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Napster’s Final Days Drive Visits to the Website
Posted on Dec 16 2011 by Hitwise Research
Napster, the free peer-to-peer file sharing service which launched in 1999 and largely created the peer-to-peer music file sharing craze of the last decade, was recently acquired by online music subscription service Rhapsody. The acquisition was announced in early October and became official on November 30th, 2011. The result of the acquisition is the end [...]
Retail traffic on Cyber Monday up 29%
Posted on Nov 30 2011 by Hitwise Research
On the heels of a very successful Black Friday, holiday shopping trends continue on an upward trajectory. On Cyber Monday, November 28th, total US visits to the Top 500 Retail websites increased 29% on Cyber Monday as compared to 2010 with more than 177 million US visits. The day before Cyber Monday also showed significant [...]
Retail traffic on Black Friday up 2%
Posted on Nov 26 2011 by Hitwise Research
Total US visits to the top 500 Retail websites increased 2% on Black Friday as compared to 2010 and received more than 173 million US visits. Traffic has increased each day leading up to the Thanksgiving holiday and the total visits dipped slightly (-1%) on Black Friday compared Thanksgiving Day 2011. Early Black Friday sales [...]
Retail traffic on Thanksgiving Day up 9%
Posted on Nov 26 2011 by Hitwise Research
Total US visits to the top 500 Retail websites increased 9% on Thanksgiving as compared to 2010 and received more than 176 million US visits. Traffic increased each day leading up to the Thanksgiving holiday and the total visits jumped 57% on Thanksgiving Day from the previous day, Nov. 23, 2011. Among the categories driving [...]
Pre-Black Friday retail traffic up 6%
Posted on Nov 23 2011 by Hitwise Research
Total US online visits to the top 500 retail sites are up 6% last week compared to same time last year. The custom category of 500 retail sites received 607 million total US visits last week and recorded its’ 3rd straight week of growth heading into the Peak Week of online retail traffic. This growth [...]
Google+ records 3rd biggest week since launch
Posted on Nov 16 2011 by Hitwise Research
Last week Google+ recorded its 3rd largest week in terms of total US visits for the week ending Nov. 12, 2011 receiving more than 6.8 million total US visits. The growth represents a 5% increase versus the previous week and a 25% increase compared to a month ago. The recent growth could possibly be attributed [...]
Guest Post – Sizing Up the Long Tail of Search
Posted on Nov 06 2008 by Hitwise Research
At Hitwise our clients are always discovering new trends from the vast amount of data we offer. From those findings we frequently get asked by clients to let them post their findings to our research blog. So I am happy to present our first guest blog post below from Dustin Woodard, a veteran SEO and [...]
LA and NYC Top DMA® Markets Visiting NBC Olympics.com
Posted on Aug 07 2008 by Hitwise Research
Hitwise recently added DMA® (Designated Market Area) reporting to our demographics data and with 2008 Beijing Olympics underway we wanted to see which markets have visited the NBCOlympics.com website the most in the past four weeks. In television industry network execs hope that the big markets tune in for special events and that has been [...]