Analyst Weblog
A while ago we highlighted how Google News UK picks up more traffic from searches for celebrities than any other type of news. Last week was a bumper week for celebrity news stories (unfortunately for sad reasons in many cases),... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 10:40 AM
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In Categories Celebrities | Fast moving search terms | Google | Movies | News and Media | Search | TV
UK Internet searches for discount vouchers have increased by 47.5% over the last 12 months. The increase in searches for a portfolio of 4,500+ voucher-related search terms between the weeks ending 02/08/2008 and 01/08/2009 clearly reflects British consumers’ hunger for... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 03:25 PM
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In Categories Economy | Food | Movies | Retail | Search | Social networks | Travel
Last week we revealed that Twitter had overtaken Google News in the UK. However, although everyone’s favourite micro-blogging service receives more UK Internet visits, Google News remains the greater source of traffic for News and Media websites. As the chart... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 10:00 AM
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In Categories Celebrities | Football | Gadgets | Google | Movies | Music | News and Media | Politics | Search | Sport | TV | Twitter | Weather
Martin Lewis, creator of the “consumer revenge” website Money Saving Expert was the most searched-for personality by UK Internet users during the 12 weeks ending January 3 2009. There were 11% more searches for Martin Lewis than US President Barack... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 07:40 AM
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In Categories Celebrities | Economy | Financial Services | Government | Movies | Music | News and Media | Politics | Search | Social networks | TV
Around this time last year we reported that post-Christmas sales searches had trebled; a couple of weeks ago we noted that this year the increase was just 3.2%. However, if Christmas 2007 was the year that online sales went mainstream,... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 04:30 PM
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In Categories Charities | Economy | Fashion | Gadgets | Games | Movies | Music | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds
Last week UK Internet searches for a portfolio of 100+ Bollywood stars was 68% higher than a year ago. Here is a list of the top 20 most searched for actors and actresses from that portfolio over the 4 weeks... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 12:30 PM
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In Categories Celebrities | Demographics | Experian | Mosaic lifestyle | Movies | Music | Search | TV | Video
Last week saw the premier of the 22nd official Bond film, Quantum of Solace. With the success of Casino Royale in November 2006, Quantum of Solace has been one of the most anticipated films of the year. The chart above... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 01:10 PM
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In Categories Branding | Movies | Music | Search
The 10 fastest moving search terms in the UK last week were: 1. strictly come dancing 2. us open 3. bournemouth air show 4. www.bebo.co.uk 5. most haunted live 6. albert pierrepoint 7. most haunted 8. you tube.com 9. euromillions... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 12:20 PM
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In Categories BBC | Education | Fast moving search terms | Movies | Search | Social networks | Sport | TV | Weather
Yesterday we highlighted the appearance of four Batman-related terms this week’s top 10 fast moving search terms chart. A couple of weeks ago we posted about the relationship between searches for the recently released film Adulthood and its predecessor, Kidulthood.... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 10:00 AM
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In Categories Charities | Movies | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds | TV
The 10 fastest moving search terms in the UK last week were: 1. now 70 2. christian bale 3. global gathering 4. heath ledger 5. batman 6. dark knight 7. womad 8. shipwrecked 9. runehq 10. hamfatter Four of these... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 11:00 AM
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In Categories Fast moving search terms | Games | Movies | Music | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds | TV
As we highlighted a couple of weeks ago when discussing Google’s holiday logos, one of the delights of Hitwise search data is when it reveals something expected. Seeing the phrase ‘kidulthood’ appear in our list of fast moving search terms... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 09:30 AM
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In Categories Movies | Search
The decision to hold the world premiere of the new Sex and the City movie in London has led to a surge in online searches in the UK. American interest in the film is yet to take off, although this... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 12:00 PM
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In Categories Fashion | Movies | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds | Social networks | TV | Video | Women
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 Internet traffic to newspaper websites reached its highest level in over two years last week off the back of a number of big news stories. For the week ending 26 January 2008, 1.48% of all UK Internet visits went... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 11:00 AM
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In Categories Movies | Music | News and Media | Politics | Search
Last week I was in Manchester for the excellent Manchester Digital conference. As a music fan, the city is forever linked in my mind with the Factory Records and the late Anthony H. Wilson. There have been a number of... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 10:00 AM
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In Categories Movies | Music | TV | Travel
Following a charity interlude, here is the penultimate Christmas shopping 'hot products' list. Analysis of the top search terms sending traffic to top 100 UK online retailers shows that the most popular girls' toys, dolls, are 29% more popular than... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 01:49 PM
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In Categories Movies | Music | TV | Toys
Following yesterday's post on the top gadgets in the run up to Christmas, today I reveal the most searched for entertainment products. The most noticable trend is the massive increase in searches for entertainment downloads, which currently outstrip searches for... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 05:30 PM
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In Categories Movies | Music | Search | TV