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November 2009
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Mobile
To Provide Behavioral Ad
Effectiveness (Campaign Metrix)
To Measure Video Streaming
(Video Metrix)
To Deliver a Worldwide Internet Audience
Measurement (World Metrix)
To Measure the Search
Market (qSearch)
To Build and Project from
2M+ Longitudinal Panel
To Monitor and Report
eCommerce Data
External Recognition
WORLD ECONOMIC Top 100 World’s Largest
FORUM Innovative Companies Windows Database
Technology Pioneer December 2004 December 2001,
2007 2003, 2005
© comScore, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. 4
Media Metrix Reporting Markets
Australia Indonesia
China Philippines
Hong Kong Vietnam
India
Japan
Other Regions Currently Reporting
Malaysia
New Zealand Worldwide – 172 countries
Singapore North America
South Korea Latin America
Taiwan Asia Pacific
Europe
Asia Pacific Europe North America Latin America Middle East - Africa
© comScore, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. 6 Source: comScore Media Metrix, August 2008 to August 2009
China is Driving Regional Growth
■ China continues explosive growth, with many other countries in the region also continuing to
show expansion
30.3
CNNIC estimates 298 MM
India
35.4
+17 total Internet users* in
26.5 China as of Dec 2008, up
South Korea +10
29.0 41.9 percent from 210 MM
11.3 a year earlier. The
Australia +12
12.6 increase of 88MM is
10.5 approximately twice the
Taiwan +13
11.9 size of the online
8.6 population in France!
Malaysia +9
9.4
* including ages 6+ and people
3.8 accessing the Internet from
Hong Kong +4
3.9 shared computers and Internet
2.4 cafes
Singapore +14
2.3
2.3
New Zealand
2.6
+15
Internet users ages 15+ accessing the internet from a Home or Work computer
© comScore, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. 7 Source: comScore World Metrix, August 2009 vs. August 2008
Internet Usage in Asia
China 14.9
Malaysia 14.1
India 11.0
© comScore, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. 8 Source: comScore World Metrix, August 2009
The Global Audience is Vital to Top Properties
© comScore, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. 10 Source: comScore World Metrix, August 2009
Audiences Worldwide Prefer to Consume Content
in their Native Languages
Europe Americas,
Asia Pacific UnitedKingdom MidEast &
Ireland
Africa
Australia
Denmark
Canada
NewZealand
Norway
PuertoRico
India
Sweden
Colombia
Singapore Portugal
Venezuela
Malaysia Finland
Switzerland Mexico
Hong Kong
Belgium Chile
South Korea
Netherlands Argentina
Taiwan
Austria
Brazil
Japan Italy
SouthAf rica
China Turkey
Israel
Spain
France English
Germany non-English Local Language
Russia Other
© comScore, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. 11 Source: comScore Custom Analysis of Page Views by Language, May 2009
Local Sites Lead in Asia Pacific Region – August 2009
■ Half of the Top 20 Properties for the ■ Particularly within China, Korea, and Japan,
region are Chinese sites majority of Top Domains are local sites or
localized versions of global sites
Unique Asia
Visitors Pacific Minutes/
in Asia Reach Visitor China Unique
Visitors
Korea Unique
Visitors
Google Sites 283,806 59.5 112.4 NAVER.COM 22,715
QQ.COM 133,796
Yahoo! Sites 227,182 47.6 182.6 DAUM.NET 21,957
BAIDU.COM 130,943
Microsoft Sites 214,008 44.8 152.4 SINA.COM.CN 96,739 NATE.COM 14,608
Tencent Inc. 144,302 30.2 315.4 SOSO.COM 88,013 GOMTV.COM 14,590
Baidu.com Inc. 143,458 30.1 65.1 163.COM 76,171 CYWORLD.COM 13,886
SINA Corporation 106,473 22.3 40.3 GOOGLE.CN 70,199 JOINS.COM 12,155
Alibaba.com Corporation 90,107 18.9 62.9 TAOBAO.COM 61,879 TISTORY.COM 11,167
XUNLEI.COM 61,520 GOOGLE.CO.KR 10,715
Sohu.com Inc. 81,992 17.2 35.3
SOHU.COM 60,789 GMARKET.CO.KR 10,370
NetEase.com Inc. 81,324 17.0 35.8
TUDOU.COM 52,752 YAHOO.CO.KR 10,039
Wikimedia Foundation Sites 77,365 16.2 13.8
Xunlei Networking 72,541 15.2 49.8
Facebook.com 71,153 14.9 152.7 Japan Unique
Visitors
CBS Interactive 69,490 14.6 8.8
Tudou Sites 57,866 12.1 27.0 YAHOO.CO.JP 54,887
GOOGLE.CO.JP 39,417
Amazon Sites 54,014 11.3 12.5
FC2.COM 34,146
Youku 51,308 10.8 47.4
RAKUTEN.CO.JP 33,307
Oak Pacific Interactive Sites 49,435 10.4 98.2
GOO.NE.JP 28,914
Apple Inc. 46,731 9.8 5.4
WIKIPEDIA.ORG 28,739
PConline.cn Sites 44,015 9.2 10.2 YOUTUBE.COM 28,009
eBay 40,140 8.4 39.7 GOOGLE.COM 25,476
AMAZON.CO.JP 24,125
NIFTY.COM 22,892
© comScore, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. 12 Source: comScore World Metrix, August 2009
Age Distribution of Asia Pacific Web Audience
■ China, India, and Malaysia skew Australia 21% 20% 21% 18% 19%
substantially young: 77% of India’s
web population is under 35, Taiwan 25% 29% 22% 15% 9%
© comScore, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. 14 Source: comScore World Metrix, August 2009
Entertainment Reach and Usage
■ Entertainment Reach is highest in South Korea, Singapore, and the Philippines
■ Web users in Singapore, Japan, and Hong Kong spend the most time on Entertainment
■ Entertainment consumption is closely linked to broadband penetration, due to high
bandwidth requirements of audio and video streaming and downloading
Entertainment Entertainment
% Reach Avg Hours/User
© comScore, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. 15 Source: comScore World Metrix, August 2009
Top Entertainment Sites
■ With the exception of YouTube and a handful of others, the Top Entertainment Properties
in the region are predominantly Chinese sites
© comScore, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. 16 Source: comScore World Metrix, August 2009
YouTube Drives Entertainment Category in most Countries
■ With 340 million Unique Visitors in Asia Pacific, YouTube is certainly the most popular
Entertainment site in the region
■ In many countries, it takes a substantial share of all time spent on Entertainment content.
In countries where this is not the case, local providers were able to maintain early market
share
YouTube YouTube
% Reach Share of Entertainment Minutes
Asia Pacific 20.5 Asia Pacific 28%
Singapore 57.8 Singapore 60%
Philippines 55.6 Philippines 64%
Australia 47.0 Australia 60%
New Zealand 46.9 New Zealand 61%
Malaysia 45.0 Malaysia 59%
Japan 41.4 Japan 48%
Hong Kong 40.3 Hong Kong 44%
Indonesia 34.2 Indonesia 49%
India 30.4 India 46%
Taiwan 27.7 Taiwan 35%
Vietnam 25.0 Vietnam 16%
South Korea 12.3 South Korea 11%
China 0.1 China 0%
© comScore, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. 17 Source: comScore World Metrix, August 2009
Facebook Takes Over in Most Asian Markets;
Friendster Loses Last Summer’s Lead
■ Facebook has more than Social Networks Asia Pacific % Reach YOY Aug ‘08
Increase SN Rank
doubled its share in Asia 6.4%
FACEBOOK.COM
14.9% +9% #8
Pacific to become the
11.7%
leading Social Network in Baidu Space
11.4% 0% #2
the region QQ.COM Alumni
1.3%
+7% N/A
8.0%
© comScore, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. 19 Source: comScore World Metrix, August 2009
Half of Web Users in the Region Turn to the Web for News
Taiwan 64.4
China 49.7
News/Information 55.2 50.6 Singapore 49.3
Indonesia 45.5
Newspapers 27.7 22.3
Philippines 42.8
Weather 8.6 7.3
Malaysia 41.9
© comScore, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. 20 Source: comScore World Metrix, August 2009
Search
■ China and Japan lead the region in total Search volume, due to the relative
rela size of their
markets, but Korea, Australia, and Singapore lead the region in search activity on a
normalized basis
■ Searches on Google account for two-thirds of global searches; in Asia-Pacific, Google
accounts for less than 45%
Australia 125.0
Singapore 124.8
Japan 110.7
Malaysia 83.1
India 79.2
Taiwan 75.6
China 61.7
© comScore, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. 21 Source: comScore qSearch, August 2009
Google Trails where Local Language is Dominant
and There is a Strong Local Challenger
■ In most Asian markets, Google takes the lion’s share of search activity, but in a few, it
takes second- or even third-seat to dominant local providers
■ Intuitive locally-focused, in-language results = strong local brand
China
Google Share of Search Share of Searches
Google Sites,
14%
% of Total Searches Conducted on Google
Baidu.com Alibaba.com
Inc., 64% Corporation,
Asia Pacific 44.9
7%
India 88.8
TENCENT
Australia 83.3 Inc., 6%
Singapore 71.1
South Korea Google
Malaysia 70.1 Sites, 9%
Share of Searches Yahoo!
Japan 47.0 NHN Sites, 8%
Corporation,
Hong Kong 30.7 50% SK Group,
3%
Taiwan 21.2
Lycos Sites,
China 14.0 24%
© comScore, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. 22 Source: comScore qSearch, August 2009
Online Retail
■ Visiting to Retail sites is strongest in Japan and South Korea
■ E Commerce still certainly in its infancy in countries like Malaysia, Indonesia, and India;
■ Consumers visit retail/product sites and comparison shop online even when they are not
yet confident of the security of online transactions, or would otherwise prefer to make
their actual purchases offline
Retail Comparison Shopping
% Reach % Reach
© comScore, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. 23 Source: comScore World Metrix, August 2009
Retail Subcategories
■ Product categories that will lead online Retail will vary by country, depending on local
interest and presence of local providers
% Reach of Retail Subcategories by Country
Asia South New Hong
Japan Australia Taiwan Singapore China Vietnam Philippines India Indonesia Malaysia
Pacific Korea Zealand Kong
Retail 54.4 73.7 69.4 57.5 55.2 53.8 51.4 51.3 50.4 46.7 40.2 39.9 36.3 35.8
Comparison Shopping 21.4 57.6 44.2 18.2 36.9 9.6 13.7 13.8 14.8 2.6 8.5 6.5 5.3 6.1
Books 17.8 41.0 8.2 21.1 10.9 18.1 19.1 13.8 14.5 10.4 15.0 13.4 8.8 10.8
Computer Hardware 11.3 23.6 11.9 22.4 7.5 18.7 15.6 16.9 6.5 5.5 10.8 9.6 12.6 10.4
Consumer Electronics 11.0 14.1 25.3 8.2 12.4 11.6 9.1 17.1 9.9 8.6 4.8 7.6 12.0 4.2
Computer Software 9.2 10.5 10.1 12.1 9.5 12.9 11.3 8.6 6.1 8.8 11.4 14.1 11.8 9.6
Apparel 8.9 19.6 11.9 10.9 8.0 10.0 10.1 7.6 7.8 1.5 5.4 2.5 3.2 3.8
Health Care 5.1 9.0 0.6 2.6 1.0 2.3 2.2 1.2 7.0 0.5 1.7 1.9 0.6 1.1
Mall 5.1 14.4 15.2 2.4 0.9 0.8 1.0 1.4 3.8 0.1 0.4 0.9 0.3 0.3
Fragrances/Cosmetics 3.8 13.9 2.4 2.7 7.0 2.1 2.3 4.7 2.0 2.6 0.9 0.6 0.5 0.9
Retail - Music 3.5 14.1 2.1 4.8 2.6 3.0 3.5 6.6 1.4 0.4 2.5 1.0 1.6 1.6
Retail - Food 3.0 15.2 1.9 3.6 1.0 3.5 4.0 1.9 0.5 0.8 0.5 0.7 0.2 1.3
Department Stores 2.8 4.5 16.1 6.3 0.6 1.2 2.3 0.9 1.5 0.3 1.1 0.9 0.5 0.5
Tickets 1.9 6.9 4.2 7.1 1.8 4.0 4.4 2.9 0.3 0.1 0.4 1.1 0.3 0.5
Flowers/Gifts/Greetings 1.7 1.9 1.5 5.1 0.2 3.6 3.9 1.9 0.4 0.8 2.9 4.3 1.9 2.0
Jewelry/Luxury
Goods/Accessories 1.4 2.8 0.6 3.2 0.8 3.4 1.7 2.2 1.0 0.9 1.5 1.2 0.8 0.8
Consumer Goods 1.4 7.4 0.0 0.9 0.3 1.1 1.5 0.3 0.2 0.1 0.5 0.9 0.1 0.3
Sports/Outdoor 1.4 5.5 0.9 4.6 0.4 2.2 3.4 0.9 0.1 0.3 1.4 0.6 1.2 1.0
Home Furnishings 1.3 4.5 1.0 3.0 1.4 1.3 1.2 1.4 0.5 0.1 0.8 0.7 0.5 1.1
Toys 1.2 5.1 0.6 2.8 0.7 2.1 1.9 2.3 0.1 1.9 1.4 0.5 0.9 0.8
© comScore, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. 24 Source: comScore World Metrix, August 2009
Summary of Key Findings
Asia Pacific is the dominant regional audience and will be critical in the global
Internet competition
Web penetration will continue to increase in emerging markets within Asia, and
even in markets where web usage is well-established, increased broadband
adoption will drive additional consumption
Though Yahoo!, Google, MSN and other U.S. brands currently lead the Top
Property rankings in this region, there are a host of local sites that are already
carving out regional niches, and are poised to take market share
Internet usage is distinct by market
– High broadband penetration drives increased Entertainment usage in Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore
– Social Networks in China, India, Korea, and Japan are holding Facebook off – for now. Elsewhere,
Facebook has overtaken Friendster and MySpace to be the dominant SN in the region
– E-commerce and online shopping is still in its infancy in Asia