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A new report from comScore gives insight into the shift of internet traffic onto what it calls 'non-computer devices.' These are broken down into 1) mobile, and 2) other ‘connected devices’ like tablets, game consoles, and e-readers. From an Asia perspective, a number of key insights stand out from the report. Measuring browser-based page views in August, Singapore was found to have the highest percentage of traffic (of ten selected global markets) coming from non-computer sources at 7.2 percent (see chart below to the left). The United States and United ...
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Aug 25 2011
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New Statistics Show Blogs are Big in Japan
ComScore is reporting some interesting numbers about which countries in the world spend the most time on blogs. With an average visitor spending 62.6 minutes on blogs for the month of June, Japan tops all nations in engagement. {"dataSourceUrl":"//docs.google.com/spreadsheet/tq?key=0Ankqe-fbHOHIdExOenhMcEI1dFVWLXM2aG5GOXNQSFE&transpose=0&headers=-1&range=A1%3AP3&gid=0&pub=1","options":{"vAxes":,"series":{"0":{"color":"#f3f3f3"},"1":{"color":"#fff2cc"},"2":{"color":"#eeeeee"},"3":{"color":"#ead1dc"},"4":{"color":"#d9d2e9"},"5":{"color":"#cfe2f3"},"6":{"color":"#d0e0e3"},"7":{"color":"#d9ead3"},"8":{"color":"#fce5cd"},"9":{"color":"#f4cccc"},"10":{"color":"#ea9999"},"11":{"color":"#e06666"},"12":{"color":"#cc0000"},"13":{"color":"#990000"},"14":{"color":"#660000"}},"reverseCategories":false,"title":"Japan: Top Sites in the Blog Category by Unique Visitors (x000)","backgroundColor":"#FFFFFF","legend":"right","logScale":false,"reverseAxis":false,"hAxis":{"maxAlternation":1},"hasLabelsColumn":true,"isStacked":true,"vAxis":{"format":"#0.##########"},"width":399,"height":250},"state":{},"chartType":"ColumnChart","chartName":"Chart 1"} What blogging services are Japanese users reading? Here’s a graphical overview of comScore’s breakdown (see right). Surprisingly FC2 tops comScore’s list, though it’s technically a Nevada-based company, but offers a number of web services to Japan. After that, we ...
Jul 29 2011
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SnapDeal Winning India’s Coupon Site Battle [Report]
New statistics from research firm comScore suggest that snapdeal.com is comfortably ahead in India’s group-buying sector after the month of June. According to the report, over 1.5 million* users visited SnapDeal during that time. We heard just yesterday that the company has raised $40 million in series B funding from a group led by Bessemer Venture Partners. And our readers may remember SnapDeal as the creative company who created a huge buzz around its brand by adopting an entire village, Shiv Nagar, and renaming it Snapdeal.com Nagar. Taking the second ...
Jul 27 2011
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Gmail Market Penetration is 62% In India, World’s Highest By Far
We learned recently that one of the notable details about the rise of Google+ is how strongly it has taken hold of Indian early adopters, with that nation ranking only behind the US in terms of users on the new platform. But according to new data from comScore, the penetration of GMail in India is pretty remarkable as well, with a whopping market penetration of 62 percent. We recently reported about how the Indian government has come under fire because of its affinity for using free web mail. It appears that ...
Dec 27 2011
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Google Android Outgrows Apple in Japan Smartphone Market
According to a new report from comScore Japan KK, both Google Android and Apple are showing excellent growth in the smartphone space in Japan. But Google is winning over customers at a much faster rate to start 2011. While Apple put up a very solid 17 percent growth over the past six months to reach 3.9 million mobile subscribers, Android has doubled it’s subscriber base in the last three months alone to reach 4.6 million in March. Both companies are clearly doing well, but Android’s recent trajectory has given it the ...
Jun 17 2011
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How Much Does Asia Like Group-buy Services?
There are some interesting numbers coming from comScore today showing the top ten global markets for Groupon according to unique visitors in April. As you might expect America leads the pack. But who stands out in Asia? Well it turns out that Groupon is reaching a decent audience in Japan and Taiwan, with almost 1.6 and 1.2 million visitors respectively. See the chart below to view the entire top ten list. Then skip to the bottom, because we have a question for you. What group buy or coupon site have you used ...
Jun 9 2011
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Chinese Internet Users Like Portals Best [REPORT]
comScore has released a report showing a breakdown of how internet users in Greater China spent time online. According to the firm’s research 24.4 percent of netizen’s online minutes in the month of April were spent on portals. Entertainment sites came second at nine percent of total minutes, while search/navigation followed at 6.2 percent. Surprisingly the numbers say that Chinese users spent only 5.5 percent of total minutes on social networking sites, which comScore says is “less that one-third of the category’s percentage on a worldwide basis.” A couple of caveats It should ...
Oct 8 2009
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A Gorgeous Chart: Facebook, Twitter, MySpace [Stats]
Twitter's explosive growth has taken the limelight off Facebook this year. If I was Facebook, I probably wouldn't mind. Reaching 300 million active users and having a chance to frog leap Yahoo and Google should be enough to keep it happy. A graph from ComScore tells a simple fact: MySpace and Twitter are far behind Facebook. Image via Chicago Tribune
Aug 28 2009
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ComScore Chart: Maybe Teens Do Like to Tweet
The Twitterverse is hugely dominated by adults users and this has perhaps made Twitter unappealing to teens. There may not be many teens using Twitter currently but according to ComScore, it is certainly the fastest growing segment. This chart has a proportion score represented by its y-axis. A score of 100 tells us that the visits by a particular age group to Twitter is perfectly proportionate to its total Internet use. In another words, it represents people's Twitter Presence vs Web Presence as a Whole. Clearly, with a score of 121, people between ...
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