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American visitors to UK news websites
September 18, 2009
I recently blogged about changing Internet usage habits in the UK, and specifically about the shift from transactional to content based websites. Within that mix, it is typically the growth of newer areas - such as social networks and video... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 01:20 PM
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In Categories BBC | Demographics | Email | Experian | Mosaic lifestyle | News and Media
Initial Bing stats
June 08, 2009
Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine, was announced by Steve Balmer on May 28 and officially launched on June 3. I’ve held off putting up our initial UK statistics until now for a couple of reasons. Firstly, I couldn’t think of... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 09:50 AM
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In Categories Branding | Email | Music | News and Media | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds | Social networks | Weather
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...
Posted by Robin Goad at 02:30 PM
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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
Online retailers receiving less traffic from paid search, but more from social networks
April 22, 2009
The amount of traffic that online retailers receive from paid search – i.e. from sponsored or paid for links on search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, Live and Ask - has fallen over the last 12 months. During March 2009,... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 08:00 AM
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In Categories Books | Economy | Email | Fashion | Paid search | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds | Social networks
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
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...
Posted by Robin Goad at 10:00 AM
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In Categories Automotive | Blogs | Economy | Email | Government | Politics | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds
Yahoo!, Google and MSN: news services compared
October 20, 2008
After we published our blog post on news aggregators last month, one commenter asked why we hadn’t included Yahoo! News? I answered that Yahoo’s News service is different from Google’s because is contains its own content, rather than links to... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 02:30 PM
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In Categories Email | Google | News and Media
Fast moving search terms: LHC, big bang, Andy Murray and XL
September 15, 2008
The 10 fastest moving search terms in the UK last week were: 1. large hardron collider 2. hurricane ike 3. lhc 4. xl 5. big bang 6. tour of britain 7. itv f1 8. andy murray 9. black hole 10.... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 11:00 AM
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In Categories Email | Fast moving search terms | Google | Science | Search | Social networks | Sport | Travel
Facebook overtakes eBay to become third most visited website
August 05, 2008
Facebook became the third most visited website in the UK during July, overtaking eBay UK on the way. As the chart below illustrates, the social network received 2.75% of all UK Internet visits last month, equivalent to one in every... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 04:00 PM
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In Categories Demographics | Email | Men | Retail | Shopping and Classifieds | Social networks | Women
Summer sales and email marketing
July 01, 2008
The summer sales are now in full swing, as you’ve probably noticed when walking around your local shopping centre / high street. As the chart below illustrates, UK Internet users continue to look for a bargain. Searches for both the... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 12:00 PM
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In Categories Economy | Email | Google | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds
Yahoo! and Microsoft: UK perspective
February 05, 2008
Following on from Bill’s and Heather’s posts, I wanted to share some UK data on the proposed Yahoo! and Microsoft deal. First up: webmail services, and as the chart below illustrates, Microsoft has a dominant market share with its Hotmail... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 05:47 PM
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In Categories Email | Employment | Financial Services | Movies | Music | News and Media | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds | Sport | Travel
UK job searches and Linkedin
January 24, 2008
I wanted to expand on Sandra’s excellent post comparing job searches in the UK, USA and Australia. The table below lists the top UK searches containing the word ‘jobs’ for the 4 weeks ending 12 January 2008 for three types... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 04:04 PM
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In Categories Email | Employment | Search | Social networks
Discount retail vouchers
December 04, 2007
Last week Gap hit the headlines with its 30% off voucher, which some wag photoshopped and forwarded on as a 60% off voucher. Whatever the problems caused by the fake voucher, it seems likely that they were more than offset... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 02:55 PM
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In Categories Christmas | Email | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds
Child benefit chaos, football failure
November 22, 2007
Yesterday we left work wishing for two things: an English football victory; and that today would provide us with some interesting data about the impact of the Revenue and Customs child benefit crisis on the government and banking sectors. By... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 03:00 PM
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In Categories Email | Financial Services | Government | Retail | Shopping and Classifieds | Sport
