Oct 16, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Online advertising, Russia, Search engine marketing
Yandex is now offering online stores a new model for listing their products onYandex.Market, as the Russian internet giant looks to boost its ecommerce tools. From next month customers will be able to purchase directly from Yandex Market, going straight to the...
Oct 15, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing
Just over 1% of a retail website’s users generate as much as 40% of its revenues according to new research. The study, from Customer Experience Management (CXM) platform Qubit, examined 950 million page views from more than 123 million website visits. The research...
Oct 15, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Regulation
WHSmith has become the latest retailer to become embroiled in the ebook porn scandal, taking its website down as a result in a bid to “protect our customers and the public”. Last week, it was revealed that high street giants could face possible prosecution for...
Oct 14, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing
In August 2013, the retail category was visited by over 5 million Swedish internet users, an increase of 12 percent compared to August last year, according to new data from comScore. Amazon Sites is the clear leader in this Top 15 ranking with almost 1.7 million...
Oct 11, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing
Despite signs of spring in the economy, independent research from Rakuten’s Play.com today revealed that British shoppers are planning a cost conscious Christmas, with the average shopper expecting to spend around £298 pounds on gifts, over half the £634 average spend...
Oct 10, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing
Amazon has launched a new ‘login and pay’ button, letting external websites allow their customers to pay via their Amazon accounts, as the firm steps up its battle with eBay and its PayPal payments system. The ‘Login and Pay with Amazon’ tool lets shoppers pay for...
Oct 9, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Email marketing
UK and US online retailers are failing to capitalise on a ‘potential $516 billion’ in revenue by not using email to help recover customers who have abandoned cart items, according to new research. The dotMailer ‘Email Marketing Through The Purchase Journey’ report has...
Oct 8, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Search engine marketing
Google is ramping up its local features on its shopping search tool, listing local storefronts and product availability for desktop and smartphone users. Under the new system, which is currently in beta test phase in the US, when a user searches for a product on...
Oct 4, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Mobile
Nearly all (98%) of the UK’s top 50 retailers are failing to offer responsive websites that work across desktop, mobile, and tablet devices, according to new research. The study, from Venda, also found that 25 of these retailers are hosting their mobile site under a...
Sep 30, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Mobile, Online advertising
Retailer TK Maxx has appointed Exponential for its first ever cross-platform ad campaign designed to increase the number of visits to its stores by occasional shoppers. The video campaign will run in two phases – autumn and Christmas – across both desktop and tablet,...
Sep 27, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing
Showrooming is rife in the UK for ‘considered’ purchases , with 42% looking at electronic goods in-store before buying online from a different retailer, compared to 27% in US, according to new research from Microsoft. The latest UK findings from Microsoft’s Consumer...
Sep 27, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Mobile
Amazon has launched the latest version of its Kindle Fire tablet range, featuring live video chat for tech support via a ‘mayday’ button, activated in ‘just 15 seconds’. Watch this video demonstrating the ‘Mayday’ button below: The new ‘Kindle Fire HDX’...
Sep 24, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing
Ebay has forged a ‘click and collect’ deal with Argos, allowing customers to collect selected purchases from the online marketplace at the high street retail chain. The move comes as eBay looks to compete with market leader Amazon in the UK online retail space by...
Sep 24, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Mobile
A tipping point has been reached in online retail as all online UK growth is now coming from sales via mobile devices (smartphones and tablets), as sales via desktop flat-line, according to new data. For the first time, IMRG and Capgemini have been able to strip out...
Sep 24, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Online video
Following London Fashion Week, results from a new survey indicates that consumers want ‘shopable’ videos and Londoners lead the way in video consumption of Fashion Week shows. The research, from WeSEE, an advertising and visual classification company, suggests that...
Sep 19, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Mobile
Tesco’s movie and TV streaming service blinkbox is poised to kick off its biggest ever marketing and in-store blitz, highlighting the service’s ‘latest releases’ credentials versus rivals. The autumn campaign will run in-store, online, outdoor, radio and in print...
Sep 19, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Mobile
Over half (64%) of smartphone shoppers who are planning to shop from their devices this Christmas are claiming that they will make more mobile purchases this year compared to 2012, according to the latest eCustomerServiceIndex (eCSI) results from eDigitalResearch and...
Sep 18, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing
Online retail sales in the UK were up 18% year-on-year in August 2013, following July’s 9% year-on-year growth, according to new research. The study, from the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index indicate that the growth was led by a return to double-digit growth for...
Sep 17, 2013 | Content marketing, E-commerce and E-retailing
Video streaming service Netflix has revealed that it monitors piracy sites to asses the popularity and appeal of the shows it buys. The US firm gave Prison Break as an example of one programme it had bought as a consequence of using the strategy. Netflix’s vice...
Sep 17, 2013 | CPG, E-commerce and E-retailing, Social media
This chart shows how much mums use social networks compared to average users. Discovering new products early on and keeping up with the news from a brand are the main reasons why mums choose to follow or ‘like’ brands on social media. Half of mums have...
