Top 10 Network TV Show Websites – Week Ended 05-10-08
Note: Rankings are based on market share of US visits among custom category of television network websites of six major broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, The CW and MyNetwork) for the week ended...
View ArticleTelecommuters More Likely to Take Part in Leisure Activities
Consumers who telecommute for a living are more likely to engage in a variety of leisure-time activities than all US adults, according to data from Mediamark Research & Intelligence (MRI). (more…)
View ArticleTelephone Survey Integrity Threatened as US Homes Go Wireless Only
Nearly one out of six US homes (15.8%) had only wireless telephones in the second half of 2007, according to preliminary results from the July-December 2007 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) from...
View ArticleRetail E-Commerce Sales Growth Slows, Up Just 1%
US retail e-commerce sales for the first quarter of 2008, adjusted for seasonal variation but not for price changes, was $33.8 billion, an increase of 0.8% (+/- 1.0%) from the previous quarter,...
View ArticleSocial Network Ad Spend Doesn’t Yet Match Hype
eMarketer revised downward its projections for US social network ad spending and now estimates that advertisers will spend $1.4 billion to place ads on social networks in 2008 – down from its previous...
View ArticleTop 10 Community-based Organization Websites – April 2008
Note: The Hitwise data featured is based on US market share of visits as defined by the IAB, which is the percentage of online traffic to the domain or category, from the Hitwise sample of 10 million...
View ArticleTop 10 Investment/Finance Websites – April 2008
Note: The Hitwise data featured is based on US market share of visits as defined by the IAB, which is the percentage of online traffic to the domain or category, from the Hitwise sample of 10 million...
View Article17% of Brits Would Shop from Mobile Phone
With mobile phone penetration higher than that of PCs, shopping from the mobile phone has the potential to be the next big thing in retail, according to (pdf) a study that found 17% of Britons would be...
View ArticleMillennials Demand On-Demand Content
Millennials (young adults ages 16-27) not only look for more rich media but also greatly influence the buying decisions for home as well as mobile technologies and services, according to the initial...
View ArticleInternet’s Role in Consumer Purchases Important, Not Vital
The internet plays an important role in how people conduct research for purchases, but it is just one among various sources people use and usually not the key factor in final purchasing decisions,...
View ArticleTop 10 US Social-Network and Blog-Site Rankings Issued for April
Top US social-networking site MySpace.com‘s audience was up 3% in April compared with April ’07, but second-place Facebook‘s was up 56% from a year earlier, according to custom lists compiled by...
View ArticleVisits to Coupon Websites Up 56% from 2007, Classifieds Site Visits Up 113%
The weekly share of US visits to a custom category of coupon websites increased 56% for the week ended June 6, 2008 compared with the equivalent week last year as consumers turned to the web to cope...
View ArticleTop 10 Community-based Organization Websites – May 2008
Note: The Hitwise data featured is based on US market share of visits as defined by the IAB, which is the percentage of online traffic to the domain or category, from the Hitwise sample of 10 million...
View ArticleTop 10 Investment/Finance Websites – May 2008
Note: The Hitwise data featured is based on US market share of visits as defined by the IAB, which is the percentage of online traffic to the domain or category, from the Hitwise sample of 10 million...
View ArticleOrganized Retail Crime in US Rises 6%, Fueled in Part by Internet
The vast majority of retailers (85%) say their companies have been victims of organized retail crime activity in the past 12 months, up 6% from last year, according to the National Retail Federation‘s...
View ArticleUS Homes Receive a Record 118.6 TV Channels on Average
The average number of television channels that each US home receives has reached a record high of 118.6, according to a Nielsen Company report that highlights population, television ownership and...
View ArticleGoogle Search Users Bigger Online Spenders Than Yahoo’s
In the wake of yesterday’s announcement of an ad deal between Google and Yahoo, Hitwise’s Heather Hopkins examines the search audiences of the two firms, finding a greater propensity by Google users to...
View ArticleNewspaper Ads Help Drive Consumers to the Web
Some 44% of people who saw a product or service advertised in a newspaper in the past month researched it – and two-thirds (67%) of that group went online to find more information, according to a...
View ArticleTop 10 Internet-Advertising Websites – May 2008
Note: The Hitwise data featured is based on US market share of visits as defined by the IAB, which is the percentage of online traffic to the domain or category, from the Hitwise sample of 10 million...
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