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comScore helps media owners understand their audiences and helps advertisers and agencies decide where to place ads and assess whether they worked. It combines viewing and usage data across television, digital media and movies, accounting for people who use multiple devices so they are not counted repeatedly. Customers pay for measurements used to plan advertising, evaluate campaigns and make decisions about content.
Most revenue comes from standardized audience-measurement products, typically sold through annual subscriptions. A smaller business measures audiences and campaigns across platforms, with products such as Proximic and Cross-Platform Campaign Results charged by transaction. comScore also sells tailored data feeds, surveys and research.
The business depends on subscription renewals, relationships with large customers and continued access to data from consenting research participants, publishers and third-party suppliers, including television operators. A limited group of large customers supplies a substantial share of revenue. Privacy laws and consent requirements restrict how comScore and its partners collect and use consumer data, while restrictions on tracking technologies can reduce the information available to its products.
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Comscore must retain television and digital measurement subscriptions while winning cross-platform advertising business against rivals including privately held Nielsen.
DoubleVerify competes with Comscore for advertisers and agencies paying for independent checks of digital-ad delivery and effectiveness. Watch the volume of ads DoubleVerify measures: it charges per measured transaction, making that volume a concrete sign of demand for verification.
Similarweb competes with Comscore for business buyers paying for estimates of website and app activity and digital audiences. Watch spending by Similarweb’s larger customers on its software and data services: most started as smaller customers and expanded their purchases.
The Trade Desk and Comscore both draw demand from automated ad buying: advertisers and agencies pay The Trade Desk to run campaigns and supply data, while Comscore provides audience targeting and measurement across platforms. Watch spending through The Trade Desk’s platform for a read on the advertising activity behind Comscore’s Proximic and cross-platform campaign measurement business.
Criteo and Comscore share exposure to spending on targeted advertising: Criteo delivers personalized ads for brands and agencies, while Comscore supplies audience targeting and campaign-outcome measurement. Criteo’s activated media spend is a useful gauge of demand for the targeted campaigns that Comscore helps reach and measure.
Omnicom and Comscore depend on advertisers’ budgets for campaign planning and analytics: large companies pay Omnicom’s agencies to plan and execute campaigns, while Comscore sells advertisers and agencies audience and outcome data for that work. Watch Omnicom’s media and advertising business rather than its broader marketing revenue for the closer connection to Comscore.
comScore, Inc. earningsThis company
Comscore’s report will show whether growth in cross-platform products can make up for lost revenue from its much larger syndicated TV and digital audience subscriptions.
Compare cross-platform revenue with the much larger Syndicated Audience subscription business. Faster growth in cross-platform products alongside a smaller decline in syndicated revenue would show newer products are filling the gap left by weaker renewals. Slower cross-platform growth with continued syndicated declines would mean the core subscription business is still shrinking faster than newer products can replace it.
The Trade Desk, Inc. earningsTTD
The Trade Desk’s report will show whether advertisers and agencies are running more campaigns through automated buying, activity that can drive demand for Comscore’s targeting and cross-platform measurement.
Look at spending through The Trade Desk’s platform. Rising spend would indicate more campaigns are being bought automatically, supporting demand for Comscore’s Proximic targeting and cross-platform measurement. Weaker spend would mean less activity flowing through this demand channel.
DoubleVerify Holdings, Inc. earningsDV
DoubleVerify’s report will show whether advertisers and agencies are buying more independent checks of digital ads, a market where it competes with Comscore.
Look at the volume of ads DoubleVerify measures. More ads would show stronger demand for digital-ad verification, making a more active market for Comscore’s advertising validation business; fewer would point to weakening demand for these services.
Similarweb Ltd. earningsSMWB
Similarweb’s report will show whether business buyers are expanding purchases of website, app and digital-audience data, a market where it competes with Comscore.
Look at whether Similarweb’s larger customers keep expanding spending on its software and data services. Continued expansion would show business buyers are still adding digital-audience and web-activity data, a supportive backdrop for Comscore to retain and grow related subscriptions; slower spending growth would signal less appetite to expand those purchases.
