Paparazzi 2.0: They have pictures, we have clicks

Written by Ryan Carrigg (contact - e-mail) -- December 13th, 2006 | Share - Save - E-mail

It’s not all about search engine market share, conversion rate, campaign tracking, product demand, etc., etc. at Compete. We also enjoy looking into the clickstream crystal ball to see what’s going on in popular culture. On the heels of Britney Spears’ well “documented” birthday stunt, we were curious who was garnering all the attention in Hollywood land.

We looked at eonline.com and measured which celebrity on its Top Ten list reeled in the most page views in November, 2006. Below are the results.

Although she hasn’t released an album in years, Britney Spears managed to stay atop the competition, receiving 34% of the viewer ship of this list. Her recent divorce and birthday debacle no doubt managed to keep her in the top spot of the Top Ten list. Interesting enough, the recent marriage of Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise solidified the TomCat duo as the 2nd and 3rd most viewed celebs. Incumbent Pamela Anderson somehow maintains her spot on the Top Ten list beating out the Simpson sisters (not Lisa and Maggie) and Lost costar Evangeline Lilly.

When analyzing this new list some clear themes develop. Below is a brief guide designed for stars looking to gain media coverage.

1. Get married.
2. Get divorced.
Extra Credit: execute step 1 and step 2 within in a short timeframe
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2.
4. Release an album (musical talent not required).
5. Do something stupid. Options include:
• Lip synch on SNL
• Let the world see your birthday suit – on your birthday
• Marry Tom Cruise
• Just be yourself (depends on who you are)

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• Eonline.com

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Comments

1. Red Rooster
   December 13th, 2006 at 10:26 am

   Point of observation…. there is only one guy on this list. Come on fellas do something to climb up the standings… I’m sure Johnny Depp has a crazy streak left in him.

2. Rishi
   December 13th, 2006 at 2:18 pm

   Ryan:

   I could not find any other way to get in touch with compete.com so I am posting my message here… sorry.

   I had an idea for compete and so I went to the contact page and tried to post it. On attempting to submit the system told me my idea had to be less than 250 characters. So I tried 3 variations and it still kept saying my comment was more than 250. It would not even tell me how many words needed to be cropped. Very frustrating.

   Here is the idea I was trying to post:

   When I search for traffic numbers for websites such as halfbakery.com it’s listed as ‘Uncategorized’. It would be nice if the user is allowed to specify a category and it would also be nice if people are allowed to leave comments on a site. Halfbakery.com description could be “website for mostly half baked ideas”.

   Rishi

3. RyanCarrigg
   December 13th, 2006 at 3:13 pm

   Hello Rishi,

   Thanks for the suggestions; we are currently working on a way for site owners to claim (categorize and describe) their sites. In the meantime you can email membersupport@compete.com with any sites that you would like us to categorize. I apologize for the manual experience, it will be improved shortly.

   Thanks for reading the blog!

   Ryan Carrigg

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   December 20th, 2006 at 7:16 am

   Well, wha’do you’know…if you look at the 2006 year end top searches on Google Yahoo MSN AOL and ASK …guess how many of those celebrities are in the top 10? ….and almost in the same order !!

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