Hitwise Intelligence - Analyst Weblogs

July 18, 2008

Jib Jab - Sense of Humor and Political Party

From today's ABCNews Blog Political satire appears to be dominating campaign news this week. With the latest Jib Jab creation Time for Some Campaignin' this week, I thought it would be an opportune time to ask a new red-state, blue-state...
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Posted by Bill Tancer at 06:53 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Food websites grow as self-sufficiency gains popularity

Almost a year ago we investigated the seasonality of popular recipes. Recent analysis for 2008 reveals a similar pattern, with searches for cake recipes featuring heavily again this summer. However, it was interesting to note that visits to the Food...
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July 16, 2008

Snow Sports – Optimism and Opportunity

I'm excited to welcome on board to the weblogs, Alan Long, Hitwise Research Director who will soon be joining me in covering online trends for the Asia Pacific region. In the meantime, here's a guest post from Alan - While...
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Posted by Sandra Hanchard at 07:14 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Posted to Snow Sports

Twitter UK traffic: up 485% this year, 70% higher than USA

The two Heathers (Hopkins and Dougherty) have both written about the growth of Twitter in the US recently, so here is some UK data on the micro-blogging service. As you can see from the chart below, the site’s growth has...
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New Yorker Cartoon - Search and Brand Association

Here's our most recent post on ABCNews regarding the New Yorkers recent cover. New Yorker - Satirizing or Perpetuating Obama's Muslim Association? The uproar over this week's New Yorker cover depicting Barack and Michelle Obama in Muslim and terrorist garb...
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Demand for personalized health services online

While the launch of the 3G iPhone has our attention on the uptake of mobile apps and services, I believe this points to a greater trend of the adoption of personalised web services. The health care industry is one leading...
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Posted by Sandra Hanchard at 10:44 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Posted to Health and Medical

MSN Property Breakdown and Growth Areas

Last week I promised to post a property breakdown for MSN, similar to the data I posted for Yahoo! and Google. The following table lists the top 20 MSN and Live properties based on share of US Internet visits in...
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Posted by Heather Hopkins at 09:18 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Posted to Search

July 15, 2008

Price comparison traffic up 37% thanks to economic downturn

With prices rising and the credit crunch biting, consumers are taking more time to find the best deals online. Last week we contributed to an Experian Footfall report which highlighted the downturn on the high street and in out of...
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