
3 Brands That Dominated Cyber Monday And What They Can Teach Us About Consumer Engagement
Black Friday for the convenience and comfort of Cyber Monday. ComScore reports that digital shopping growth is on track to outpace...

New Insights: The Consumer Journey For Electronics
Understanding the twists and turns consumers take on their path to purchasing electronics is an important step in capturing their...

Thanksgiving Weekend 2015: The Stats That Mattered
This kind of proverbial arms race doesn’t really slow down until after Christmas, but the trends observed over the Thanksgiving weekend...

TrueView For Shopping: Making YouTube The Next Big Shopping Destination
Shopping campaigns, or Product Listing Ads (PLAs), have proved revolutionary for AdWords e-commerce. They combine a visually engaging...

4 Questions Marketers Must Answer To Extend Holiday Sales Success
holiday shopping left, brands have already seen massive sales both on- and offline. According to the National Retail Federation, sales...

Black Friday & Cyber Monday Email Marketing Results: Mobile Open Rates Exceed 60%
Breaking down its data by device, Movable Ink found Black Friday email conversions — an email click that resulted in a purchase — were...

Here’s Why Site Search Is Not Just A Smaller Google Search
As marketers wrap up their strategies for this holiday season, search engine optimization (SEO) is obviously at the top of their to-do...

Last-Minute Holiday Checklist For Online Retailers
holiday shopping season is off to a great start — especially for the e-commerce industry. But when the pressure is on, it’s easy to let...

Google’s Year Of Change Hits Mobile Retail
It has been a year of change at Google. A barrage of updates to the format of mobile search result pages have thrown the organic search...

Mobile Has Its Big E-Commerce Moment While Online Traffic & Conversions Hit Seasonal Highs
If your Thanksgiving dinner table was populated with friends and family who couldn’t take their eyes off their mobile phones, you’re...

AdWords Shopping Ads Enhancements: A Roundup
The AdWords team behind shopping ads has been very busy improving their offering, with at least 11 major new capabilities launched in the...

Are Customer Reviews Promoting Your E-Business Like They Should?
The value of online customer reviews can hardly be overstated, though perhaps it approaches being over-documented. To sum up just a bit...

Don’t Let Amazon Eat Your Lunch This Holiday Season
holiday season, as commentators line up to report on Black Friday plans by Amazon, Walmart and the other big retailers, putting a...

E-Commerce Conversion Rate Rose To 71% Higher Than October Average Last Week
Americans are getting more serious about their online holiday shopping as Black Friday approaches. According to aggregate e-commerce...

5 Important Online Shopping Dates You May Have Left Off Your Holiday Marketing Calendar
Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals. But for more than 100 million shoppers in China, November 11 is known as as “Singles Day.”...

E-Commerce Activity Climbing, While Electronics Top Non-Branded Search Terms
The online shopping season is beginning to heat up, according to aggregated data from retail ad network HookLogic, which works with sites...

The Product Search Battle: Has Google Shopping Been More Successful Against Amazon Than Google Lets
As the holiday shopping season heats up, the ongoing competition between Google and Amazon to be the destination for...

YouTube Shopping Ad Formats Now Available To All AdWords Advertisers
YouTube’s Shopping ad formats for retailers are now out of beta and available to all advertisers in AdWords. TrueView for Shopping and...

Using Paid Search To Bring Customers In-Store
For the consumer, online purchases are easy and require fairly little effort, but there are a few hang-ups: returns can be a pain, paying...