More than 17 million people in Turkey accessed the Internet from a home or work location in April, viewing an average of 3,044 pages per visitor, according to comScore.
Of the 17 European countries individually reported by comScore, Germany’s online audience was the largest with 40 million visitors in April, followed by the U.K. (36.8 million visitors), and France (36.3 million visitors).
Facebook Making Big Gains In Europe
Facebook is now the sixth most popular Web site in the world with 275 million visitors in February, a 175 percent increase over the previous year, according to comScore.
Facebook has experienced strong growth in Europe, where the site has seen a 314 percent increase to nearly 100 million visitors.
France Has The Third Largest Internet Population In Europe
In February, more than 35 million people in France accessed the Internet from a home or work computer, up 19 percent over the previous year, according to comScore.
French Internet users spent a combined total of 932 million hours online in February, an average of 27 hours per person. Instant messaging was the most popular activity with total share of time spent at 14.3 percent, followed by social networking at 5.7 percent. Together the two categories accounted for one out of every five minutes spent online during the month.
The Social Networking Landscape in India and Europe
comScore released a couple of interesting reports today. The first involves the social networking landscape in Europe. According to comScore, France in particular had a big year when it comes to social networking, growing by 45% with Facebook as the leading network.
Report: Europe’s Online Ad Market Growing Fast
It’s mildly amazing to see another report about 2007 trickle in. The contents of the report are interesting, too, as Europe’s online advertising market apparently expanded by about €4 billion since the year before.
Online Television Draws Large Audiences In Europe
When it comes to online television, American companies and programs are what we tend to discuss. Research shows that online television is extremely popular in Europe, however, and so Europeans could drive the next wave of advertising trends.
GM Europe Has New Exec Blog
Yesterday, General Motors Europe launched Driving Conversations, a new executive blog.
The UK Leads Europe In Social Networking
Close to half of all people in the UK will be members of a social networking site within four years, a new report indicates.The study found that the UK has the highest number of users in Europe who are members of sites such as MySpace and Facebook. At least 9.6 million people in the UK use these sites and that is expected to increase to 27.1 million by 2012.
Azoogle Seeks CPA Traction In Europe
Partnerships for New York-based performance ad network Azoogle in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe may help drive acceptance of the cost per action model across the Continent.
Yahoo Europe’s Headquarters Moving To Switzerland
Wikipedia claims that all of Switzerland has about the same population as the Greater London area. And some Yahoo employees should soon be able to check up on that comparison, as the company is moving its European headquarters southeast.