Saturday, December 15, 2007

Measuring yourself, competitors, and the infamous “market”

Once upon a time, in a land far far away, I dealt with competitive benchmarks at Microsoft for online measurement. I dealt a lot with Nielsen, comScore, HitWise and sat on a lot of conference calls drilling them on methodology of panel recruitment/measurement/etc.

In the last few months they’ve really jumped to the next level:

Compete growth
A former colleague sent met this comparison:

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I’m still trying to get details on how their panel is setup - but it looks like hot shit. Does anyone have more information? I’ll post a followup as I get more info.