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TVs, Computers and iPods most popular sales items
December 31, 2008
The table below lists the 10 most searched for consumer electronics products last week (which included the key sales days of Christmas Day and Boxing Day) and the week before. Searches for televisions increased by 148% last week, making the... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 09:00 AM
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In Categories Blogs | Charities | Economy | Gadgets | Mobile phones | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds | TV
Social Xmas: Facebook’s busiest day ever, YouTube overtakes Hotmail, Social networks = 10% of UK Internet traffic
December 30, 2008
With all of the focus on the economic downturn and the troubles in the retail sector, it’s easy to forget the continued growth of social networking in the UK. Christmas is traditionally the busiest time of year for social networks,... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 08:00 AM
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In Categories Christmas | Social networks | Video
UK online retail: Christmas round up
December 29, 2008
Given the economic conditions, people are watching Christmas retail numbers like hawks. Below are the key numbers for online shopping in the UK over the last few days. Sales searches up 3.2% Combined, UK Internet searches for the terms ‘sales’... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 12:20 PM
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In Categories Christmas | Economy | Experian | Fashion | Gadgets | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds | Toys
Traffic to E Cards websites up 11.8%
December 24, 2008
Yesterday I claimed that we’d written our final UK blog post before Christmas, but I thought this data was too interesting not to share! As the chart below illustrates, last week traffic to E Cards websites was up 11.8% on... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 08:30 AM
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In Categories Christmas | Economy | Search
Last minute surge in online Christmas shopping
December 23, 2008
There was a last minute surge in UK Internet traffic to online retailers at the end of last week. Looking at UK Internet traffic to Shopping and Classifieds websites, here are the annual increases in visits vs. the comparable day... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 10:00 AM
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In Categories Christmas | Experian | Gadgets | Mobile phones | Music | Retail | Shopping and Classifieds
Simon’s cat, his sister’s dog and the RSPCA
December 19, 2008
Simon’s Cat is an extremely popular animated series created by Simon Tofield. Since releasing his first short film via YouTube at the start of the year, searches for ‘simons cat’ have shot up, peaking in July when a new episode... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 11:00 AM
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In Categories Charities | Email | Humour | Search | Video
Nintendo Wii and DS account for two-thirds of console searches
December 18, 2008
Nintendo’s Wii Console, which accounted for more than one in three games console searches in November, overtook Nintendo’s Wii Fit to become the UK’s most searched-for product in November. The company’s DS Lite was also the fastest growing console online,... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 04:00 PM
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In Categories Christmas | Gadgets | Games | Retail | Search | Social networks | Toys
Apple iPhone pulls away from its closest competitors
December 18, 2008
While mobile phones continue to be the most searched-for product in the UK, they have seen a 23% decrease in searches since October as consumers turn their attention to Christmas gifts such as toys, video games and games consoles. Despite... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 03:30 PM
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In Categories Gadgets | Mobile phones | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds
Retro toys dominate as searches for toys double in the run up to Christmas
December 18, 2008
UK Internet searches for toys doubled during November as the gift buying season began in earnest. Guess Who Extra, an updated electronic version of the classic 1980’s game, was the most searched-for game during November, accounting for one in every... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 01:01 PM
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In Categories Christmas | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds | Toys
Property websites and the online house price crash
December 17, 2008
In September we revealed that online House and Garden retailers had overtaken Property websites in terms of UK Internet visits. As you would expect, in the three months since that blog post, the situation has only got worse for online... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 09:00 AM
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In Categories Demographics | Economy | Experian | Mosaic lifestyle | Property | Search
Pre-Christmas peaks in online retail traffic
December 16, 2008
In our retail webinar last week I noted that UK pre-Christmas Internet traffic to Shopping and Classified websites has already started to decline from its peak on Sunday November 30th. As the data in the chart below illustrates, the week... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 09:00 AM
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In Categories Christmas | Fashion | Gadgets | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds | Sport | TV | Toys
High street retailers’ online demographics
December 11, 2008
High street retailers received 22% more UK Internet visits than online only retailers in November, and the gap is likely to widen during December. The chart below illustrates UK Internet visits to our two custom categories of high street and... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 04:50 PM
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In Categories Christmas | Demographics | Experian | Fashion | Mosaic lifestyle | Retail | Shopping and Classifieds
Netbooks account for 1 in every 7 computer searches
December 11, 2008
In the next instalment of Hitwise Client Intelligence Analyst Richard Seymour’s analysis of the consumer electronics market, Richard talks about another fast-growing consumer electronics area – Netbooks, the small to medium sized, light-weight, low-cost, energy-efficient laptops optimized for web usage.... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 01:30 PM
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In Categories Christmas | Gadgets | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds
Just another Mega Monday?
December 10, 2008
Yesterday our friends at IMRG put out a press release stating that Mega Monday (i.e. last Monday, December 8th) online sales volumes were up 18% year on year. According to James Roper, CEO of IMRG, “Online sales are holding up... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 10:30 AM
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In Categories Christmas | Retail | Shopping and Classifieds
133% increase in voucher searches
December 09, 2008
A whole online sector has emerged to feed British consumers’ hunger for discount vouchers for everything from supermarket shopping and pizzas to discounts at high end department stores. One in every 200 visits to an online retail website now comes... Continue reading...
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In Categories Economy | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds
