James Murray

Unreleased iPhone 6 becomes most searched for Apple phone

Posted on May 16 2013 by

Tweet We’re still months away from the launch of the next iteration of Apple’s iPhone but already there has been a high volume of searches for the iPhone 6 online, showing that the UK is eagerly anticipating the next iPhone upgrade. Looking at the most popular search variations for the term ‘iphone’ in April 2013 [...]

UK spends 13 mins of every hour on social

Posted on Apr 16 2013 by

Tweet How do people spend their time online? Last year we looked at the proportion of time spent online in the major Internet categories including social, entertainment, shopping, news etc. This proved to be a popular post so I thought we would revisit the data to see what’s changed between 2011 and 2012. In 2012 [...]

Was eBay wrong to dismiss paid search?

Posted on Apr 05 2013 by

Tweet Online retail behemoth eBay caused ripples in the digital marketing realm last month when it released a case study questioning the effectiveness of paid search. The study makes for a fascinating read and is well worth taking the time to go through fully but in essence the core findings of the paper were: Paid [...]

What’s Britain’s favourite takeaway food?

Posted on Mar 28 2013 by

Tweet The demands of modern life are relentless. With time becoming an ever more precious commodity, Britain’s desire for convenience food is growing. Visits to takeaway websites have tripled in the last three years, and grown by an impressive 67% in the last 12 months alone. A part of this growth is attributable to consumers [...]

Top 10 Easter facts 2013

Posted on Mar 27 2013 by

Tweet It’s Easter this weekend and with two bank holidays to look forward to, online attentions are focused on travel and chocolate eggs. With that in mind here are our top 10 Easter facts for 2013. 7% of all Easter searches include the word ‘when’. Easter Sunday is on the 31 March this year. 16% [...]

Online video exceeds 1 billion visits a month

Posted on Mar 26 2013 by

Tweet It’s hard to believe that YouTube turned 8 last month. As the world’s most visited video website it scarcely seems possible that there was a time before YouTube, when our only access to funny cat videos was You’ve Been Framed and yet pre-2005 online video was still very much in its infancy. Fast forward [...]

Travel brands dominate latest Hot Shops List

Posted on Mar 07 2013 by

Tweet This week we released the latest issue of the IMRG-Experian Hitwise Hot Shops List which ranks the UK’s top 50 online retailers by Internet visits. As expected, Amazon, Apple and Argos remained unmoved at the top of the list and many of the fastest moving websites climbing up the rankings were travel related because [...]

Top 10 facts for Mother’s Day 2013

Posted on Mar 06 2013 by

Tweet Mother’s Day is rapidly approaching this weekend and so as the majority of the nation scrambles around for some last minute shopping ideas I thought this would be a good time to share our top 10 Mother’s Day facts for 2013: 11% of all Mother’s Day UK searches include the word ‘when’. It’s Sunday [...]

2013 set to be another great year for UK search

Posted on Feb 13 2013 by

Tweet 2013 is proving to be another great year with 2.7 billion searches made on UK engines in January a slight decrease of 0.2% from December 2012. Year -on- year search activity has increased by 18% with over 400 million more visits going to search engines in January 2013 than in January 2012. Usually after [...]

When do people search for temporary car insurance?

Posted on Jan 31 2013 by

Tweet One of the growing trends within car insurance over the last 12 months has been the rise of temporary car insurance. As consumers become more demanding and expect more from service providers, niche products have been developed to satisfy user demand. Temporary car insurance to cover customers for 1 to 28 days is a [...]