TripTwit is web start up that provides real-time travel guides. It aggregates data from thousands of travel and local Twitter accounts to provide visitors with real-time information on their destination.When you select a city from TripTwit you will see a real-time stream of tweets from local sources like restaurants, museums and attractions. You can further refine the results through filtering and searching…
Recently AIS Media asked a very interesting question to its readers in a survey: “Do you ever use Facebook on your mobile device while you’re in the bathroom.” 27% of respondents said yes. This is not surprising to me whatsoever, considering that Facebook recently surged past Google in regards to time spent on website. The majority of the respondents were between the ages of 30-49, with Females representing a 54% share…
According to comScore in November 2010, the number of visitors to web-based email sites declined 6 percent compared to the year before, while during the same time period, the number of users accessing email via their mobile devices grew by 36 percent.In November 2010, more than 153 million people visited web-based email providers, decreasing 6 percent from the previous year.Web-based Email Category Usage*November 2010 vs…
I am not sure why but in the last couple of days numerous people, including my wife (Indian Cooking Channel), have approached me about how to potentially make money with YouTube. With the enormous amount of video consumption that happens on a daily basis you’d think acquiring a whack load of subscribers would be a simple task. Think again, every hour there is hundreds of hours of video being uploaded so to say that your competition is immense is an understatement…
Hitwise has released their search market share numbers for the month of December 2010, highlights from their press release below:
As part of a study of nearly 10,000 visitors to the biggest e-retail websites in the United States (determined by revenue, according to Internet Retailer), Foresee Results used the methodology of the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) to examine how mobile shopping trends during the holiday season could have year-long implications. The ACSI is able to show how customers’ satisfaction with mobile websites and applications impacts their future purchase intent, loyalty, and recommendations across all channels…
Interesting concept from the KLM team which did some research via social media on some of their customers and surprised them with gifts in order to show their appreciation. One example is a customer who tweeted that they were travelling to New York for the first time, so KLM met them at arrivals with a guide to New York.If you look at the comments about this video on YouTube the sentiment is both positive and negative…
Three years ago in the early days of social media I wrote a blog post asking people to vote between Facebook and Orkut in regards to their favorite social network. Over 6,000 votes later, we’re still at a deadlock with nearly a 50/50 split in voting. At the time, Facebook was in the early stages of gaining momentum, whereas Orkut was extremely popular in both India and Brazil.Recently, Hitwise launched some numbers showing the most popular sites in India…
Yesterday’s Silicon Alley Insider’s chart of the day was quite interesting as it compared the dollar value of each unique visitor across some of the top websites on the internet. It’s not surprising that Amazon finished at the top spot, but it was surprising to see that each of their unique visitors is worth $189. Comparatively, this is almost 8X greater than Google (sitting at $24/unique visitor) and nearly 50X that of Facebook ($4/unique visitor)…
Great slide deck from the JWT team, which offers predictions of keys things (trends) to watch for in 2011. The list is very broad, containing their thoughts from industries such as: Technology, Fashion, Auto, Publishing, Hospitality etc…JWT: 100 Things to Watch in 2011
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According to The Nielsen Company, Android is really starting to make up ground in regards to OS market share vs. Blackberry and Apple (in the US). The first chart below shows overall market share with Android climbing to 25.8%. The second graph, which is VERY interesting, shows OS market share for recent device acquirers over the last 6 months (Android share over 40%)
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Addthis.com (known for their sharing widgets) has released a very cool infographic showing online sharing trends for 2010. Here are the highlights of the sharing infographic:
Recently Hitwise analyzed the top 1000 search terms for 2010 and Facebook was the top-searched term overall. This is the second year that the social networking website has been the top search term overall, accounting for 2.11 percent of all searches. Here are some of the highlights of the data:
The Top 40 E-Retail Satisfaction Index for the holiday season was released yesterday by ForeSee Results (12/29). Download a free copy on the ForeSee Results website.The index is a ranking of the top 40 largest online retailers by revenue, scored on customer satisfaction, using the methodology of the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). The report is based on nearly 10,000 surveys completed during the holiday shopping season, from Thanksgiving through the last day of free shipping…
I am a big fan of iGoogle and Google Analytics so I am really happy with the latest announcement of the new Google Analytics widget for iGoogle. I am not sure why Google didn’t officially release this widget a long time ago because, it’s obvious that users would want to see their website performance along with stocks, news and sports.
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eBay announced its annual “Top Shopped” report, revealing the top pop culture moments and fashion trends in 2010. eBay analyzed sales and search data across categories in the Marketplace to identify the year’s major moments and movements.eBay’s Picks2 for America’s “Top Shopped” and Pop Culture Obsessions of 2010:1. iPhone 42. Barbie3. Military jackets4. Hot Wheels5. iPad6. World Cup7…
In their final episode of 2010, Nick and Avinash end Web Analytics TV with answers to bunch of interesting questions:
Great InfoGraphic from the Designers Couch blog which details the anatomy of a perfect landing page. The landing page infographic shows us 10 key items to include in your design as well what colors go well with different sites. The 10 elements they suggest concentrating on are:
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The Sysomos team analyzed over one billion tweets for their latest study to discover various changes in Twitter activity over the past year.Some of the highlights of the study are:
The following data is from Experian Hitwise featuring search engine user behavior and the top 5 retail sites receiving traffic from paid search for the month of November. Please source the data to Experian Hitwise.November 2010 Search Engine Quick Stats:
In the blogging world, late December is without a doubt the ultimate time for posting recaps, lists and predictions. With that in mind below are the top 10 posts from Web Analytics World in 2010 based on total visits.Fastest Internet Speeds by CountryAccording to Gizmodo, Akamai has released their updated quarterly report on the State of the Internet. Gizmodo posted a very interesting chart from the report which ranked countries of the world according to fastest Internet speeds…
Really cool video by the Mobile Future team, which provides a compilation of mobile data and stats for 2010. Here are some of the highlights of the video:
This past week I was doing some extensive research trying to find mobile statistics, specifically in Canada: Penetration rates, mobile usage, subscribers, and forecasts. The penetration rate of mobile in Canada is nearly 70% and is project to top 80% in the next few years so you can understand the importance of trying to understand the landscape. Below are some of the sites I found quite useful in my research…
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