Posts Tagged ‘ Social Networks ’

Leadership debate winners: Lib Dems, Sky News, ITV and Twitter

Tweet Despite the best efforts of an Icelandic volcano to ground all Northern European flights and take (obscure?) the limelight, last week’s leaders’ debate grabbed a lot of media attention. The consensus view is that Nick Clegg came out on top, and UK searches for the Liberal Democrat leader increased 7-fold last week, clearly overtaking [...][ READ MORE ]

Political blogs in the run up to the election

Tweet In yesterday’s post about the surge in online voter registration traffic, I mentioned the demographics of visitors to websites within our Politics category. That is a broad grouping that includes part homepages, blogs, government sites and overseas politics pages such as the Huffington Post. In order to understand popularity of British political sites I’ve [...][ READ MORE ]

The decline of Bebo

Tweet Following the announcement that AOL is to sell or shut down Bebo, now is as good a time as any to highlight how well the social network is performing in the UK. The table below lists the 10 most visited social networking sites in the UK last week, with Facebook picking up over half [...][ READ MORE ]

Moshi Monsters

Tweet A couple of days ago we provided some data for this Evening Standard article about the success of Moshi Monsters, the fast growing children’s / games website. Traffic to the site has increased more than five-fold over the last 12 months, and it now ranks sixth within our Entertainment – Games category. As the [...][ READ MORE ]

Why Facebook hasn’t overtaken Google in the UK (and won’t for the foreseeable future)

Tweet You may well have seen our data illustrating that Facebook picked up more US Internet visits than Google.com last week (and possibly even seen me talking about it on Channel 4 News). As a consequence of the interest in the American data, a number of people have asked us: what about the UK? The [...][ READ MORE ]

The dotcom bubble: 10 years on

Tweet Today is the tenth anniversary of the bursting of the dotcom bubble, so I though it would be interesting to see how the Internet landscape has changed over the last decade. Below is a list of the top 20 websites in the UK last week, with Google and Facebook topping the list. Back in [...][ READ MORE ]

Chatroulette: a posh webcam?

Tweet This morning I stumbled upon an article in Guardian profiling Chatroulette, a new webcam site that, as its name implies, connects users with random strangers for live video chats. According to the article, the site “is proving a sensation around the world” – and our data certainly points in that direction. Last week traffic [...][ READ MORE ]

Top websites in France

Tweet Bonjour! It’s a very exciting day at Experian Hitwise towers today because we have announced the launch of Hitwise France! The Hitwise France service will provide clients with data on website industry and category rankings, Clickstream traffic activity, search behaviour and keyword research. Clients also will have access to additional tools to create custom [...][ READ MORE ]

UK Internet Map (as featured on the BBC’s Virtual Revolution)

Tweet If you managed to catch the first episode of the BBC’s excellent Internet documentary, Virtual Revolution, on Saturday night you may have noticed occasional flashes of “Source: Experian Hitwise” at the bottom of your screen. In amongst interviews with such luminaries as Tim Berners Lee, Jimmy Wales and Bill Gates, the Beeb built a [...][ READ MORE ]

Beautiful People experiences fifty-fold increase in traffic following “fatties” announcement

Tweet The dating and social networking website Beautifulpeople.com which describes itself as “an exclusively beautiful community”, stirred up a bit of controversy yesterday when it announced the axing some 5,000 members following complaints that they had gained weight. “As a business, we mourn the loss of any member, but the fact remains that our members [...][ READ MORE ]