Posts Tagged ‘ News and Media ’

Online cashing in on Will and Kate’s royal wedding engagement

Tweet The announcement of a royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton was barely hours old before the country started looking to cash in on the event yesterday. The media revealed that the wedding ring will be fashioned from Welsh gold, that souvenir shops are designing commemorative plates and that the wedding will be [...][ READ MORE ]

Chile Miner Rescue Coverage: The BBC vs Sky News

Tweet There was a spur of optimism to the news on Wednesday evening as the 33 miners in Chile who had been trapped for 69 days underground were finally rescued. The live broadcast of the event made the rescue all the more gripping to watch, and millions of people tuned in to see the heart-warming [...][ READ MORE ]

London Tube strikes cause surge in traffic to TfL website

Tweet With travel in the capital thrown into chaos over the last couple of days due to the 24-hour tube strikes, London commuters have been frantically checking online for regular service updates from Transport for London (TfL). Two separate strikes began on Monday at 5pm and 9pm as members of the Rail Maritime and Transport [...][ READ MORE ]

The Physio Room: content is king

Tweet Looking through this week’s list of fast moving websites, one that jumped out at me was The Physio Room, which last week ranked 15th in our Health and Medical category and was also the 12th most popular Sport and Fitness retailer. As the chart below illustrates, traffic to the site has increased five-fold over [...][ READ MORE ]

Cameron’s Big Society prompts big traffic spike

Tweet Last week the Prime Minister set out his vision for the “big society”, the flagship social policy of the Conservative-LibDem coalition government. The initiative aims to take the emphasis of responsibility away from the government and instead empower people to run local services such as schools, post offices and transport networks. The idea of [...][ READ MORE ]

Times Paywall traffic loss less than expected

Tweet It’s been a few weeks now since The Times made their controversial move to take their content behind a paywall and charge online consumers to read their content. The move has attracted a lot of attention as The Times is the first general news content provider to charge for its online content. Specialist publications [...][ READ MORE ]

Times paywall: initial data and analysis

Tweet Following months of speculation, News International has finally erected a paywall around the Times newspaper website. After a couple of weeks running two sites, (www.timesonline.co.uk and www.thetimes.co.uk) in parallel, visitors to the former site are now automatically redirected to the latter. Since last Tuesday, users have had to register to read content on the [...][ 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 ]

Leadership debate winners: Lib Dems, Sky News, ITV and Twitter

Tweet Despite the best efforts of an Icelandic volcano to ground all Northern European flights and take (obscure?) the limelight, last week’s leaders’ debate grabbed a lot of media attention. The consensus view is that Nick Clegg came out on top, and UK searches for the Liberal Democrat leader increased 7-fold last week, clearly overtaking [...][ 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 ]