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By most accounts, the screening of the Ukraine vs. England football match online was a success. The live video stream picked up an estimated audience of half a million and there were few technical complaints. The website that screened the... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 11:00 AM
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In Categories Football | Gambling | Search | Sport | TV | Video
UK Internet visits to One & Other, the website that is streaming live webcam footage from Antony Gormley's art installation on Trafalgar square’s fourth plinth, shot up on Monday - and increased further yesterday. It was the 698th most popular... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 02:55 PM
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In Categories Art | Video
UK Internet users are spending less of their online time shopping and more time browsing online media. During March 2009, 8.6% of all UK Internet visits went to online retail websites and 9.8% to social networking websites. A year ago,... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 10:20 AM
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In Categories Economy | News and Media | Retail | Shopping and Classifieds | Social networks | Video
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...
Posted by Robin Goad at 09:00 AM
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In Categories Blogs | Celebrities | News and Media | Politics | Search | Social networks | Video
UK Internet traffic to Video websites has increased by 40.7% over the last 12 months. During February 2009, 1 in every 35 UK Internet visits went to a specialist Video website, up from 1 in every 50 in February 2008.... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 10:00 AM
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In Categories BBC | Search | TV | Video
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
With all of the focus on the economic downturn and the troubles in the retail sector, it’s easy to forget the continued growth of social networking in the UK. Christmas is traditionally the busiest time of year for social networks,... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 08:00 AM
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In Categories Christmas | Social networks | Video
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
The annual pre-Christmas battle for Saturday night tea time TV supremacy is well under way. In the red corner: ITV’s The X Factor, with Cheryl Cole replacing Sharon Osbourne on the judging panel. In the blue corner: the BBC’s Strictly... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 10:00 AM
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In Categories BBC | Celebrities | Demographics | News and Media | Search | TV | Video | Women
Following her much talked about appearance on ITV’s This Morning show last week, searches for ‘kerry katona’ have gone through the roof. One website that received a lot of traffic from searches for the former Atomic Kitten singer was YouTube.... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 03:00 PM
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In Categories Celebrities | Fast moving search terms | Music | Search | Video
The 10 fastest moving search terms in the UK last week were: 1. ucas track 2. bbc olympics 3. fantasy premier league 4. dream team 5. michael phelps 6. tom daley 7. the sun dream team 8. joules 9. last... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 12:00 PM
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In Categories BBC | Demographics | Fashion | Fast moving search terms | Football | Olympics | Retail | Sport | TV | Video
We’ve just updated our data on navigational / branded search in the UK for our new research report, Managing Your Brand Online. During May 2008, 88% of searches for the top 2,000 search terms in the UK were branded in... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 09:00 AM
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In Categories BBC | Branding | Google | News and Media | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds | Social networks | Video
No prizes for guessing what event dominated the fast moving search term list in the UK last week. Here’s the top 10. 1. beijing 2008 olympic games 2. olympics 3. craig jones 4. morgan freeman 5. olympics 2008 6. bernie... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 11:00 AM
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In Categories BBC | Education | Fast moving search terms | Government | Music | Olympics | Retail | Search | Sport | Video
We issued a press release today containing our latest social network market share data. Facebook continues to grow its market share in the UK and reached a new high of 45% in June. However, that growth has been at the... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 05:00 PM
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In Categories Education | Social networks | Video
That’s what I’m talking about! Like nine million other Britons, the Hitwise UK office has been slightly obsessed with The Apprentice over the last few months. We were pleased to see peoples’ choice Lee McQueen crowned winner last night, although... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 10:00 AM
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In Categories Search | TV | Video
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
A lot has been made about how the candidates and voters for the London Mayoral elections on May 1st have embraced the Internet like never before - at least in British political terms, as this is one area where the... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 09:00 AM
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In Categories Demographics | Government | News and Media | Politics | Search | Social networks | Video
UK Internet traffic to online video websites increased by 178% between February 2007 and 2008. A Hitwise custom category of the top 25 video websites in the UK accounted for 2.22% of all UK Internet visits in February 2008, equivalent... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 11:00 AM
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In Categories Search | Social networks | Video
The horrific injury sustained by Arsenal’s Brazilian-born Croatian striker Eduardo da Silva has led to an outpouring of sympathy from football fans, and not just supporters of Arsenal or Croatia. Searches for ‘eduardo’ increased almost forty-fold last week, and ‘eduardo... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 01:50 PM
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In Categories Demographics | Football | News and Media | Search | Social networks | Video
With the ongoing popularity of video sharing websites like YouTube and information sharing websites such as Wikipedia, it was only a matter of time before the two were combined. The latest phenomenon gaining interest online is ‘videopedia’, a range of... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 01:50 PM
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In Categories Search | Video