The Global Web Index was created by Trendstream with field work partner Lightspeed Research.

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For Europe, US and Latin America please contact the team on globalwebindex@trendstream.net or contact the project lead, Tom Smith directly on +447970727061
For Asia Pacific enquiries please contact:
Jenny Armshaw-Heak Business Development Director, Global Web Index APAC jheak@lightspeedresearch.com +852 68918085 @GlobalWebAsia
Trendstream
Trendstream is a research consultancy dedicated to understanding the global impact of technology, web and social-media. As well as managing the Global Web Index, Trendstream provides clients with thought-leadership research, reports, analysis and trend spotting.
Trendstream is an independent company based in London, but working and delivering projects to clients across the world.
Lightspeed
Lightspeed Research was launched in May 2000 by the Kantar Group - the information, insight and consultancy division of WPP, the world leader in communications services.
Experts in survey design consultation, sample management, programming, hosting, data collection and reporting, Lightspeed Research has developed a suite of technology-enhanced products to provide research solutions that that meet specific needs from financial insights, to employee surveys and mobile research.
Lightspeed Research has offices in the United Kingdom, throughout the United States and in Germany, France, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands, Australia, Japan, China, South Korea, and Bulgaria.

Latest

  • 10 March 2010

    Future Web Asia – The Presentations

    Last week we headed over to Hong Kong for the second in a series of FutureWeb Events, this time hosted in partnership with Microsoft Advertising. The night was a great success, with three presentations exploring the picture in Asia and what the rise in social involvement means for the changing marketing communications landscape. A number of clear [...]more

  • 29 January 2010

    Future Web Asia: Hong Kong March 4th 2010

    Following the success of our London launch we are delighted to announce our launch event in Asia in partnership with Microsoft Advertising. Three presentations will highlight key trends from wave 2 of the data around the rise of social media in Asia, the impact for brands, and the future of digital. The event is free of charge [...]more

  • 26 November 2009

    Infographic #001 – Global Map of Social Web

    As part of a new series of infographics we have created a global map of social web involvement. We wanted to provide a clear visualisation of the way in which the world adopts social technologies differently. The map visualises the number of active bloggers, social networkers, video sharers, photo uploaders and microbloggers. The length of [...]more

  • 26 October 2009

    IAB Europe Social Media Showcase

    On the 23rd of October I presented to the IAB Europe Social Media Research Showcase, sharing insights from Wave 1 of the Global Web Index. The presentation focused on Social Media involvement across Europe, motivations to get online, the impact of social media and the evolution needed from companies and brands. The presentation can be [...]more

  • 25 September 2009

    Future Web: 23rd September 2009 – see the presentations

    Our inaugural Future Web event explored key trends in Social Media usage, users, and the role for brands from the first wave of data. We had a very lively and engaged audience and excellent presentations from two of our launch clients, Microsoft Advertising and Mediaedge:cia, plus plenty of debate on the merits of brands getting on [...]more

  • 27 August 2009

    Future Web: 23rd of September 2009

    As part of our launch, we are hosting an event on the 23rd of September to hi-light some of the key trends that come out of the research. This event will give you a unique and very recent persepective of the web in 2009. We will present key insights around some of the big trends, including, the real-time [...]more

  • 27 July 2009

    Analysis platform: screen shots

    As we prepare to open the Global Web Index platform to launch subscribers, we thought we would take the opportunity to share some screen shots of how it looks and how the subscriber can get the most out of the data set regardless of familiarity with research. Analysis: Trend presentations are published constantly through the year covering [...]more

  • 17 July 2009

    Global Web Index: Video Online: 2009 is Primetime

    The Global Web Index wa always about producing more than just data. We designed it to be about driving insight, new perspectives, great thinking and developing an understanding of the impact. That is why there is a big focus on creating content around the research data. Today we are releasing our first in a long line of [...]more

  • 17 July 2009

    IAB Interact: New research to share

    As we near the launch we are releasing more preliminary data from the Global Web Index. The following deck was presented to IAB Interact on June 12th. It ran through some US and UK data that covered the following topics: Motivations for going online: the number 1 reason is to research purchases, a demonstration that the web [...]more