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Category Archives: Humour
Charity traffic leaps 30% in Comic Relief week
March 18, 2011
It’s red nose time and once again the UK turns its thoughts to sponsored runs, baking extravaganzas and taking baths in baked beans – all in the name of raising money for charity. As you might expect, searches for all... Continue reading...
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Posted by Robin Goad at 04:03 PM
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In Categories Celebrities | Charities | Humour | Music | Retail | Search
Comedians have last laugh of ticketing search terms
January 24, 2011
Every week the research team here at Hitwise do some analysis of the ticketing industry to see which music artists are being searched for the most and which are the most popular gigs/festivals that people want to attend. Whilst this... Continue reading...
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In Categories Celebrities | Humour | Music | Search
Beautiful People experiences fifty-fold increase in traffic following "fatties" announcement
January 05, 2010
The dating and social networking website Beautifulpeople.com which describes itself as “an exclusively beautiful community”, stirred up a bit of controversy yesterday when it announced the axing some 5,000 members following complaints that they had gained weight. "As a business,... Continue reading...
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Posted by Robin Goad at 12:28 PM
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In Categories Christmas | Dating | Demographics | Food | Humour | Men | News and Media | Social networks | Women
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
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...
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Posted by Robin Goad at 11:00 AM
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In Categories Charities | Email | Humour | Search | Video
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
