Posts Tagged ‘ BBC ’

HPV searches spike during cervical cancer awareness month

Tweet January was cervical cancer awareness month and as a result searches for cervical cancer and related terms increased by 116% during the month. Although cervical cancer was not the most searched for type of cancer during January, the chart below shows that it did overtake searches for skin cancer, and saw the biggest percentage [...][ READ MORE ]

2010 Online: the year in review

Tweet I can scarcely believe that a whole year has passed since I was sitting here writing the 2009 review, but 12 months to the day here we are, and it’s been another fascinating year in the digital world. Once again I have cherry picked the best blog posts from the year which have either [...][ READ MORE ]

Snow dictates search behaviour to news, travel and retail sites

Tweet Online search behaviour was dictated this weekend by the snow. With the flakes falling thick and fast on Saturday there were huge spikes in traffic to news, weather, travel and social networking sites. With reports of up to five inches of snow falling in the space of an hour on Saturday, aircraft at many [...][ READ MORE ]

Chile Miner Rescue Coverage: The BBC vs Sky News

Tweet There was a spur of optimism to the news on Wednesday evening as the 33 miners in Chile who had been trapped for 69 days underground were finally rescued. The live broadcast of the event made the rescue all the more gripping to watch, and millions of people tuned in to see the heart-warming [...][ READ MORE ]

1 in every 100 UK Internet searches Sky Sports related

Tweet Although the lower leagues had already kicked off earlier in the month, the football season truly got underway this weekend with the first Barclays Premier League matches. As you would expect, UK Internet visits to key football related websites increased significantly last week: the Official Fantasy Premier League site by 186%, Sky Sports by [...][ READ MORE ]

Times paywall: initial data and analysis

Tweet Following months of speculation, News International has finally erected a paywall around the Times newspaper website. After a couple of weeks running two sites, (www.timesonline.co.uk and www.thetimes.co.uk) in parallel, visitors to the former site are now automatically redirected to the latter. Since last Tuesday, users have had to register to read content on the [...][ READ MORE ]

Budget 2010: the online response

Tweet As expected, yesterday’s budget, presented by the Chancellor, George Osborne, gained a huge amount of press coverage. Given the wide range of changes introduced, it is not a surprise to see that many people went online to research both the key points and finer details. Yesterday (22/06/10) 1 in every 179 UK searches was [...][ READ MORE ]

LoveFilm: the 11th most visited online retailer in the UK

Tweet Yesterday BBC Radio 4′s consumer affairs program You and Yours included an item on LoveFilm, the online DVD rental and movie streaming service. It included an interview with the company’s CEO Simon Calver, as well as myself talking about the popularity of the site. You can listen to the interviews on iPlayer here, but [...][ READ MORE ]

Leadership debate winners: Lib Dems, Sky News, ITV and Twitter

Tweet Despite the best efforts of an Icelandic volcano to ground all Northern European flights and take (obscure?) the limelight, last week’s leaders’ debate grabbed a lot of media attention. The consensus view is that Nick Clegg came out on top, and UK searches for the Liberal Democrat leader increased 7-fold last week, clearly overtaking [...][ READ MORE ]

2010 Budget: the online response

Tweet Yesterday Alistair Darling unveiled the final Budget before the election and, as you would expect, it has come under significant scrutiny from the media, the City and voters themselves. For many people the Internet was the first place they went to find out the details, and the chart below illustrates the increases in traffic [...][ READ MORE ]