Posts Tagged ‘ weather ’

Ash Cloud causes spike to travel and weather sites

Tweet With fresh eruptions coming from Icelandic volcanoes this week, people have been searching online for the latest updates on the ash cloud to see if their travel arrangements will be disrupted. Looking at the downstream industries receiving traffic from ash cloud related search terms on 24 May 2011, the majority of the traffic was [...][ READ MORE ]

Christmas 2010 retail summary – the biggest post-Christmas shopping season ever

Tweet With Christmas over and the New Year in full swing it’s time for us to reflect on Christmas 2010 and the key trends in retail this year. The two biggest factors which affected online retail this Christmas were the December snow falls and the January VAT increase. With consumers squeezed on both sides of [...][ READ MORE ]

Christmas 2.0 – a time for sharing (on Facebook at least)

Tweet Social networking has become an integral part of our lives and this Christmas more people will be sharing messages of good will with each other than ever before. As we get closer to Christmas Day visits to social networking sites have reached a new peak for the year, accounting for nearly 13.5%of all UK [...][ 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 ]

Snow dictates search behaviour to news, travel and retail sites

Tweet Online search behaviour was dictated this weekend by the snow. With the flakes falling thick and fast on Saturday there were huge spikes in traffic to news, weather, travel and social networking sites. With reports of up to five inches of snow falling in the space of an hour on Saturday, aircraft at many [...][ READ MORE ]

Snoods, Boots and Snow Chains up after cold spell

Tweet The snow may be thawing but the cold weather has had its effect online by encouraging people to buy more winter clothing including jumpers, scarves and boots. In our latest press release we unveiled the most searched for products on Cyber Sunday where the icy touch of winter had definitely left its mark. Among [...][ READ MORE ]

Goa and Marrakech fastest moving winter sun destinations this quarter

Tweet With snow up and down the country it’s little wonder that Brits are thinking of warmer climes and wanting to get away for winter sun holidays. One of the insights to come out of our latest quarterly travel report is that Goa and Marrakech are the fastest moving destinations of the quarter. Between August [...][ READ MORE ]

Skin Cancer searches and sunshine

Tweet We’re having a great summer in the UK, which makes a pleasant change from the last couple of years. However, there are downsides to the warm weather and sunshine, not least the risk of sunburn and, in the worst cases, skin cancer. Searches for skin cancer are up 19% year on year and have [...][ READ MORE ]

Volcanic ash cloud: online travel impact

Tweet Last week UK Internet users searched for over 10,000 different searches containing the word ‘volcano’, up from less than 1,000 the previous week. The reason for this surge was the volcanic eruption in Iceland that has caused travel chaos across Northern Europe. As the chart below illustrates, UK Internet visits to Aviation websites (a [...][ READ MORE ]

BBQ searches take off as the sunshine comes out

Tweet We might have only had a couple of days of sunshine following our cold winter, but us Brits have been anticipating the summer for number of weeks now. The chart below illustrates the volume of searches for the terms ‘bbq’, ‘bbqs’ and ‘barbeques’ – all of which started to increase well over a month [...][ READ MORE ]