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Housing Bubble Searches in Australia at all time high
March 11, 2010
Housing affordability in Australia is currently a hot issue with a recent rise in interest rates, an end to the first home buyers’ grant, and subsequent slowed lending. Despite this, pressure on house prices remains high with a fast growing... Continue reading...
Posted by Sandra Hanchard at 04:23 PM
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In Categories Property
Coffee wars: Flat White vs. Cappuccino
Hitwise was started in Australia, and there remains a strong Antipodean influence in our London office. The most recent manifestation of this is a fashion amongst my colleagues for flat whites – a style of coffee that, like the pavlova... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 10:20 AM
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In Categories Demographics | Fast moving search terms | Food | Local | Retail | Search
The dotcom bubble: 10 years on
March 10, 2010
Today is the tenth anniversary of the bursting of the dotcom bubble, so I though it would be interesting to see how the Internet landscape has changed over the last decade. Below is a list of the top 20 websites... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 03:45 PM
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In Categories BBC | Economy | Google | News and Media | Retail | Search | Shopping and Classifieds | Social networks | TV | Travel | Video
Thank You Mom campaign from Procter & Gamble
March 09, 2010
During the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, P&G started a campaign called ‘Thank You Mom’ to help with the cost of travel and accommodations for the mom (or important supporter) of all of the Team USA athletes so they could see... Continue reading...
Posted by Heather Dougherty at 05:50 PM
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In Categories CPG | Coupons | Facebook | Olympics | Social Media | Social Networking
Travel sites show improvement in the latest IMRG-HITWISE HOT SHOPS LIST
March 03, 2010
Yesterday saw the release of the sixteenth quarterly edition of the IMRG-HITWISE HOT SHOPS LIST, which ranks by popularity, as indicated by visits, the top 50 UK e-retailers selling goods and services within the IMRG Index Classification. Click here to... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 09:42 AM
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In Categories Retail | Shopping and Classifieds | Supermarkets | Travel
Where in the UK are financial aggregator websites most popular?
March 01, 2010
Another guest blog from Richard Seymour, Experian Hitwise Client Intelligence Analyst. In the table below we can see where in the UK financial aggregators are most used. The representation shows the areas which over-index compared to the UK population. In... Continue reading...
Posted by Robin Goad at 02:38 PM
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In Categories Financial Services | Insurance | Postal Area | Postal Areas data | Richard Seymour
Facebook Users Prefer Broadcast Media
A couple of weeks ago, I posted an entry about Facebook becoming the largest news reader. Facebook does send more traffic to News and Media sites than Google News but looking more closely at the data, I noticed that the... Continue reading...
Posted by Heather Hopkins at 09:04 AM
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In Categories News and Media
Social networks displacing e-cards
February 25, 2010
We’re often thinking about what people are doing on social networks and one of the most common uses is keeping in touch with friends and family, especially for birthday greetings and holiday messages. Once the domain of e-greetings, social networks... Continue reading...
Posted by Heather Dougherty at 05:23 PM
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In Categories Egreetings | Facebook | Social Networking