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Inauguration Day Stats

January 22, 2009

The inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States was a major event for US Internet users on Tuesday since many needed to rely upon online streaming on news websites to view the event from work.... Continue reading...

Posted by Heather Dougherty at 12:54 PM | (0) | (0)
In Categories Election2008 | News and Media | Politics | Social Networking

Travis Barker Tops Fast Moving Search Terms Week Ending Sept 20, 2008

September 23, 2008

The Wall Street crisis and potential bailout is certainly top of mind for many consumers, but tragedy sent Travis Barker (former drummer of Blink 182 and star of MTV’s Meet the Barkers) to the top of Fast Moving Search Terms... Continue reading...

Posted by Heather Dougherty at 11:26 AM | (1) | (0)
In Categories Election2008 | Entertainment | Fast Moving Search Terms | Politics | Viral Marketing

Joe Biden Paid Search Campaigns Begin

August 29, 2008

Once the major news outlets received the word that Obama had selected Senator Joe Biden of Delaware as his running mate, the announcement immediately resulted in a huge increase in the volume of searches for the search term ‘joe biden’... Continue reading...

Posted by Heather Dougherty at 09:30 AM | (0) | (0)
In Categories Election2008 | Politics

Presidential candidates - are states red and blue online?

August 27, 2008

During the primaries we took a look at the visitation to the websites of presidential candidate hopefuls to predict the winners by state. Now that the nominations have been decided and the DNC is underway with the RNC not far... Continue reading...

Posted by Heather Dougherty at 03:59 PM | (2) | (0)
In Categories Election2008 | Politics

Biden VP pick and DNC invigorates candidate site traffic

August 26, 2008

Last week, the forthcoming Democratic National Convention and Vice-President selection drove the 2nd highest share of visits to each of the websites of the presidential candidates in the past year. The only week with a higher share of visits included... Continue reading...

Posted by Heather Dougherty at 02:36 PM | (0) | (0)
In Categories Election2008 | Politics

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