This week at Search Marketing Expo (SMX) West in Santa Clara, I sat in on two panels on realtime search: one with representatives from Google, Yahoo, and Bing, and the other with four real-time search startups: Collecta, CrowdEye, OneRiot, and …
Data just released from web analytics firm Quantcast show that Android’s share of North American mobile web consumption was up 8.3% from January 2010, to 15.2% of total mobile web consumption for the month of February. Apple’s iPhone OS share, …
Web measurement company Quantcast recently began publishing stats on operating system browser share from its sample of quantified publishers. Data shows that in January 2010, Microsoft Windows accounted for 86.8% share of North American web consumption, Apple OS X accounted …
After the launch of Google’s real-time search, in December, I predicted that Twitter would get a boost in traffic after declining visitor counts since peaking during the summer of 2009.
Looks like I was right.
ComScore data show the number …
December 2009 data from comScore puts Facebook’s unique US visitor count at nearly 112 million. With a total estimated US Internet population of 205 million, that means that 54% of all Internet users are on Facebook. MySpace captured a still …
New data from Experian Hitwise suggests that Facebook users are treating it increasingly like a portal — they’re using it as a source of news. Just under a year ago, less than 0.5% of visits to news and media sites …
Media information company Nielsen has released new data on the top 10 mobile internet sites and brands. It shows that, to a large extent, mobile internet usage mirrors total internet use, with Google, Yahoo, Facebook, and Microsoft among the most …
December data released by Nielsen examines year-over-year trends in unique visitor counts and time spent on social networking sites in the United States and around the world, including Facebook and Myspace. US time spent on social networks increased faster than …
According to a new report from Gartner, worldwide revenue from mobile applications will total $6.8 billion in 2010, an increase of 60% over the $4.2 billion spent in 2009. Growth in revenue from mobile apps can be expected to continue …
The New York Times just announced that it will begin charging frequent visitors a flat fee for full access to the site in early 2011. Non-paying visitors will be allowed to view a certain number of articles per month.
The …
Lasts week’s launch of Nexus One, Google’s Android phone, left smartphone users everywhere debating whether they should ditch their current phone and make the switch. According to weekly search data from Experian Hitwise, the volume of searches for “nexus one” …
By some accounts, 3-D technology has been one of the biggest stories of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (taking place this week in Las Vegas). Panasonic, Samsung, LG, Toshiba, and Sony have all launched 3-D televisions at the show, and …
ComScore released its holiday online shopping data today, showing that U.S. consumers spent $29.1 billion online, excluding travel, during the November-December holiday shopping period. Spending was up 4 percent over 2008, which exceeded comScore’s prediction of 3 percent.
A day-by-day …
According to Compete’s Q3 2009 Smartphone Intelligence Survey of nearly 2,000 smartphone owners, 37% purchased something non-mobile with their handset in the past 6 months. While that’s still far from a majority, the study found that at least 68% of …
According to a study just released by online marketing agency Zeta Interactive, Microsoft was the most-mentioned brand in an analysis of online posts on Facebook, Twitter and blogs in 2009, with 4% more post volume than #2 Google.
Microsoft’s wide …
Google is beginning to roll out real-time search results, which will include Twitter updates, along with updates from Friendfeed, blogs, and other social media sites. This could mean Twitter’s floundering traffic over the past few months is in for a …
October numbers are in, and Comscore, Compete, Google, and Quantcast all agree: US traffic to Twitter.com reached a peak in July or August and has begun to decline slowly.
According to Comscore, October 2009 traffic was down 8% from from …
