With Valentine’s Day today, we wondered if our data could help you get a date. If so, you’d probably want to improve your chances by fishing where the fish are – in this case the site that had the most potential dates. For the week ending the 4th of February 2012 we have the below: [...]
Our colleagues in the US and Search Engine Watch recently shone a spotlight on the growth of Pinterest in the US, firing up our thinking circuits in the process. Was Pinterest becoming as popular here? With pickup from a range of sites and retweets on Twitter, Pinterest has jumped up the ranks for a new [...]
The Australian Retailers’ Association recently stated that post-Christmas sales are running according to plan, although shares in retailers such as Billabong, JB Hi-Fi and Kathmandu have been slashed in light of lacklustre holiday sales. So who had the most success over the holiday period, and who lost market share?Running a fast-movers report on the Experian [...]
Chinese New Year (CNY) is just around the corner. Akin to Western holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas, this is a time for family reunions and a season where people are eager to spend on presents, decorations, food and clothing. This will be my third Chinese New Year experience in Hong Kong. Having been raised in [...]
Just over two years ago, one of our researchers posted a story about how Government sites were seeing more traffic from the Experian Hitwise Social Networking category than from the mainstream media our Print (News and Media) category. It struck a chord, with a request coming through just last week for a follow up, with [...]
Having moved 3 years ago from London to Hong Kong, one of the things I’ve really enjoyed (apart from the food of course!) is the warm weather. However, during the recent cold snap here in Hong Kong I found myself regularly checking the HK Observatory website to check how long it would last. Although my [...]
It’s the first business week of 2012 for many, so what better to start the year than a comparison with this time 12 months ago. There were more visits to websites in the final week of 2011 compared to 2010 – 1.51 billion to 1.49 billion. In other words, we squeezed one more visit in [...]
As Christmas approaches, so too do the launches of some the biggest blockbusters of 2011. The long awaited Tintin movie is directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by Peter Jackson, and voiced by Daniel Craig and Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot). And Tom Cruise is back as Ethan Hunt in Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. So who will [...]
The volume of customer data available to marketers is both a gift and a curse at the same time. For the marketer, this has meant a proliferation in both the volume and type of data available on which to base marketing decisions. Not only has the online revolution allowed us to collect more attitudinal and [...]
Having now lived in Hong Kong for 9 months, I have to say I have little interest in going back to Australia (sorry mum). In my mind, it’s the type of world science fiction writers dreamt of, a spaceship of the world’s people and a collision of cultures that you’d assemble if you intend to [...]
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