Hitwise Intelligence - Analyst Weblogs

July 04, 2008

Putting the dominance of eBay and PayPal into context

During the Christmas shopping period last year I wrote a piece for Inside Retailing about the challenges and missed online opportunities for retailers in the Australian market. It's a good time to revisit this topic in light of the proposal...
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Posted by Sandra Hanchard at 12:09 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Posted to Auctions | Shopping and Classifieds

Adulthood and Kidulthood: sequels and the halo effect

As we highlighted a couple of weeks ago when discussing Google’s holiday logos, one of the delights of Hitwise search data is when it reveals something expected. Seeing the phrase ‘kidulthood’ appear in our list of fast moving search terms...
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Posted by Robin Goad at 09:30 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Posted to Movies | Search

July 03, 2008

Yahoo! Property Breakdown and Sum of the Parts

Rumors are circulating about another attempt by Microsoft to acquire part of Yahoo!. The latest rumors suggest that Microsoft will try to buy Yahoo! Search with a media company (i.e. Time Warner or News Corp) absorbing the rest of the...
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Posted by Heather Hopkins at 09:44 AM | Comments (5) | TrackBack (2)
Posted to Search

July 02, 2008

The Dark Knight Excitement Builds

Viral marketing campaigns and a strong early review from Rolling Stone magazine for The Dark Knight have helped to generate increased enthusiasm for the highly anticipated next installment of the Batman film series. As the US premiere approaches, both the...
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Posted by Heather Dougherty at 03:22 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Posted to Movies

Stock Checking Up Along with Financial Uncertainty

I was checking some of our category level statistics today as I thought we might see some interesting patterns in categories that are growing in the current financial climate. I noticed our Business & Finance category has experienced strong growth...
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Posted by Heather Hopkins at 10:46 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Posted to Financial Services

Asos.com: growth and demographics

Internet clothing retailer Asos.com seems to have shrugged off the economic downturn by yesterday announcing that it had doubled sales over the last 3 months. Following our analysis of the rapidly growing UK online fashion market last week, this didn’t...
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July 01, 2008

Mid-year Presidential Candidate Check

Now that we are halfway through 2008, I figured that it is time to check on the two Presidential candidates and see who is visiting their websites. To make things interesting, I turned to our Mosaic Lifestyle segments to see...
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Posted by Heather Dougherty at 04:36 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Posted to Election2008

Summer sales and email marketing

The summer sales are now in full swing, as you’ve probably noticed when walking around your local shopping centre / high street. As the chart below illustrates, UK Internet users continue to look for a bargain. Searches for both the...
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