Posts Tagged ‘ Local ’

Coffee wars: Flat White vs. Cappuccino

Tweet Hitwise was started in Australia, and there remains a strong Antipodean influence in our London office. The most recent manifestation of this is a fashion amongst my colleagues for flat whites – a style of coffee that, like the pavlova before it, originated in either Australia or New Zealand and, depending on your opinion, [...][ READ MORE ]

UK Internet Map (as featured on the BBC’s Virtual Revolution)

Tweet If you managed to catch the first episode of the BBC’s excellent Internet documentary, Virtual Revolution, on Saturday night you may have noticed occasional flashes of “Source: Experian Hitwise” at the bottom of your screen. In amongst interviews with such luminaries as Tim Berners Lee, Jimmy Wales and Bill Gates, the Beeb built a [...][ READ MORE ]

Snow causes traffic to Weather and Transport websites to reach all time high

Tweet UK Internet visits to both Transport and Weather websites reached an all time high last week as British people flocked online to keep up to date with the latest snow developments. For the week ending January 9th 2010, Weather websites accounted for 1.5% of all UK Internet visits, three times more than the same [...][ READ MORE ]

Online Christmas shopping: top towns

Tweet The last four weeks have been the busiest of the year for online retailers, and this presents a good opportunity showcase our new UK Postal Areas data. This allows us to segment website and category visits by UK Postal Area (of which there are 121 in the UK, signified by the letter at the [...][ READ MORE ]

Who will win The X Factor 2009?

Tweet In this guest post, Experian Hitwise Client Intelligence Analyst Richard Seymour uses our data to try and predict who will win this year’s X Factor… We have a number of Hitwise tools and data sets that we can use to track this year’s X Factor contestants’ popularity online – and name Experian Hitwise UK’s [...][ READ MORE ]

The importance of photo searches

Tweet Whilst looking through this week’s list of fast moving search terms, one term that caught my eye was ‘great north run photos’. As the chart below illustrates, searches for the term spiked last week (w/e 26/09/09) in line with the increase in more general searches for the event. This made me curious about 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 ]