Storm Brewing more Mobile Email Ahead
Posted on Oct 08 2008 by Ellen Potapov
#Twitter and #hashtags in email subject lines
A look at statistics and trends around email campaigns using Twitter
Holiday hot products – tablets top the list and the Furby is back!
See what made the list - hot products of the holiday season!
Getting ready for Valentine’s Day email promotions
Valentine's Day generates nearly $18 billion. Start planning for this holiday mailings now.
Google Finance – After the Redesign
Posted on Dec 15 2006 by Bill Tancer
I’ve had several requests to provide some numbers on finance.google.com in light of their redesign this week. Here are some quick daily stats from this week: On Wednesday 12/13/06, Google Finance ranked 16th in our Business & Finance – Business Information category with .78% market share of visits for the category up from last Wednesday’s [...]
July Unemployment Numbers (U.S.) – Calling All Economists
Posted on Aug 05 2006 by Bill Tancer
When I’m not crunching the latest numbers on search engines or predicting winners of American Idol, one of my pastimes (and perhaps the reason for my reputation as a data geek) is correlating Hitwise data with economic indicators. When I started with Hitwise in 2004, I had an idea: If more and more individuals filing [...]
MySpace Moves Into #1 Position for all Internet Sites
Posted on Jul 11 2006 by Bill Tancer
Today Hitwise issued a press release reporting that for the first time, www.myspace.com has surpassed Yahoo! Mail as the most visited domain on the Internet for US Internet users. To put MySpace’s growth in perspective, if we look back to July 2004 myspace.com represented only .1% of all Internet visits. This time last year myspace.com [...]
PhotoBucket Leads Photo Sharing Sites; Flickr at #6
Posted on Jun 21 2006 by Hitwise Research
In the SF tech bubble that I live in, most of the talk about photo sites has been centered on Flickr. In fact, you could get the impression from most people I meet that Flickr is the ONLY site at which you can share and store photos. Examination of the category however, shows that Flickr [...]
Diet Coke and Mentos Experiment – Brand Questions
Posted on Jun 12 2006 by Hitwise Research
Last week a fabulous video of two men doing a Bellagio-like display using Diet Coke and Mentos was released on Eepybird.com. Not only did visits to Eepybird.com increase substantially, from off the radar to a rank of 25 in the Entertainment – Multimedia category, but searches for ‘diet coke and mentos’ and other related terms [...]
The gift of holiday data
Led by Black Friday offers, campaigns with offers in the subject line made up almost 30% of all campaigns sent between Nov 18 and Nov 24
