Posts Tagged ‘ Entertainment ’
As I wrote in last week’s TIME column, predicting American Idol results based on search term data is not an easy feat, really more art than science. Last week based on search terms for the week ending 5/19/07, Blake Lewis led Jordin Sparks in overall search term volume, the basis for my prediction that Blake [...][ READ MORE ]
When I first wrote about Photobucket last year, many people were surprised by the large amount of traffic it received, as its traffic was mainly driven by users uploading images and posting on their MySpace or other social network pages. Traffic to Photobucket has continued to grow along with MySpace and social networking – from [...][ READ MORE ]
Despite the hunger strike launched by a MySpace user known only as “J,” who promised not to eat until Sanjaya was voted off (the hunger strike has ended by doctors orders) Sanjaya continues to dominate contestant searches heading into Tuesday night’s show. As of Sunday, Sanjaya searches outnumbered the nearest contestant, Blake Lewis by more [...][ READ MORE ]
My “Science of Search” column on Finding Antonella was posted today here. A quick follow-up for chart fans out there. In the article I talked about how last week, in light of the biggest market drop in five years, concerns over Iran, the sub-prime mortgage rate and other issues, the #1 topical search term driving [...][ READ MORE ]
YouTube’s traffic has not suffered since Viacom demanded that it remove 100,000 video clips on February 2, 2007. The market share of US visits to YouTube increased by 13.9% in the two week period between the weeks ending 2/3/07 and 2/17/07, and its average weekly traffic increase since the start of the year was 7%. [...][ READ MORE ]
You may remember that in May 06, we used Hitwise search term volume data to predict that Taylor Hicks would win American Idol Season 5. After sweating it out, watching the finale on my living room couch (I was quoted that morning in USAToday predicting Taylor Hicks to be the winner), our prediction came true. [...][ READ MORE ]
I’ve been using Pandora, the “music discovery service” powered by the Music Genome Project, on and off during the past year and today took a look at how it compares against a similar service, Last.fm. Pandora allows you to create radio stations based on your artist and song preferences and plays music you may not [...][ READ MORE ]
Last week Britney Spears made headlines with some unfortunate paparazzi photographs, and Internet users flocked online to search for the pictures: the share of searches for ‘britney spears’ increased by 930% for the week ending 12/2/06 vs. the previous week (week ending 11/25/06) and she ranked as the #5 search term out of the 1.3 [...][ READ MORE ]
Today’s rumor that Google might be buying YouTube strikes me as highly unlikely, but deserves some analysis. Firstly, how does YouTube’s traffic compare to Google Video, and what effect did Google’s replacing the Froogle link with Google Video have? The chart below shows that YouTube surpassed Google Video in early 2006, and that last month [...][ READ MORE ]
This week Sony announced that it would acquire video sharing site Grouper for $65 million. While Grouper’s market share of visits is only 1/144 that of YouTube’s in the US, it ranks among the 15 most visited video sharing websites, and its traffic has increased substantially over the past six months, as you can see [...][ READ MORE ]
