US Retail E-Commerce Spend Up 13% Y-O-Y in Q1
US retail e-commerce spending grew by 13% year-over-year to reach $50.2 billion, estimates comScore in newly-released data. That makes Q1 only the second quarter to exceed the $50 billion threshold,...
View ArticleA Range of Rewards Will Incentivize Brand Engagement From Moms
81% of mothers will engage more with a brand if they are offered a reward, details PunchTab in new survey results, with mothers likely to respond to a variety of reward options in several different...
View ArticleWhen Researching In-Store, Smartphone Users Turn to Search First
79% of smartphone owners qualify as “smartphone shoppers,” says Google in new study results, using their devices to assist with shopping at least once a month. 84% of these smartphone shoppers use...
View ArticleTop Brands Paying More Attention to Instagram
The number of Interbrand 100 brands with an Instagram account has grown to 67 as of May 1st, per a new study by Simply Measured, up from 59 on February 1st. While that’s not quite at the same adoption...
View ArticleTablets Gobble Up 23% of Their Millennials Owners’ Video Viewing Time
Some tablet owners are spending a significant amount of time watching video on their devices, details GfK in a new data release. According to the study, among tablet owners, Millennials (born...
View ArticleTop 10 Brand Movers, April 2013
Note: Compete‘s clickstream data are collected from a 2,000,000 member panel of U.S. Internet users (about a 1% sample), using diverse sources. Using statistical normalization methodology, Compete...
View ArticleTop-Performing Retailers Not So Sure Future Growth Will Be All Digitally-Driven
Consumers continue to spend more and more online, as evidenced by the latest figures from comScore showing that Q1 represented the 14th consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth in retail e-commerce...
View ArticleStore Emails Seen Key Inspiration for Online Purchases
In conjunction with a new monthly e-commerce tracking initiative, Shopzilla has released research from a survey of online shoppers conducted immediately after their purchases from the Bizrate Insights...
View ArticleFew Social Media Advertisers Using Advanced Targeting
Just 35% of advertisers target many small, specific audiences when buying ads or paying to promote content on social media properties, according to [download page] a study conducted by Forrester...
View ArticleAffluents, Not Keen Showroomers
Wealthy consumers are as likely to make purchases in-store as online, and few have embraced showrooming, loosely defined as the practice of checking out a product in-store before buying online....
View ArticleTwitter’s 1% Generates 20% of Tweets
Twitter activity is highly concentrated among a small subset of heavy users, according to an analysis from researchers at the University of Illinois, published in First Monday. The study used Twitter...
View ArticleTop 10 at Domestic Film Box Office, Weekend of May 10-12, 2013
Content in Rentrak Theatrical box office updates is produced and/or compiled by Rentrak Corporation and its Box Office Essentials theatrical box office data collection and analytical service.
View ArticleSenior Execs Not Convinced About Social’s Worth
Senior executives from around the world aren’t that enthusiastic about social media marketing, according to new figures released by Doremus and the Financial Times from their annual “Decision Dynamics”...
View ArticleMajority of UK Consumers Say They’d Ditch A Company Due To A Poor Customer...
56% of UK consumers say they would never use a company again if faced with a negative customer service experience, according to survey results from NewVoiceMedia. Beyond taking their business...
View ArticleOnline Teens’ Use of Twitter Grows by 50% in 1 Year
Online teens’ use of social networking sites appears to have leveled out, but more are turning to Twitter, according to [pdf] results from a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Internet &...
View ArticleHow Effective Do Consumers Find Social Cues in Advertising?
Some consumers are noticing brands’ attempts to promote their social presences in advertising, with some media channels more likely to elicit a response than others, according to [pdf] results from a...
View ArticleMarketing Budget Outlook Remains Positive, Reaches New Peak
Marketing budget conditions have improved for the 5th consecutive month, details Warc [pdf] in its latest Global Marketing Index. The budget component of the index improved to a reading of 54.3 this...
View ArticleConsumers Highly Receptive to Rebates
Consumers like rebates and are willing to go out of their way to get them, finds parago in its 3rd annual Shopper Behavior Study. 83% of respondents said they like to find rebates when shopping...
View ArticleShowrooming Might Not Actually Be So Common
Fresh off a research release showing that webrooming is actually far more common amongst Millennials than showrooming, new statistics from xAd and Telmetrics demonstrate that retailers’ concerns over...
View ArticleWhat Do Millennials Like To Do With Their Free Time?
Among Millennials (ages 18-35), men and women display different priorities when it comes to their preferred pastimes, according to [pdf] survey results from the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and Lachman...
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