Posts Tagged ‘ Richard Seymour ’

BBQ searches take off as the sunshine comes out

Tweet We might have only had a couple of days of sunshine following our cold winter, but us Brits have been anticipating the summer for number of weeks now. The chart below illustrates the volume of searches for the terms ‘bbq’, ‘bbqs’ and ‘barbeques’ – all of which started to increase well over a month [...][ READ MORE ]

Where in the UK are financial aggregator websites most popular?

Tweet Another guest blog from Richard Seymour, Experian Hitwise Client Intelligence Analyst. In the table below we can see where in the UK financial aggregators are most used. The representation shows the areas which over-index compared to the UK population. In this case we can see that residents of Sunderland are most over-represented in visits [...][ 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 ]

Apple iPhone and iPod Touch the most searched for products this Christmas

Tweet Visits to consumer electronics websites increased by 16.5% between October 2009 and November 2009 as the gift buying season started in earnest. This was the largest month-on-month increase in UK Internet traffic to consumer electronics websites this year. Searches for toys and hobbies reached their peak during the week ending December 5th, when they [...][ READ MORE ]

Joe to win X Factor – X Factor predictions update

Tweet Another guest post from Experian Hitwise Client Intelligence Analyst Richard Seymour updating our data from last weeks X Factor predictions Looking at the data from the week ending 5th December, after the Final 4 live show we can see that Joe McElderry has continued as the most searched for contestant with a 6% increase [...][ 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 ]

Video Games searches overtake Mobile Phones following release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Tweet UK Internet searches for video games increased by 28% last week following the release of the much hyped and anticipated Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. As the chart below illustrates, Video Games overtook Mobile Phones to become the most searched for category within the Experian Hitwise Hot Consumer Electronics List last week – [...][ READ MORE ]

Windows 7 Release

Tweet Experian Hitwise’s resident gadget, expert Client Intelligence Analyst Richard Seymour, takes a look at the online reaction to the Microsoft’s Windows 7 launch last week. Using the Experian Hitwise Hot Consumer Electronics List, we saw that during the week ending 24th October – launch week for Microsoft’s new flagship operating system – 28% of [...][ READ MORE ]

Motor and car insurance search behaviour

Tweet Today we present another guest post from Richard Seymour, Experian Hitwise Client Intelligence Analyst. The data is based on the excellent research that he carried out for our recent UK Insurance webinar. The chart below illustrates searches for portfolios containing well over 1000 terms relating to Motor Insurance, Health insurance, Home Insurance, Travel Insurance, [...][ READ MORE ]

How do people search for travel in the UK?

Tweet Today we present another guest post from Richard Seymour, Experian Hitwise Client Intelligence Analyst. The data is based on the excellent research that he and Iain Congdon, another Experian Hitwise analyst in the UK, carried out for our recent Global Online Travel Update webinar. In the UK, Travel websites rely on search engines for [...][ READ MORE ]