Posts Tagged ‘ Blogs ’

Top bands / artists online: August 2008 chart

Tweet Here are this month’s lists of the top 20 band / artist searches sending traffic to social networking sites (e.g. MySpace, YouTube, Last.fm, etc.) and the most popular music blogs for the 4 weeks ending August 2nd. First up social networks, and the top 2 entries, Basshunter and Biffy Clyro, have both had successful [...][ READ MORE ]

Twitter UK traffic: up 485% this year, 70% higher than USA

Tweet The two Heathers (Hopkins and Dougherty) have both written about the growth of Twitter in the US recently, so here is some UK data on the micro-blogging service. As you can see from the chart below, the site’s growth has really ramped up this year. UK Internet visits to www.twitter.com have increased by 631% [...][ READ MORE ]

Hottest bands on the social networks and music blogs

Tweet A few months ago we posted a list of the top 10 band / artist searches sending traffic to MySpace, the primary destination of searches for new artists. We’ve decided to expand the list to cover our whole Social Networking and Forums category, which includes the likes of Facebook and Bebo as well as [...][ READ MORE ]

Blog traffic reaches all time high

Tweet UK Internet visits to weblogs reached an all time high last week. As the chart below illustrates, Blogs and Personal Websites accounted for 1.19% of all UK traffic, equivalent to one in every 84 internet visits. Taking the slightly longer view and looking at the monthly data, you can see that the market share [...][ READ MORE ]

iPhone website reaches a new high as rumour mill goes into overdrive

Tweet Apple is expected to launch a new version of its iPhone at the Apple World Wide Developers’ Conference in San Francisco this afternoon (UK time). As with all such events, the speculation amongst Apple fans and foes has almost reached fever pitch. Last week UK Internet visits to the iPhone website reached a new [...][ READ MORE ]

Lolcats and popbitches

Tweet It’s hard to believe, but this is my 100th posting on this blog. So to celebrate I thought I’d write about something very important: lolcats. In case you’re not familiar with the term, a lolcat is a (usually cute) picture of cats or kittens in strange poses / situations with a caption written in [...][ READ MORE ]