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 [...]
With the upcoming Facebook IPO launch on Friday, we have updated a previous post based on US data showing the impact Facebook has online with its growth over the years. Here are 15 stats for the May 18th IPO: Facebook.com received 9% of all US Internet visits in April 2012. Facebook.com received more than 1.6 [...]
We are pleased to announce the launch of the new Hitwise Blog and you are welcome here. We have done our best to transfer all of your favorite content from its old home to here but should you have trouble finding anything, please be sure to let us know. Hitwise Blog Subscriber? Unfortunately, migrating to [...]
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 [...]
With March Madness well underway and the Final Four squaring off on Saturday for a spot in the National Championship game, searches around ‘March Madness’ reached a record high the week ending March 17th, up 16% over the same week last year. In fact, searches for variations of ‘March Madness’ have consistently grown each year [...]
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). [...]
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 [...]
Following mysterious tweets from @TargetStyle in early October, Target announced a partnership with fashion designer Jason Wu who became well-known after designing the 2009 Inaugural Ball gown for First Lady Michelle Obama. The official look book for was released online on January 10th in anticipation of the in-store and online launch which took place on [...]
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 [...]
The Super Bowl 46 showdown between the New York Giants and the New England Patriots is less than a week away and consumers are going online to seek out game day details, catch up on Super Bowl-related current events, plan parties and find merchandise. An analysis of the top 25 search terms containing “Superbowl” or [...]
