Posts Tagged ‘ Sport ’

Wimbledon serves up opportunity for 3D TVs

Tweet Today sees the start of Wimbledon and with conversation around the office turning to strawberries, cream, and how long it will take Andy Murray to disappoint us all for another year; I thought it would be nice to look at how the UK Internet population were reacting to the SW19′s biggest annual sporting event. [...][ READ MORE ]

London 2012 Ticket site receive 13 times more traffic than Ticketmaster

Tweet The deadline for UK applicants to order tickets for the London 2012 Olympics was supposed to pass at midnight last night (26 April) but such was the overwhelming demand for tickets that the organisers were forced to extend the deadline by an extra hour to accommodate the surge in visits to the official ticket [...][ READ MORE ]

Grand National 9% more popular with online gamblers in 2011

Tweet This weekend there was plenty of sporting drama to enjoy with another tense week in the Premier League, the conclusion of the Masters and the Grand National at Aintree. With such a feast of sporting activity it’s not surprising that visits to the Hitwise Sports category increased by 14% in the week ending 9 [...][ READ MORE ]

Super Bowl bigger than Six Nations in the UK

Tweet In the last few weeks there has been a glut of exciting sport, with Andy Murray reaching the final of the Australian Open, a record goal scoring weekend in the football Premier League, the start of the Six Nations rugby and the Super Bowl. It goes without saying that the Super Bowl is a [...][ READ MORE ]

Transfer deadline day: Torres and Sky Sports the big winners

Tweet On Monday there was a flurry of online activity as football fans across the country checked for the latest updates on the final day of the January transfer window. Among all the hype and rumours of big money transfers one player dominated online searches and conversations, Spanish striker Fernando Torres. The ex-Liverpool player completed [...][ READ MORE ]

2010 Online: the year in review

Tweet I can scarcely believe that a whole year has passed since I was sitting here writing the 2009 review, but 12 months to the day here we are, and it’s been another fascinating year in the digital world. Once again I have cherry picked the best blog posts from the year which have either [...][ READ MORE ]

Hitwise reveals Middle Britain online

Tweet Earlier this week Experian revealed the real Middle Britain to bring sharp classification to what has previously been an overused and woolly term. Using Experian’s consumer segmentation tool Mosaic, some 13.1 million people were identified as Middle Britain in the UK. At Hitwise we frequently use Mosaic classifications to show what type of websites [...][ READ MORE ]

Cheryl Cole most searched for celebrity online

Tweet Celebrities – from the A-list Hollywood star to the Z-list Big Brother housemate, we’re obsessed with them, and no-one seems to attract more public attention currently than the nation’s favourite Geordie, Cheryl Cole. We monitor over 50 million search terms a month in the UK, and given the astonishing variety of terms people type [...][ READ MORE ]

Chile Miner Rescue Coverage: The BBC vs Sky News

Tweet There was a spur of optimism to the news on Wednesday evening as the 33 miners in Chile who had been trapped for 69 days underground were finally rescued. The live broadcast of the event made the rescue all the more gripping to watch, and millions of people tuned in to see the heart-warming [...][ READ MORE ]

Thomas Cook capitalises on Ryder Cup travel traffic

Tweet Last Friday Thomas Cook made the announcement of a proposed tie up with The Co-operative Travel, bringing together two of the UK’s biggest multi-channel travel companies. According to the Financial Times, the merger will give Thomas Cook a 34% market share of high street travel agent shops. Thomas Cook’s own figures show that 70% [...][ READ MORE ]