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BBQ searches take off as the sunshine comes out

April 09, 2010

We might have only had a couple of days of sunshine following our cold winter, but us Brits have been anticipating the summer for number of weeks now. The chart below illustrates the volume of searches for the terms ‘bbq’,... Continue reading...

Where in the UK are financial aggregator websites most popular?

March 01, 2010

Another guest blog from Richard Seymour, Experian Hitwise Client Intelligence Analyst. In the table below we can see where in the UK financial aggregators are most used. The representation shows the areas which over-index compared to the UK population. In... Continue reading...

2009 online: the year in review

December 21, 2009

The end of the year presents and excellent opportunity for reflection, and also for lists. Combining the two, I’ve decided to reflect on the last year of online activity in the UK by providing a list of our most popular... Continue reading...

Apple iPhone and iPod Touch the most searched for products this Christmas

December 15, 2009

Visits to consumer electronics websites increased by 16.5% between October 2009 and November 2009 as the gift buying season started in earnest. This was the largest month-on-month increase in UK Internet traffic to consumer electronics websites this year. Searches for... Continue reading...

Joe to win X Factor - X Factor predictions update

December 11, 2009

Another guest post from Experian Hitwise Client Intelligence Analyst Richard Seymour updating our data from last weeks X Factor predictions Looking at the data from the week ending 5th December, after the Final 4 live show we can see that... Continue reading...

Who will win The X Factor 2009?

December 04, 2009

In this guest post, Experian Hitwise Client Intelligence Analyst Richard Seymour uses our data to try and predict who will win this year’s X Factor... We have a number of Hitwise tools and data sets that we can use to... Continue reading...

Video Games searches overtake Mobile Phones following release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

November 20, 2009

UK Internet searches for video games increased by 28% last week following the release of the much hyped and anticipated Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. As the chart below illustrates, Video Games overtook Mobile Phones to become the most... Continue reading...

Windows 7 Release

November 05, 2009

Experian Hitwise’s resident gadget, expert Client Intelligence Analyst Richard Seymour, takes a look at the online reaction to the Microsoft’s Windows 7 launch last week. Using the Experian Hitwise Hot Consumer Electronics List, we saw that during the week ending... Continue reading...

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Motor and car insurance search behaviour

October 27, 2009

Today we present another guest post from Richard Seymour, Experian Hitwise Client Intelligence Analyst. The data is based on the excellent research that he carried out for our recent UK Insurance webinar. The chart below illustrates searches for portfolios containing... Continue reading...

How do people search for travel in the UK?

October 07, 2009

Today we present another guest post from Richard Seymour, Experian Hitwise Client Intelligence Analyst. The data is based on the excellent research that he and Iain Congdon, another Experian Hitwise analyst in the UK, carried out for our recent Global... Continue reading...

Microsoft Xbox 360 takes console top spot despite Sony PS3 Slim surge

October 02, 2009

Over the last couple of Christmases, Nintendo (both the Wii and DS) consoles have ruled the roost, but it looks as if this Christmas things will be quite different. The chart below illustrates searches for our portfolios of console-specific search... Continue reading...

Mortgages: Deposits and Fixed Rates

July 29, 2009

With Robin enjoying the thrills of being a new father, he has left the blog-reigns to me, Richard Seymour - Client Intelligence Analyst at Hitwise UK, for a couple of weeks. I’ve recently experienced a ‘life-event’ of my own by... Continue reading...

Apple iPhone 3G S vs Nokia N97

June 18, 2009

The launches on June 19th of two 3G touchscreen phones from the most searched for mobile phone brands in the UK, Apple and Nokia, have created a buzz in the Hitwise office this week. Hitwise UK’s resident gadget expert, Client... Continue reading...

Sims 3, top transactional websites and the latest Experian Insight Report.

June 04, 2009

Not a full blog entry for once, but a list of links to some other great content from elsewhere within Hitwise and Experian. Firstly, a great new blog from Hitwise Client Intelligence Analyst Richard Seymour on the rollercoaster ride of... Continue reading...

Mobile phones are the most searched for consumer electronics product; Apple the top brand

March 18, 2009

Today we have another guest post from our UK Client Intelligence Analyst and resident gadget expert, Richard Seymour. At Hitwise we are able to look into the fascinating ways that search data can provide insights and inform decisions about our... Continue reading...

TV and Games are UK's most searched for subjects

March 09, 2009

For our second guest posting on the UK blog, I’d like to hand over to Richard Seymour, Hitwise UK Client Intelligence Analyst, to take us through some of the research he has carried out recently on UK Search Engines. For... Continue reading...

Robin Goad

Research Director, Hitwise UK.