Posts Tagged ‘ News and Media ’
TMZ was the first to break the news about Michael Jackson’s death last Thursday and scooped all of the major news outlets. As a result, traffic to TMZ reached a 3 year high, with visits increasing 5x in volume from the previous day. The market share of visits increased 18% above the previous high on [...][ READ MORE ]
Back in January, Circuit City announced ceasing all operations, so we thought it would be interesting to analyze which retailers have benefited from their exit in the market. The brand Circuit City is very well known and drove a significant share of searches from consumers using the name to navigate. As a result of the [...][ READ MORE ]
This week kicked off with the Associated Press voicing concerns about how websites obtain permission to distribute content and share revenues. A debate has sparked about the ‘fair use’ doctrine (publishing a headline and/or sentence from story) and tracking the legal use of the content. Search engines and news aggregators were all somewhat implicated as [...][ READ MORE ]
The inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States was a major event for US Internet users on Tuesday since many needed to rely upon online streaming on news websites to view the event from work. As one might expect, the Broadcast Media and Politics categories were the main beneficiaries from [...][ READ MORE ]
Following from a blog post from my colleague from across the pond, Robin Goad, I looked at where consumers went in the final weeks of the election when searching for election coverage. The analysis reveals that news and media websites are missing opportunities to attract readers through generic, non-branded search traffic. Search engines account for [...][ READ MORE ]
Election Day has been the biggest news event of the past three years with Americans visiting News and Media websites in droves and in particular websites of 24-hour cable news networks. Visits to News and Media Web sites reached their highest level of the past three years on November 4th, accounting for 6.6% of all [...][ READ MORE ]
The recent release of the G1 (aka Google phone) through T-Mobile and soon to be released Blackberry Bold & Storm prompted me to compare search activity among the new handheld devices. We often compare the search volume on new products to gauge the strength of consumer interest and how that may translate into sales. The [...][ READ MORE ]
The media is accused of a liberal bias and of being all too kind in coverage of Barack Obama. What can clickstream data tell us about this bias and the red-blue divide in America? First let’s look at how much traffic News and Media websites send to BarackObama.com and to JohnMcCain.com. The following chart shows [...][ READ MORE ]
Rumors are once again circulating that Digg is going to be acquired, with Google once again named as the potential buyer. A few weeks ago I provided some updated statistics on Digg’s clickstream, showing that the site now sends almost as much traffic to News and Media websites as to Entertainment websites meaning that its [...][ READ MORE ]
Apparently since Digg has been making efforts to extend from tech to other types of news, there have been more stories from mainstream media and fewer from blogs on the homepage. In March, I did a post showing that Digg sent more of its traffic to Entertainment websites (YouTube and Flickr in particular) than to [...][ READ MORE ]
