Posts Tagged ‘ Humour ’

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 ]

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 ]

Beautiful People experiences fifty-fold increase in traffic following “fatties” announcement

Tweet The dating and social networking website Beautifulpeople.com which describes itself as “an exclusively beautiful community”, stirred up a bit of controversy yesterday when it announced the axing some 5,000 members following complaints that they had gained weight. “As a business, we mourn the loss of any member, but the fact remains that our members [...][ READ MORE ]

Twitter traffic increases 10-fold in a year

Tweet Following Heather’s post yesterday on Twitter overtaking Digg in the US, here is some UK data on the most talked about website of the moment: UK Internet traffic to the site has increased 10-fold over past last 12 months. For the week ending 17/01/09 www.twitter.com ranked as the 291st most visited website in the [...][ READ MORE ]

Simon’s cat, his sister’s dog and the RSPCA

Tweet Simon’s Cat is an extremely popular animated series created by Simon Tofield. Since releasing his first short film via YouTube at the start of the year, searches for ‘simons cat’ have shot up, peaking in July when a new episode was released. On December 8th Tofield released another new episode, but this time it [...][ 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 ]