Posts Tagged ‘ Social Networking ’

MySpace and Bebo Replace Searches for Chat Rooms

Tweet I mentioned last week that we are working on some analysis for a report on how consumer search behaviour has changed over the past couple of years. Given the interest in the YouTube-Funny Videos post, I thought I’d share another example. We found a strong negative correlation between the weekly share of UK Internet [...][ READ MORE ]

LinkedIn UK Traffic – Popular with GMail and Yahoo! Mail Users

Tweet Last week, I took inspiration from LeeAnn’s (our analyst in San Francisco) post about Linked In for our weekly Site Seeing Column in The Guardian (sorry, still not available online). As LeeAnn found in the US, the recent spate of LinkedIn invitations we’ve all been receiving in our inboxes have pushed the share of [...][ READ MORE ]

Facebook overtakes MySpace in Share of UK Internet Searches

Tweet Last week a colleague pointed out that the share of UK internet searches for “facebook” were tied with those for “myspace”. This week, Facebook continued to climb and so overtook MySpace. This means that the volume of UK searches for “facebook” were higher last week than for MySpace. Facebook continues to trail MySpace in [...][ READ MORE ]

YouTube to Overtake BBC in UK Visits

Tweet Today, we are issuing a news release about the growth of the Entertainment category. In doing our research, we noticed that YouTube looks set to overtake BBC.co.uk in share of UK visits within a matter of weeks. The Entertainment category overtook the Shopping and Classifieds category in share of weekly UK Internet visits for [...][ READ MORE ]

Facebook 20th Most Visited Website in UK with Visits up 20-fold

Tweet Today’s redesign of the homepage for Facebook comes at a busy time for the social network as the site became the 20th most visited website based on share of UK Internet visits for the week ending 7th April 2007. Facebook’s share of UK Internet visits grew 20 times year-on-year in March and are up [...][ READ MORE ]

Twitter Stats – Growing but Still Niche

Tweet In response to Simon Collister’s request, I will share some stats on Twitter for both the UK and US. After hearing the chorus of tweets about Twitter in the UK blogging community, I had looked at Twitter data on Hitwise a few weeks ago. I chose not to blog it then, as our data [...][ READ MORE ]

Bebo and MySpace Take Walkears and Red Nose Day Viral

Tweet The Walkers Walkears site that I blogged about a couple of weeks ago has taken the #1 spot in our Community category, ranking ahead of other charity and community websites based on share of UK internet visits. With Red Nose Day rapidly approaching I wanted to give an update and show how Red Nose [...][ READ MORE ]

Bebo Ebay – Some Data to Add Context

Tweet This week’s announcement that Bebo would allow members to list eBay auction items on their profile pages caught some attention. I wanted to share some stats to provide context to the deal and to illustrate the potential power of the partnership. First, I’ll talk about how much traffic is currently moving between the sites [...][ READ MORE ]

Social Networks Can Drive Traffic – Case Study of ASOS and TopShop

Tweet TopShop.co.uk and ASOS.com last week received more than twice as much traffic from MySpace than from MSN and Yahoo! Search combined. Our column in this week’s Technology Guardian (sorry our Siteseeing columns are not yet available online) showcased this interesting bit of data and I wanted to share it here and elaborate on it. [...][ READ MORE ]

Yahoo! Answers – Happy Birthday

Tweet Noticed the post on Search Engine Land this morning about Yahoo! Answers turning one and wanted to do a quick post on the growth of the website and the commercial opportunities for the site. Last week, Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers ranked 240 among all categories of websites and 22 in the Hitwise Net [...][ READ MORE ]