More than half (69%) of adult Americans have gone online to get help with personal economic issues and to gather information about national economic problems, according to a new report by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
Some 52 percent of Americans have had to cope with a major economic loss during the recession including 35 percent who have seen their investments lose more than half their value.
YouTube Drives Surge In Online Video Viewing
Americans viewed a record 16.8 billion videos online in April, a 16 percent increase over March, according to new data from comScore.
A surge in video viewing at YouTube during April contributed to the month’s significant gains.
Google sites were once again the most popular property with 6.8 billion videos viewed (40.7 percent online video market share), a 15 percent increase over March. YouTube accounted for more than 99 percent of all videos viewed at the property.
Idol’s Bad Timing Drives Fans Online
All day on Google Trends, the list of top trending search terms has carried several variations of keyword phrases related to Adam Lambert’s performance of a Donnie Darko soundtrack version of Tears for Fears’ “Mad World.”
Twitter Drives The Speculation Machine
The rising speculation among the technorati out there is that Twitter is the next big acquisition. There have already been offers made and turned down, but one expert thinks the buyer will be Google or Yahoo because search can’t afford to miss out on Twitter’s potential as a disruptive force—the word “killer” once again deployed in hyperbolic force.
Hate Mail Drives Controversial Website Offline
It’s either a brilliant publicity stunt or one of the gutsiest t-shirt sellers on the Web really lost his nerve. The proprietor (undertaker?) of TshirtHell.com is closing up shop because he’s tired of dealing with hate mail. As a Web writer whose been on the receiving end of more than a few nasty comments, I can say, if you give in to hate mail the terrorists win. Regardless, “Sunshine Megatron” is just tired of it all.
Study: Fear of Losing Drives Auction Prices
Psychology researchers have suggested fear of losing drives up auction prices, not more “rational” economic principles. So the next time you sense you’re overbidding on eBay, you probably are, not due to any theoretical “price the market will bear,” but instead due to some competitive wiring in your brain that says win at all costs.
Free Music On Last . fm Drives CD And Download Sales
Last . fm said today that its free-on- demand music service, launched in January, has increased CD and download sales 119 percent through its partnership with Amazon.com.The CBS owned site said that its users have purchased 66 percent more albums and singles they did before the launch of its free-on-demand service.
Price Drives Online Holiday Shoppers
Price and free shipping are on the minds of online holiday shoppers this season. Forty-three percent said price was the most important factor and 18 percent cited free shipping, according to a recent survey by Synovate of Chicago for Guidance.
Google, Search Drives Health, Travel Traffic
Websites in the health & medical and the travel categories received substantial traffic driven to them from search engines in November 2007.
Convenience Drives Online Holiday Shopping
A new report form Nielsen Online examines the reasons shoppers turn to the Internet during the holiday season.