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Compete is pointing to some interesting data, and suggesting that Hulu’s "evil plot to take over the world" might just be working. The popular video site has surpassed NBC, FOX and ABC’s websites in traffic for the first time. And that was last month.
"The networks’ traffic declined during the summer rerun season, but Hulu seems relatively unaffected," notes Compete’s Seth Madison.
Trends in the number of weekly searches on terms related to the Palm Pre indicate that the "Now Network" advertising campaign by Sprint during the second half of May helped create early interest in the device, according to comScore.
June seems to have been kind to CBS Interactive, as the media corporation released some encouraging numbers from Nielsen this afternoon. More than half a dozen properties posted some very impressive growth statistics.
Facebook and Twitter have both been proven to be valuable sources of traffic to many sites, but another potential source that you might be overlooking is StumbleUpon. It is true that in the past, StumbleUpon has been presented as a traffic tool, but the results weren’t always what webmasters and marketers had hoped for.
Potential of Twitter traffic for your website. Understand the difference between direct and indirect traffic and how to maximize its impact.
A lot of Facebook executives and employees are probably wearing big, satisfied smiles this morning. As statistics continue to trickle in, it looks like the vanity URL offering that the company held over the weekend was a huge success.
Hitwise reports paid search traffic was down 26 percent across the board over the past month. Overall, in the four weeks preceding May 9th, paid search delivered 7.25 percent of business traffic, compared to 9.84 percent this time last year.
Last month Compete.com launched with a new look. Murdok had a few words with Compete’s Director of Market Development, Aaron Prebluda who talked a little bit about the new design. Have you used Compete since its relaunch? What do you think about it? Share your thoughts.
While the newspaper industry continues to struggle, one bright spot is online visitors to newspaper Web sites increased 10.5 percent in the first quarter of 2009 attracting an average of 73.3 million monthly unique visitors, according to a report from Nielsen Online commissioned by the Newspaper Association of America.
Last week, Digg released the DiggBar, a toolbar that sits at the top of your browser as you view content from Digg. It frames the content not only with the bar itself, but with a custom Digg URL. The following clip demonstrates what it does if you have not encountered it yet.
