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Guest Post: FlipKey.com —Vacation Rental Site Leverages Compete Data to Get Started
Guest Author: TJ Mahony, CEO & Co-Founder, FlipKey.com (Former Managing Director at Compete) Many moons ago, Carl Query and I helped create Compete.com. After...
The Flag Day Challenge
Today is like my birthday, but only a thousand times better. It’s Flag Day!!!! A day where we celebrate the day the American Flag was formally adopted by...
The Torso of the Internet – 1,718 sites are attracting over 1 million visitors
There has been a lot of talk about the "long tail" of the internet. In December we decided to investigate various attributes of the size of the internet...
TicketMaster and StubHub
TicketMaster is the website you love to hate. It has nearly monopolized the event ticket industry and makes a nice chunk of change on every ticket it sells by charging...
Geni.com: A really expensive piece of gum
Several weeks ago a new "social network for the family" called Geni, made the headlines with a big time valuation of $100M. Pundits are going back and...
Compete.com Announces the only Attention-Based Web Metrics
For the last few months we have made several posts using a new metric we refer to as Attention. We created our Attention metric because all of us in online marketing...
How to predict Google's future – two simple tips
DomainTools published an interesting blog post identifying the various domains Google has registered over the last six years. After a careful read and a less careful...
Compete Search Has a New Face
We released a number of changes on Compete.com today – the most noteworthy of which were focused on Compete Search. Although Compete never intends to take...
Snap.com – How to reach a million people for free
In 1998, Bill Gross started a revolutionary new search engine called GoTo which allowed marketers to pay for search placement. GoTo became Overture, created the...
Announcing: The Compete Attention 200™
More and more, our clients and readers have asked us to develop a better metric for measuring the performance of their web channels and planning their online media...
