August 26, 2008

Oasis number one website in Bands & Artists.

Recent research from Hitwise UK shows that visits to the official website for British band Oasis, www.oasisinet.com, increased four-fold, over the two weeks from the 9th August to the 23rd August, as tickets sold out for the band's recently announced tour. The website was number one in the Bands & Artists category last week followed by Metallica's official website, www.metallica.com, as the band released the first song from their upcoming album.

Posted by togo-uk at 10:40 AM
Posted to Entertainment | Music

August 12, 2008

Visits to Katy Perry's website increase eight-fold.

According to Hitwise UK, visits to the website for Katy Perry, singer of 'i kissed a girl', have increased eight-fold over the last four weeks (to 9 August), and the website ranked at #20 within the Bands & Artists category up from #56 the week before. As well as traffic from Google, the main drivers of visits to Perry's website were BBC Radio 1, Youtube and MySpace.

Posted by togo-uk at 03:30 PM
Posted to Entertainment | Music

August 11, 2008

US swimmer Michael Phelps most popular Olympian in the UK

Recent data from Hitwise UK reveals the top five most searched for Olympians, last week, in the UK. Topping the list is US swimmer 'michael phelps', who is generating alot of interest as he attempts to win 8 gold medals in Beijing. The remaining four in the list are UK Olympians, with interest mostly focussed on the young first timers, swimmer 'hannah miley', hockey player 'charlotte craddock', 14 year old diver 'tom daley' and diver 'tonia couch'.

Top five Olympian searches sending traffic to Sports - Olympics, four weeks ending 09 August 2008

Posted by togo-uk at 02:30 PM
Posted to Sports

August 05, 2008

UK retailers not picking up on Mamma Mia soundtrack interest

Recent research from Hitwise UK shows that searches for the Mamma Mia soundtrack have increased four-fold over the last four weeks since the films release, and are seven times higher than the Abba best-of album 'abba gold'. UK retailers are not capitilising on this, however, with the US arm of Amazon the top recipient of searches for the Mamma Mia album, followed by a lyrics website (www.stlyrics.com) and US website CD Universe (www.cduniverse.com).

Posted by togo-uk at 01:46 PM
Posted to Entertainment

July 30, 2008

Gogo's Crazy Bones go crazy online

According to Hitwise UK Internet users in the UK are going crazy for Gogo's Crazy Bones, a game for children, which has had a recent revival in schools in the UK. Searches for 'crazy bones' and the branded 'go go crazy bones' have increased by 133% and 300% respectively from the 29 March to the 26 July. Visits to the US Crazy Bones website have also increased, with the market share of UK visits doubling since the end of March. Amazon UK was the top recipient of searches for 'go go crazy bones' over the four weeks ending 26 July.

Posted by togo-uk at 12:29 PM
Posted to Games | Shopping & Classifieds

July 28, 2008

Chester most searched for Zoo

According to Hitwise UK, the most searched-for UK Zoo last week was 'chester zoo', followed by 'london zoo' and 'edinburgh zoo'. Searches for the top 10 zoos all increased last week as the recent hot sunny weather coincided with school finishing for the summer break. 'Colchester zoo' and 'bristol zoo' rounded out the top five zoo searches.

Posted by togo-uk at 01:30 PM
Posted to Entertainment | Travel

July 22, 2008

Credit crunch not affecting Internet traffic to Apparel websites

Recent research from Hitwise UK shows that UK Internet visits to the Shopping & Classifieds - Apparel & Accessories category are up by 38% year-on-year, from the 21 July 2007 to the 19 July 2008. Traffic to the category spiked last week as the annual Next summer sale started. Internet visits to Next.co.uk doubled last week and traffic to the site was up 13% on the sale week in 2007.

Posted by togo-uk at 01:30 PM
Posted to Shopping & Classifieds

July 16, 2008

Top Five Wikipedia Searches

Hitwise UK, today reveals the top five fast moving search terms which sent traffic to Wikipedia last week. Number one was 'mark chagall', the artist featured on the Google Logo early in July. Second and third were musicians 'gavin rossdale' and his wife 'gwen stefani', both who were seen supporting Roger Federer in the Wimbledon final. 'Sid James' was number four and finally the term 'recession' came in at number five.

Posted by togo-uk at 04:45 PM
Posted to Education