The Weekly Compete Pulse

This week we tragically learned that musical legend Whitney Houston passed away, inspiring Jennifer Hudson to perform a beautiful tribute to the late artist at this year’s Grammy awards. Although this year Grammy’s achieved a record high tweets per second, Hudon’s Whitney Houston tribute was so moving that people actually stopped tweeting during her performance, [...]

Godiva.com vs. Hersheys.com: Whose side were you on for Valentine’s Day?

Image from: Yuri Arcurs / Shutterstock Although it may not be the holiday St. Valentine intended, friends and loved ones alike celebrate February 14th as a day of love, romance, and joy. Even if you don’t have a significant other, Valentine’s Day is that one special day that we all feel entitled to a little [...]

What’s Your Social Reputation at the #DigitalDinnerTable?

Do you know where to draw the line between your professional and personal online presence? Join @Compete for our upcoming Twitter Chat! On Wednesday, February 29, 2012 at 1PM EST/10AM PST we will be diving in and discussing what’s so important about our social reputations. We’ll talk about: - How do you build your personal brand? - [...]

MySpace’s One Million Users: Is More Really Better?

Image from: MySpace The Internet has been a buzz recently with news that MySpace has acquired 1 million users as of December of 2011. Given that they’ve been on the down-swing for past two plus years, one would think this would be an indication that things are turning around. With a new music player in [...]

January 2012 US Search Market Share Report

Both Bing and Yahoo gained market share this month, while Google’s share declined. The overall picture and trends remain the same – Google Powered engines (Google and AOL) continue to slowly lose traction monthly; while the Bing Powered engines (Bing and Yahoo!) continue to gain momentum.  Google Powered share declined 1.2ppt, while Bing Powered increased [...]