comScore – The Great Debate

By now, nearly everyone in the web analytics community is abuzz over the recent release by comScore of a study on cookie deletion rates. comScore tracked a specific web site (advertised as a portal) and one 3rd Party Ad Serving network against a panel of 400,000 users. During the study, comScore measured how often the 1st Party cookies (issued by the portal) and the 3rd…

Marketers Learning Value of Social Networks

Fox Interactive Media - and about half a dozen other companies - conducted a study to determine the value of social media for marketers. Sampling 3,000 US internet users, they discovered…

Partial Feeds Don’t Lure Visitors

Conventional wisdom tells us that if you publish partial feeds, people will click through to your site to read the rest of your story. The truth is that it just doesn’t work out that way. FeedBurner’s VP of Publishing Services, FeedBurner’s Rick Klau, noted last week:

comScore, Nielsen/NetRatings Respond to IAB’s Letter

Last week, the Interactive Advertising Bureau CEO Randal Rothenberg challenged comScore and Nielsen//NetRatings to increase their transparency and submit to an independent audit of their outmoded panel-based Internet measurements.