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Instagram vs. Picplz – The Tale of Two Photo Apps
Image from: Camera Image / Shutterstock As everyone on the planet is now aware, Instagram, the mobile photo-app of choice among hipsters, is going to be acquired...
Tablets and Magazines: A Match Made in Heaven
Image from: Kantar Media This week, Compete’s parent company, Kantar Media, published a great set of insights specific to magazine publishing and tablets (with...
Want to raise your web traffic? Go public!
Image from: JohnKwan / Shutterstock When we think about a company going public, we think of companies raising money to fund expansion, or ringing the bell at the...
Overstock vs. O
Mashable recently published a piece on how O.com (formerly Overstock.com) was changing its name back to Overstock.com. Good move in my opinion – just looking...
Occupy Wall Street – Social In, Video Out
Photo credit: Mat McDermott, Flickr. Over the past two months we’ve seen a steady growth in the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement around the globe, with protests...
Daily Deals on the Downside: Groupon and Livingsocial Continue to Slide
Image from: Merkushev Vasiliy/Shutterstock Group buying/daily deal sites seem to be losing their shine – witness the recent layoffs at Buywithme.com (which has...
Tumblr vs. WordPress vs. Blogger: Fight!
Image from: Digital Genetics/Shutterstock Tumblr has been in the news a lot recently because of their huge user numbers (there’s also been some question of whether...
Off to Net.Finance
Thinking of attending the Net.Finance conference? Compete will be there – more specifically, Ron Sheklin and Joe Creney from our Financial Services practice...
FedEx.com is Delivering – UVs That Is
Quick, can you guess the best month for unique visitors (UVs) on FedEx.com and UPS.com? Okay, I’ll break the suspense. As you can see below, December is typically...
Battle of the Bulge: Nutrisystem Sees Rapid Weight Loss
Here at Compete we often talk about the predictive power of our data. We can often see trends in behavior and business performance before it is represented in financial...
