May 8th, 2008
Posted by NB @ 5:05 am
Categories: Internet usage
Tags: Network, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, NB
The number of social network users in five major Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico) more than doubled from January 2007 to to January 2008 - it was up 103% - according to an Analytics 2.0. During the same period, the number of US Hispanic and Puerto Rican social-network users increased 48%.
May 7th, 2008
Posted by NB @ 3:01 pm
Categories: Broadband
Tags: Hour, Minute, Broadband, Connection Speed, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, NB
52% of Britons online are on a connection speed between 512Kb and 2Mb. 33% are on a connection speed between 2Mb and 8Mb, according to Nielsen. The faster the connection speed, the more time people spend online - those on the fastest speed (over 8Mb) averaged 22% more time online than those on the lowest (?128Kb). In February 2008, Britons using dial-up averaged 16 hours 7 minutes online, whereas those on Super Fast broadband averaged 19 hours 40 minutes
May 7th, 2008
Posted by NB @ 1:30 pm
Categories: WWW
Tags: Visitor, Usage Day, NB
| Measures |
Europe |
Russian Federation |
| Average Minutes per Visitor |
1,515 |
1,078 |
| Average Minutes per Usage Day |
91 |
82 |
| Average Pages per Visitor |
2,753 |
2,322 |
| Average Pages per Usage Day |
166 |
177 |
| Average Usage Days per Visitor |
17 |
13 |
| Source: comScore |
May 7th, 2008
Posted by NB @ 5:06 am
Categories: Internet usage, WWW
Tags: Internet User, Network, Internet, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, NB
The number of internet users in the five major countries is approaching 46.3 mln, a 16% increase from the 39.8 mln in January 2007, according to an Analytics 2.0. The number of Puerto Rican and US Hispanic internet users has grown at the same rate, bringing the total to 66 mln. 60% of total internet users in the five major countries of the region are using one of the above-noted social networks, whereas 77% of internet users in Puerto Rico and the US Hispanic market are doing so.
May 7th, 2008
Posted by NB @ 5:06 am
Categories: Internet usage, WWW
Tags: Orkut.com, Network, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, NB
The main social networks of the five-country LatAm region, by number of users, according to an Analytics 2.0: Orkut - 12.9 mln (up 27% from 10.1 million in 2007); Sonico - 7.3 mln (Sonico launched during the second half of 2007); hi5 - 4.2 mln (up 72% from 2.2 mln in January 2007); MySpace - around 3 mln (13 mln users in all markets analyzed); Facebook - 2.2 mln (up 4,152% from the January 2007 count of 52,000).
May 6th, 2008
Posted by NB @ 3:01 pm
Categories: WWW, Advertising
Tags: Advertisement, Harris Interactive, NB
By a 55% to 45% majority, US adults indicate that they would be more comfortable with companies’ using information about a person’s online activities to provide customized advertising or content, according to Harris Interactive. Once the privacy/security policies were presented, the percentages of those who are very comfortable increases only slightly to 9%, from 7% according to Harris Interactive. The percentage who are somewhat comfortable given the privacy/security policies increases more significantly, to 46% from 34%. Similarly, the proportion of those who are not at all comfortable declines to 19% from 25%, and of those who are not very comfortable declines to 26% from 34%.
May 6th, 2008
Posted by NB @ 2:55 pm
Categories: WWW, Advertising
Tags: Advertisement, Leader, E-business, Recruitment Sector, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, NB
The recruitment sector continued to lead the market with 25.7% market share, up 0.9 points on the second half of 2006, according to Internet Advertising Bureau. Second was automotive with 11.9%, while Technology (10.4%) overtook Finance (10%) for the first time to take third place. Other areas of growth were retail, which increased 1.7 points, to 5%, as a result of a buoyant ecommerce sector. Consumer goods (including FMCG) increased to 5.3%.Property climbed the ladder to break into the top five with a market share of 7.9%.
May 6th, 2008
Posted by NB @ 9:22 am
Categories: Broadband
Tags: Brand, Broadband, Blogging, Branding, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Internet, Marketing, Networking
| Rank |
Brand |
% of UK Visitors on >2Mb speed |
| 1 |
BT |
41% |
| 2 |
Carphone Warehouse |
41% |
| 3 |
Ticketmaster |
40% |
| 4 |
Six Apart (blogging) |
40% |
| 5 |
O2 |
40% |
| 6 |
Royal Mail |
40% |
| 7 |
Daily Mail |
39% |
| 8 |
Flickr |
39% |
| 9 |
ITV |
38% |
| 10 |
WordPress (blogging) |
38% |
| Source: Nielsen |
May 6th, 2008
Posted by NB @ 8:32 am
Categories: Internet usage, WWW, Web traffic
Tags: Site, Wiki, Internet, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Marketing, NB
| Search Property |
Share of Searches |
| Total Internet |
100.0 |
| Yandex |
47.4 |
| Google Sites |
31.2 |
| Rambler Media |
9.7 |
| Mail.Ru Sites |
7.0 |
| Yahoo! Sites |
1.3 |
| AOL LLC |
1.1 |
| Microsoft Sites |
0.6 |
| Wikipedia Sites |
0.6 |
| LIVEINTERNET.RU |
0.3 |
| Amazon Sites |
0.2 |
| eBay |
0.1 |
| Source: comScore |
May 6th, 2008
Posted by NB @ 5:05 am
Categories: WWW
Tags: Online Video, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, NB
| Country |
Viewers, 000 |
Videos, 000 |
Videos per Viewer |
% Reach |
| Canada |
19,047 |
2,137,074 |
112 |
89% |
| U.K. |
28,686 |
3,092,867 |
108 |
87% |
| France |
24,063 |
2,138,802 |
89 |
84% |
| Germany |
27,321 |
2,514,039 |
92 |
81% |
| U.S. |
124,362 |
9,509,544 |
77 |
78% |
| Source: comScore |
May 5th, 2008
Posted by NB @ 3:07 pm
Categories: WWW
Tags: Google Inc., Video, Site, Corporate Communications, Marketing, NB
| U.S. |
Canada |
U.K. |
France |
Germany |
| Google Sites |
Google Sites |
Google Sites |
Google Sites |
Google Sites |
| Fox Interactive Media |
Microsoft Sites |
BBC Sites |
DailyMotion.com |
Vivendi |
| Yahoo! Sites |
CTVglobemedia |
Microsoft Sites |
Groupe TF1 |
ProSiebenSat1 Sites |
| Viacom Digital |
Yahoo! Sites |
Yahoo! Sites |
Amazon Sites |
CLIPFISH.DE |
| Microsoft Sites |
DAILYMOTION.COM |
Fox Interactive Media |
Yahoo! Sites |
Fox Interactive Media |
| Source: comScore |
May 5th, 2008
Posted by NB @ 2:59 pm
Categories: Internet usage
Tags: Network, Radio, Social Networking, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Marketing, NB
41% of weekly online radio listeners report having an online social networking profile (compared with 24% of the total 12+ population); 37% visit social networking sites nearly once per day or more, according to Edison Media Research.
May 5th, 2008
Posted by NB @ 7:03 am
Categories: Search engines
Tags: Search Engine, Search, NB
| Rank |
Search Engine |
Volume |
| 1. |
www.google.com |
67.25% |
| 2. |
search.yahoo.com |
20.29% |
| 3. |
search.msn.com |
4.88% |
| 4. |
www.ask.com |
4.09% |
| Source: Hitwise |
May 4th, 2008
Posted by NB @ 3:10 pm
Categories: WWW, Advertising
Tags: Source, Insurance, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, NB
| Search Term Type |
% Resulting in
Completed Quote |
| Branded Organic |
11% |
| Branded Paid |
19% |
| Generic Organic |
22% |
| Generic Paid |
33% |
| Source: comScore |
May 4th, 2008
Posted by NB @ 3:09 pm
Categories: WWW, Advertising
Tags: ComScore Networks Inc., NB
|
2006 |
2007 |
Percent Change |
| Search-referred Quotes |
6,555 |
8,892 |
36% |
| Total Quotes |
28,061 |
32,353 |
15% |
| Source: comScore |
May 4th, 2008
Posted by NB @ 7:06 am
Categories: WWW
Tags: Hitwise, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, NB
| Rank |
Website |
Market Share |
| 1. |
www.google.com |
5.6% |
| 2. |
mail.yahoo.com |
5% |
| 3. |
www.myspace.com |
4.5% |
| 4. |
ww.yahoo.com |
3.78% |
| 5. |
mail.live.com |
2.33% |
| 6. |
www.ebay.com |
1.98% |
| 7. |
search.yahoo.com |
1.63% |
| 8. |
www.msn.com |
1.24% |
| 9. |
www.facebook.com |
0.9% |
| 10. |
www.youtube.com |
0.8% |
| 11. |
www.gmail.com |
0.55% |
| 12. |
images.google.com |
0.54% |
| 13. |
www.wikipedia.org |
0.49% |
| 14. |
search.msn.com |
0.45% |
| 15. |
my.yahoo.com |
0.39% |
| 16. |
mail.aol.com |
0.38% |
| 17. |
www.ebaymotors.com |
0.37% |
| 18. |
www.pogo.com |
0.36% |
| 19. |
address.yahoo.com |
0.34% |
| 20. |
www.amazon.com |
0.32% |
| Source: Hitwise |
May 4th, 2008
Posted by NB @ 6:15 am
Categories: WWW
Tags: Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, NB
| Rank |
Name |
Domain |
Mar-08 |
Mar-07 |
Percent Change |
| 1 |
YouTube |
www.youtube.com |
73.18% |
55.28% |
32% |
| 2 |
MySpaceTV |
www.myspacetv.com |
9.21% |
17.73% |
-48% |
| 3 |
Google Video |
video.google.com |
4.06% |
8.42% |
-52% |
| 4 |
Yahoo! Video |
video.search.yahoo.com |
2.16% |
2.63% |
-18% |
| 5 |
Break.com |
www.break.com |
1.82% |
1.57% |
16% |
| Source: Hitwise |
May 3rd, 2008
Posted by NB @ 3:11 pm
Categories: WWW, Advertising, Search engines
Tags: Advertisement, Agent, Web Site, Real Estate, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Business Operations, Internet, NB
| Consumer Activity |
2007 |
2008 |
Point Change |
| Visit a web site specified in the ad |
29% |
26% |
-3 |
| Use search engine to find a website for the company |
14% |
22% |
8 |
| Visit the company website to find the name/phone number of a local agent |
16% |
20% |
4 |
| Call a toll free number in the ad |
13% |
9% |
-4 |
| Not sure |
15% |
9% |
-6 |
| Look online at a site other than the company website for name/phone number of a local agent |
8% |
8% |
0 |
| Look offline for the name/phone number of the local agent |
6% |
7% |
1 |
| Source: comScore |
May 3rd, 2008
Posted by NB @ 12:44 pm
Categories: WWW
Tags: Web, Financial, Industry, Web Service, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Finance, Management, NB
| Service Type |
Interested in Service |
| Blog |
14% |
| Chat |
25% |
| Personal Financial Management (PFM) |
30% |
| Widget |
23% |
| Source: comScore |
May 3rd, 2008
Posted by NB @ 7:09 am
Categories: Search engines
Tags: Hitwise, Volume, NB
| Rank |
Search Term |
Volume |
| 1. |
pregnant man |
0.02% |
| 2. |
carmen winstead |
0.02% |
| 3. |
signs of cheating |
0.01% |
| 4. |
jamie lynn spears |
0.01% |
| 5. |
miss bimbo |
0.01% |
| 6. |
danica patrick sports illustrated swimsuit |
0.01% |
| 7. |
celebrity apprentice |
0.01% |
| 8. |
emilio navaira |
0.01% |
| 9. |
corinne bailey rae |
0.01% |
| 10. |
pamela anderson |
0.01% |
| Source: Hitwise |
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