PostTrak™ Audience Intelligence Tool is Now Available in Australia, Germany, Mexico, and the United Kingdom 

RESTON, VA, Oct. 2, 2018 – Comscore, a trusted currency for planning, transacting and evaluating media across platforms, today announced that its real-time box office and polling solution, PostTrak™, has expanded internationally and will now be available in four new markets: Australia, Germany, Mexico and the United Kingdom. PostTrak offers the theatrical community greater insight into who attends movies to help execute current marketing efforts, understand audience demographics and plan future strategies.  

PostTrak combines Comscore’s robust box office intelligence with Screen Engine/ASI’s advanced research capabilities to provide market-level audience information that powers decision-making in a global marketplace. These insights inform market efforts (local and global) and offer early direction on how audiences engage with and respond to films. Comscore's aggregated box office insights show that international receipts grew 7.5 percent year-over-year in 2017.  

“As the movie industry’s trusted partner for actionable intelligence, we are excited to expand PostTrak to key international markets to deliver additional analytics to our partners,” said Jim Zak, senior vice president, movies at Comscore. “Leveraging more than six years of history for all wide release films, PostTrak is the industry currency for demographic and moviegoer insights within the US. Its domestic success has given us the opportunity to bring the same audience insights to our partners in the international space. These four territories - Australia, Germany, Mexico and the UK – further extend audience representation and we look forward to expanding to additional markets from all corners of the globe.” 

The expansion into four international markets in various time zones grants domestic partners an even earlier read of their audiences. 

“More than ever, international theatrical box office performance is a critical input to industry planning,” added Kevin Goetz, CEO of Screen Engine/ASI. “With PostTrak data available in these important international markets, our partners will have both highly valued data regarding current in-market releases as well as critical information that positively impacts planning for future releases.”

PostTrak combines audience demographics (i.e., age, gender, ethnicity) with survey-based insights, such as what drove moviegoers to a film, how the film compared to their expectations, and whether they would recommend the film to their network. Using information gathered from movie theater exit polls, the solution combines Comscore’s census-level box office metrics with partner Screen Engine/ASI’s monitoring of audience composition and post-opening results to deliver a transparent, 360-degree view of a movie’s performance and its viewers.   

PostTrak allows the distribution community to:  

• Interpret likeability scores, which translate into the longevity a film will have in the multiplex (e.g. higher likeability scores recorded early on can indicate strong playability)  
• Measure self-reported psychographic information, such as religious/political affiliation and lifestyle categories (e.g. fashion-minded)  
• Provide insights into advertising effectiveness (e.g. what promotional efforts – according to real audiences – drove moviegoers to the theater)