comScore Media Metrix Releases Top 50 Web Rankings for June
RESTON, Va., July 16, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- comScore (Nasdaq: SCOR) Media Metrix today released its monthly analysis of U.S. consumer activity at top online properties for June 2007. The month saw traffic increase to gaming sites as schools let out for summer and gambling sites in anticipation of the upcoming World Series of Poker (WSOP). June also saw gains for entertainment news sites with the buzz about Paris Hilton's jail sentence, hotels/resorts sites with the summer travel season swinging into high gear, and gay/lesbian sites with the celebration of Pride Month.
"With gaming consoles like Nintendo Wii and PlayStation 3 on the market, online gaming continues to have a wide mainstream following," said Jack Flanagan, executive vice president of comScore Media Metrix. "As schools let out for summer vacation in June, it's not surprising to see a popular leisure pursuit like online gaming experience a jump in activity."
Interest in Online Gaming Increases Traffic to Sites in June
Both the online gaming information and online gaming categories gained in June, bolstered by significant growth among the under 18 demographic. The gaming information category, composed of sites that offer players the latest gaming tips and news, grew 9 percent to 42.8 million visitors, buoyed by strong growth at IGN entertainment (up 17 percent to 10.4 million visitors), Nintendo Co. (up 26 percent to 4.3 million visitors) and EA.com (up 41 percent to 1.8 million visitors). The online gaming category also grew in June, gaining 8 percent to nearly 64 million visitors. Sites catering to younger individuals saw significant gains within the category, including Disney Games (up 38 percent to 6.3 million visitors) and Neopets (up 29 percent to 4.8 million visitors).
World Series of Poker Sparks Growth to Gambling Sites
As excitement mounted for the approaching 2007 World Series of Poker, the online gambling category increased 13 percent to 12.5 million visitors. With several online poker sites hosting WSOP satellite tournaments in advance of the main event, many sites experienced gains including PokerStars (up 17 percent increase to 1.6 million visitors), FullTiltPoker (up 10 percent to 1.1 million visitors) and UltimateBet.com Online Poker (up 16 percent to 466,000 visitors).
Online Radio Ranks as Top-Gaining Category in June
Radio sites surged 34 percent to 48.9 million visitors in June, making it the top gaining category for the month. Yahoo! Music led the category with more than 25 million visitors (up 11 percent), while AOL Radio (up 11 percent to 3.2 million visitors) and Disney Music (up 16 percent to nearly 1.5 million visitors) both saw significant gains for the month.
Entertainment News Sees Jump with Paris Hilton Media Frenzy
Americans' fascination with celebrities spurred growth in the entertainment news category, which saw a 7-percent increase to 42.1 million visitors in June. Largely fueled by national interest in the Paris Hilton scandal, traffic to entertainment news site TMZ surged 37 percent to 9.4 million visitors for the month, while People experienced a 6-percent increase to 6.1 million visitors. The tragic news of the deaths of professional wrestler Chris Benoit and his family drove a flood of traffic to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), which jumped 117 percent to 8.4 million visitors.
Pride Month Boosts Traffic to Gay and Lesbian Sites
Traffic to gay/lesbian sites jumped 23 percent in June to nearly 3 million visitors as people across the nation celebrated Gay and Lesbian Pride Month. The category was led by PlanetOut with 742,000 visitors (up 19 percent), followed by Queer Sighted with 563,000 visitors (up 116 percent), and LOGOonline with 454,000 visitors (up 17 percent).
Summer Vacations Continue to Bring Traffic to Travel Sites in June
Continuing the trend from last month, visitation to travel sites once again increased. Traffic to the hotels/resorts category saw an 8-percent increase to 34.6 million visitors for the month. The category was led by Hotels.com with 6.6 million visitors (up 10 percent), followed by Marriott with 5.3 million visitors (up 2 percent) and Disney Travel with 4.8 million visitors (up 11 percent). Although falling just outside of the top 10 gaining categories, the travel information category increased 7 percent versus May to 45.1 million visitors.
Top 50 Properties
Yahoo! Sites remained in the top position for the month of June, drawing more than 133 million visitors. Moving up one spot to the number two position, Google Sites attracted nearly 124 million visitors, while Apple Inc. claimed the number 10 spot with 44 million visitors as the iPhone launch bolstered traffic. Shopzilla.com Sites and Comcast Corporation each gained four spots to attain the number 32 and 35 positions, respectively. Finally, Citysearch and The Mozilla Organization both entered the Top 50 Ranking in June, each attracting more than 15 million visitors.
Top 50 Ad Focus Ranking
In June, Advertising.com reached 88 percent of the U.S. online population to retain its number one position for the 38th consecutive month. ValueClick gained one spot to claim the number two position, while Specific Media enjoyed a three-spot jump to number seven, reaching 66 percent of Americans online. Interclick gained four positions to land at number 29 in the ranking, and Disney Online jumped five spots to number 41. Expedia.com also re-entered the ranking at number 48 in June, reaching 11 percent of Americans online.
TABLE 1
comScore Top 10 Gaining Properties by Percentage Change in Unique
Visitors* (U.S.)
June 2007 vs. May 2007
Total U.S. Home, Work and University Internet Users
Source: comScore Media Metrix
Rank by
May-07 Jun-07 Percentage Unique
Property (000) (000) Change Visitors
Total Internet : Total
Audience 177,487 178,839 1 N/A
World Wrestling
Entertainment (WWE) 3,880 8,407 117 112
Hearst Digital Media 3,156 5,598 77 172
The Mozilla
Organization 10,112 15,457 53 49
Coca-Cola Company 4,280 6,137 43 155
LIME.COM 2,964 4,186 41 238
JOB.COM 3,317 4,574 38 215
PROJECTPLAYLIST.COM 3,999 5,433 36 176
Buzznet 3,188 4,278 34 229
Mars,Inc. 4,575 6,127 34 156
DIGG.COM 3,334 4,353 31 224
*Ranking based on the top 250 properties in June 2007
TABLE 2
comScore Top 10 Gaining Categories by Percentage Change in Unique
Visitors (U.S.)
June 2007 vs. May 2007
Total U.S. Home, Work and University Internet Users
Source: comScore Media Metrix
May-07 Jun-07 Percentage
(000) (000) Change
Total Internet : Total
Audience 177,487 178,839 1
Radio 36,487 48,928 34
Gay/Lesbian 2,422 2,985 23
Online Gambling 11,058 12,470 13
Gaming Information 39,236 42,827 9
Coupons 18,991 20,720 9
Hotels/Resorts 31,940 34,583 8
Online Gaming 59,148 63,998 8
Entertainment - News 39,139 42,057 7
Women 60,001 64,261 7
Personals 23,029 24,653 7
TABLE 3
comScore Top 50 Properties (U.S.)
June 2007
Total U.S. - Home, Work and University
Locations
Unique Visitors (000)
Source: comScore Media Metrix
Unique Unique
Rank Property Visitors Rank Property Visitors
(000) (000)
Total Internet Users 178,839
1 Yahoo! Sites 133,093 26 Bank of America 23,240
2 Google Sites 123,601 27 Photobucket.com LLC 22,873
3 Time Warner Network 123,379 28 CRAIGSLIST.ORG 22,529
4 Microsoft Sites 116,824 29 CBS Corporation 21,838
5 Fox Interactive Media 83,598 30 CareerBuilder LLC 21,723
6 eBay 81,224 31 Superpages.com Network 21,426
7 Amazon Sites 53,285 32 Shopzilla.com Sites 21,417
8 Ask Network 52,600 33 Lycos Sites 20,900
9 Wikipedia Sites 47,031 34 Yellowpages.com
Network 19,340
10 Apple Inc. 44,114 35 Comcast Corporation 19,267
11 New York Times 36 ARTISTdirect Network 19,157
Digital 42,718
12 Viacom Digital 42,212 37 Real.com Network 19,130
13 Weather Channel, The 39,865 38 Travelport 19,119
14 Adobe Sites 36,441 39 Glam Media 19,075
15 CNET Networks 31,023 40 Gannett Sites 18,999
16 Gorilla Nation 30,721 41 ESPN 17,473
17 AT&T, Inc. 29,992 42 Cox Enterprises Inc. 17,370
18 Target Corporation 28,323 43 WebMD Health 17,127
19 Expedia Inc 28,238 44 WhitePages 16,727
20 FACEBOOK.COM 27,965 45 Weatherbug Property 16,375
21 Wal-Mart 27,922 46 Citysearch 15,737
22 Monster Worldwide 25,825 47 iVillage.com: The
Womens Network 15,544
23 United Online, Inc 24,199 48 Oversee.net Network 15,518
24 Verizon 49 The Mozilla
Communications Organization 15,457
Corporation 23,876
25 Disney Online 23,443 50 Ticketmaster 15,393
TABLE 4
comScore Ad Focus Ranking (U.S.)
June 2007
Total U.S. - Home, Work and University
Locations
Unique Visitors (000)
Source: comScore Media Metrix
Unique Unique
Visitors Visitors
Rank Property (000) Reach% Rank Property (000) Reach%
Total Internet
Users 178,839 100%
1 Advertising.com** 157,639 88% 26 Vibrant Media** 65,018 36%
2 ValueClick** 132,404 74% 27 AdDynamix.com** 63,825 36%
3 Yahoo! 131,559 74% 28 Gorilla Nation Media 62,299 35%
4 Tribal Fusion** 125,358 70% 29 Interclick** 53,796 30%
5 Casale Media 30 MSN.COM Home Page 53,232 30%
Network** 120,527 67%
6 Blue Lithium** 119,439 67% 31 Undertone Networks** 52,783 30%
7 Specific Media** 118,640 66% 32 Ask Network 52,600 29%
8 Google 116,632 65% 33 EBAY.COM Home Page 45,306 25%
9 AOL Media Network 114,043 64% 34 Business.com Network 43,611 24%
10 Connexus - Traffic 35 YOUTUBE.COM 42,986 24%
Marketplace** 110,635 62%
11 MSN-Windows Live 103,300 58% 36 ABOUT.COM 36,815 21%
12 DRIVEpm** 95,719 54% 37 WEATHER.COM 29,580 17%
13 YAHOO.COM Home Page 93,755 52% 38 FACEBOOK.COM 27,965 16%
14 24/7 Real Media** 91,556 51% 39 Real Cities Network 27,302 15%
15 AOL 91,432 51% 40 Nick Kids & Family 25,237 14%
16 Tremor Media 85,358 48% 41 Disney Online 23,443 13%
17 PrecisionClick** 79,629 45% 42 CareerBuilder Network 22,767 13%
18 adconion media 43 CNN 22,375 13%
group** 79,474 44%
19 CPX Interactive** 77,247 43% 44 PHOTOBUCKET.COM 22,371 13%
20 Centro 74,599 42% 45 IMDB.COM 21,862 12%
21 Burst Media** 73,686 41% 46 Superpages.com Network 21,426 12%
22 EBAY.COM 72,368 40% 47 Lycos Network 20,479 11%
23 AdBrite** 71,923 40% 48 EXPEDIA.COM* 19,360 11%
24 MYSPACE.COM 70,478 39% 49 Yellowpages.com
Network 19,340 11%
25 ContextWeb** 65,150 36% 50 ARTISTdirect Network 19,157 11%
Reach % denotes the percentage of the total Internet population that
viewed a particular entity at least once in June. For instance, Yahoo!
was seen by 74 percent of the more than 178 million Internet users in
June.
*Entity has assigned some portion of traffic to other syndicated entities.
**Denotes an advertising network.
About comScore Media Metrix
comScore Media Metrix, a division of comScore, Inc., 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. This capability is based on a massive, global cross-section of more than 2 million consumers who have given comScore permission to confidentially capture their browsing and transaction behavior, including online and offline purchasing. comScore panelists also participate in survey research that captures and integrates their attitudes and intentions. Through its proprietary technology, comScore measures what matters across a broad spectrum of behavior and attitudes. comScore analysts apply this deep knowledge of customers and competitors to help clients design powerful marketing strategies and tactics that deliver superior ROI. comScore services are used by more than 700 clients, including global leaders such as AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Verizon, Best Buy, The Newspaper Association of America, Tribune Interactive, ESPN, Fox Sports, Nestle, MBNA, Starcom USA, Universal McCann, the United States Postal Service, Merck and Expedia. For more information, please visit http://www.comscore.com.
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