ComScore: Springtime brings sneezes, sports, and Yahoo in bloom

ComScore released its monthly analysis of web activity for March today which found that Yahoo is edging in on Google in terms of traffic and that Spring fever also extends to the digital world.

Google has 5 of the 6 most popular apps in America (and more crazy data from ComScore)

ComScore's massive report also includes data on the top web properties, the battle for search dominance between Google and Bing, and smartphone market share, among other things.

Comscore: Apple tops LG as No. 2 U.S. mobile phone maker

iPhone 5, plus market share losses from Android makers, pushes Apple to the No. 2 spot.

E-commerce sales top $41.9B in Q3, point to stellar online holiday shopping season

Online retail spending in the U.S. during the third quarter of 2012 came in at $41.9 billion, a new record for the three months leading into the e-holiday shopping bonanza and a positive sign of things to come.

YouTube is like Agent Smith in the Matrix: More, more, more

TV is moving to the web, and no company is benefitting more from that than Google. It's really not a competition.

Instagram tops Twitter in daily mobile users, engagement

Twitter has a serious challenger in photo-sharing phenom Instagram, which won the all-important race for mobile attention in August.

Online video: Google still bigger than Facebook, Yahoo, and VEVO combined

ComScore released its July 2012 online video rankings for the U.S., and the news is that there is no contest. Google (read YouTube) is number one, and you've got to look a long way down the graph for numbers two, three, and four.

Beyond that, Facebook is now number two, and Hulu is quite obviously Queen of Ads.

comScore: iPad owners are young and rich, Kindle owners more price-conscious

While iPad owners are rich and young, Kindle Fire users have an eye on the price tag, says the latest report from analytics company comScore.

Smartphone wars: Google and Samsung largest, Apple growing faster

ComScore just released its June 2012 U.S. mobile report, and the results were mostly predictable.

The unholy trinity of Google, Samsung, and Apple captured 50 percent of the mobile phone market, and 84 percent of all smartphones run either Android …

Google+ uniques grew 66 percent in 8 months

Well, would you look at that. Google+, the oft-criticized social network from search giant Google, is growing remarkably fast.

Google+ picked up 66 percent more unique visitors between November and June for a total of 110.7 million visitors in June, …

Glam Media is now bigger than fading web portal AOL (scoop)

It may have taken a while, but the age of web portal dominance is finally starting to show visible signs of erosion.

For the first time, media and advertising startup Glam Media now has a higher global audience reach than …

Gmail finally blows past Hotmail to become the world’s largest email service

Google announced today that its Gmail service has 425 million monthly active users. That means it has blown past Hotmail for the first time, becoming the largest email service in the world.

For many years, Microsoft’s Hotmail has been the …

Facebook and comScore: “This is how to do social marketing”

ComScore released a new study with Facebook today explaining “how social marketing works.” If that sounds to suspicious minds like the fox explaining how to guard the chickens, that’s because it pretty much is. However, the study does contain a …

Tablets hit critical mass with 1 in 4 smartphone owners using them

Smartphones are yesterday’s must-have gadget. Today’s always-connected consumers want tablets, a trend made clear by new data that shows nearly one in every four smartphones owners have upscaled to the bigger touchscreen devices.

Just under 24 percent of smartphone owners …

Instagram picked up 78 percent more uniques in April — thank you, Facebook

A billion dollars will buy you a lot of things, and, in the case of Instagram, one of those things happens to be exposure to millions.

In April, Instagram’s website saw a 78 percent uptick in unique visitors in the …

Facebook’s mobile risk by the big, bad numbers

Mobile is Facebook’s advertising Achilles’ heel, a fact the social network was not only quick to point out to investors in its first S-1, but also anxious to emphasize in the latest prospectus amendment.

Data from comScore, which shows that …

Instagram grew U.S. uniques by 19 percent in March

Mobile photo-sharing phenom Instagram didn’t need an Android application or any help from Facebook to post remarkable gains in unique web traffic in March.

Instagram, the Facebook-purchased photo-sharing app with little web presence to speak of, actually landed on analytics …

Smartphone, tablet usage spikes during NCAA Tournament

Beginning last Thursday, men (and women) everywhere hit pause on their lives to press play on March Madness, gravitating to mobile screens more than ever before to watch as would-be Cinderellas challenged top-ceded teams in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.…

Pinterest grew 52% to 17.8M unique visitors in February

Love was most certainly in the air for digital inspiration board site Pinterest during the month of February.

The newly crowned princess of the Internet was the object of everyone’s attention and saw more than 17.8 million unique visitors in …