Posts Tagged ‘ News and Media ’

Microsoft Bing News Search

Tweet Amongst all of the excitement about Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine, one element of the new service that hasn’t received a huge amount of coverage is its news search function. Bing News Search offers a similar service to Google News, so I’ve it added to our News Aggregators category. Since its launch the site [...][ READ MORE ]

Content driven websites receive 73% more traffic than transactional ones

Tweet The chart on this slide illustrates the percentage of all UK Internet visits accounted for by the largest and most significant online categories – and how this situation has changed over the last three years. As you can see, there are a number of categories that have significantly increased their share of visits – [...][ READ MORE ]

Michael Jackson, Twitter and TMZ

Tweet Following the tragic death of Michael Jackson last night, UK Internet visits to his homepage increased 17 fold. Yesterday www.michaeljackson.com was the 9th most visited Music website in the UK, and the highest ranked artist homepage. TMZ, the website that originally broke the story, picked up 1 in every 1,100 UK Internet visits yesterday, [...][ READ MORE ]

Twitter sending traffic to online media sites, but not online retailers

Tweet Thanks to everyone that listened to today’s Twitter webinar – we managed to reach capacity with 200 people logged in!. If you missed it, we’ll be posting the recording soon and will email / blog / tweet the link. In the meantime, you can see what people were saying about it on Twitter here. [...][ READ MORE ]

Iran searches and Twitter

Tweet Given the current political situation in the country, we were expecting to see a spike in searches for ‘iran’ last week. As the chart below illustrates, there were more searches for Iran during the week ending 20/06/09 than for Iraq, Dubai or Israel (generally the most searched for countries in the Middle East) at [...][ 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 ]

Initial Bing stats

Tweet Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine, was announced by Steve Balmer on May 28 and officially launched on June 3. I’ve held off putting up our initial UK statistics until now for a couple of reasons. Firstly, I couldn’t think of a funny – yet appropriate – headline containing the phrase ‘Bada Bing‘. As you [...][ READ MORE ]

Top 100 student websites in the UK

Tweet Yesterday I received a call from Sridhar Venkatapuram of the London Business School asking me about the online behaviour of students in the UK. I mentioned on Twitter that I was pulling a list of the 100 most popular websites amongst UK students, and received a number of requests to publish the list. Well, [...][ READ MORE ]

MPs’ expenses update: Telegraph picks up 1 in every 756 UK page views

Tweet Now that the MPs’ expenses scandal has led to the resignation of Michael Martin, the House of Commons’ Speaker, it seems like a good to provide an update on the Internet data. As the chart below illustrates, searches for our portfolio of terms related to the scandal increased a further 425% last week. As [...][ READ MORE ]

MPs’ expenses searches drive Telegraph page views

Tweet The Telegraph’s MPs’ expenses story has dominated the headlines for almost a week now. As the chart below illustrates, searches for a portfolio of terms relating to story increased by 575% last week, and our data will likely show a further increase next week. The portfolio of 100+ terms was dominated by generic phrases, [...][ READ MORE ]