Posts Tagged ‘ Women ’

Online cashing in on Will and Kate’s royal wedding engagement

Tweet The announcement of a royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton was barely hours old before the country started looking to cash in on the event yesterday. The media revealed that the wedding ring will be fashioned from Welsh gold, that souvenir shops are designing commemorative plates and that the wedding will be [...][ 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 ]

Searching to stay cool

Tweet Following last week’s heat wave, us Brits turned to the web in order to find ways to keep cool. The fastest moving search term sending traffic to our Shopping and Classifieds category last week was ‘paddling pools’. This was joined in the list of 15 fastest moving retail search terms by ‘swimming pools’ (3rd), [...][ READ MORE ]

John Sergeant and Strictly Come Dancing online

Tweet A couple of weeks ago, when we predicted that Diana Vickers will win X-Factor, I opened my blog post thus: ‘Now that we’ve got the American election and the Glenrothes by-election out of the way, we can finally direct our attention to more important voting matters’. I though that I was joking, but it [...][ READ MORE ]

Online retail declines as Westfield opens

Tweet The economic downturn is beginning to have an impact on Internet retail in the UK. Monthly traffic to online retailers fell by 0.5% between October 2007 and 2008, while actual visits to the high street and shopping centers, as reported by Experian Footfall, fell by 2.2% over the same period. Following Heather Dougherty’s example [...][ READ MORE ]

X Factor vs. Strictly Come Dancing 2008

Tweet The annual pre-Christmas battle for Saturday night tea time TV supremacy is well under way. In the red corner: ITV’s The X Factor, with Cheryl Cole replacing Sharon Osbourne on the judging panel. In the blue corner: the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing, fronted as always by Bruce Forsyth and head judge Len Goodman. Strictly [...][ READ MORE ]

Facebook overtakes eBay to become third most visited website

Tweet Facebook became the third most visited website in the UK during July, overtaking eBay UK on the way. As the chart below illustrates, the social network received 2.75% of all UK Internet visits last month, equivalent to one in every 36. Facebook is also closing gap with Windows Live Mail (Hotmail), currently the second [...][ READ MORE ]

Fast moving search terms: British Gas fallout, Beatrix Potter and diamond geezers

Tweet The 10 fastest moving search terms in the UK last week were: 1. beatrix potter 2. diamond geezer 3. southern electric 4. play.com uk 5. bbc cricket 6. u switch 7. carol vorderman 8. racing post 9. currys uk 10. attheraces ‘beatrix potter’ appearing at the top of list is another case of a [...][ READ MORE ]

Superbrands: demographics and lifestyle information

Tweet The Centre for Brand Analysis released its list of the top Superbrands in the UK earlier this week, with Google taking the top spot after placing third last year. By looking at the profile of visitors to their homepages, we thought it would be interesting to try and understand the demographics of the UK’s [...][ READ MORE ]

Asos.com: growth and demographics

Tweet Internet clothing retailer Asos.com seems to have shrugged off the economic downturn by yesterday announcing that it had doubled sales over the last 3 months. Following our analysis of the rapidly growing UK online fashion market last week, this didn’t come as a huge surprise to us. We’ve been tracking Asos for a while: [...][ READ MORE ]