Free Shipping!
MarketingProfs
At the Hitwise blog, Bill Tancer provides a link to the free, downloadable whitepaper—and highlights its findings on heightened interest in free-shipping offers during the holiday season: People are beginning to search with the term "free s...
Paid Twitter Accounts To Debut This Year, Says Stone
WebProNews
Also, the fact that firms like Compete and Hitwise believe Twitter's growth has ceased hasn't helped. Stone had something to say about that, too, however. Twitter's "continuing to grow very fast from an international and a mobile perspectiv...
Bebo confirms layoffs; says is committed to NZ
National Business Review
The year of Twitter Despite Hitwise and Nielsen (above) stats that show Bebo tanking in New Zealand (read: Mayday, mayday, Bebo NZ is going down ), Ms Galvin pointed to a third market tracker, the UK-based ComScore, that offered a rosier pi...
How can etailers handle the Christmas rush?
Econsultancy
... serious, especially at this time of year, and customers will not necessarily wait in queues to get on, or until the site comes back to life; they will head for a competitor, as Hitwise stats suggest . I've been asking some UK web hosti...
Tis the Season ... to Abandon Your Shopping Cart
IT Business Edge
According to Hitwise, searches for promotion codes are up 40 percent year over year. The significantly increased sale volumes driven by the holiday shopping season have the effect of amplifying underlying trends. The two main underlying cha...
Don't Underestimate the Gift of Gab This Holiday Season
PR-USA.net
ca and is currently the #1 most visited portal in Canada (according to Experian Hitwise, Most Popular Websites in Computers and Internet, Portal Front Pages, ranked by Visits for the week ending November 7th). The site boasts exclusive colu...
Google's trademark policy change worries retailers this holiday season
Econsultancy
... searches for their own trademarked brand terms would decrease, because competitors and affiliates could now bid on these terms," commented Robin Goad, Director of Research at Hitwise. "In fact, there was only a tiny decrease in traffic ...
Bing rises, Google hits new peak
TechFlash
... a search and advertising partnership in which Microsoft is slated to ultimately provide the technology for Yahoo's search engine. The deal is undergoing regulatory review. A report from Experian Hitwise last week similarly showed Bing r...
Hospitality leaders set to converge on Phuket
TravelDailyNews.com
In fact, social networking websites are now the second biggest traffic drivers to websites after search engines, according to Internet research firm Hitwise. That cannot be ignored." The conference is being organized by the Asia chapter of ...
Bebo May Beat Retreat From Australia
WebProNews
By comparison, recent Hitwise stats show that Facebook receives about one-fourth of all U.S. page views , and one-seventh of all UK page views . So it's quite plausible that Bebo will exit Australia, a market in which its performance has be...
Will Retailers or Consumers Come Out on Top on Black Friday?
Advertising Age
Experian Hitwise is now seeing searches for Black Friday starting as early as August. Thriftier consumers are making Black Friday more important, said Kohl's CMO Julie Gardner. "The environment has never been more difficult," she said. "
Meet cyberwoman, the battleground for the next election
The Independent
For the people using the sites, having someone coming on to push a product or promote a political cause is like having a private conversation interrupted by a gatecrasher. Robin Goad, research director of Experian Hitwise, which advises on ...
Anchor Intelligence, Oodle partner for classified traffic solution
BizReport.com
According to a recent Hitwise report Facebook has become the hottest social property online, increasing its base nearly 200% from September 2008 to September 2009. Myspace now accounts for online a 30% market share compared to Facebook's 58...
Media baron Murdoch cries foul
Gulf News
com's total, according to Hitwise, but draws a fraction of the price. That leaves many news publishers in the worst of all possible worlds. They have no subscription revenue, inadequate advertising revenue, and have not only permitted but t...
Mayday, mayday - Bebo NZ is going down
National Business Review
Traffic figures supplied to NBR by Nielsen (above) and Hitwise show the youth-focussed site is struggling on this side of the Tasman as well. In March this year, the US-founded Bebo signed an exclusive mobile partnership with Telecom, which...
