Are online discount vouchers on the decline?
July 01, 2009
As we’ve reported a number of times, online vouchers have been one of the recent online success stories. Voucher searches shot up massively in the run up to Christmas as savvy shoppers looked to find a bargain during the recession.... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 12:50 PM
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In Categories Economy | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds
Michael Jackson, Twitter and TMZ
June 26, 2009
Following the tragic death of Michael Jackson last night, UK Internet visits to his homepage increased 17 fold. Yesterday www.michaeljackson.com was the 9th most visited Music website in the UK, and the highest ranked artist homepage. TMZ, the website that... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 10:20 AM
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In Categories Blogs | Celebrities | Music | News and Media
Twitter sending traffic to online media sites, but not online retailers
June 24, 2009
Thanks to everyone that listened to today’s Twitter webinar - we managed to reach capacity with 200 people logged in!. If you missed it, we’ll be posting the recording soon and will email / blog / tweet the link. In... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 01:20 PM
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In Categories Experian | News and Media | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds | Social networks | Twitter
Iran searches and Twitter
June 23, 2009
Given the current political situation in the country, we were expecting to see a spike in searches for ‘iran’ last week. As the chart below illustrates, there were more searches for Iran during the week ending 20/06/09 than for Iraq,... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 12:25 PM
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In Categories Blogs | Government | News and Media | Politics | Twitter
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...
Posted by Robin Goad at 01:10 PM
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In Categories Gadgets | Guest posts | Paid search | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds
Facebook usernames: record traffic levels
June 15, 2009
Facebook experienced its busiest ever day in the UK yesterday (June 14th), following the launch of its new personalized username capability. The social network was the second busiest website in the UK (after Google UK) on Sunday, picking up 1... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 02:10 PM
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In Categories Social networks
Local Internet data: Liverpool example
Last month I had the pleasure of speaking at the Digital Editors Network forum, an event organized by Francois Nel from the Journalism Leaders Program at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN). One of the topics that came up during... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 11:40 AM
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In Categories Education | Employment | Football | Government | Local | News and Media | Property | Search | Sport
Revision searches and BBC Bitesize
June 10, 2009
One of the fastest moving websites last week was BBC Schools, which experienced a 40% increase in traffic to become the 106th most visited website in the UK. However, as the chart below illustrates, last week’s spike wasn’t the first... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 09:50 AM
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In Categories BBC | Education | Search
