Jan 14, 2015 | E-commerce and E-retailing
Ecommerce grew more slowly than expected in December as Black Friday encouraged more shoppers to do their Christmas shopping the previous month – and discouraged others from buying gifts online, a new study suggests. The BRC-KPMG Online Retail Sales Monitor for...
Jan 13, 2015 | E-commerce and E-retailing
Marks and Spencer has revealed a sharp drop in clothing, gifts and homewear sales over Christmas, as it held back on discounting and suffered online delivery woes. The retailer also blamed an unseasonably warm autumn for a weak clothing performance as it outlined a...
Jan 12, 2015 | E-commerce and E-retailing
Tesco is planning to sell off dunnhumby, the firm behind the supermarket’s ClubCard points scheme, with WPP reportedly lining up to buy marketing data services business. The move comes after Tesco sold off two of its biggest side projects, namely VOD service BlinkBox...
Jan 9, 2015 | E-commerce and E-retailing
Talk Talk has bought Tesco’s broadband and its Blinkbox online movie streaming service as the telco joins the race for providing ‘quad play’ (mobile phone, broadband, pay TV and fixed-line telephone) to its customers. The integration of blinkbox with TalkTalk’s...
Jan 9, 2015 | E-commerce and E-retailing
With the start of a new year, it is anticipated that the number of shoppers making purchases online will steadily grow. What is motivating consumers to shop online rather than driving to the mall? This new infographic from Nextopia looks at the reasons behind this...
Jan 8, 2015 | E-commerce and E-retailing
The latest IMRG Top 50 Retailer Ranking, in partnership with comScore, reveals there were a number of online retailers climbing the ranks during November 2014. Ticketmaster UK and Screwfix were both up 8 places compared with the same month last year, while Very and...
Jan 7, 2015 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Mobile, Regulation
Personalised card company Moonpig has disabled its mobile app “as a precaution” over claims the firm’s online security is “vulnerable”. The website, which lets customers purchase specially customised greetings cards, pulled its iOS and...
Jan 7, 2015 | E-commerce and E-retailing
Amazon shipped 5 billion items in 2014, with 40% from third-party sellers, according to new data from the online retailer. The growth of third-party sellers on Amazon was staggering last year, with two billion items sold worldwide, representing double the amount of...
Jan 2, 2015 | E-commerce and E-retailing
While the tide is slowly turning in favour of in-store shopping, the majority of UK consumers are buying Christmas gifts on Amazon this year, according to new research. Latest findings from leading online research and survey technology provider, Toluna, reveal that...
Dec 23, 2014 | Content marketing, CPG, E-commerce and E-retailing, Facebook marketing, FMCG digital marketing food and beverages, Marketing through gaming, Mobile, Online advertising, Online video, Search engine marketing, Social media, Twitter marketing, Viral and buyrals, WhatsApp
2014 was another big year for digital marketing, with Facebook buying WhatsApp, the rise of the ‘Internet of Things’ and mobile growth skyrocketing. This was the year that programmatic ads went mainstream, native ads got smarter and online ad revenue...
Dec 22, 2014 | E-commerce and E-retailing
2014 hasn’t disappointed on the IT failure front. Software catastrophes, hardware meltdowns and system malfunctions have left executives red faced, customers hacked off and shareholders fuming. No organization is safe from IT disasters, which can have serious effects,...
Dec 19, 2014 | E-commerce and E-retailing
Online retail sales were up 37% month-on-month in November, according to the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index. Key highlights: • November online retail sales up 37% month-on-month and 20% year-on-year • Estimated £12.1bn spent online in November • Gifts, Health and...
Dec 19, 2014 | E-commerce and E-retailing
More people are shopping online on Christmas day, with Boxing Day forecast to rival Black Friday for sales, according to a new report. The projected online visit and spend figures on online retail sites in the UK for Christmas Day and Boxing Day from Experian and IMRG...
Dec 18, 2014 | E-commerce and E-retailing
Key trends to check your 2015 plans against: • Chinese ecommerce boom: Alibaba IPO makes it more valuable than Amazon and eBay combined as Singles Day rivals Black Friday in the online shopping frenzy stakes. • Mobile shopping explosion: Apple Pay gives users a viable...
Dec 18, 2014 | E-commerce and E-retailing, UK
Dotcom icon Lastminute.com has been sold to Swiss Travel firm Bravofly Rumbo Group for $120m (£76m), a small fraction of the £600m price it was valued at back in 2005. The UK travel website was sold by its owners for Sabre Holdings, a Texas-based travel technology...
Dec 17, 2014 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Search engine marketing
61% of UK shoppers will have found gift ideas from researching the web site of online retailer, Amazon, this Christmas, with 50% getting ideas from searching on Google, according to new research. The study, from Searchmetrics, also found that 38% will have used eBay....
Dec 16, 2014 | E-commerce and E-retailing
Amazon has faced a backlash from retailers after a software glitch from a third party site caused hundreds of items to be sold for 1p. The software, run by firm RepricerExpress, is designed to keep businesses competitive by automatically repricing items of stock so...
Dec 16, 2014 | E-commerce and E-retailing
Retailers risk missing out on sales this Christmas due to a poor online experience, according to new research released today. 55% of consumers say they cannot find basic information (such as around delivery dates) on half of the retailers’ websites they visit,...
Dec 16, 2014 | E-commerce and E-retailing
Online traffic on Manic Monday (8th December) saw a massive 149 million visits to UK retail websites and consumer spend hit an estimated £666 million following the all-time record breaking figures of Black Friday. Experian and IMRG examine wow data is driving the...
Dec 15, 2014 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Marketing through gaming
Microsoft has started accepting payments made using bitcoins to add funds to Microsoft accounts that can then be spent on a variety of Microsoft services. The cash can be used to buy content such as games and videos on Xbox game consoles, add apps and services to...
