Jan
18
While nine out of ten tablet owners used their tablets to make a purchase this past holiday season, most prefer to do their shopping on laptops or PCs. 87% of tablet owners say they prefer to shop using their laptop or PC to a mobile device. That data is the result of a study completed [...]
Dec
20
Zoomerang has released its latest results from surveys of chief marketing officers around the world. It is no surprise that investments into digital marketing will be ramped up. 68% of respondents say they are going to use 2012 budgets to integrate social media spending into their email campaigns. While Social media is valuable, most executives [...]
Dec
16
There is a new service that can help make creative productions go viral. Pay With A Tweet is a service that allows producers — the company is targeting mainly creative professionals but it need not be limited to creative — to sell their products or portions of their products to others if the recipient tweets [...]
Dec
14
Twitvid was a video aggregating site that specialized in user-generated content. Think of it as Twitpic is, however, it is now recreating itself to be open to all kinds of video. What is happening is that users are now able to create feeds and even some channels all of which can be followed. Like a [...]
Dec
09
Consumer Packaged Goods, otherwise known as CPGs, used to be considered unsalable online. CPGs are goods that are mass produced and very inexpensive, think bars of soap or laundry detergents or soft drinks, etc…. As more and more online vendors are providing free shipping or dropping minimum purchase requirements then we should expect these sales [...]
Dec
07
Foursquare claims to have 15 million users and half of them are from outside of the US. That is a large number of users, but new data by Forrester Research casts this number in a pessimistic light. From 2010 to 2011 the number of adults aware of location based apps like Foursquare grew from 16% [...]
Dec
06
The week ending December 2 was known as Cyber Week. It’s the week following Thanksgiving, an attempt to piggyback on Black Friday. In 2010 cyber week set a record for online sales within a week. The firm comScore says 2011 saw substantial growth. The 2011 Cyber Week surpassed the 2010 record and even expectations of [...]
Nov
16
Edgerank analyzed over 80,000 Facebook posts from October 2011 and came to some surprising conclusions. Every time a post is liked, that post will receive 3.1 clicks. However, when there is a comment then that post will receive 14.678 clicks. That’s an astounding ratio of almost 5 to 1. Edgerank also released data [...]
Nov
15
New data about the UK digital agency is helpful for digital marketing agencies in the US. While the numbers of the latest TNS Digital Life report are about the UK they should translate similarly over here. The data found that 61% of consumers do not want to engage with brands online. Most of the engagement [...]
Nov
14
Australia ranks second among potential smartphone users that actually have smartphones. That’s important because it allows for accuracy in predicting whether or not mobile searches will be important in this season’s holiday shopping. Google’s Australia division has announced a 220% bump in holiday shopping searches coming from mobile devices. The amazing data is that one [...]