Posts Tagged ‘ Video ’

Picture is clear for Skype video calls on Facebook

Tweet The big story that has grabbed people’s attentions in the digital world this week is Facebook’s announcement of a new video calling feature which will be powered by Skype. Looking at the Mosaic groups which visit Facebook and the Skype website we can see the new audience opportunities this partnership offers both parties. For [...][ READ MORE ]

YouTube and Twitter erode Facebook’s dominance of social

Tweet In this month’s search and social analysis release we saw some pretty interesting trends in our Social Networking and Forums category, including a bumper month of traffic for Twitter, extended growth for YouTube and a declining market share for Facebook. Last month I blogged about the growth of YouTube and how the video website [...][ READ MORE ]

YouTube hits 20% of all UK social networking visits

Tweet Last month I mentioned that we regularly get requests for data on the top search engines and social networks in the UK. Last time the focus of my blog was Microsoft’s search engine Bing, but this month the spotlight is definitely on YouTube. YouTube was the fastest growing social network in April for the [...][ READ MORE ]

Rebecca Black fastest moving search term in social sphere

Tweet In the last week the Internet has been buzzing with talk of Rebecca Black. Like her or hate her, Rebecca Black’s pop song Friday is a YouTube sensation which is quickly heading towards 100 million views and has become one of the most talked about topics within the blogosphere. Between the week ending 12 [...][ 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 ]

Tron searches dominated by Daft Punk soundtrack and light cycle game

Tweet This winter’s big budget film is Tron Legacy, and as with any major Hollywood release, in the build up to the film’s opening weekend, searches online have reached new peaks. In the last week searches for ‘tron’ have more than doubled, whereas searches for ‘tron legacy’ increased by 60%. What’s interesting about the search [...][ READ MORE ]

LoveFilm: the 11th most visited online retailer in the UK

Tweet Yesterday BBC Radio 4′s consumer affairs program You and Yours included an item on LoveFilm, the online DVD rental and movie streaming service. It included an interview with the company’s CEO Simon Calver, as well as myself talking about the popularity of the site. You can listen to the interviews on iPlayer here, but [...][ 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 ]

Eastenders’ web traffic spikes following E20 launch

Tweet Last week Eastenders launched E20, an online spinoff named after the fictional Walford postcode in which the BBC’s flagship soap opera is set. Traffic to the Eastenders’ homepage (which includes the E20 microsite) spiked as a result, with the peak so far occurring on Friday January 8th. Visits to the site are currently at [...][ READ MORE ]