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Bing Boasts Higher Success Rate Than Google

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February 8th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Google’s hissy fit about Bing “copying” its search results by collecting Google result data through the Bing browser toolbar and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer was met with resounding indifference by Adotas readers — “So what?” was the top answer in our recent poll on the “scandal,” followed closely by [...] more...

Facebook Crowned Most Visited Site of 2010

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December 30th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – I find superlatives tacky, especially at the end of the year. My favorite quote about Time’s pick of Mark Zuckerberg as “2010 Person of the Year” came from media slicer and dicer Jeff Jarvis:”[Person] of the year is picked exactly the same way that sexiest man alive is [...] more...

Maher Tagged as eBureau CEO

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January 12th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Nothing rings in the new year like new management. As eBureau founder Gordy Meyer is shifting over to the roles of president and chief operating officer, Chris Maher has been roped in as CEO. Maher was most recently president of HitWise and participated in the executive team that sold [...] more...

Twitter loves Facebook

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March 13th 2009
Author
Edward Barrera

ADOTAS — Some of the winners in Twitter’s February traffic were social networks and entertainment websites. The microblogging (and search) site sent nearly one in five downstream visits to social Networks, and one in five to entertainment websites, according to Hitwise. The top social nets visited after Twitter were Facebook and [...] more...

Retail Traffic Down: Lack of Ads To Blame?

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October 30th 2008
Author
Kathleen

ADOTAS – For the eighth week in a row, U.S. visits to retail sites are down by about 3%. The tough economy is being blamed, but online retailers’ own cutback on online advertising is a serious problem too, Hitwise reports. The chronic decline marks the first drop in etailing since [...] more...

Lohan as Monroe Brings 336% Increase In Site Visits

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March 4th 2008
Author
Sarah Novotny

 ADOTAS – Research put out by Hitwise has indicated that the market share of US visits to the News and Media category online increased by 22% for the week ending February 23rd compared to the same week last year. Over the past two weeks the category reached the highest it’s [...] more...

Hitwise: Thanksgiving Busiest Day in Online Retail Market Share

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November 27th 2006
Author
Sarah Novotny

Call it a no-brainer. Online intelligence firm Hitwise today announced that for the fourth year in a row, market share of visits to online retail sites peaked on Thanksgiving Day, falling this year on November 23rd. According to company stats, visits to the Hitwise Retail 100 Index, which includes major brands [...] more...

Hitwise Reveals New Social Networking Stats

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November 9th 2006
Author
Sarah Novotny

According to a new report released by Internet measurement company Hitwise, during the month of September, nearly one out of twenty US internet users visited a top 20 social networking site, nearly twice the percentage of visits from 2005. The Hitwise US Consumer Generated Media Report looks at social networking, photo [...] more...

YouTube Turns on Video Ad Services

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August 22nd 2006
Author
Sarah Novotny

According to Reuters, uber-popular video-sharing service YouTube has announced that it will introduce video brand advertising on its site, finally putting a revenue model in place for the company. The video ads will be comprised of banner ads, promotions and sponsorships, and will coexist amongst the subtle text and graphical ads [...] more...

YouTube Hits 100 Million Per Day Mark

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July 18th 2006
Author
Sarah Novotny

According to the BBC, hot Internet video site YouTube has announced that its growing user base is now watching more than 100 million videos per day. With 29% of the of the country’s multimedia market, YouTube is now the leading ‘Net video download site in the US according to traffic monitor [...] more...



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