Mar 18, 2014 | E-commerce and E-retailing, FMCG digital marketing food and beverages, UK
Just Eat plans to raise £100m from listing its shares on the London Stock Exchange, as the online takeaway service looks to expand its platform to more markets. The Danish firm plans to use the extra cash to expand into new countries, as well as acquisitions of...
Mar 17, 2014 | China, E-commerce and E-retailing, Social media, USA
Two Chinese internet giants, online retailer Alibaba and social network Weibo, both plan to float on stock market, as the country’s booming digital industry begins to expand overseas. Alibaba, with more than 500 million customers and more than 800 million...
Mar 13, 2014 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Marketing through gaming, UK
Tesco is working on a virtual reality supermarket that lets users browse and buy from computer generated shelves while wearing an Oculus Rift headset. Figure Digital has released the following video showing people taking a tour around a virtual Tesco with our favorite...
Mar 13, 2014 | E-commerce and E-retailing
As the internet celebrates its quarter century anniversary, Rakuten predicts how online retail could evolve over the next decade, including how tomorrow’s shoppers will be able to browse window displays across the globe. This week, as the internet turns 25 and a new...
Mar 12, 2014 | CPG, E-commerce and E-retailing, Email marketing, FMCG digital marketing food and beverages, Mobile, Online advertising, Online video, Regulation, Search engine marketing, Social media
Most of the time marketers are in their comfort zone when it comes to marketing rules, regulations and company policies – but take one look at digital and it can feel easier to get things wrong than right. Danny Meadows-Klue is a Commissioner for the regulation of...
Mar 5, 2014 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Mobile, Online advertising
Nearly a third (30%) of movie tickets are bought on mobile phones in the US, and 87% of movie watchers look up movies on their phones after seeing an ad elsewhere, according to new research from the IAB. The study, carried out in partnership with InMobi, indicates...
Mar 3, 2014 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Mobile
A trend for a mobile focus among brands shopping sites risks ignoring the basic needs of the shopping majority, according to the results of a new survey. The study, from fits.me, found that 97% of online clothes shoppers – even those using ‘mobile’ devices – do their...
Feb 28, 2014 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Social media
Online reviews are having a significant impact on British businesses, with the potential to generate 40 per cent additional revenue each year – that’s according to a survey of over 2,000 UK consumers. The study, conducted by online review community platform...
Feb 28, 2014 | CPG, E-commerce and E-retailing, FMCG digital marketing food and beverages
High street baker Greggs has launched its new ‘Greggs Rewards’ mobile payment app designed to reward its customers for their loyalty. The new rewards app which went live nationally this week, is the first entirely digital loyalty scheme launched by a UK food-on-the go...
Feb 26, 2014 | Content marketing, E-commerce and E-retailing, Online video
Musician Zoe Keating has revealed her iTunes, Spotify, YouTube and Pandora payouts for 2013- showing that downloads are still more valuable than streams for artists looking to make sales online. 2013 music sales & streaming numbers for a middle-aged mom in a...
Feb 24, 2014 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Online video
Amazon Prime and Lovefilm are to merge, creating a new Prime Instant Video service that combines movie streaming with the online retail firm’s next day delivery. LoveFilm, which was bought out by Amazon in 2011 in a deal worth nearly £200m, will be folded into the...
Feb 20, 2014 | E-commerce and E-retailing
According to a recent study by Google and Millward Brown Digital, holidaymakers are increasingly comparing before booking a trip. As part of their digital holiday hunt, they use a variety of devices turning looking for the next trip abroad into a multi-device...
Feb 19, 2014 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Online advertising, Unilever - Research, tips and news for marketers
WPP has struck a deal with Unilever in the US, that will see the ad giant provide customised shopper marketing tools for the FMCG brand. Under the terms of the deal, a new WPP group called Team Unilever Shopper will provide Unilever US with customised shopper...
Feb 14, 2014 | E-commerce and E-retailing
Rakuten has bought instant messaging and voice app Viber for $900m, as the Japanesse ecommerce giant and owner of Play.com continues its expansion into new markets. Rakuten’s purchase of the messaging and VoIP company follows its acquisitions of Canada’s...
Feb 14, 2014 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Regulation
Hackers have exposed several thousand Tesco.com customer account details online. The list of more than 2,000 Tesco.com accounts was posted to popular text-sharing site Pastebin on Thursday. The supermarket giant said the data had been compiled by hackers using details...
Feb 14, 2014 | E-commerce and E-retailing, UK
Ethical cosmetics range Lush has used a new shower gel to mock Amazon UK boss Christopher North after winning a High Court battle to stop the online giant selling “misleading” products that were made to look like Lush items. Since 2012, the two firms have...
Feb 13, 2014 | E-commerce and E-retailing
From Amazon’s upcoming ‘pantry’ food deliveries to Apple’s iBeacons steering shoppers around stores – 2014 will mark a major leap forward for ecommerce. In this sector report, we summarise the biggest trends, research and stories that...
Feb 13, 2014 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Mobile
New research released today has revealed how mobile shopping is taking off among UK consumers: four out of ten smartphone owners (42%) have bought something on their phones – and they spent an average of £199 over 2013. It also found that five years ago the average...
Feb 6, 2014 | E-commerce and E-retailing
Here are the top digital marketing data and statistics that caught our eye. The value of a social share: How do Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter and others compare? A share on Google+ provides most value to retailers, valued at $5 each, but email is still the most...
Feb 6, 2014 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Search engine marketing, UK
The amount of overseas consumers searching for British brands increased 64% year-on-year at the end of 2013, making the UK the second largest exporter of retail after the USA, according to a new report. The study, from the British Retail Consortium and Google, found...
