Quantcast introduces new online ad service to find new audiences for marketers

Quantcast introduces new online ad service to find new audiences for marketers

Analytics firm Quantcast said today it is introducing Quantcast Marketer, a service that provides advertisers with detailed reports on how consumers view and interact with brands online.

The company said the free service should improve the ability for advertisers to handle web-based media planning and buying…. Continue Reading

Roundup: Market researchers report on global game sales, Microsoft introduces Photosynth and more

Roundup: Market researchers report on global game sales, Microsoft introduces Photosynth and more

Here’s the latest action:

Leading market researchers team up to report on video game sales – The leading research companies in the field (The NPD Group, GfK Chart-Track Limited and Enterbrain) have released the Top Global Markets Report in a long overdue move to provide reliable… Continue Reading

Web traffic measurement company Quantcast raises $20M more

Web traffic measurement company Quantcast raises $20M more

Quantcast, the company that places a piece of code on Web sites so that it can track traffic and other data directly, has raised $20 million more in financing.

The round was led by the Founders Fund and included Polaris Venture Partners. It follows $6 million… Continue Reading

Surprise: Facebook apps may help grow home sites

Surprise: Facebook apps may help grow home sites

Slide, Rockyou and HotorNot, three companies with the largest number of users on Facebook, are showing continued traffic growth on their own sites.

The finding, reported by Quantcast, a service that tracks traffic trends for Web sites, suggests that sites failing to embrace Facebook may be… Continue Reading

Quantcast becomes latest widget traffic tracker

Quantcast becomes latest widget traffic tracker

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More and more publishers and retailers rely on so-called “widgets,” little boxes placed on other web sites, to deliver their news, entertainment and product advertisements.

So measuring Web traffic to those widgets is important for deciding what content to deliver, and what sites to deliver it… Continue Reading

Quantcast, traffic measuring company, raises about $5.7M

Quantcast, a San Francisco start-up that measures the traffic on other sites, has raised around $5.7 million in Series A funding, according to a regulatory filing cited by PE Week. Investors included the Founders Fund and Revolution Capital, chief executive Konrad Feldman confirmed with VentureBeat… Continue Reading

Quantcast: Round hasn’t closed yet

Quantcast, the new company that measures the traffic at Web sites, and gives you all sorts of other information about visitors, is in talks to raise venture capital, but the funding hasn’t happened yet, the company said.

We recently wrote about Quantcast here.

A Web site, TheAlarmclock,… Continue Reading

Traffic measuring continued: Why Compete doesn’t work, and why Quantcast does

Traffic measuring continued: Why Compete doesn’t work, and why Quantcast does

It sucks when your Web site’s traffic isn’t being measured correctly.

It also sucks when you’re trying to measure the significance of someone else’s site, and are getting conflicting signals.

Here’s what we’ve learned over the past few days, after our initial piece on the problems of… Continue Reading

Measuring traffic? Alexa, Compete, Quantcast all have problems

Measuring traffic? Alexa, Compete, Quantcast all have problems

Ever wonder how much traffic a Web site is getting?

We’ve already talked about how tough it is to get accurate stats. Alexa, the favorite of many people because it offers lots of easy-to-get free data, is flawed. And new competitors, such as Compete and… Continue Reading