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.
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.
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.
June 2010
South African Airways was the brand that benefited most from its sponsorship of the FIFA Football World Cup during the first week.
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.
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.
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.
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.
December 2010
Major caches of US intelligence from the embassy cables were leaked from the website, creating a furore of media attention. Visits to the Wikileaks website tripled on Monday 29 November as the first leaks were posted online.