Chitika Insights is the independent research arm of online ad network Chitika. Our team of passionate and innovative Data Solutions Engineers produce a series of reports each week uncovering unique trends in Internet usage. Research studies are conducted by tapping into Chitika’s extensive network comprised of over 300,000 sites, totaling hundreds of millions of ad impressions each week. Click here for a full methodology. Follow us @ChitikaInsights for the latest news. For further information or media inquiries contact press@chitika.com or call 508.439.4529.
iOS 7 and its “flat” design is now in beta and developers are responding. As expected, within the Chitika network there was an exponential increase in Web traffic from iOS 7-enabled devices after the release of the beta version. Notably however, the number of impressions generated by iOS 7 beta users over our network has continued to increase. 
Our latest study quantifies the daily browsing behavior of iOS & Android users. As many past Chitika Insights studies have reported, within North America, iOS is, and has always been the more popular of the two in terms of Web traffic volume, but how does this translate to the hours of the day?
An analysis: How are clicks from Google impacted by Google result rank?
Back in March, the Chitika Insights team reported that iOS 6 users were generating 83.1% of all iOS traffic in North America. With iOS 7 set to be at least partially unveiled at next week’s Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), we revisited overall iOS distribution through an analysis of millions of online ad impressions generated from May 21st through May 28th, 2013.
In the three years since Apple’s iPad became the first modern Web-enabled tablet available in the U.S., the tablet market has maintained a steady rate of growth. Tablets have worked themselves into the daily lives of both workplace and casual web browsing, and while the iPad has remained king since its launch, other devices have been gaining in popularity among users.
Employment and job searching have long been hot topics in our world, and more and more jobs are being found and acquired through online searches. It has been found that the unemployed persons who look for work online are reemployed 25 percent faster than the comparable workers who do not search online. Leveraging its extensive network of online sites, Chitika wanted to analyze how job searching rates varied by location, as well as if a person’s likelihood to search for jobs online was influenced by their browser choice.
With rave reviews of HTC’s newest smartphone, the HTC One, continuing to populate the Web, some analysts are predicting the device will dramatically improve the company’s long-term prospects after several years of receding market share. HTC’s most prominent competitor within the North American Android marketplace, Samsung, also recently released its own new smartphone model, the Samsung Galaxy S IV. With both Samsung and HTC largely eyeing the same target market, Chitika Insights looked to explore the initial adoption rates of both devices to quantify the early market progress of each smartphone.
Samsung Electronics held its earnings call on Friday, April 26th, 2013. The Korean manufacturer had already posted its earnings guidance in advance of the call, sporting a quarter-over-quarter 50% growth in operating profit, and $40 billion growth in revenues since last year – both beating analyst estimates. With the tablet market being a high growth sector for both Samsung and chief rival Apple going forward, Chitika Insights looked to compare each company’s share of the overall marketplace over the past six months.
The mobile marketplace continues to grow as tablets become increasingly popular for their functionality, convenience, and portability. As part of its monthly update on the subject, Chitika Insights examined the current distribution of Web usage among leading tablet devices at the conclusion of March 2013. For comparative purposes, tablet usage shares are all mapped against shares observed over the previous three months.
BlackBerry 10, the latest operating system from BlackBerry, formerly known as Research in Motion, is the company’s most ambitious attempt to match the functionality of Apple- and Google-powered smartphones after years of receding market share. The operating system made its Canadian debut on February 5th, 2013 in the form of the full-touch BlackBerry Z10 – one of two BlackBerry 10 smartphones unveiled as part of the operating system’s launch event on January 30th. The Z10 then made its U.S. debut on the AT&T network March 22nd, 2013, before subsequent roll outs to Verizon and T-Mobile in the following weeks. To get a view into the operating system’s initial progress, Chitika Insights conducted a study examining the BlackBerry Z10’s impact on North American BlackBerry Web usage in the days since its release. 
