Hitwise Intelligence - Analyst Weblogs

January 05, 2009

New Year's Resolutions - Age and Fitness

To continue last week's post on who is more likely to experience a New Year's fitness surge, I turn to my custom category of the top gym sites in the U.S. By examining the difference between visitors to gym websites...
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Posted by Bill Tancer at 06:35 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Healthy New Year? Gym traffic up, diet searches down

Happy New Year! Many readers - including the lucky ones who got a Wii Fit for Christmas - will be hoping for a healthy new year, and they’re not alone. It’s the time for New Year’s Resolutions, and getting fit...
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January 02, 2009

New Year's Resolutions - Changes in Online Fitness Demographics

In chapter four of Click, I discuss our desire to improve ourselves at the beginning of the year and what Internet data can tell us about our resolve. In the book I examine diet searches which are one of the...
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Posted by Bill Tancer at 01:20 PM | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Posted to Lifestyle

Facebook Traffic Reaches Peak - Christmas Eve

On Christmas Day 2007 Facebook reached a peak in traffic that wasn’t surpassed until July 2008. Traffic reached a new high on Christmas Eve 2008 when Facebook saw its highest ever traffic level - reaching 2.18% of all US Internet...
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Posted by Heather Hopkins at 12:09 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Posted to Social Networks

December 31, 2008

ZipCar Competition and Good Times for Car Sharing

Hertz recently announced plans to move into the car-sharing space, joining Enterprise's WeCar to compete with ZipCar. First some data on the size of the market then tips that might be useful to Hertz and anyone entering the car-sharing market....
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Posted by Heather Hopkins at 10:56 AM | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)

TVs, Computers and iPods most popular sales items

The table below lists the 10 most searched for consumer electronics products last week (which included the key sales days of Christmas Day and Boxing Day) and the week before. Searches for televisions increased by 148% last week, making the...
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December 30, 2008

Social Xmas: Facebook’s busiest day ever, YouTube overtakes Hotmail, Social networks = 10% of UK Internet traffic

With all of the focus on the economic downturn and the troubles in the retail sector, it’s easy to forget the continued growth of social networking in the UK. Christmas is traditionally the busiest time of year for social networks,...
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Posted by Robin Goad at 08:00 AM | Comments (3) | TrackBack (1)
Posted to Christmas | Social networks | Video

December 29, 2008

Holiday Retail - High Income Exodus

As we examine the daily pattern of visits to our Retail 500 Index for the last three years we see that for most of the holiday season we trailed 2007 holiday traffic numbers, we consistently beat the 2006 holiday. However,...
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Posted by Bill Tancer at 08:01 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (1)
Posted to Economy