Tweet This week we released our quarterly Hot Shops List in association with IMRG which saw Apple become the second biggest online retailer in the UK for the first time ever. Since its inception in 2006 the top of the Hot Shops List has been dominated by Amazon UK and Argos. A number of retailers [...]

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Tweet For most of us, Christmas is still a long way off and something that can be happily ignored until December, but for marketers and retailers Christmas planning sessions are already in full swing. Two of the biggest products which are going to be filling stockings this Christmas are Apple’s iPad and Amazon’s Kindle. We’ve [...]

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Tweet In the aftermath of last week’s rioting across England, one of the knock-on effects of the looting and vandalism caused was a noticeable increase in searches for home insurance. UK Internet searches for all variations of home insurance increased by 14% between the week ending 6 August and the week ending 13 August 2011. [...]

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Tweet After three nights of unrest in London and other cities, the UK Internet population has been tracking the progress of the London riots by visiting News and Media sites and Twitter. The News and Media category saw its highest spike in visits so far this year, with a 14% increase in UK Internet visits [...]

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Tweet YouTube had its biggest ever month of traffic in July, accounting for 1 in every 35 UK Internet visits during the month. The video site recorded its best ever performance in the Hitwise Social Networking and Forums category in July, in part due to strong growth of visits to YouTube from mobile devices. YouTube [...]

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