22% increase in paid brand search following Google’s trademark changes

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Hitwise figures show that the top online brands in the UK have significantly increased their spending on paid brand search marketing following the changes to Google’s trademark policy on May 5.
According to Hitwise figures in the four weeks before Google’s changes took effect, 9.2% of the search traffic that the top 100 online brands in the UK received from their top brand term came via a paid listing on a search engine. However this figure went up to 11.2% - equivalent to an increase of 22% - during the first four weeks after the changes took effect.


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