Facebook will hit the boards this week in the U.S, with their float on the stock market crowning Mark Zuckerberg as one of the richest 28 year olds on the planet, if not in Earth’s history. Congratulations to Mark on this, but if you’re  looking to buy Facebook stock post IPO you might be wondering: [...]

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Last week, Facebook bought Instagram for approximately $1B USD. Seen as crazy by many, it now appears that there were a number of interested parties, all driving the price up. Regardless, it gives us a great chance to see what a difference a billion makes. Firstly, traffic is up – way up. Instagram finished the week [...]

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Paywalls are in the news again, with the announcement last week that the Herald Sun is to introduce a paywall , restricting some areas of online content to subscribers. Having instituted one for sister title The Australian last October, covered here, we thought it might be time to take a look at what happened when [...]

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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: [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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We’ve all seen the gloomy stories: the public is saving, not buying. Department stores can’t survive. Since we’re about to enter the traditional peak of the Retail season, we thought it time to take a look into our data-laden crystal ball and see what the numbers had to say.  Firstly, the sector grew. In the [...]

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Occupy Wall Street has been a force of nature of late, springing up in more than 100 US cities, only to sprout wings and appear in more than 1500 locales globally. a $83.00USD Occupy iPad Cover. Widespread interest like this show up online, as Search results and Downstream Websites – where people went and what Search [...]

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Last week Amazon released the Kindle Fire, offering full colour, a larger screen and a great price – if you’re not in Australia. Amazon, despite being a number one Australian shopping destination in the Hitwise category Department Stores – Shopping and Classifieds, is not releasing the Kindle in Australia at this stage. This hasn’t stopped [...]

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