Posts Tagged ‘ Fashion ’

Online vouchers prove popular in bargain-hungry Britain

Tweet With the economy slowing and prices rising, everyone is on the lookout for a bargain. Vouchers have become a popular way of promoting discounts, particularly around Christmas time. In fact, they have become some popular that price sensitive shoppers are looking for them in increasing numbers. As the chart below illustrates, UK Internet searches [...][ READ MORE ]

SATC more popular in UK than USA

Tweet The decision to hold the world premiere of the new Sex and the City movie in London has led to a surge in online searches in the UK. American interest in the film is yet to take off, although this may change following the US premiere, which takes place in New York City today. [...][ READ MORE ]

Miss Bimbo: who is visiting?

Tweet The ‘virtual fashion game’ Miss Bimbo has picked up a lot of press – Google News UK was the second ranked site receiving up traffic from the search term ‘miss bimbo’ last week. The website allows users to create a virtual “bimbo” and compete against other players to earn “bimbo dollars” by making her [...][ READ MORE ]

Sales searches trebled in 2007

Tweet The number of UK consumers searching for post-Christmas sales online more than trebled during the 2007 holiday period. There were 249% more UK internet searches for the term ‘sales’ for the week ending 29th December 2007 than for the comparable week in 2006. There was also a 200% increase in searches for the term [...][ READ MORE ]

High street retailers overtake pure-play retailers online

Tweet High street retailers received over half of all UK Internet visits to online retailers during October (based on two Hitwise custom categories consisting of the top 50 high street and non-high street online retailers in the UK, excluding online auctions and ticket retailers). 51.1% of visits were to an online retailer that also has [...][ READ MORE ]

Crocs Shoes Most Searched for Fashion Item in UK

Tweet UK searches for “crocs” have increased 8-fold in the past 3 months, and have taken the #1 spot as the most searched for fashion item. The share of UK Internet searches for “crocs” is up from a base of zero in the same week in 2006. We on the research team at Hitwise like [...][ READ MORE ]