In a watershed research initiative conducted with NBC for the 2012 London Olympics, a panel of Olympics enthusiasts were recruited in order to observe their media consumption habits across multiple platforms to better understand how consumers...
Last summer, they celebrated the Olympics with a series of Olympic Games themed Doodles based on Olympic events. As with previous Google Doodle games, you are then presented with your final score and sharing options, along with a photo of various...
The London Olympics were a big part of the year 2012, with USA swimmer Michael Phelps announcing his retirement after the games and Gabby Douglas taking home the gold for USA gymnastics. In June, “teamusa.org” was distributing approximately 22...
Olympics The Hunger Games" It's back. For the 12th straight year, Yahoo has announced their annual year in review. Since 2001, Yahoo has compiled lists of the top search queries entered into the search box in an attempt to determine the year's top...
Events such as the Oscars or the Super Bowl might draw international audiences to greater or lesser degrees, but the 2012 Summer Olympics, featuring participants from more than 200 different nations, had truly global appeal.
The use of mobile applications to keep track of the Olympics is also huge, with the chief information officer of the London Organising Committee of the Olympics Games (LOCOG) revealing last week that its official results app had been downloaded...
A public transport app can create a special “getting around London during the Olympics” function. A Twitter client or messaging app can integrate an Olympics icon set. A sports statistics app can integrate Olympics failure and injury statistics.
Now you have the top keyword phrases related to your search term (“Olympics,” in this case), as well as rising searches: searches that have increased in volume recently. Let’s look at an example: the term “Olympics.
That doesn’t not mean we will all be competing at this year's Olympics Games or even put on a pair of running shoes. We are fast approaching the London 2012 Olympics. The Search Marketing Olympics have changed over time with the event field and...
The growth of social media since the Beijing Olympics has spurred an obvious need to revamp International Olympic Committee (IOC) social media policies at the games. In the four years since the Beijing Olympics a lot has happened in the world of...
The Olympics are interesting because so many athletes spend their entire lives playing and practicing for one event or race where glory or defeat is attained in as little as 10 seconds. The Summer Olympic Games are just over a month away.
People are dashing for tickets for the Olympics. This year is a huge year in London, as the world's hottest contenders in just about every sport imaginable, gather for the Games of the XXX Olympiad (the official title of the London 2012 Olympic...
Google is profiting from ads posted by illegal London 2012 Olympics ticket resellers, the BBC reported. Selling tickets on the open market without permission from the Olympic authorities is a criminal offence in the UK under the London Olympic and...
Will the UFC’s deregulation stance change once an athlete steps outside the bounds like previous examples in the Olympics, NBA and NFL? Although the 2012 Olympic games are more than a year away, social media preparations are certainly in order.
Previously, Norway hosted the championships in 1930, 1952 (Winter Olympics), 1966, and 1982. The 50-nation skiing games kicked off this morning in Oslo, Norway and will continue through March 6. As with each of the previous times Norway has hosted...
Fastest Rising in Sports mundial 2010 olympics espn3 fifa 11 randy moss miami heat mourinho wayne rooney cricket live score david villa The World Cup, the Olympics, the Haiti earthquake, the Gulf oil spill, and the Iceland ash cloud were...
With the World Cup now behind us and Spain crowned the new champions, the next biggest sporting event that will capture our search imaginations will possibly be the Summer Olympics in London in 2012. Looking at search interest from the last two...
Nielsen has released data demonstrating the simultaneous TV/Internet habits during the Winter Olympics. Vancouver 2010 has people tuning into the tube and updating their networks at the same time. So far, Facebook takes the cake.
Major sporting events always turn up the heat on search competition and the 2010 Winter Olympics are no different. The Google Retail blog reported that Olympics-related searches are spiking. Compared to the 2006 Torino Winter Olympics, searches are...
The other day I reported on how Google and Bing are competing for attention when it comes to querying the Winter Olympics, which begin TODAY in Vancouver, British Columbia. is providing a Shortcut to info on Winter Olympics events and athletes.
