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Holiday Shopping Trends Among Facebook Friends

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December 19th 2012
Author
Molly Glover Gallatin

‘Twas the week after Thanksgiving, and all through the land On Facebook they chatted, and made shopping plans Of sales at Target, Best Buy and Walmart - Look online for deals and fill up that cart! The gadgets they covet: iPhone, iPad, and SIII. Get great deals today, then share on your feed! Black Friday through [...] more...

Mobile Drives Retail Purchases This Holiday Season

Written on
December 14th 2012
Author
Richard L. Tso

Holiday shopping can be brutal, but this year, millions of shoppers elected to circumvent the mall, breaking out their mobile phones instead. This year, Black Friday and Cyber Monday still proved to be high-transaction days of the year where most companies were able to sneak their way into the black [...] more...

Mobiquity Study: Apple, Best Buy and Kohl’s Deliver the Most Satisfactory Mobile Shopping Experiences

Written on
December 12th 2012
Author
AdotasWire

BOSTON (December 12, 2012) – While Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2012 proved that mobile commerce is growing steadily, new research reveals that the top 20 brick-and-mortar retail brands still fall short of consumers’ expectations for fast, well-designed and functional mobile apps and websites. “The Mobile Shopping Satisfaction Report,” an [...] more...

Infographic: ‘Tis the Season for Scanning

Written on
December 10th 2012
Author
Adotas

ScanLife has created its first Mobile Barcode Trend Report: Holiday Shopping Edition. The company reports that this year, barcode scanning is up over one million scans vs. 2011. The analytics shared below spans the two weeks surrounding Black Friday — when scan rates accelerate the most. Click repeatedly on the infographic below [...] more...

Taykey Analyzes Social Chatter Surrounding Holiday Shopping

Written on
December 7th 2012
Author
TagMan

Taykey recently analyzed the social conversation happening around holiday shopping (retailers, promotions, products). Below is a spreadsheet (click repeatedly to enlarge) that shows names of various retailers who had a significant volume of activity, and underneath, the top other terms associated with those retailers. A few interesting nuggets: Many of the terms associated [...] more...

Microsoft Calls Out Google on ‘Pay-To-Rank’ System for Shopping Search Results

Written on
November 29th 2012
Author
AdotasWire

REDMOND, Wash. (Nov. 28, 2012) — Bing, Microsoft Corp.’s search engine, today is launching a national campaign to highlight Bing’s commitment to honest search results and to help explain to consumers the risks of Google Shopping’s newly announced “pay-to-rank” practice, in which the shopping search results customers see are not [...] more...

Black Friday Recap: This Year’s Winners Based on Real-World Visits

Written on
November 29th 2012
Author
David Shim

The dust has settled on Black Friday and early reports are touting the record-breaking billions spent by consumers. But which retailers were the most successful at turning the Black Friday hype into a flood of in-store foot traffic? In order to better understand how major retailers fared this Black Friday, Placed [...] more...

Report: Retailers Spent Dramatically More on Paid Search In Advance of Black Friday & Cyber Monday

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November 28th 2012
Author
Mike Daly

SAN FRANCISCO (November 27, 2012) – In the battle for revenue online, retailers increased search advertising spend 59 percent on Thanksgiving Day 2012, compared to 2011. Across the five popular shopping days from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, cost-per-click (CPC) also skyrocketed 20 percent higher than 2011, as competition for search terms among retailers [...] more...

ScanLife Sees 50% Hike in Mobile QR Code, UPC Scanning on Black Friday

Written on
November 26th 2012
Author
Mike Daly

ScanLife, the leader in mobile engagement platforms, has released its Black Friday 2012 mobile barcode scanning results. The company reports 270K scans on Black Friday, the busiest day to date for mobile barcode traffic. In addition to continued 2D (QR) barcode adoption among marketers and media publishers, Q3 2012 proved [...] more...

Report: Walmart Tops in GPS Searches On Black Friday

Written on
November 26th 2012
Author
Mike Daly

Telenav, a GPS navigation app developer and mobile advertising platform, published today a list of the top 10 most searched retail brands by our customers on Thursday and Friday (for example, searching for the closest Walmart). Telenav looked at a representative sample from our millions of users to find out which [...] more...



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