Posts Tagged ‘ Television ’
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 ]
Hulu.com., the joint venture between Fox and NBC that provides streaming video content online, announced a deal this week that The Colbert Report and The Daily Show are now available through the site. Hulu.com came out of beta on March 15 and has seen a steady share of US Internet traffic since, as illustrated in [...][ READ MORE ]
On Monday night, the CW will air the highly anticipated (or is that just me) season finale for the first season of Gossip Girl, a much talked about show (called the Greatest Teen Drama of All-Time by New York magazine) based upon a series of novels by Cecily von Ziegesar. Since this show is often [...][ READ MORE ]
On Feb. 13th, The Oprah Winfrey Show aired a segment called “Suicide, Lies, Debt: A Suburban Nightmare”, which featured advice from financial advisor Suze Orman. As a special feature of the show, Orman’s latest book “Women and Money” was available as a free download on Oprah.com for 33 hours. The result? A 36 month high [...][ 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 ]
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 ]
For those of you waiting for our American Idol prediction, you can find it here in my Science of Search column for TIME. Our prediciton was also quoted in USAToday (see sidebar) alongside the read from Yahoo! Buzz Index. I’m calling it a close race with advantage to Blake Lewis, while Yahoo! Buzz has the [...][ READ MORE ]
We’re down to eleven contestants and its game-on for our analysis of contestant search volume. The chart below shows search volume for the top eight contestants for the week ending 3/17/07 (Gina Glocksen, Jordin Sparks and Stephanie Edwards didn’t make the chart this week due to insufficient volume, although based on Jordin’s blockbuster performance last [...][ 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 ]
