Comscore World Metrix Study Highlights Potential for Significant Multimedia Growth in Brazil As Broadband Penetration Rates Rise
RESTON, VA, September 17, 2008 – Comscore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released results from a study of online visitation to multimedia Web sites in Brazil. The multimedia category includes sites offering video, music, and other entertainment-based applications. The study showed that while Brazilian Internet users tend to visit multimedia sites as frequently as the rest of the world, an indicator of high potential demand for the content on these sites, they spend considerably less time on average on these sites due to technological impediments.
“As a developing Internet market, Brazil still has relatively low broadband penetration, which tends to inhibit extended periods of engagement with multimedia content because of the slow download speed,” said Alex Banks, Comscore managing director of Latin America. “However, Brazilian Internet users’ frequent visits to the site category indicate strong latent consumer demand, meaning that as broadband penetration rates in Brazil increase, the time spent engaging with this content can be expected to rise considerably.”
Multimedia Category Visitation and EngagementJuly 2008Total Worldwide and Brazil, Age 15+, Home and Work LocationsSource: Comscore World Metrix
Multimedia
Average Minutes per Visitor
Average Minutes per Visit
Average Visits per Visitor
Worldwide
103.8
11.2
9.3
Brazil
73.5
7.9
Brazil's Rank (Among 37 Countries Individually Reported by Comscore)
#32
#36
#14
*Comscore MMX monitors the online activities of individuals in Brazil within a universe defined as those aged 15+ who have accessed the Internet from either a home or a work computer in the past 30 days. It excludes traffic from public computers, such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones/PDAs. Since a significant number of consumers in Brazil access the Internet from outside this universe definition, Comscore has developed an Extended Universe for the online population in Brazil, which is estimated differently than Comscore's Total Internet estimate. Comscore estimates Brazil's Extended Universe to be 56.2 million.
Video Web Sites Lead Multimedia Category
Of the top 20 multimedia properties in Brazil, 12 of them are primarily video-sharing sites and all of them include general video functionality. YouTube.com led the category with 11.5 million visitors in July, followed by Globos Videos with 8.3 million visitors. Other video-sharing sites within the top ten include MSN Video (1.5 million visitors), StartVG.com (1.1 million visitors), and WeShow.com (756,000 visitors). YouTube.com was the only site in the category with an average engagement duration greater than ten minutes per person during the month (12.9).
Top 20 Multimedia Sites by Unique VisitorsJuly 2008Total Brazil, Age 15+, Home and Work Locations*Source: Comscore World Metrix
Sites
Total Unique Visitors (000)
Total Brazilian Internet Audience
25,288
34.9
49.3
16,720
YOUTUBE.COM
11,549
12.9
6.5
Globo Videos
8,293
2.5
6.2
WindowsMedia
3,580
2.3
2.8
MSN Music
2,053
3.6
1.8
MSN Video
1,520
0.6
1.5
Real.com Network
1,326
4.5
3.0
WinAmp (App)
1,201
N/A
STARTVG.COM
1,143
5.0
WESHOW.COM
756
2.6
1.3
iTunes Software (App)
717
70MMVIDEOS.COM
698
0.4
2.2
Photobucket.com LLC
553
3.7
Break Media
497
1.9
iG Megaplayer
457
4DH.COM
410
2.7
VIDEOPOP.COM.BR
405
0.2
1.6
MTV Networks Music
370
1.7
Jokeroo Entertainment Inc.
359
1.1
1.4
ORTUBES.COM
354
Metacafe
345
The findings were presented today by Comscore’s Alex Banks at the TV 2.0 Summit in Sao Paulo, Brazil. To request a copy of the presentation, please visit: http://www.comscore.com/slides.
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