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Hitwise UK Online Media Round-ups for 2010

A royal wedding engagement and the Take That reunion

November 2010

The full reunion of Take That has been some 15 years in the waiting but when Robbie Williams came back to the band, there was online pandemonium as people rushed to secure tickets for the 2011 Take That tour.

Toy searches and the most popular celeb on Twitter

October 2010

As October draws to a close it still seems extraordinarily early to think about buying Christmas presents. However, the major retailers have already planned and fitnessed every minute detail of their Christmas strategy.

New Amazon Kindle, Google Instant and 3D Searches

September 2010

One of the hotly tipped gifts for Christmas 2010 is Amazon's latest e-reader, better known as the Kindle 3. Traditional "dead tree books" are still a very long way from extinction, but ebooks are starting to hit the mainstream.

Wedding Fever

August 2010

Facebook is the second most visited website in the UK: in June it accounted for 7.14% of all UK Internet visits and over half (54.84%) of all visits to social networking websites.

World Cup Special

June 2010

South African Airways was the brand that benefited most from its sponsorship of the FIFA Football World Cup during the first week.

General Election Special

April 2010

The first of the UK election leadership debates on April 15th grabbed a lot of media attention, and the conensus view was that Nick Clegg came out on top.

UK Internet Map, Hitwise France and the Coffee Wars

March 2010

The first episode of the BBC’s excellent Internet documentary, Virtual Revolution, aired on Saturday 30th January and viewers will have noticed occasional flashes of “Source: Experian Hitwise” at the bottom of their screen.

VAT increase, Boxing Day and TuneChecker

January 2010

The UK VAT rate returned to 17.5% on January 1st 2010 and, as a result, UK Internet searches related to the change also increased.