Tweet This week Facebook announced the $1 billion acquisition of photo sharing app Instagram. This is a landmark deal for the acquisition of an app but Instagram became the 10th most visited social network in the UK in March 2012, showing the increasing appetite for photo sharing online. Instagram received almost 13 million UK Internet [...]

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Tweet This weekend is Mother’s Day and as the nation prepares to say a collective thank you to our Mums I thought this would be a good time to share our top 10 Mother’s Day facts for 2012: 1. 10% of all Mother’s Day UK searches include the word ‘when’. It’s Sunday 18 March so [...]

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Tweet UK Internet users made an astonishing 2.2 billion visits to search engines in February according to our latest monthly data. Last month we showed how search was increasing as an online channel with 100 million additional UK Internet visits going to search engines in January 2012 compared to January 2011. The February stats are [...]

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Tweet Search continues to grow as an online channel and as the biggest source of traffic to websites in the UK we thought it would be a good idea to encapsulate some of the cool search stats that we use on a daily basis into an infographic. Check out my efforts below with search according [...]

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Tweet Apple’s much anticipated event today has set the rumour mills running into overdrive. If the wisdom of the crowds is to be believed then Apple’s announcement will unveil the new iPad 3. Demand for the iPad 3 online reached its peak in the last week as 1 in every 2000 searches online were iPad [...]

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Tweet Last year I wrote two blogs on the rise of social shopping and the changing facets of rewards websites like voucher and cashback sites. These proved very popular so I thought I would follow these up with a look at how these websites performed over Christmas. The Experian Hitwise Rewards and Directories category was [...]

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Tweet January is usually a pretty bleak month for shopping as people tend to be tightening belts after the excesses of Christmas. True to form, most shopping websites saw a decline in online visits in January 2012 compared to December 2011. But then there was Morrisons, which doubled its visits in January 2012 to reach [...]

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Tweet We’ve had a lot of information requests recently from people interested in Pinterest, the online pinboard which is making waves in social media. My colleague Heather Dougherty posted back in December about Pinterest in the US, and now the UK is starting to engage with the website as well. In January 2012 Pinterest was [...]

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Tweet Love is in the air with Romeos seeking out their Juliets and declaring their passion for one another. Valentine’s Day is also a huge commercial opportunity and as brands go into romantic marketing overdrive, I thought we would look at some of the more interesting online trends around Valentine’s Day: 1. 6.7 million UK [...]

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Tweet UK Internet users made 2.3 billion visits to search engines in January 2012, up from 2.2 billion in January 2011. Visits to search engines are up by 4.5 per cent year-on-year with nearly 100 million more visits in January this year than last year. Google remained the steadfast market leader with over 90 per [...]

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