Rolling In The (Virtual) Dough – The Hollywood Stock Exchange Is Played By Gamers And Movie Lovers Alike – 2007-05-11
[…] With 25,000 hits a day, HSX is the Internet’-s leading virtual market and a burgeoning source for big-studio market research. […]
Hmmmm…- The Midas Oracle .ORG server web stats says this:
Analyzed requests from Fri, Sep 15 2006 at 8:23 AM to Thu, May 10 2007 at 12:37 AM (236.68 days).
Figures in parentheses refer to the 7-day period ending May 10 2007 at 4:47 AM.Successful requests: 4,058,317 (208,537)
Average successful requests per day: 17,147 (29,790)
Successful requests for pages: 1,340,229 (59,991)
Average successful requests for pages per day: 5,662 (8,570)
Failed requests: 12,009 (2)
Redirected requests: 71,241 (225)
Data transferred: 51.59 gigabytes (2.39 gigabytes)
Average data transferred per day: 223.20 megabytes (349.99 megabytes)
The “-hits”- or “-requests”- are not what you should look for. If you have many images on your webpages, sure you’-ll have a high number of “-hits”-. The “-pageviews”- count is what will give you info on users’- behavior.
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[…] But Anita Elberse, an assistant professor who teaches marketing at Harvard Business School, estimates that, on average, HSX closing prices come within 16 percent of box office receipts. […]
Congrats to Alex Costakis and Amy Lamare (and the HSX traders). 
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[…] Recently, the site has started to tinker with its 10-year-old formula. Once limited to MovieStocks, users can now purchase “-Hollywood Derivatives”- to predict the success of their favorite World Cup soccer team, American Idol contestant or Academy Awards nominee. (In 2005, HSX users correctly guessed all eight Oscar winners.) The point, says Costakis, is to create a “-testing ground”- for future additions to the site, which could include full-time sports options and TV stocks. […]
Looking forward to this.
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Psstt…- See what they say about the HSX leagues on the last page.
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