May 17, 2013 | Content marketing, E-commerce and E-retailing
Google has introduced a new dollar-sign icon for Gmail attachments, letting users transfer money via its Google Wallet service. By clicking the icon users can transfer money via Google Wallet. Credit and debit cards can be used for a fee of 2.9% per transaction....
May 17, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Facebook marketing, Online video, Russia, Search engine marketing, Social media
Mail.ru is the largest free email service in Russia and leads in terms of visits and average time spent on the site. Vk.com is a popular social network in Russia and has the second highest average time spent on the site (343.2). Vk.com reported higher vists and time...
May 17, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing
Latest figures from the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index, reveal the impact the short spell of warm weather had on shoppers’ purse strings in April, recording a 16% rise on the same time last year. The Travel sector in particular saw a solid performance, increasing...
May 14, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Social media
Nearly half (46%) of UK consumers use social media for online purchasing decisions and over a third (35%) use it to vent about bad customer service, according to new research. The YouGov survey of over 2000 UK consumers, commissioned by online customer helpdesk...
May 7, 2013 | China, E-commerce and E-retailing, Marketing through gaming, Mobile
Amazon has launched its first paid-for Android apps in China, beating Google, which has offered only free apps. This move forms part of Amazon’s strategy to delve deep into the Chinese mobile phone market where it had controlled less than three percent of the...
May 7, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing
Argos is expecting internet sales to make up three quarters of its sales by 2016, as sales both online and instore continue to rise at the high street retailer. The retailer generated sales of £3.9 billion during 2012, a like-for-like rise of 2.1 per cent...
May 7, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing
Whilst women may normally be perceived as shopaholics, new research from leading CPA network, Rakuten LinkShare, shows that men spend over three quarters of their average annual online spend on fashion. Ofcom estimates that UK consumers spend an average of £1,083 each...
May 7, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing
B2B organisations consider ecommerce to be a key revenue driver, with contributions made to annual revenues by online trading expected to grow by 6 percentage points this year. Businesses are prioritising the adoption of ecommerce over the development of their bricks...
May 3, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Mobile
Just over one third (34%) of smartphone owners will be ‘very likely’ or ‘likely’ to purchase more items from their mobile device thanks to 4G technology and faster internet connections, according to the latest eCustomerServiceIndex (eCSI) survey of 2,000 consumers...
Apr 30, 2013 | China, E-commerce and E-retailing, Social media
Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba has bought an 18% stake in Sina’s Weibo microblogging site, for roughly $586m. The partnership is expected to generate about $380m in advertising and social commerce services revenue for Weibo over the next three years, Sina said. As...
Apr 24, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Social media
Shoddy service, redundant questions and disconnected processes are leading customers to abandon purchases, switch suppliers and terminate contracts. This is according to a survey commissioned by Redwood Software. Increasingly, customers expect companies’ online and...
Apr 24, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Mobile
UK search volumes on tablet devices outpaced those on any other device, increasing 198% in the first quarter of 2013, compared with growth on smartphone devices of 66%, according to new research. Latest data from the BRC-Google Online Retail Monitor indicates that...
Apr 23, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Mobile
Google’s Play Store grew three times faster than Apple’s rival App Store globally in the first quarter of 2013, according to new research. The study, from research firm App Annie attributed the growth largely to game-hungry smartphone fans in Japan and South...
Apr 23, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing
Despite coming of age during hard economic times, younger European consumers that are 25 through 34 years old are more likely to engage in online spending than other groups, and are helping propel the growth of e-commerce in the region, according to an ecommerce...
Apr 23, 2013 | Australia and New Zealand, E-commerce and E-retailing, Mobile, South Africa
Technology appears to be playing a role in reversing the stereotype of the male dislike of shopping. As the number of people owning a smartphone continues to rise, research from Kantar Media’s Global TGI (www.globaltgi.com) reveals that men lead the way when it comes...
Apr 22, 2013 | Content marketing, E-commerce and E-retailing, Online video, Social media
Amazon has produced 14 pilot episodes for potential new TV shows, letting viewers have their say on which ones should be turned into a full series. The pilot shows, made by independent production companies and produced by Amazon Studios, will be put to the public vote...
Apr 18, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Mobile
Debenhams, Expedia and Argos have come out on top when it comes to mobile commerce, according to a new usability study. EPiServer’s second UK Mobile Commerce study, compares new research into the expectations of mobile shoppers, carried out among 1,000 adults, with...
Apr 17, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing, Online advertising, Online video, Social media
In the UK, social networking remains the most popular single activity, but the proportion has slipped slightly, according to new data. The study, from Experian, indicates that traffic to the likes of Facebook and Twitter accounted for 22% of time online, compared to...
Apr 17, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing
Online shoppers were not put off from making purchase decisions by the freezing weather in March, as online retail sales rose 16% year-on-year, according to new data. The findings, from the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index, conclude what has been a very solid first...
Apr 17, 2013 | E-commerce and E-retailing
One in four retailers now expect physical stores to become more like showrooms in the future, where consumers can sample products instore to buy online, according to new research. Despite major high street brands like M&S and WHSmith announcing profits in the...
