Posts Tagged ‘ News and Media ’

Apple iPhone UK price drop

Tweet Last week Apple and 02 announced that they had cut the price of the 8GB iPhone by £100 in the UK until June 1st. As always with Apple, the announcement generated a huge amount of media interest – including speculation that the launch of a 3G iPhone is now imminent. ‘iphone’ was the seventh [...][ READ MORE ]

Top 10 UK search terms: social networks dominate the list

Tweet We have just announced the winners of the Hitwise UK Online Performance Awards 2007, so congratulations to all of the websites that placed within their industry top 10. In addition to the top websites, we also announced the top 10 most searched for brands of 2007, and the results make for interesting reading. As [...][ READ MORE ]

The Independent gains online market share in the UK

Tweet Earlier this year we highlighted the growth of newspaper websites in the UK. As the chart below illustrates, the market share of the UK Independent, which has traditionally lagged behind most of its rivals online, has more doubled over the last twelve months. It was the seventh most visited website in our News and [...][ READ MORE ]

Miss Bimbo: who is visiting?

Tweet The ‘virtual fashion game’ Miss Bimbo has picked up a lot of press – Google News UK was the second ranked site receiving up traffic from the search term ‘miss bimbo’ last week. The website allows users to create a virtual “bimbo” and compete against other players to earn “bimbo dollars” by making her [...][ READ MORE ]

Brits more interested in US presidential race than domestic politics

Tweet UK Internet users are more interested in the United States presidential race than politics at home. Senator Barack Obama is the most searched for political figure in the UK, receiving three times as many searches on his name last week as Hillary Clinton, and five times as many as Gordon Brown. John McCain ranked [...][ READ MORE ]

Eduardo injury and YouTube

Tweet The horrific injury sustained by Arsenal’s Brazilian-born Croatian striker Eduardo da Silva has led to an outpouring of sympathy from football fans, and not just supporters of Arsenal or Croatia. Searches for ‘eduardo’ increased almost forty-fold last week, and ‘eduardo injury’ was the fastest moving search term sending traffic to a number of Hitwise [...][ READ MORE ]

UK Polish Internet usage on the rise

Tweet Estimates as to the number of Polish people in the UK range from half a million to over a million. Mass immigration from Central and Eastern Europe has led to a rush for the ‘Polish Pound’, with everyone from multinational banks to independent grocers getting in on the act. One of the great things [...][ READ MORE ]

Yahoo! and Microsoft: UK perspective

Tweet Following on from Bill’s and Heather’s posts, I wanted to share some UK data on the proposed Yahoo! and Microsoft deal. First up: webmail services, and as the chart below illustrates, Microsoft has a dominant market share with its Hotmail service. While Gmail (GoogleMail in the UK) has gained some traction, its market share [...][ READ MORE ]

UK Internet traffic to newspaper websites reaches a new high

Tweet UK Internet traffic to newspaper websites reached its highest level in over two years last week off the back of a number of big news stories. For the week ending 26 January 2008, 1.48% of all UK Internet visits went to websites in Hitwise’s News and Media – Print category, which includes the websites [...][ READ MORE ]

Where to from Google News

Tweet Two weeks ago, Google News fell behind Digg.com in share of UK visits to News and Media websites. Yahoo! News UK & Ireland ranks at #4, Digg.com at #6 and Google News UK at #7 among News and Media websites. However, looking at website visits alone tells only half the story. Google News UK [...][ READ MORE ]