Comscore releases Top German Web Rankings for July 2008

Barack Obama’s Visit to Germany Sends Flood of Traffic to Political Sites

Facebook Continues to Expand Its German Audience

LONDON, U.K., September 10, 2008 –Comscore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its July rankings of the largest and fastest-growing Internet properties and site categories in Germany based on data from the Comscore World Metrix audience measurement service.

Interest in U.S. Presidential candidate Barack Obama, whose visit to Berlin kicked off the European leg of his worldwide tour on July 24, generated a 28-percent increase in visitors to the politics site category, making it the fastest-growing category during the month. July also saw increases to the pharmacy, real estate, family and business-to-business site categories.

The fastest-growing site in July was video-sharing site Megavideo.com, which grew 133 percent to 1.5 million visitors, while the release of an updated version of the Firefox Web browser propelled a 119-percent increase to The Mozilla Organisation. Facebook.com, which introduced a German language interface in March, grew 29 percent to 1.5 million visitors.

Top Gaining Site Categories for July 2008

Top 10 Gaining Site Categories by Number of German Unique Visitors
July vs. June 2008
Total Germany, Age 15+ - Home and Work Locations*
Source: Comscore World Metrix

Property

Total Unique Visitors (000)

June-2008

July-2008

% Change

Total Internet : Total Audience

34,986

35,212

1%

Politics

904

1,153

28%

Pharmacy

1,327

1,627

23%

Real Estate

3,674

4,457

21%

Family

2,697

3,267

21%

Business to Business

5,137

6,154

20%

Hobbies/Lifestyle

7,451

8,678

16%

Weather

6,611

7,694

16%

Retail - Flowers/Gifts/Greetings

1,411

1,642

16%

Travel - Car Rental

4,645

5,383

16%

Technology

16,458

18,517

13%

* Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs.

Top Gaining Properties for July 2008

Top 10 Gaining Properties by Number of German Unique Visitors*
July vs. June 2008
Total Germany, Age 15+ - Home and Work Locations**
Source: Comscore World Metrix

Property

Total Unique Visitors (000)

Jun-2008

Jul-2008

% Change

Total Internet : Total Audience

34,986

35,212

1%

MEGAVIDEO.COM

640

1,494

133%

The Mozilla Organization

4,283

9,362

119%

KINO.TO

1,165

2,532

117%

FACEBOOK.COM

1,180

1,522

29%

Unister GmbH

3,671

4,684

28%

WetterOnline GmbH

1,946

2,474

27%

Vivendi

1,285

1,608

25%

Sixt Group

4,177

5,107

22%

Marquard Media AG

1,710

2,071

21%

Gameforge Sites

1,446

1,746

21%

*Ranking based on the top 100 German properties in July 2008.

** Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs.

Top 25 Properties for July 2008

Top 25 Properties by Number of German Unique Visitors*
July vs. June 2008
Total Germany, Age 15+ - Home and Work Locations**
Source: Comscore World Metrix

July-08 Rank

June-08 Rank

Property

Total Unique Visitors (000) Jun-08

N/A

N/A

Total Internet : Total Audience

35,212

1

1

Google Sites

27,463

2

4

Microsoft Sites

18,653

3

2

eBay

18,283

4

5

United-Internet Sites

17,354

5

3

AOL LLC

17,278

6

6

ProSiebenSat1 Sites

16,010

7

7

Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck

14,755

8

8

Wikipedia Sites

14,361

9

9

Arcandor AG

14,288

10

10

T-Online Sites

12,483

11

12

Yahoo! Sites

11,838

12

14

Deutsche Telekom

11,668

13

11

Vodafone Group

10,834

14

13

Otto Gruppe

10,678

15

16

Amazon Sites

10,118

16

15

freenet AG

9,879

17

34

The Mozilla Organization

9,362

18

17

Axel Springer AG

9,264

19

18

Lycos Europe Sites

9,146

20

19

RTL Group Sites

8,865

21

20

Fox Interactive Media

8,515

22

22

Vogel Burda Communications

6,833

23

24

Deutsche Bahn

6,637

24

21

ARD Sites

5,266

25

35

Sixt Group

5,107

*Ranking based on the top 100 German properties in July 2008.

** Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs.

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