Posts Tagged ‘ Shopping and Classifieds ’

Next and Matalan make big impact in August Hot Shops List

Tweet The August Hot Shops List which Hitwise compiles with IMRG was released this week, with fashion retailers Next and Matalan particularly impressing this quarter. The fastest movers since May were Travel Republic (up 18 places), Odeon Cinemas (+14), First Choice (+12), Travelodge (+12) and Cineworld (+9). Although not one of the fastest movers, Next [...][ READ MORE ]

PhotoBox can piggyback on Moonpig’s online success

Tweet This week news emerged of a digital merger between online printers PhotoBox and personalised card company Moonpig.com with the latter being acquired for £120 million. Moonpig.com has carved a niche for itself in the online card industry, as the number one website in its category it receives nearly 11% of all visits to Flowers [...][ READ MORE ]

Father’s Day 2011 emphasises the personal touch

Tweet This weekend is Father’s Day and in the run up to the celebratory day on Sunday, search term behaviour has revolved around, dates, gift ideas and cards. What becomes immediately apparent when looking at the search data for the last four weeks ending 11 June is the number of search terms relating to the [...][ READ MORE ]

Bank Holidays better for online shopping than offline

Tweet This weekend will be the last Bank Holiday we will have in the UK until August. Throughout March and April there was a spate of days off, not least because of the Royal Wedding, so I thought it would be interesting to look at some of the key trends that we’ve seen in the [...][ READ MORE ]

Viking Direct has six-fold increase in traffic thanks to YouTube

Tweet If you saw last week’s blog about YouTube you would have seen that the online video site now accounts for 20% of all visits to social networking sites in the UK as the second biggest social platform after Facebook. YouTube is not only the third most popular website online, it is also a significant [...][ READ MORE ]

Sunshine boosts searches for BBQs, mowers and garden furniture

Tweet The weather has got noticeably nicer in the UK over the past couple of weeks. The days are lighter, the sun is shining and the first BBQs have been enjoyed. Online, the first optimistic signs of summer are usually greeted with a spike in searches for three products: garden furniture, barbecues and lawn mowers. [...][ READ MORE ]

The changing facets of social shopping online

Tweet We had quite a few comments on my post last month about Groupon UK and the rise of social shopping. Given the interest surrounding this topic, I thought I’d follow up with a post which concentrates on the key differences between the four key types of retail affiliate: Price Comparison sites, Cashback sites, Voucher [...][ READ MORE ]

Angry Birds get beaks into top 10 online retailers

Tweet Looking back at 2010 there were a number of games which left a profound mark on the industry. According to my esteemed colleague and resident Hitwise games guru James Murray: “Blizzard’s superb RTS sequel StarCraft 2, renegade space RPG Mass Effect 2 and legendary FPS Call of Duty: Black Ops all raised the bar [...][ READ MORE ]

Will social shopping spell the end of discount voucher sites?

Tweet Have online discount vouchers had their day? A couple of years ago a lot of industries relied on discount vouchers in order to get them through the recession. The “credit crunch lunch” kept consumers walking through the doors of high street restaurant chains with the promises of Buy One Get One Free meals, but [...][ READ MORE ]

Which retailers are leveraging the marketing power of Facebook?

Tweet You don’t have to look far online to find praise for Facebook. The UK’s most popular social network has been heralded as an indispensible tool for online advertising and social engagement for some time now. But which brands are making the most of Facebook’s enormous marketing potential? Using Hitwise data we have a number [...][ READ MORE ]