Posts Tagged ‘ News and Media ’

The dotcom bubble: 10 years on

Tweet Today is the tenth anniversary of the bursting of the dotcom bubble, so I though it would be interesting to see how the Internet landscape has changed over the last decade. Below is a list of the top 20 websites in the UK last week, with Google and Facebook topping the list. Back in [...][ 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 ]

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 ]

2009 online: the year in review

Tweet The end of the year presents and excellent opportunity for reflection, and also for lists. Combining the two, I’ve decided to reflect on the last year of online activity in the UK by providing a list of our most popular and commented on blogs over the last 12 months. January Our analysis of 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 ]

Searches for climate change and energy efficiency (Blog Action Day)

Tweet Today is Blog Action Day and, as with last year, Alan Long has beaten me to it with an excellent post on this year’s topic, climate change. I’m taking a similar approach, looking at climate changes related searches in the UK. In order to do this I revived a couple of search term portfolios [...][ READ MORE ]

Micro pig searches benefit the Daily Mail and Telegraph

Tweet As we pointed out via Twitter on Monday, the fastest moving search term in the UK last week was ‘micro pigs’. These extremely cute little pigs are the latest pet trend, and have already picked the inevitable celebrity endorsements – and a price tag to match. ‘micro pigs’ was the most popular of the [...][ 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 ]

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 ]

American visitors to UK news websites

Tweet I recently blogged about changing Internet usage habits in the UK, and specifically about the shift from transactional to content based websites. Within that mix, it is typically the growth of newer areas – such as social networks and video sites – that get most of the attention. However, while Web 2.0 and multimedia [...][ READ MORE ]