Latest in comScore

EXCLUSIVE: Motion picture industry distribution veteran Jim Zak has been named SVP North America of Vista Group’s Numero and Maccs. He will be based in Los Angeles and report to Numero and Maccs chief executive and Numero co-founder Simon Burton. Zak will work across both Numero and Maccs, with primary responsibility…

With the nature and business of feature films changing almost daily, Comscore has announced “Movies Everywhere,” a new cross-screen measurement system. The offering will provide daily sales reports across various release windows and platforms, including a new reporting system to track box office returns. Census-based…

EntTelligence, a new corporation devoted to features and streaming audience analytics, has opened its doors today. Additionally, as of Oct. 1, motion picture industry vet Steve Buck will join as Partner and Chief Strategy Officer to the newly formed entity. EntTelligence subsumes MovieQu and its technology, currently…

As if there weren’t any bigger problems in the world during a pandemic…but, yes, Warner Bros. and Sony are shielding their box office hourly figures from rival studios in Comscore on their respective releases Tenet and The Broken Hearts Gallery.  We’ve known about this for a while, but it’s becoming a bigger deal now…

As the major studios become overly cautious, throw up their hands, and move their titles to either PVOD (Lionsgate’s Antebellum) or their own streaming platforms (Disney’s Mulan), they should take a breath and look at Spain as a sign of what’s possible in the revival of the box office during the pandemic. We’re…

This was inevitable given last night’s news that Disney was suspending global box office reporting for the time being: Comscore, the B.O. reporting agency and data cross-ways for exhibitors and distributors, is no longer issuing a North American Top 10, Global chart or commentary in the weekends ahead while theaters…

EXCLUSIVE:  We understand that MarketCast has tapped Steve Buck as its SVP Theatrical. In his new role, Buck will drive commercial sales and new business efforts for MarketCast's theatrical products and services, which counts every major Hollywood studio and many independent producers as clients. Buck will partner…

Comscore has named board member Bill Livek as its chief executive officer, replacing the interim CEO Dale Fuller. It also reported lower third-quarter revenue, but its net loss that was far less than Q3 last year. The CEO move comes as the show business data-measurement corporation is facing headwinds. It has seen…

Nexstar, the No. 1 owner of local TV stations, is making a significant shift in its approach to negotiations with advertisers, ditching traditional ratings in favor of a “cost-per-impression” model. The new model, developed over the past year with third-party measurement firm comScore, incorporates digital, mobile and…

UPDATE, 5:33 PM: Network sources are still insisting that they haven’t received the ratings information that they expected from Nielsen, but the data company says they delivered what they promised for this first day of expanded measurements. “All PPM market data was delivered to clients today,” a spokesperson for…

EXCLUSIVE: Comscore has promoted Arturo Guillén to SVP & Global Managing Director of its movie division. He takes over for departing Comscore Film SVPs Steve Buck and Jim Zak. Guillén, a Spain native, was in Los Angeles this week meeting those in the stateside distribution and exhibition sphere as they came together…

Measurement firm ComScore has reached an agreement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to settle a fraud complaint the company blames on former CEO Serge Matta. The SEC charged the company with “engaging in a fraudulent scheme to overstate revenue by approximately $50 million and making false and misleading…