December 5, 2006
hitwise stats

Heather Hopkins over at Hitwise has some great stats on the Thresher virus:
The weblog for South African wine-producer, Stormhoek, which posted the voucher on 24th November, saw its website visits surge ahead of those to Threshers, capturing a 110 times larger share of visits than Threshers. On 28th November, the voucher was also posted in the forum of MoneySavingExpert.com and 45% of visits to Threshers.co.uk came from forums.moneysavingexpert.com last week.
Wine retailers are trying to benefit from the frenzy. A search for “threshers” on Google yesterday returned a sponsored result for Sainsbury’s promoting 25% off wine and today, Virgin Wines was the top sponsored result, offering 50% off wine.
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Hey Hugh — I caught the Hitwise posting this morning, and was extremely pleased to see you name-dropped. It seems that the great minds at Hitwise (sincere) see you as something of a guru (again, sincere). Nice work.