Posts Tagged ‘ Movies ’

Golden Globes Glee as Lea Michele still tops searches

Tweet Awards season officially starts this Sunday when Hollywood’s A-listers hit the red carpet for the 68th Golden Globe Awards. In the last four weeks searches for terms related to the Golden Globes have increased 73% as anticipation rises ahead of the awards. The peak of searches online for Golden Globe information came in the [...][ READ MORE ]

Tron searches dominated by Daft Punk soundtrack and light cycle game

Tweet This winter’s big budget film is Tron Legacy, and as with any major Hollywood release, in the build up to the film’s opening weekend, searches online have reached new peaks. In the last week searches for ‘tron’ have more than doubled, whereas searches for ‘tron legacy’ increased by 60%. What’s interesting about the search [...][ READ MORE ]

Cheryl Cole most searched for celebrity online

Tweet Celebrities – from the A-list Hollywood star to the Z-list Big Brother housemate, we’re obsessed with them, and no-one seems to attract more public attention currently than the nation’s favourite Geordie, Cheryl Cole. We monitor over 50 million search terms a month in the UK, and given the astonishing variety of terms people type [...][ READ MORE ]

Doubling of 3D searches adds new dimension to film and technology

Tweet Unless you’ve been under a distinctly flat and undefined rock for the past year or so, you can’t help but have noticed that the 3D era has definitely arrived. Everything is in 3D these days, from fashion catwalks to football matches, and the entertainment industry is making the most of the next evolution in [...][ READ MORE ]

Harry Potter fever: Wizarding World theme park, Deathly Hallows, Lego game

Tweet With the unveiling in June of the Universal theme park, the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, the movie trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and the release of Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4, it’s fair to say that Harry Potter fever is casting a spell over online audiences again. Of the 32 [...][ READ MORE ]

LoveFilm: the 11th most visited online retailer in the UK

Tweet Yesterday BBC Radio 4′s consumer affairs program You and Yours included an item on LoveFilm, the online DVD rental and movie streaming service. It included an interview with the company’s CEO Simon Calver, as well as myself talking about the popularity of the site. You can listen to the interviews on iPlayer here, but [...][ READ MORE ]

Record week for Google News

Tweet A while ago we highlighted how Google News UK picks up more traffic from searches for celebrities than any other type of news. Last week was a bumper week for celebrity news stories (unfortunately for sad reasons in many cases), and Google News UK was a top recipient for many of the most popular [...][ READ MORE ]

Voucher searches up 47.5% in a year

Tweet UK Internet searches for discount vouchers have increased by 47.5% over the last 12 months. The increase in searches for a portfolio of 4,500+ voucher-related search terms between the weeks ending 02/08/2008 and 01/08/2009 clearly reflects British consumers’ hunger for bargains and discounts during the recession. Vouchers offering everything from discounts at high end [...][ READ MORE ]

Celeb and entertainment searches dominate Google News

Tweet Last week we revealed that Twitter had overtaken Google News in the UK. However, although everyone’s favourite micro-blogging service receives more UK Internet visits, Google News remains the greater source of traffic for News and Media websites. As the chart below illustrates, in February Google News UK sent five times more traffic to News [...][ READ MORE ]

“Money Saving Expert” Martin Lewis the most searched-for personality in the UK

Tweet Martin Lewis, creator of the “consumer revenge” website Money Saving Expert was the most searched-for personality by UK Internet users during the 12 weeks ending January 3 2009. There were 11% more searches for Martin Lewis than US President Barack Obama, the second most searched-for personality over the period. Ten most searched for personalities [...][ READ MORE ]