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  • Internet beats high street to the Easter rush

    Visits to UK high street shops and retail centres have fallen for the eighth month in a row while Internet sales have continued to gain momentum

  • The UK's most searched for brands

    Hitwise has released the list of the top ten most searched for brands in 2007 and revealed the most popular websites from more than 50 industries in the UK.

  • 22% increase in paid brand search following Google’s trademark changes

    Following Google’s trademark changes, the top online brands increased their spending on paid search for key brand terms in order to avoid losing search traffic to competitors and affiliates

  • Footfall fall, online vouchers rise

    Latest Hitwise figures show online shoppers are becoming more price conscious, while high-street sales continue to fall

  • Google accounts for more than a third of UK traffic

    Over one third of all UK Internet traffic comes from Google websites, and it’s going to get substantially bigger predicts Hitwise

  • Sponsored listings help retailers control negative news

    Most click throughs from searches about product recalls are to news sites rather than to the actual manufacturer themselves, according to Heather Hopkins of Hitwise. In an article on her blog she discusses the use of sponsored links as a way of controlling negative messages and gives some specific examples.

  • Is it worth paying for search?

    The share of referrals from search engines to retail websites is greater than six months ago, according to competitive intelligence company Hitwise. Highlighting the importance of being high up in the search rankings, the study of the search market also shows that Google and Yahoo! have increased their market share over the same time period.

  • IMRG-Hitwise Hot Shops List ranks top 50 e-retailers

    The quarterly IMRG-Hitwise Hot Shops List has been updated to show the top 50 ranking e-retailers in the UK. Eight new merchants made it into the November Hot Shops List - the fastest riser and a new entrant to both the List and the marketplace, Tesco Direct, streaked in at number 22.

  • High Street names increase share of visitors online

    High street names accounted for 6 of the top 10 most visited sites in November, according to the latest statistics from competitive intelligence service Hitwise.

  • Visits to retail sites up 8% on last year

    Visits to the top 100 online retail sites are up 8% on last year, according to competitive intelligence service Hitwise. Unsurprisingly, eBay and Amazon UK are receiving the largest share of visits and Argos is leading the multi-channel players.

  • Did Hitwise's predictions for Christmas come true?

    High street retailers were among the biggest gainers this Christmas, experiencing some of the largest increases in market share of UK internet visits among the top 100 retailers, according to competitive intelligence service Hitwise. Marks & Spencer, HMV.co.uk and Woolworths were among the top performers.

  • Wedensday 27 December was busiest day for e-retail

    Wednesday 27 December was the busiest day online for internet retailers in 2006. The number of visitors to internet retail sites was higher than the pre-Christmas Mondays which, until that point, had seen the highest levels of traffic of 2006.

  • Valentine's Day down 19% but newcomer reaches #3

    Online shopping for Valentine's gifts started two weeks ago, with visits to flowers and gifts sites increasing 25% in the past two weeks, according to competitive intelligence service Hitwise. However, year-on-year, visits to the flowers and gifts category is down 19%, indicating that trading may not be as strong this year for flower retailers.

  • Social networks can drive traffic

    TopShop.co.uk and ASOS.com last week received more than twice as much traffic from MySpace than from MSN and Yahoo! Search combined, according to competitive intelligence service Hitwise. With nearly twice as much upstream traffic from social networking sites than the e-retail industry average Top Shop is showing how retailers can engage with customers in the social space.

  • Amazon and Argos remain top of the e-retail market

    Hitwise and IMRG have updated their list of the top 50 online retailers. The Hot Shops List, based on January 2007 visitor figures, shows 4 new entrants, 22 risers, 21 fallers and 3 retailers retaining their position in the quarterly-produced ranking.

  • Online top 10s revealed by Hitwise

    Sony and Dell led the search rankings for computer and internet equipment in 2006 while Comet ranked top in terms of visitors for appliances of electronics. Online competitive intelligence company Hitwise has released rankings for the leading companies in a number of categories including business and finance, shopping and travel.

  • Checkout traffic

    Heather Hopkins of Hitwise has looked at visits to Google Checkout in the US and in the UK following its launch last month. The largest retail visitors to Checkout last week were Empire Direct eBuyer, Cartridge People and Dust Bag.

  • Silver Surfers at cusp of becoming largest group online

    UK internet users aged 55+, the so-called silver surfers, are set to overtake 35-44 year olds as the demographic age group with the largest representation online. Those aged 55+ accounted for 22% of UK visits to all categories of websites in the four weeks to 12 May 2007, up 54% since 2005 and 40% since 2006. This compares to 23.5% of Internet visits from 35-44 year olds.

  • Wet weather drives bank holiday traffic to the internet

    Wet weather over the bank holiday drove people to internet retail sites according to figures from Hitwise. The market intelligence company recorded a 2-month peak in traffic to retail and travel sites.

  • Entertainment more popular online than shopping

    The numbers of visitors to entertainment sites online is greater than visitors to shopping and classifieds for the first time ever, according to competitive intelligence service Hitwise. The Hitwise Shopping & Classifieds category had been the third most popular category based on UK visits until early June, when Entertainment claimed the position.

  • Shoppers move online to avoid the rain

    The wet summer may have been keeping shoppers away from the high street but has led to a higher number of visitors to shopping sites online. The start of Summer sales has helped to increase visitor numbers in recent weeks.

  • IMRG-Hitwise Hot Shops List

    Argos and Tesco are among the few movers in the ranks of e-commerce companies listed in the latest IMRG-Hitwise Hot Shops List. The two companies have swapped between 2nd and 3rd places in the quarterly listing, behind Amazon's usual position as the most popular site for UK visitors.

  • Comparison Shopping Traffic Increases 56 Percent

    The Christmas rush has started already and price looks key to getting the best sales. Hitwise figures for the week ending Nov 3rd show large increases in traffic to the price comparison sites.

  • comScore’s new comparative search tool

    comScore’s Interactive Search Intelligence service Marketer is now live and gives you the ability to benchmark your search performance against your competitors search marketing campaigns.

  • The high-street muscles into the top 50 UK e-retailers

    The October IMRG-Hitwise hot shop list, now includes more major high-street retail brands than internet brands for the first time ever. Although they will need to do a lot of catching up to beat the pure-plays.

  • All I want for Christmas is….

    An iPhone? An iPod? No you’re all wrong the Nintendo Wii turns out to be the most requested product on online searches this year, let’s hope Nintendo and Father Christmas are listening.

  • The sales are up on Christmas

    Post-Christmas and even pre-Christmas sales are showing huge increases according to results from Hitwise and Play.com gets the lion’s share online

  • January’s top 50 UK e-retailers

    What’s hot and what’s not in retail for January

  • April fools our expectations

    April’s high-street shopping figures sees a reversal of retail fortunes as shopper numbers increase for the first time in nine months, while Internet sales stay stable

  • Google accounts for 87 percent of searches in UK

    According to Hitwise Google received 68 percent of US Searches in May 2008 and a staggering 87 percent of searches in UK that’s a 5 percent year-over-year growth in the US and 12 percent in the UK.

  • Hot Shops List looks back over two years' data

    After 24 months seven of the original top ten brands are still riding high...

  • Google trashes the competition

    Once again Yahoo, MSN and Ask are demoted to minor player status in the UK as Google hits over 87% of UK & Australian searches in June 2008
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