Category Archives: Women

John Sergeant and Strictly Come Dancing online

November 21, 2008

A couple of weeks ago, when we predicted that Diana Vickers will win X-Factor, I opened my blog post thus: ‘Now that we’ve got the American election and the Glenrothes by-election out of the way, we can finally direct our... Continue reading...

Posted by Robin Goad at 09:20 AM | (2) | (0)
In Categories BBC | Celebrities | Demographics | Men | Search | TV | Women

Online retail declines as Westfield opens

November 03, 2008

The economic downturn is beginning to have an impact on Internet retail in the UK. Monthly traffic to online retailers fell by 0.5% between October 2007 and 2008, while actual visits to the high street and shopping centers, as reported... Continue reading...

Posted by Robin Goad at 08:00 AM | (0) | (0)
In Categories Demographics | Economy | Fast moving search terms | Mosaic lifestyle | Retail | Shopping and Classifieds | Women

X Factor vs. Strictly Come Dancing 2008

October 30, 2008

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 | (0) | (0)
In Categories BBC | Celebrities | Demographics | News and Media | Search | TV | Video | Women

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 | (0) | (0)
In Categories Demographics | Email | Men | Retail | Shopping and Classifieds | Social networks | Women

Fast moving search terms: British Gas fallout, Beatrix Potter and diamond geezers

August 04, 2008

The 10 fastest moving search terms in the UK last week were: 1. beatrix potter 2. diamond geezer 3. southern electric 4. play.com uk 5. bbc cricket 6. u switch 7. carol vorderman 8. racing post 9. currys uk 10.... Continue reading...

Posted by Robin Goad at 12:00 PM | (2) | (0)
In Categories Economy | Fast moving search terms | Olympics | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds | Sport | TV | Women

Superbrands: demographics and lifestyle information

July 23, 2008

The Centre for Brand Analysis released its list of the top Superbrands in the UK earlier this week, with Google taking the top spot after placing third last year. By looking at the profile of visitors to their homepages, we... Continue reading...

Posted by Robin Goad at 03:59 PM | (0) | (0)
In Categories Automotive | BBC | Branding | Demographics | Gadgets | Google | Men | Mosaic lifestyle | News and Media | Retail | Shopping and Classifieds | Travel | Women

Asos.com: growth and demographics

July 02, 2008

Internet clothing retailer Asos.com seems to have shrugged off the economic downturn by yesterday announcing that it had doubled sales over the last 3 months. Following our analysis of the rapidly growing UK online fashion market last week, this didn’t... Continue reading...

Posted by Robin Goad at 10:30 AM | (0) | (0)
In Categories Demographics | Fashion | Mosaic lifestyle | Retail | Shopping and Classifieds | Women

SATC more popular in UK than USA

May 27, 2008

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 | (0) | (0)
In Categories Fashion | Movies | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds | Social networks | TV | Video | Women

UK DIY and Screwfix

April 03, 2008

Apparently, Good Friday is the busiest DIY day of the year, so I wasn’t surprised to see that traffic to our Shopping and Classifieds: House and Garden category increased noticeably during the Easter week. Slightly more unexpected, however, is the... Continue reading...

Posted by Robin Goad at 01:00 PM | (1) | (0)
In Categories Men | Mosaic lifestyle | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds | Social networks | Women

Miss Bimbo: who is visiting?

April 01, 2008

The ‘virtual fashion game’ Miss Bimbo has picked up a lot of press - Google News UK was the second ranked site receiving up traffic from the search term ‘miss bimbo’ last week. The website allows users to create a... Continue reading...

Posted by Robin Goad at 11:37 AM | (0) | (0)
In Categories Fashion | Mosaic lifestyle | News and Media | Search | Social networks | Women

Moonpig.com, Valentine’s poems and romantic breaks

February 07, 2008

Online card delivery company Moonpig.com is currently experiencing its highest ever level of UK Internet traffic in the run up to Valentine’s Day. For the week ending 2 February 2008, UK Internet visits to the website have grown six-fold by... Continue reading...

Posted by Robin Goad at 05:00 PM | (3) | (0)
In Categories Food | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds | Travel | Women

Football: transfer traffic and the Kevin Keegan effect

January 21, 2008

We’re currently in the middle of a seasonal peak in traffic to our Sports – Football category. As the chart below illustrates, football (soccer) websites are receiving their highest level of traffic since the season started last summer, and slightly... Continue reading...

Posted by Robin Goad at 02:30 PM | (3) | (0)
In Categories Men | Search | Sport | Women

Scrabulous, Facebook and Scrabble

January 16, 2008

You may have heard that Hasbro, which produces the popular board game Scrabble, is asking Facebook to remove its Scrabulous app. As the name suggests, Scrabulous is an online version of Scrabble that has become one of the most popular... Continue reading...

Posted by Robin Goad at 05:00 PM | (2) | (0)
In Categories Search | Social networks | Toys | Women

The demographics of gadgets

December 12, 2007

We came across this interesting claim from John Lewis that it expects to sell more electrical goods to women than men for the first time this Christmas. In order to test their prediction, I looked at the demographics of our... Continue reading...

Posted by Robin Goad at 03:00 PM | (0) | (0)
In Categories Demographics | Gadgets | Men | Retail | Shopping and Classifieds | Women

Alesha Dixon to win Strictly Come Dancing?

December 07, 2007

A couple of weeks ago we posted about the rivalry between the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing and ITV’s The X-Factor, including a promise to make some predictions as to who would win the shows based our search data. Well, Strictly... Continue reading...

Posted by Robin Goad at 09:00 AM | (2) | (0)
In Categories Demographics | Search | TV | Women

Rugby searches overtake football following England's semi-final victory

October 15, 2007

Following the England rugby team’s semi-final victory over France this weekend, last week there were more UK Internet searches for the term 'rugby' than the term 'football' for the first time in 2 years. There has been a six-fold increase... Continue reading...

Posted by Robin Goad at 12:00 PM | (0) | (0)
In Categories Search | Sport | Women

 

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