Posts Tagged ‘ Entertainment ’
Chris Brown, the pop singer recently accused of abusing singer Rihanna, was the most searched-for personality by US Internet users for the week ending February 14, 2009. Unsurprisingly, Rihanna followed Chris Brown as the second most searched-for personality. Joaquin Phoenix’s bizarre appearance on David Letterman earned the #5 spot among the Top 20 as searchers [...][ READ MORE ]
Earlier this month, Congress decided to delay the scheduled transition from analog broadcasting to digital, pushing the deadline out until June. Over the past year, the website for the TV Converter Box Program, has captured the highest market share of visits among websites with information on the impeding switch. Although the deadline was just recently [...][ READ MORE ]
Starting this week, we will be writing a weekly column for the Wall Street Journal entitled Click. Below is our first piece. In “Alec in Huluwood,” Hulu.com’s first-ever Super Bowl TV spot, Alec Baldwin describes how the streaming video site, a joint venture between NBC Universal and News Corp., will allow television to fully, finally [...][ READ MORE ]
The Wall Street crisis and potential bailout is certainly top of mind for many consumers, but tragedy sent Travis Barker (former drummer of Blink 182 and star of MTV’s Meet the Barkers) to the top of Fast Moving Search Terms last week. On Friday, Travis and Adam Goldstein (DJ AM) escaped from a plane crash [...][ READ MORE ]
As a frequent visitor to Montauk, I was fascinated by the story on Gawker last week about the ‘Montauk Monster’. After checking it out, I assumed that this would be a mostly local tale for New Yorkers that head out to the beach during the summer and the full-time residents of Long Island. Instead, the [...][ READ MORE ]
Hold on to your Manolos – the US release of the Sex and the City movie is finally here. My colleague in the UK covered the excitement overseas surrounding the movie and last night the ladies of SATC finally returned to Manhattan. The movie premiered in New York City surrounded by much fanfare, but unfortunately [...][ READ MORE ]
If search terms are any indication, this week’s finale will be one of the closest in idol history. Search term data can provide insight into the popularity of reality television show contestants, both in terms of their overall popularity, as well as what Internet users are thinking about when they search on the contestant. For [...][ READ MORE ]
It’s that time of year again, Dancing with the Stars (Season 5) is in full swing, which means it’s time to take a look at the latest search term data to gauge contestant popularity and viewer mindset. The first chart is a full two year historical chart of search term volume (by week) in the [...][ READ MORE ]
This week’s Science of Search column on TIME is posted here. As an added bonus here are the top ten searched on (living) celebrities over the last four weeks. Source: Hitwise Tweet[ READ MORE ]
In June, Yahoo! Photos began to close, and users are being encouraged to join Flickr. Later in the month, Yahoo! began including Flickr images in Yahoo! Image Search. These efforts have resulted in an increase in Flickr’s US market share of 38% in the past four weeks (week ending 7/7/07 vs. week ending 6/9/07). Flickr [...][ READ MORE ]
