Posts Tagged ‘ Economy ’
Ongoing debates in Washington DC regarding the debt ceiling have captured the interest of Americans as many struggle to understand the overall impact. Search activity has been building over the past 5 weeks and variations of ‘debt ceiling’ jumped 232% for the week ending July 16, 2011 as compared to the prior week. Last week, [...][ READ MORE ]
With the cost of gas reaching new highs in recent weeks, consumers are looking to hybrid vehicles as a way to reduce spend on gasoline. Among the most popular hybrid car models, searches on the term ‘prius’ increased by 200% when comparing the week ending March 12, 2011 and February 12, 2011. Searches for ‘toyota [...][ READ MORE ]
The civil unrest in oil producing regions in Northern Africa and the Middle East has caused a steep increase in retail gas prices in recent weeks. Overall, gas prices have trended higher throughout the past year and the effects are not just apparent at the pump, but also online. The average price per gallon of [...][ READ MORE ]
New data from the US Census Bureau cites that the percentage of young adults (ages 25 to 34) who have never married has been on a steady rise over the past decade, from 35% in 2000 to 44% in 2008. The same number increased again in 2009 to 46%, passing up the percentage of married [...][ READ MORE ]
According to a survey fielded by AAA, 37.1 million Americans will be traveling over the July 4th holiday weekend. According to AAA if this prediction proves true, it will represent a 1.9% decrease from the same week in 2008. As we’ve done in the past, I’ll update our charts on actual gas prices and corresponding [...][ READ MORE ]
The current economic conditions has impacted the travel industry and according to PhoCusWright, revenues are projected to decline 3% to reach $93 billion for the online leisure/unmanaged business travel market in 2009 (the first decline since tracking began in 1998). While the economy is hitting the travel industry and forcing cutbacks in spending, there has [...][ READ MORE ]
Not much good news is comes out of the retail industry lately, consumer confidence is at an all-time low and retailers have reported steep declines in revenue. The economic downturn also continues to impact overall visits to online retailers, which was down 7% for the week ending Feb. 21, 2009 as compared to the previous [...][ READ MORE ]
We all knew heading into the holiday season that consumers were going to be highly sensitive to price due to the economic conditions, paving the way for an increase in online deal seeking. Coupon websites experienced growth in visits throughout the holiday season as shoppers searched for promotional codes to use online and printable coupons [...][ READ MORE ]
As we examine the daily pattern of visits to our Retail 500 Index for the last three years we see that for most of the holiday season we trailed 2007 holiday traffic numbers, we consistently beat the 2006 holiday. However, that pattern changed for the days immediately after Christmas (is 12/26 the New Black Friday?) [...][ READ MORE ]
The term “layaway” seems so 1970′s. Yet if you look at search terms sending traffic to the Hitwise Shopping and Classifieds category, you’ll see this retro term resurfacing as consumers struggle to find ways of navigating purchases this holiday season. Here’s a chart of searches on “Layaway” over the last three years. And who is [...][ READ MORE ]
