Future plc today announces market-leading position in comScore US Tech News category

28 June 2019

Future plc today announces its number 1 position in the comScore Technology News category in the United States*. Future took the number 1 position in March, and has retained no. 1 through April and May. comScore records 63.3m US unique visitors across Future technology websites in May 2019.

Future’s market leading position follows a step change in scale in the US, the fruition of the Group’s strategy to diversify revenue geographically into the US. This growth is driven by the acquisitions of the consumer division of Purch in September 2018 and Mobile Nations in March 2019, as well as strong YoY organic online audience growth of 25%** in the first half of 2019 financial year.

Elsewhere in the organisation Future’s game sites have also been seeing strong audience growth. GamesRadar+ saw its biggest monthly audience of all-time in May with 15.1m global users**, an 81% YoY increase.

The biggest event in gaming, E3, followed in June, and saw both PC Gamer and GamesRadar+ have their own record-breaking weeks for audience, with over 5m** users visiting GamesRadar and over 4.7m** visiting PC Gamer over E3 week***.

E3 was a great success for all Future brands who covered the event - GamesRadar+, PC Gamer, TechRadar, Tom’s Guide and Tom’s Hardware - with each site showing user growth above 10% YoY over E3 week.

*comScore technology news category, desktop visitors age 2+ and mobile visitors age 18+, Mar 19 **Source: Google Analytics ***’E3 week’ defined as 8th June - 14th June 2019.