One of the companies I’ve been following for a long time is Etsy.com.  Etsy.com is a website for folks selling craft items – or as they put it “Your place to buy & sell all things handmade.”  More broadly, they are referred to in the...
Topics: Online Media & Search, Retail, Search Analytics

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Football is in full swing as we enter the midpoint of November and are two months into the NFL season.  Many teams are still in the hunt for a playoff berth which makes for numerous exciting and must see games each weekend.  Not only are the fans of...
Topics: Finance - Real Estate - Stocks, Sports

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Apparently October brought a lot of costume searchers online.  After several months of declining search query volumes, October query volumes ticked up 4% m-o-m. Total web search activity peaked just shy of 13 billion queries in the US.  Among the major.
Topics: Online Media & Search, Search Analytics

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Casinos, like many travel industries, have struggled during the recession.  To help gauge the impact, Compete analyzed traffic to its “Casinos” industry category.  Category traffic represents unique traffic across all sites in the category (over...
Topics: Search Analytics, Travel

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Sometimes, it seems like omniscience.  With our Ad Impact product, we’re able to measure the impact of advertising exposure on online behavior.  Did an ad lead to more visits, searches, sales?  The answer rests comfortably in Compete’s data. ...
Topics: Advertising Effectiveness, Online Media & Search, Retail

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