased media exposure.
• Grow internationally.

• We primarily provide subscription-based products with strong recurring revenue streams.
• comScore has established a strong track record of profitability.
• Our subscription customer retention rate exceeds 90%, which means high visibility into future revenue growth.
• We enjoy significant operating leverage with relatively low investment required to maintain our panel and technology infrastructure and to support future growth.
• comScore has low product development costs.
• comScore is not capital intensive and has minimal debt.
• Our global infrastructure is already established through a 2 million person panel (approximately 1 million in the U.S. and 1 million overseas), an installed, world-class technology platform, a proven and growing product portfolio, and a commercial team and corporate staff in place to support strong worldwide growth.

• It is not uncommon for an Internet user to use a work computer and a home computer to visit the same site. Using cookies, the site's server data will count this one user as two distinct visitors, thereby inflating the estimated size of the site's audience.
• Many sites attract visitors from outside the U.S., and in order to accurately measure the size of a U.S. visitor base, these International visitors must be excluded. This is difficult to accomplish on a consistent basis because it is often not possible to accurately identify the specific location of a visiting computer. Because of this, many Web site server logs do not accurately filter out International traffic from their claimed U.S. visitor counts, resulting in further inflation of the size of the claimed U.S. audience.
• Automated 'spiders' and 'bots' that crawl the Web account for an increasingly large amount of traffic on the Web. Web logs must be properly configured to adjust for this activity and the inflation it causes in counts of a site's unique visitors and pages downloaded.

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