May 22, 2014 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Regulation
Ebay has asked its users to alter their passwords following a cyberattack that compromised the online marketplace’s database. The database, which was compromised between late February and early March, included eBay customers’ names, encrypted password, email...
May 21, 2014 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Mobile
This chart shows where consumers go for assistance in-store. Interestingly, consumers will look to their own device such as a smartphone or in-store digital kiosks to aid their shopping experience before seeking out a sales associate to help them. 52% of respondents...
May 21, 2014 | CPG, E-commerce and E-retailing, FMCG digital marketing food and beverages
This chart shows the top 16 brands to reach 1 billion consumers last year. The chart includes the count of consumers each brand reached as well as penetration. Coca Cola attracted the most consumers last year, with 6.8 billion people picking the brand. Colgate showed...
May 16, 2014 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Mobile
Electronics giant Fujitsu is set to reveal technology that analyses the purchasing behaviour of shoppers in retail stores by detecting their lines of sight, according to a news report. Japanese technology news site Tech-On! reports that the technology brings up a...
May 16, 2014 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Mobile, UK
Dixons has struck a deal to make Carphone Warehouse part of its group joining the UK electrical retailers high street roster that includes PC World and Currys. The retail group has agreed a merger worth £3.8bn to bring the phone retailer into its fold, creating a new...
May 15, 2014 | CPG, E-commerce and E-retailing, FMCG digital marketing food and beverages, Online advertising, Unilever - Research, tips and news for marketers
Only 16 global FMCG brands were chosen by consumers more than one billion times last year, with local brands growing twice as fast as global ones, according to new research. The Kantar Worldpanel’s Brand Footprint study looked at the 50 ‘most chosen’ global FMCG...
May 15, 2014 | CPG, E-commerce and E-retailing, FMCG digital marketing food and beverages, UK
Cafédirect, one of the UK’s biggest coffee brands, has acquired online coffee club Kopi.co.uk. Founded in 2011 by Philip Wilkinson and Simon I’anson, Kopi delivers premium coffee to people through their letterbox each month. Formulated as a discovery experience,...
May 12, 2014 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Online advertising
Gardening is often a seasonal past time- and not often associated with ‘digital’ media. But even those with green fingers are going digital- with some interesting results for marketers. Stephanie Keller, TGI, Marketing Executive and Media Analyst looks at how online...
May 9, 2014 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Mobile
Apple could buy headphone maker Beats Electronics for $3.2bn (£1.9bn), in what may be its biggest ever acquisition, according to a news report. The Financial Times says the deal could be announced as early as next week, marking Apple’s largest ever acquisition....
May 9, 2014 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Mobile, USA
Amazon dominates the online retail market in the US, but Apple’s iTunes now generates more sales than Staples and Walmart on the web, according to new data. Part of Apple’s 24% increase last year (to $18.3 billion) is due to an accounting change: For the first...
May 9, 2014 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Mobile
ZTE is selling its £69.99 Firefox OS smartphone, the Open C, exclusively through eBay ahead of its general release next month. The phone has been simultaneously launched on eBay in the UK, US, Germany, Russia and many other countries. It costs £69.99 SIM-free in the...
May 8, 2014 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Mobile
An increasing number of consumers would rather pull out their smartphone or tablet inside a store than speak to a store assistant, according to a new report. The report from Deloitte found that more than half of the people surveyed admitted they prefer using a mobile...
May 8, 2014 | CPG, E-commerce and E-retailing, FMCG digital marketing food and beverages, UK
milk&more, a Dairy Crest group company focused on free doorstep delivery is improving the traditional daily milk and grocery delivery by developing a mobile optimised site for the first time. The site was developed in partnership with leader in mobile and...
May 8, 2014 | CPG, E-commerce and E-retailing, Mobile
Nearly two-thirds (64%) of UK shoppers find the idea of receiving targeted coupons to their smartphones appealing, according to new research. The survey of 1,000 UK household shopping decision makers from leading retail and shopper marketing agency, Savvy Marketing,...
May 7, 2014 | E-commerce and E-retailing
Tesco is planning to launch its first own-brand smartphone by the end of the year, running Google’s Android software with a specification will be ‘comparable to the Samsung Galaxy S5’, according to a news report. Speaking to the BBC, Tesco chief executive Philip...
May 7, 2014 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Mobile
Mobile accounted for 48,000,000 users in Italy during the three-month average ending November 2013, according to new research. The findings, from comScore, indicate that smartphone users represent 64.1 percent of the total Italian mobile audience, an increase of 23.5...
May 6, 2014 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Social media, Twitter marketing
Amazon has struck a partnership with Twitter that lets users add products to their shopping carts by tweeting a special hashtag. Users need to reply to tweets containing a link to an Amazon product with #amazoncart in the US and #amazonbasket in the UK. The service...
May 1, 2014 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Mobile, UK
Over two thirds (68%) of 4G users feel that faster access to the internet encourages them to make more purchases from their smartphone, according to the latest consumer research from Voice of the Customer specialist eDigitalResearch and online retail body IMRG. IMRG...
Apr 30, 2014 | E-commerce and E-retailing, UK
A number of major UK banks have united for a new payment system that lets users transfer cash via their mobiles using just their mobile number and a password. Watch this video explaining how Paym works below (source: Daily Telegraph): The Paym service is initially...
Apr 28, 2014 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Online advertising, Search engine marketing, UK
This chart shows the % of UK consumers’ likelihood to purchase a new product when it is recommended by different sources. Recommendations from friends and family are the most effective in convincing UK consumers to purchase products with 68% of those surveyed...
