The Galaxy Tab, hailed by many as the first Android-based tablet device to truly threaten the iPad’s dominance (not to mention a pretty nifty device), is outnumbered online by iPads roughly 318 to 1, according to traffic data from our network. That’s why we weren’t too surprised when The Wall Street Journal reported on a Samsung executive backtracking on their announced sales of 2 million since its launch.
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iPhone Users Twice As Likely to Own a Mac
How important is the iPhone to Apple’s success? Looking at some crossover statistics, very important, and not just in sales. Looking at a sample of Chitika traffic, an iPhone user is twice as likely to own a Mac computer. Normally, the Chitika network sees about 11% of its impressions as Mac, but in this sample’s… Continue reading iPhone Users Twice As Likely to Own a Mac
One Googler worth Ten Facebookers
One Googler worth Ten Facebookers As a web publisher, two things really matter when it comes to making money: driving lots of traffic, and making sure that traffic converts into ad clicks. Looking at a sample of nearly 70 million impressions across the Chitika ad network, we’ve found that Google is worlds better than Facebook… Continue reading One Googler worth Ten Facebookers
Is The Effect Of Google’s File Sharing Censorship Overblown?
Google made some news last week when it was discovered that they were censoring searches for file-sharing. As Rob Young pointed out this morning on Search Engine Journal, it’s an interesting decision for a company that trumpets the importance of an open Internet; it seems to be totally unlike the Google that took a well-publicized… Continue reading Is The Effect Of Google’s File Sharing Censorship Overblown?
Targeting Ads Above-The-Fold and Below
An excellent writeup in AdExchanger today for anyone who runs retargeting campaigns, John Ebbert provided some very interesting numbers on his own retargeting spend. Spend, CPM, CPC, all numbers come to the conclusion that below-the-fold advertising is more expensive than above.
AT&T Posting Strong Q4 with iPhone, with Verizon on the Horizon
With the launch of the iPhone 4 on Verizon on February 10th, many analysts, including Chitika Research, believed that AT&T could be seeing a rough stretch in the near future. However, a recent post by Robin Wauters at TechCrunch indicates a strong fourth quarter for the cellular giant, with over 4 million iPhone activations.
Egypt Internet Censorship Goes Beyond Social – 8% Drop in Egyptian Traffic
Egypt, embroiled in bitter anti-government protests, is a techie conversation hotbed at the moment. The government has blocked Twitter and, apparently, Facebook and some Google services. Anonymous has declared war on the censorship. Facebook protest pages are raging with activity.
Digg-ing Into Del.icio.us
It’s been an interesting year for Digg… well, mostly an interesting launch of Digg V4. We reported back in August how the controversial overhaul completely redefined the Digg v. Reddit battle.
Can Ashton Kutcher Twitter-fy Blekko?
Ever heard of Blekko? If you haven’t, don’t feel bad – it’s an upstart startup search engine with a tiny bit of traffic and a huge chunk of publicity and funding. As of today, it’s also part of Ashton Kutcher’s investment portfolio, according to a TechCrunch report by Michael Arrington this morning.
Yandex: The Ivan Drago of Search?
A story in SearchEngineLand by Andy Atkins-Kruger this morning profiled the “Comeback Kid” of Russian search, Yandex. Apparently, the search engine spent 2010 taking the Russian search market away from Google, while racking up a tidy sum of revenue.