http://www.experian.com/blogs/marketing-forward/2011/02/23/social-networks-parasitic-hosts-and-the-case-for-frenemies/ Marketing insight and consumer trends from Experian Marketing Services Wed, 25 Jul 2012 09:52:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.experian.com/blogs/marketing-forward/2011/02/23/social-networks-parasitic-hosts-and-the-case-for-frenemies/comment-page-1/#comment-1200 business daily Wed, 16 Mar 2011 02:01:41 +0000 http://www.experian.com/blogs/marketing-forward/?p=1480#comment-1200 ....Following yesterday s post illustrating that it is perhaps no surprise to see that the amount of traffic our Shopping and Classifies category receive from social networking websites increased from 5.2 in March 2008 to 7.1 in March 2009. A year ago online retailers received a similar amount of traffic from both social networks and such as Hotmail Yahoo! Mail and GoogleMail but social networks now account for 58.3 more traffic than webmail providers. ….Following yesterday s post illustrating that it is perhaps no surprise to see that the amount of traffic our Shopping and Classifies category receive from social networking websites increased from 5.2 in March 2008 to 7.1 in March 2009. A year ago online retailers received a similar amount of traffic from both social networks and such as Hotmail Yahoo! Mail and GoogleMail but social networks now account for 58.3 more traffic than webmail providers.

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