Posts Tagged ‘ Celebrities ’

Twitter has biggest ever day of online traffic after super injunction revelations

Tweet Twitter had its highest ever peak in UK Internet visits yesterday (9 May 2011) due to the extraordinary revelations of the super injunction scandal, which exposed the identities of several high profile celebrities. Visits to Twitter increased by 14% on 9 May, accounting for 0.49% of total Internet visits that day. Twitter also became [...][ READ MORE ]

Royal Wedding prompts cake search spike

Tweet With the Royal Wedding just nine days away, online searches have been turning very Wills and Kate centric in the UK. Of all the searches conducted by UK Internet users which contained the word ‘wedding’ over the last four weeks, 18.95% of them also contained the word ‘royal’. Using our Individual Keywords tool you [...][ READ MORE ]

Charity traffic leaps 30% in Comic Relief week

Tweet It’s red nose time and once again the UK turns its thoughts to sponsored runs, baking extravaganzas and taking baths in baked beans – all in the name of raising money for charity. As you might expect, searches for all terms relating to Comic Relief and Red Nose Day have all increased significantly in [...][ READ MORE ]

Mafia rule on Sky Atlantic search terms

Tweet Whether it’s Steve Buscemi running the mob in Boardwalk Empire or Sean Bean looking suspiciously like Boromir in Game of Thrones, there has been a lot of buzz around Sky Atlantic, the new home of American TV channel HBO in the UK. Sky officially launched its new channel Sky Atlantic on 1 February but [...][ READ MORE ]

Comedians have last laugh of ticketing search terms

Tweet Every week the research team here at Hitwise do some analysis of the ticketing industry to see which music artists are being searched for the most and which are the most popular gigs/festivals that people want to attend. Whilst this always throws up a few surprises (how can Michael Bolton still be so popular?), [...][ READ MORE ]

Golden Globes Glee as Lea Michele still tops searches

Tweet Awards season officially starts this Sunday when Hollywood’s A-listers hit the red carpet for the 68th Golden Globe Awards. In the last four weeks searches for terms related to the Golden Globes have increased 73% as anticipation rises ahead of the awards. The peak of searches online for Golden Globe information came in the [...][ 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 ]

Digital Death provides boon of Life for kids charity

Tweet Running an effective social media campaign is no easy task for any company, but for a charity with limited marketing resources that challenge is especially difficult. Perhaps the greatest success to date of an excellent charitable social media campaign was the Nike Chalkbot, which promoted the LIVESTRONG campaign on the Tour de France raising [...][ READ MORE ]

Online cashing in on Will and Kate’s royal wedding engagement

Tweet The announcement of a royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton was barely hours old before the country started looking to cash in on the event yesterday. The media revealed that the wedding ring will be fashioned from Welsh gold, that souvenir shops are designing commemorative plates and that the wedding will be [...][ READ MORE ]

Cheryl Cole most searched for celebrity online

Tweet Celebrities – from the A-list Hollywood star to the Z-list Big Brother housemate, we’re obsessed with them, and no-one seems to attract more public attention currently than the nation’s favourite Geordie, Cheryl Cole. We monitor over 50 million search terms a month in the UK, and given the astonishing variety of terms people type [...][ READ MORE ]