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Media Metrix Merges With Jupiter
News Media Metrix and Jupiter Communications said Tuesday they will merge in a $414m stock swap deal that creates a one-stop Web statistic shop. Under the terms of the merger, Media Metrix will give Jupiter shareholders .946 of a Media Metrix share for...
[June 27, 2000, 11:11]
NetRatings Drops Plan To Buy Jupiter Media Metrix
News NetRatings has called off its acquisition of Jupiter Media Metrix, due in part to scrutiny from the Federal Trade Commission, prompting Jupiter to "explore strategic options," the companies said Tuesday.
[February 20, 2002, 6:31]
Net-tracking Firm Settles Patent Suit
News Research company Jupiter Media Metrix has settled one lawsuit over its patented Internet audience tracking system and launched another. Jupiter Media Metrix is known for measuring Internet usage and analysing audience behavior over the Net.
[March 28, 2001, 15:38]
Dot-com Demise Reaches Researcher Jupiter
News First USA research director Melanie Wing started to question Jupiter Media Metrix's Internet traffic figures when it recently ranked rival credit card company American Express as one of the Web's 50 most popular sites.
[July 5, 2001, 12:51]
NetRatings Grabs Jupiter
News NetRatings, which measures Web traffic, on Thursday said it agreed to buy rival Jupiter Media Metrix in a cash-and-stock deal worth about $71.2m. Over the last year, the company has laid off a large part of its staff and attempted to implement a...
[October 26, 2001, 11:01]
Pop-up Ads Influence Web Rankings
News Jupiter Media Metrix's September traffic figures indicate that online pharmacy network ABPharmacy.com ranked No.among US Web properties, beating out sites such as iWon.com and LookSmart. Some research companies say they don't see the value in...
[October 16, 2001, 10:00]
Net Users Still Hesitant To Pay
News The percentage of online adults willing to pay for content on the Internet decreased to 42 percent from 45 percent in August 2000, according to a study conducted by market researcher Jupiter Media Metrix.
[March 20, 2002, 14:45]
US Experiences Record Breaking E-Christmas Sales
News The increased traffic and spending come despite a downturn in the economy that has led Jupiter Media Metrix to project a decrease in overall retail sales this holiday season. In its report, Jupiter Media Metrix compared last year's online auction...
[December 14, 2000, 8:19]
A Faster, Leaner Olympics Online
News Coverage is going to be stripped down, and you're going to see that the Internet site is more a driver to TV than the other way around," said Patrick Keane, an analyst at Net researcher Jupiter Media Metrix.
[February 9, 2002, 6:01]
Web Ratings: Numbers Can Lie
News Nielsen, in conjunction with online research company NetRatings, also measures Web traffic in competition with Media Metrix, which merged last year with market researcher Jupiter Communications to become Jupiter Media Metrix.
[April 30, 2001, 13:05]
New Battle Plans Alter IM Wars
News As long as there is no interoperability, it protects these companies from things like churn," said Jupiter Media Metrix analyst Michael Gartenberg, referring to the rate at which people leave a service.
[May 13, 2002, 14:54]
Tesco Looks To Conquer America
News Jupiter Media Metrix recently reduced its expectations for the market, dropping its 2001 numbers by 50 percent from $2bn to $1bn, and its 2005 prediction from $18bn to $7bn. According to Jupiter Media Metrix analyst Ken Cassar, the store-based...
[June 29, 2001, 15:08]
AOL Members Set Shopping Record
News That's certainly a part of it -- there are 14 million more people online this year than last year," said Jared Blank, an analyst at Jupiter Media Metrix in New York. Based on traffic figures, Jupiter Media Metrix had been expecting the holiday...
[January 2, 2002, 16:39]
Spending On Streaming Video Expected To Skyrocket
News According to a new study by Jupiter Media Metrix, corporations will spend dramatically higher amounts on streaming video technology in the next four years. This study is focused on the enterprise, and there is a whole other market out there called...
[April 12, 2001, 11:14]
Statistics Firms Rethink QuickTime Stats
News Media Metrix, the former Jupiter Media Metrix division that was recently sold to ComScore Networks, has published reports in the past showing QuickTime with a relatively tiny share of the active market for Internet media players.
[June 19, 2002, 15:40]
Portal Wars Are Over -- Guess Who Won?
News According to the latest data from Media Metrix, AOL has a strong lead among Internet portals, with more than 53 million unique users each month. Lycos was briefly among those sites at one point this year, according to Internet measurement service...
[December 20, 1999, 8:51]
Murky Future For Online Console Games
News Video game players won't go online en masse in the foreseeable future, despite the growing efforts to connect game consoles to the Internet, according to a new report from Jupiter Media Metrix. Jupiter analyst Billy Pidgeon said the success of such...
[December 18, 2001, 14:26]
E-commerce: Familiarity Breeds Content
News A Jupiter Media Metrix study released on Monday said that the majority of online consumers replicate their relationships with traditional merchants on the Web, storing personal and financial information with banks, credit card companies and other...
[August 14, 2001, 10:42]
Online Retailers Fumble On Customer Care
News According to a Jupiter Media Metrix study which measured 250 Web sites, 70 percent of online retailers failed to resolve basic customer requests online within six hours. Santa might be relaxing now, but retailers can't," said David Daniels, a...
[January 4, 2002, 6:31]
Net Ads Making A Comeback?
News From January to April, the number of unique online display ads jumped 33 percent from 52,530 to 69,838, according to AdRelevance, the online advertising measurement service Nielsen/NetRatings purchased last month from rival Jupiter Media Metrix.
[May 14, 2002, 8:53]
