Yesterday, Formspring (http://www.formspring.me) announced a $2.5m Series A investment that was led by Baseline Ventures and FreeStyle Capital. Polaris is excited to also participate alongside a slew of terrific angel investors: Ron Conway’s SV Angels, …

These days, sponsors might not like Tiger Woods… but TMZ sure does.
Steady at 3-4.5m daily pageviews, the news surrounding Tiger Woods over Thanksgiving doubled TMZ’s traffic, propelled them to the 51st most visited website, and …

Michael Jackson’s death was remarkable in several ways – one of which was what it signified for news delivery and discovery. Like millions of others, I first found out through Facebook, Twitter, text messages… all …

Today Widgetbox reached a significant milestone in its three-year history: 100,000,000 monthly uniques (covered by TechCrunch here). Measured by Quantcast, our widgets are now seen by 100.5m unique users each month and served over 700m …

Nearly 30 million monthly uniques according to Quantcast – placing IRS.gov as the 26th biggest website. The 30m uniques represents 10x growth since January 1st:

You might not be interested in celebrity news and gossip…
You might not consider it important or meaningful…
But to the web, it is significant and marks a major move in the Digital Media space.
I’ve written …

I love Hulu.
Hulu understands the web, delivers great quality, the experience is simple, and understands both search and portability…. better than any other video site on the web.
When YouTube hit it big, much credit …

At the poorly-attended breakfast session at TechCrunch 50 (maybe because its 8am) – ComScore has announced quietly that they are releasing a self-service model “in the next few days”. A publisher will be able to …

About two weeks, Widgetbox unveiled a new look and navigation. At that time, we launched hubs for partners and advertisers with a promo-graphic touting the network’s 56,000,000 monthly uniques – a number we are quite …

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Tonight, Widgetbox officially relaunched its website with an entirely new navigation structure… and it’s now blue!

Three important changes …

I’ve analyzed Techeme’s Leaderboard several times before (headlines vs. discussions, ‘presence’ vs. pageviews, etc) and thought it would be worthwhile to understand movement within the leaderboard.
I compared Techmeme’s Leaderboard on May 14 vs. today’s current …

Google entered the public web analytics game yesterday by expanding Google Trends beyond search queries and into web traffic. Just a couple years ago, we had two options for web data:
- Comscore provided detailed analytics …