Posts Tagged ‘ News and Media ’

iPhone 5 rumours impact search

Tweet Just when we think we’ve managed to catch up to everyone else and have bought the newest piece of equipment the i-world has to offer, Apple goes and does it again: they release another, newer, better version of the latest i-product. Rumour has it that this week, it’s the much anticipated and some might [...][ READ MORE ]

London Riots cause traffic spike on Twitter

Tweet After three nights of unrest in London and other cities, the UK Internet population has been tracking the progress of the London riots by visiting News and Media sites and Twitter. The News and Media category saw its highest spike in visits so far this year, with a 14% increase in UK Internet visits [...][ READ MORE ]

Harper Seven Beckham bigger than Rebekah Brooks

Tweet If nothing else, the birth of Harper Seven Beckham has taught us that Shakespeare was wrong. “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” wrote the Bard, yet the phenomenal interest online caused by the naming of baby Beckham proves that really there is [...][ READ MORE ]

NOTW readers turn to Mirror and Mail on Sunday

Tweet As the phone hacking story rumbles on and more of the Murdoch empire gets dragged into the scandal, the big question remains: how will this ultimately effect visits to key players in the print industry online, and where are the News of the World readership going online now that their paper has been scrapped? [...][ READ MORE ]

Where will readers go with no News of the World?

Tweet The revelations of the phone hacking scandal at the News of the World have attracted many headlines in the media this week. Online there was a 9% increase in UK Internet visits to our News and Media category between 30 June and 7 July as people searched for news of the unfolding events. You [...][ READ MORE ]

Ash Cloud causes spike to travel and weather sites

Tweet With fresh eruptions coming from Icelandic volcanoes this week, people have been searching online for the latest updates on the ash cloud to see if their travel arrangements will be disrupted. Looking at the downstream industries receiving traffic from ash cloud related search terms on 24 May 2011, the majority of the traffic was [...][ READ MORE ]

Royal Wedding prompts cake search spike

Tweet With the Royal Wedding just nine days away, online searches have been turning very Wills and Kate centric in the UK. Of all the searches conducted by UK Internet users which contained the word ‘wedding’ over the last four weeks, 18.95% of them also contained the word ‘royal’. Using our Individual Keywords tool you [...][ READ MORE ]

27 December second busiest day of the year in online retail

Tweet Over the last few days the UK Internet population have been prolific online, in one of the busiest post-Christmas periods ever. Boxing Day was the busiest day of the year for online retailers again this year, but the sales have continued to perform ahead of last year’s figures with 27 December being the second [...][ READ MORE ]

2010 Online: the year in review

Tweet I can scarcely believe that a whole year has passed since I was sitting here writing the 2009 review, but 12 months to the day here we are, and it’s been another fascinating year in the digital world. Once again I have cherry picked the best blog posts from the year which have either [...][ READ MORE ]

Wikileaks revealed as 13th biggest search term online

Tweet Apart from the weather in the UK, the major story capturing headlines over the last few days has been the sensational reveals from Wikileaks. Major caches of US intelligence from the embassy cables were leaked from the website, creating a furore of media attention. Visits to the Wikileaks website tripled on Monday as the [...][ READ MORE ]