April 2, 2015

Comscore Ranks Top UK Digital Media Properties for February 2015

London, UK, 2 April, 2015 – Comscore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly report on the state of the digital landscape in the UK, based on data from the Comscore MMX, MMX Multi-Platform, Mobile Metrix and Video Metrix services. More than 47.6 million UK unique visitors accessed the Internet in February 2015 across desktop and mobile (smartphone and tablet) platforms. 44.7 million visitors the Internet via their desktops while 35.9 million users browsed the web via their mobile devices. Download the full February UK Digital Market Overview here.

According to Comscore MMX Multi-Platform, which provides an unduplicated view of usage across desktop, smartphone and tablet, Google Sites ranked as the top property with 45.7 million combined desktop and mobile internet users? The majority of Google Sites’ audience visited from both desktop and mobile platforms (63 percent), while 29% visited exclusively from desktop and 8% were mobile only users. Facebook was the second most popular online property with a multi-platform audience of 39.6 million, 28 percent of which visited only via mobile devices.

Interestingly, the News/Information properties featured in the Top 20 list -- BBC, Mail Online, and Trinity Mirror -- drew a substantially higher percentage of their audiences via mobile-only than desktop-only, signifying a massive shift in how audiences are predominantly accessing news content.

Comscore Top 20 Digital Media Properties by Total Multi-Platform Unique Visitors
February 2015
UK, Desktop Age 6+, Mobile Age 18+
Source: Comscore MMX Multi-Platform

Unique Visitors (000)

Share (%) of Total Digital Population

Total Digital Population

Desktop Only

Multi-Platform (Desktop + Mobile)

Mobile Only

Total Internet Audience

47,610

25%

69%

6%

Google Sites

45,733

29%

63%

8%

Facebook

39,604

22%

49%

28%

BBC Sites

39,341

32%

33%

35%

Amazon Sites

36,819

32%

31%

37%

Microsoft Sites

36,098

55%

34%

11%

Yahoo Sites

32,756

39%

37%

24%

eBay

30,080

33%

36%

31%

Apple Inc.

26,919

30%

14%

56%

Sky Sites

25,925

22%

17%

60%

Mail Online

25,227

26%

21%

53%

Wikimedia Foundation Sites

25,093

45%

25%

30%

Trinity Mirror Group

22,491

23%

12%

65%

Mode Media

22,115

39%

18%

44%

AOL, Inc.

20,906

35%

24%

40%

TWITTER.COM

20,529

28%

20%

53%

Linkedin

20,266

28%

18%

54%

The Guardian

19,787

33%

17%

50%

Telegraph Media Group

17,864

34%

16%

51%

GOV.UK

15,890

54%

14%

32%

Tesco Stores

14,161

36%

19%

45%

For a more insights into multi-platform, desktop, mobile and online video consumption trends, please download this month’s UK Digital Market Overview here.

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About Comscore
Comscore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) is a global leader in digital measurement and analytics, delivering insights on web, mobile and TV consumer behaviour that enable clients to maximise the value of their digital investments. For more information, please visit www.comscore.com/companyinfo.

About UKOM
UK Online Measurement Company (UKOM) is an industry governed multi-platform audience measurement in partnership with Comscore.

UKOM’s objective is to set and oversee the delivery of a credible industry standard for digital audience measurement. That means quantifying audiences in terms of people, not browsers or machines.