Bill Tancer

Bill Tancer is the world's preeminent expert on online behavior. For his presentations, Bill customizes his research to address an audience's specific interests.

    Mining his company's database of more than 10 million Internet users every day, he answers questions about what people are really doing online and how they use Internet-based services, from searching to commerce and online giving.

    Brilliantly adept at understanding the patterns in this data, Bill also speaks on what our behavior means—how we think and act, as consumers, citizens and Net surfers, what are the hot new trends, how we interact with one another.

Bill is the author of Click: What Millions of People Are Doing Online and Why It Matters—Unexpected Insights for Business and Life.

    Offering a truly unique and all-new perspective on human behavior, Click analyzes how we search on the Internet, where we go, and what we do there. The results are surprising and indispensable to companies trying to reach consumers and anyone interested in the evolution of the Net-connected life.

Bill Tancer is general manager of global research at Hitwise, the world's leading online competitive intelligence services company. He is widely quoted on the latest Internet trends. He appears as a frequent guest on CNBC and has been quoted in major print and online media.