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		<title>iPhone 5 and iPad Mini Searches on the Rise</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/08/20/iphone-5-and-ipad-mini-searches-on-the-rise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren Rice</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s that time of year again when Apple rumors start to surface online. Last fall it was widely (and incorrectly) speculated that the iPhone 5 would be released when instead the iPhone 4s was launched. And now, the rumors are once again driving search activity.  A year-over-year trend shows that “iPhone 5” searches were more popular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google share of searches at 66 percent in July 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/08/10/searchenginesjuly2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2012 21:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Tatham</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traffic Acquisition]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/?p=30572</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Experian Hitwise data shows Bing-powered share of searches increased 1% in July 2012; One-word searches increased 21%in July 2012 versus the same time for 2011 Experian Hitwise announced that Google accounted for 65.70 percent of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending July 28, 2012. The combined Bing-powered search comprised 26.95 percent of searches [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lifestyles of Team USA fans vary by sport</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/07/27/lifestyles-of-team-usa-fans-vary-by-sport/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/07/27/lifestyles-of-team-usa-fans-vary-by-sport/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 15:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Illiano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Audience Segmentation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traffic Acquisition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lifesyle segmentation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Olympics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[online consumer behavior]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/?p=30524</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Our last blog post looked at the differences in the behavior of visitors to USA Track and Field (usatf.org), USA Swimming (usaswimming.org), and USA Basketball (usabasketball.com). In this post, we try to understand more about who these fans are and what makes them tick. The Olympic teams&#8217; site visitors tend to be men.  The swimming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Earlier Start for Father&#8217;s Day Searches</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/05/24/earlier-start-for-fathers-day-searches/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/05/24/earlier-start-for-fathers-day-searches/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 15:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren Rice</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traffic Acquisition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Father's Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holidays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/?p=30032</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s not too early to turn up your Father’s Day Marketing efforts.  Mother’s Day still rules over Father’s Day when it comes to search volume.  But, when consumers are looking for gifts for Dear Old Dad, they start earlier.  Father’s Day searches start to increase as far out as 6 weeks before the holiday, indicating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook acquires photo-sharing network Instagram</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/04/10/facebook-acquires-photo-sharing-network-instagram/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/04/10/facebook-acquires-photo-sharing-network-instagram/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traffic Acquisition]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, Facebook announced the acquisition of Instagram, a popular photo sharing network with over 30 million users, for $1 billion. Visits to the Instagram website have steadily increased over the past 24 weeks and reached 3.8 million last week, up from 68,800 visits for the week ending October 22, 2012. While the majority of activity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Downton Abbey Season 2 Drives Surge in Searches</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/02/23/downton-abbey-season-2-drives-surge-in-searches/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/02/23/downton-abbey-season-2-drives-surge-in-searches/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot Bonner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traffic Acquisition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV Shows]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/?p=29873</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Whilst this season of “Downton Abbey” brought on fevers throughout the Abbey in the form of the Spanish Flu, the US has been rocked by a severe case of “Downton” fever. Interest in the program has grown by over 1400% during season two versus last year’s season one airing (defined by volume of searches YoY). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“The Forgotten Man” Drives Online Art Frenzy</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/02/10/%e2%80%9cthe-forgotten-man%e2%80%9d-drives-online-art-frenzy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/02/10/%e2%80%9cthe-forgotten-man%e2%80%9d-drives-online-art-frenzy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot Bonner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traffic Acquisition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/?p=29847</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Art doesn’t often create a stir online, but artist Jon McNaughton’s controversial piece “The Forgotten Man” has done just that. The Rachel Maddow Show used the painting, which depicts President Obama standing on the United States’ Constitution, for a caption contest on the program’s blog. This contest reignited interest in “The Forgotten Man” specifically and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Fans are “Super” Engaged Online Compared to New York</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/02/03/boston-fans-are-%e2%80%9csuper%e2%80%9d-engaged-online-compared-to-new-york/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/02/03/boston-fans-are-%e2%80%9csuper%e2%80%9d-engaged-online-compared-to-new-york/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Lopanik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Audience Segmentation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traffic Acquisition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Superbowl]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/?p=29857</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As with the rising popularity of the Super Bowl and the NFL, visits to the NFL Sites custom category* have increased regularly over the course of the previous 3 seasons, each with a seasonal peak in December. Between 2009 and 2010 share of visits to NFL Sites increased 71% while between 2010 and 2011 visits [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Super PACs: Colbert Drives Interest in Political Process</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/01/30/super-pacs-colbert-drives-interest-in-political-process/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/01/30/super-pacs-colbert-drives-interest-in-political-process/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot Bonner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traffic Acquisition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/?p=29815</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The positive impact of “The Colbert Bump” has been bestowed upon the political process this election cycle. In launching “Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow&#8221; (May/June 2011), the 501(c)(4) organization “The Colbert Super PAC S.H.H.” (September 2011) and his exploratory committee to become “The President of the United States of South Carolina” (January 2012), Stephen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mitt Romney Winning the Facebook Race</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/01/24/mitt-romney-winning-the-facebook-race/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/01/24/mitt-romney-winning-the-facebook-race/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Audience Segmentation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traffic Acquisition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/?p=29827</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite the results of the Iowa caucus and South Carolina primary, if you look at Facebook, Mitt Romney is ahead by a huge margin. Total visits to the Facebook pages of the presidential candidates highlights the growth to Mitt Romney’s Facebook page over the past few weeks, visits have jumped 248% last week as compared [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SOPA and PIPA: 10 Key Stats to Consider</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/01/18/sopa-and-pipa-10-key-stats-to-consider/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/01/18/sopa-and-pipa-10-key-stats-to-consider/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margot Bonner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traffic Acquisition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/?p=29842</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to Politico, approximately 7,000 sites are taking part in today’s protest against the House of Representatives&#8217; Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Senate&#8217;s Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA). Sites including Wikipedia and Craigslist have “gone black” in protest and to raise awareness of these acts. Rather than a traditional “Google Doodle” for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Post Holiday Traffic Boom</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/12/29/post-holiday-traffic-boom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/12/29/post-holiday-traffic-boom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traffic Acquisition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retail]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/12/29/post-holiday-traffic-boom/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After a strong start over the Thanksgiving weekend, the traffic to the top 500 retail websites continue to increase every week throughout the 2011 holiday season as compared to last year. The highest increases year-over-year for daily traffic took place on the day after Christmas where traffic was up 31% over last year and Cyber [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Napster&#8217;s Final Days Drive Visits to the Website</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/12/16/napsters-final-days-drive-visits-to-the-website/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/12/16/napsters-final-days-drive-visits-to-the-website/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hitwise Research</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traffic Acquisition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[File Sharing]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/12/16/napsters-final-days-drive-visits-to-the-website/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retail traffic on Black Friday up 2%</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/11/26/retail-traffic-on-black-friday-up-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/11/26/retail-traffic-on-black-friday-up-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 19:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hitwise Research</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/11/26/retail-traffic-on-black-friday-up-2/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retail traffic on Thanksgiving Day up 9%</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/11/26/retail-traffic-on-thanksgiving-day-up-9/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/11/26/retail-traffic-on-thanksgiving-day-up-9/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 11:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hitwise Research</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/11/26/retail-traffic-on-thanksgiving-day-up-9/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pre-Black Friday retail traffic up 6%</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/11/23/pre-black-friday-retail-traffic-up-6/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/11/23/pre-black-friday-retail-traffic-up-6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:17:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hitwise Research</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/11/23/pre-black-friday-retail-traffic-up-6/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217; 3rd straight week of growth heading into the Peak Week of online retail traffic. This growth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black Friday Anticipation Builds</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/11/18/black-friday-anticipation-builds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/11/18/black-friday-anticipation-builds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/11/18/black-friday-anticipation-builds/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Black Friday is almost upon us and the outlook is looking good for a positive start to the holiday season. The NRF predicts that 152 million people will shop over Black Friday weekend, up 10% from last year &#8211; a conservative estimate based upon the actual 212 million shoppers that actually appeared in retail stores. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google+ records 3rd biggest week since launch</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/11/16/google-records-3rd-biggest-week-since-launch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hitwise Research</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traffic Acquisition]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Affluent shoppers boost online retail traffic</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/10/28/affluent-shoppers-boost-online-retail-traffic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Audience Segmentation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traffic Acquisition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Affluent Shoppers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retail Traffic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Holiday retail sales for 2011 are expected to increase 2.8% to $465.6 billion, according to the National Retail Federation, lower growth than the 5.2% increase in sales from the 2010 holiday season. Last year, the increase in visits to online retailers was higher than the overall lift in sales as consumers researched products and store [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone 5 Rumors Shaped Search Activity</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2011/10/07/iphone-5-rumors-shaped-search-activity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 11:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren Rice</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traffic Acquisition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPhone]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On October 4th 2011 Apple announced the addition of the iPhone 4S to its product line which will be available to customers on October 12th. This was likely to the dismay of web users who have been anxiously awaiting Apple to announce that it would be releasing the iPhone 5 instead of an upgrade to [...]]]></description>
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