Neowin News Feed for: Popularity

YouTube shows another way to find trending podcasts

Aditya Tiwari — Fri, 16 May 2025 06:48:01 +0000

YouTube is rolling out a new top chart featuring the most popular podcast shows from creators on its platform. Read more...

Mark Zuckerberg admits Meta was slow in recognizing TikTok's meteoric rise

Sagar Naresh Bhavsar — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 06:32:01 +0000

TikTok's popularity is there in the open and even though alternatives have emerged, no one has been able to beat the ByteDance-owned social media platform. Read more...

Amazon trains Alexa to spit out ads with answers to common questions

Alap Naik Desai — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 20:32:01 +0000

Amazon has announced “Customers Ask Alexa”, which is a subtle and creative way to serve ads to customers who ask questions to the virtual assistant. Brands will be able to answer common queries. Read more...

Alexa is shutting down — no not that one, the once popular web analytics company

Alap Naik Desai — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 15:34:01 +0000

Amazon is retiring Alexa, and no it is not the virtual assistant, but instead, a once-popular web analytics platform that offered a global rank of any website which denoted how popular it was. Read more...

Former Disney managing director says he “loves piracy”

Paul Hill — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 02:18:01 +0000

The former managing director of The Walt Disney Company in India, Samir Bangara, has made a surprising remark at a recent event in Singapore. He said that he loves piracy for discoverability purposes. Read more...

Fitbit may be the most popular wearable gift this Christmas

Adrian Potoroaca — Sun, 27 Dec 2015 00:10:01 +0000

If you're one of the people who bought a wearable as a gift this Christmas, it's highly likely that you bought one of Fitbit's offerings, as downloads of its app have jumped quite a bit as of late. Read more...

Reuters Poll: Apple Watch not of interest to 69% of Americans

Max Slater-Robins — Sat, 14 Mar 2015 13:35:45 +0000

A poll by Reuters/Ipsos has found that more than 69% of Americans surveyed had no desire to buy the Apple Watch and 46% of those had heard nothing about Apple's latest product. Read more...

UK politician responsible for SEO spamming Google

Paul Ferson — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 21:18:01 +0000

Conservative UK politician Grant Shapps, or Michael Green as he identifies himself online, has been found to have been exploiting Google's AdSense system through selling SEO spamming software online. Read more...

Firefox Gets No Respect From PC Makers, Despite Popularity

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:36:53 +0000

By some estimates, Firefox has surged to take anywhere from 12 percent to more than one-third of the overall Web browser market. But PC makers are acting like they couldn't care less. And that doesn't... Read more...

Internet Explorer Dips in Popularity

Tue, 13 Jul 2004 14:27:53 +0000

Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser has dropped 1% according to Web analytics firm WebSideStory. Internet Explorer has always experienced small spikes with its popularity, but never a number drop like this. After all Microsoft hasn't... Read more...

Health websites gaining popularity

Mon, 16 Sep 2002 10:55:44 +0000

Women use the internet to look for health information for themselves and their family significantly more than men, research has found. The study, by independent research company Datamonitor, says that for this... Read more...