Posts Tagged ‘ Employment ’

How the Budget could affect new business start ups

Tweet Tomorrow Chancellor George Osborne will deliver his first March Budget to outline the government’s spending plans for the next financial year. A lot of the focus of the Budget is likely to be around fuel duty and interest rates, but Prime Minister David Cameron has also promised that the Budget will: “tear down the [...][ READ MORE ]

Local Internet data: Liverpool example

Tweet Last month I had the pleasure of speaking at the Digital Editors Network forum, an event organized by Francois Nel from the Journalism Leaders Program at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN). One of the topics that came up during the session was the importance of local Internet usage and search data. And not [...][ READ MORE ]

UK traffic to Polish websites declining

Tweet Last year we highlighted the massive growth in UK Internet traffic to Polish websites, noting how the increase in visits to a custom category local and expat sites reflected the growth of the Polish immigrant population in the UK. Things have changed significantly since that post; and one theory is that many Polish (and [...][ READ MORE ]

Apprenticeships and The Apprentice

Tweet UK Internet visits to the homepage of The Apprentice, the BBC TV show starring Sir Alan Sugar, have shot up over the last week. Some of this traffic is a result of anticipation for the forthcoming fifth series, but most of the visitors to the site are looking for information about this the celebrity [...][ READ MORE ]

Top 10 websites of 2008

Tweet We published the results of the Hitwise UK Online Performance Awards today. These list the 10 most visited websites in the UK during 2008 for over 60 industry categories. You can see the full list on the awards microsite, but here I thought I’d highlight the top sites in three categories that have experienced [...][ READ MORE ]

Searching for the recession

Tweet Now that the UK is officially in recession, we thought it would be a good time to look at downturn-related searches. The table below charts the volume of searches for 4 key terms over the last 12 months, and of these ‘recession’ has experienced the most notable peaks and troughs. Searches for the term [...][ READ MORE ]

Unemployment, redundancy and Christmas jobs

Tweet The economic situation has worsened since our post on ‘redundancy’ searches in June, and unfortunately this is having a negative impact on job security. Consequently UK Internet searches for ‘redundancy’ have increased by 83% since August, reaching their highest peak over the past year in October. Over the 12 weeks ending 21st June we [...][ READ MORE ]

Google Docs benefits from growth in job searches

Tweet Like Heather Dougherty in the US, we have also been looking at the impact of the credit crunch on employment sites. As the chart below illustrates, UK Internet traffic to Business and Finance – Employment and Training websites has shot up over the last few weeks. Looking back over the last three years, you [...][ READ MORE ]

Redundancy searches: employee and employer behaviour

Tweet Recently we’ve looked at how internet behaviour has adapted a number of ways to meet the challenges of an economic downturn, including consumer spending, inflation and house prices. However, until now we haven’t touched on the most worrying aspect: unemployment. In particular, I wanted to look at the fear of job losses, as manifested [...][ READ MORE ]

Yahoo! and Microsoft: UK perspective

Tweet Following on from Bill’s and Heather’s posts, I wanted to share some UK data on the proposed Yahoo! and Microsoft deal. First up: webmail services, and as the chart below illustrates, Microsoft has a dominant market share with its Hotmail service. While Gmail (GoogleMail in the UK) has gained some traction, its market share [...][ READ MORE ]