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Michael Jackson, Twitter and TMZ
June 26, 2009
Following the tragic death of Michael Jackson last night, UK Internet visits to his homepage increased 17 fold. Yesterday www.michaeljackson.com was the 9th most visited Music website in the UK, and the highest ranked artist homepage. TMZ, the website that... Continue reading...
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Iran searches and Twitter
June 23, 2009
Given the current political situation in the country, we were expecting to see a spike in searches for ‘iran’ last week. As the chart below illustrates, there were more searches for Iran during the week ending 20/06/09 than for Iraq,... Continue reading...
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In Categories Blogs | Government | News and Media | Politics | Twitter
Top 100 student websites in the UK
June 02, 2009
Yesterday I received a call from Sridhar Venkatapuram of the London Business School asking me about the online behaviour of students in the UK. I mentioned on Twitter that I was pulling a list of the 100 most popular websites... Continue reading...
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In Categories BBC | Blogs | Branding | Celebrities | Demographics | Education | Email | Experian | Fashion | Google | Mosaic lifestyle | News and Media | Retail | Shopping and Classifieds | Social networks | TV | Top UK websites
What would a Google-Twitter marriage mean?
April 06, 2009
Last week it was reported that Google is in talks to purchase Twitter. Therefore, now seems like a good time to revisit some of the stats, starting with the top level traffic figures. As the chart below illustrates, UK Internet... Continue reading...
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In Categories Blogs | Government | News and Media | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds | Social networks | Twitter
Daniel Hannan: has social media finally gone political in the UK?
March 31, 2009
It is generally accepted that his campaign team’s use of social media contributed to Barack Obama’s victory in last year’s American presidential election. But over on this side of the pond, politicians have been much slower to grasp the nettle... Continue reading...
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In Categories Blogs | Celebrities | News and Media | Politics | Search | Social networks | Video
Twitter and UK newspaper websites
March 16, 2009
Last week (w/e 14/03/09) Twitter.com was the 54th most visited website in the UK, up from 66th the week before. One consequence of Twitter rapid rise up the rankings is that the micro-blogging service has now overtaken most of the... Continue reading...
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In Categories Blogs | News and Media | Social networks | Twitter
Twitter enters top 100 sites; UK traffic has trebled already in 2009
February 10, 2009
Last week (w/e 07/02/09) Twitter became one of the 100 most visited websites in the UK for the first time. It ranked 91st within All Categories, placing above online heavyweights such as Expedia UK (96), Gumtree (100), easyJet (101), Digital... Continue reading...
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In Categories Blogs | Social networks | Twitter
Twitter traffic increases 10-fold in a year
January 21, 2009
Following Heather’s post yesterday on Twitter overtaking Digg in the US, here is some UK data on the most talked about website of the moment: UK Internet traffic to the site has increased 10-fold over past last 12 months. For... Continue reading...
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In Categories BBC | Blogs | Demographics | Google | Humour | News and Media | Politics | Social networks | Sport | TV | Twitter
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...
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In Categories Blogs | Charities | Economy | Gadgets | Mobile phones | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds | TV
Pre-budget report: tax cuts and petrol prices
November 26, 2008
Given the economic conditions and the various rumours last week, the government’s pre-budget report has received a lot of attention online .Looking at the search data up to last week, you can see from the chart below that searches for... Continue reading...
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In Categories Automotive | Blogs | Economy | Email | Government | Politics | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds
The cult of Robert Peston and BBC blogs
October 07, 2008
Is Robert Peston - "the face of the credit crunch" - the hardest working man at the BBC? The corporation’s business editor starts his day at breakfast time on the Today Programme and doesn’t seem to finish until bed time... Continue reading...
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In Categories BBC | Blogs | Economy | News and Media
The role of news aggregators in the UK
October 02, 2008
News aggregators come in many shapes and sizes, ranging from straight forward aggregators (e.g. Google News) to social bookmarking sites such as Digg, Stumble Upon and Delicious. When creating a custom category of the top sites in the UK we... Continue reading...
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In Categories BBC | Blogs | Google | News and Media | Social networks
Top bands / artists: Katy Perry and Kate Nash
September 05, 2008
Here are the top band / artist searches sending traffic to social networks and music blogs during August. Starting with the social networks, Katy Perry, who topped the British and American charts over the summer with her hit “I Kissed... Continue reading...
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In Categories Blogs | Music | Search | Social networks
Top bands / artists online: August 2008 chart
August 07, 2008
Here are this month’s lists of the top 20 band / artist searches sending traffic to social networking sites (e.g. MySpace, YouTube, Last.fm, etc.) and the most popular music blogs for the 4 weeks ending August 2nd. First up social... Continue reading...
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In Categories Blogs | Music | Search | Social networks
Twitter UK traffic: up 485% this year, 70% higher than USA
July 16, 2008
The two Heathers (Hopkins and Dougherty) have both written about the growth of Twitter in the US recently, so here is some UK data on the micro-blogging service. As you can see from the chart below, the site’s growth has... Continue reading...
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In Categories BBC | Blogs | Demographics | Mosaic lifestyle | News and Media | Search | Social networks
Hottest bands on the social networks and music blogs
July 10, 2008
A few months ago we posted a list of the top 10 band / artist searches sending traffic to MySpace, the primary destination of searches for new artists. We’ve decided to expand the list to cover our whole Social Networking... Continue reading...
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In Categories Blogs | Music | Search | Social networks
Blog traffic reaches all time high
June 10, 2008
UK Internet visits to weblogs reached an all time high last week. As the chart below illustrates, Blogs and Personal Websites accounted for 1.19% of all UK traffic, equivalent to one in every 84 internet visits. Taking the slightly longer... Continue reading...
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In Categories Blogs | Gadgets | Google | News and Media | Politics | Search
iPhone website reaches a new high as rumour mill goes into overdrive
June 09, 2008
Apple is expected to launch a new version of its iPhone at the Apple World Wide Developers' Conference in San Francisco this afternoon (UK time). As with all such events, the speculation amongst Apple fans and foes has almost reached... Continue reading...
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In Categories Blogs | News and Media | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds
Lolcats and popbitches
May 21, 2008
It’s hard to believe, but this is my 100th posting on this blog. So to celebrate I thought I’d write about something very important: lolcats. In case you’re not familiar with the term, a lolcat is a (usually cute) picture... Continue reading...
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In Categories Blogs | Demographics | Humour


