Tweet Yesterday US video streaming and DVD rental site Netflix announced that it was going to have a second crack at conquering the UK market. The company has decided to focus solely on online video streaming this time around, in a move which will see it go head-to-head with LoveFilm. Our online video report was [...]

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Tweet Searches for finance products tend to be a very seasonal affair and to a large extent can be predicted by looking at previous online trends. Products such as loans, savings and insurance are all pretty mature online, so it is therefore quite unusual to observe a big spike in searches outside of a seasonal [...]

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Tweet It has been a rollercoaster few weeks for HP, which followed the news that it was purchasing British software vendor Autonomy with an announcement that it is considering moving out of the PC business. The company also announced on 18 August that it was abandoning its webOS devices completely including tablets and smartphones. After [...]

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Tweet With the latest travel quarterly report out today it’s time to look again at the top 50 destinations online that consumers want to fly to. Sharm-el-Sheikh emerged as the fastest moving destination this quarter, breaking back into the top 50 list after a nine month absence from the list. New York was once again [...]

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Tweet Last week we ran a retail webinar as a pre-Christmas planning session, talking about the top trends from last year’s seasonal peaks and what retailers could expect from Christmas 2011. For those of you that missed the session on Friday, the webinar slides are now available to download; and if you are a Hitwise [...]

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Tweet The revelations of the phone hacking scandal at the News of the World have attracted many headlines in the media this week. Online there was a 9% increase in UK Internet visits to our News and Media category between 30 June and 7 July as people searched for news of the unfolding events. You [...]

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Tweet The big story that has grabbed people’s attentions in the digital world this week is Facebook’s announcement of a new video calling feature which will be powered by Skype. Looking at the Mosaic groups which visit Facebook and the Skype website we can see the new audience opportunities this partnership offers both parties. For [...]

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Tweet With a number of new musicals coming to the West End, visits to the ticketing category have risen by 13.5% in the last four weeks. Clearly not all of the growth throughout June has been driven by searches for musicals as the Ticketing category also attracts traffic across multiple verticals for music gigs, festivals, [...]

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Tweet We’ve been talking at Hitwise for a very long time about the benefits of social media and how Facebook in particular is becoming critical to the success of multi-channel marketing. We are constantly asked: “What’s the ROI with advertising on Facebook?”and until now that has always been a difficult question to qualify precisely. Leveraging [...]

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Tweet Today sees the start of Wimbledon and with conversation around the office turning to strawberries, cream, and how long it will take Andy Murray to disappoint us all for another year; I thought it would be nice to look at how the UK Internet population were reacting to the SW19′s biggest annual sporting event. [...]

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