Posts Tagged ‘ Financial Services ’

How search is the ideal benchmark for consumer behaviour

Tweet On Monday the Bank of England (BoE) released its latest Quarterly Bulletin which included an article Using search data as economic indicators. The central bank is using search data to benchmark key areas like housing, unemployment, tax and benefits. Here at Experian Hitwise we have long been champions of the power of search as [...][ READ MORE ]

Paid rates up as ISAs get more competitive

Tweet As the current financial year comes to a close and FY12 begins on 6 April, consumers are searching for ISAs in order to make the most of their tax free savings. Searches for ISAs have increased by 185% in the last four weeks, although they have some way to go in order to match [...][ READ MORE ]

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 ]

Surge in searches for fixed rate mortgages

Tweet The number of internet searches for fixed rate mortgages soared between April – June 2010 (Q2) compared to the same time period last year, with searches for the term ‘fixed rate mortgages 10 years’ up almost ten fold over the period. Searches for ‘fixed rate mortgages 5 years’ increased seven fold, while searches for [...][ 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 ]

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 ]

Where in the UK are financial aggregator websites most popular?

Tweet Another guest blog from Richard Seymour, Experian Hitwise Client Intelligence Analyst. In the table below we can see where in the UK financial aggregators are most used. The representation shows the areas which over-index compared to the UK population. In this case we can see that residents of Sunderland are most over-represented in visits [...][ READ MORE ]

Last minute surge in online retail traffic before VAT increase

Tweet The UK VAT rate returned to 17.5% on January 1st and, as a result, UK Internet searches related to the change also increased. As the chart below illustrates, searches for our “VAT Increase” portfolio (which includes terms such as ‘vat increase 2010′, ‘vat rate change’ and ‘when does vat go back to 17.5%’) increased [...][ READ MORE ]

Motor and car insurance search behaviour

Tweet Today we present another guest post from Richard Seymour, Experian Hitwise Client Intelligence Analyst. The data is based on the excellent research that he carried out for our recent UK Insurance webinar. The chart below illustrates searches for portfolios containing well over 1000 terms relating to Motor Insurance, Health insurance, Home Insurance, Travel Insurance, [...][ READ MORE ]

Content driven websites receive 73% more traffic than transactional ones

Tweet The chart on this slide illustrates the percentage of all UK Internet visits accounted for by the largest and most significant online categories – and how this situation has changed over the last three years. As you can see, there are a number of categories that have significantly increased their share of visits – [...][ READ MORE ]