Hitwise Intelligence - Analyst Weblogs

November 21, 2008

Black Friday countdown is on

With one week left to go, Black Friday (aka the day after Thanksgiving) is almost upon us. Historically, Black Friday sales were typically called After-Thanksgiving sales, but thanks to a growing number of websites leaking retailer promotions, Black Friday has...
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Posted by Heather Dougherty at 06:55 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Posted to Black Friday | Retail | Shopping and Classifieds

Wii Music to be the next Wii Fit?

Wii Music, the recently launched music making game for the Nintendo Wii, has already raced into a battle with our list of top 10 games from October. This is extremely impressive as the game was only released in the UK...
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Posted by Robin Goad at 06:38 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Posted to Gadgets | Games

John Sergeant and Strictly Come Dancing online

A couple of weeks ago, when we predicted that Diana Vickers will win X-Factor, I opened my blog post thus: ‘Now that we’ve got the American election and the Glenrothes by-election out of the way, we can finally direct our...
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November 19, 2008

Urban Households in Australia Dining Out in Downturn

We've written previously about how recipe websites appear to be recession proof – In Australia, we're seeing a similar trend with the Food and Beverage - Lifestyle and Reference industry growing 36.43% in visits week ending 15 November 2008 compared...
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Posted by Sandra Hanchard at 11:26 AM | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Posted to Economic Downturn | Food and Beverage

1 in 10 Brand Searches Led Away from the Brand Website

This week we are publishing a report on online brand protection. This issue is huge for marketers with our research showing that more than 1 in 10 US Internet searches for leading brands is led away from the brand owner's...
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Posted by Heather Hopkins at 08:04 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Posted to Branding

November 18, 2008

Apple iPhone the most searched for mobile phone in the UK…just

Last week we reported that the Nintendo Wii Fit video game is currently the most searched for product in the UK. In that post we also identified the Apple iPhone as the third most searched for product, followed by the...
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Declines in airline visits = home for the holidays?

In recent weeks, we have been watching visits to the retail and travel categories as consumer spending continues to decline. There have been several factors impacting traffic – the elections, the economy, and also the calendar, with Thanksgiving falling later...
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Posted by Heather Dougherty at 04:51 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Posted to Airlines | Economy

November 17, 2008

Unemployment, redundancy and Christmas jobs

The economic situation has worsened since our post on ‘redundancy’ searches in June, and unfortunately this is having a negative impact on job security. Consequently UK Internet searches for ‘redundancy’ have increased by 83% since August, reaching their highest peak...
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