Fahad HMar 29, 20172 min readMobile now accounts for nearly 70% of digital media time [comScore]Time spent with digital media continues to grow — but that growth is all mobile. Last week, comScore released its “2017 US Cross-Platform...
Fahad HFeb 28, 20172 min readReport: The PC is over, the ‘app boom’ is, tooThe desktop world is flat, but mobile app installs are down, too. That’s according to a new collection of internet usage stats from...
Fahad HFeb 17, 20171 min readReports: Digital, especially mobile, driving trillions in offline retail spendingThe $354 billion in 2016 e-commerce sales is small potatoes compared with offline retail spending: over $4.5 trillion, according to US...
Fahad HFeb 14, 20171 min readMobile makes up 21 pct. of online spending in Q4, as digital commerce reaches $109 billionFull year US e-commerce spending numbers are out from comScore. In the holiday quarter, consumers spent $109.3 billion online, which was...
Fahad HJan 23, 20171 min readYahoo beats Q4 earnings expectations, pushes closing of Verizon deal into Q2Yahoo released fourth quarter and full year earnings this afternoon, beating analyst expectations. The company announced $1.47 billion in...
Fahad HJan 9, 20172 min readFinal holiday figures: $92B in e-commerce, omnichannel retail had big shareThe final holiday online shopping tally is out. According to Adobe, total e-commerce sales (November 1 to December 31) hit $91.7 billion,...
Fahad HDec 28, 20161 min readReport: US advertisers spent $17.6 billion on digital ads in Q3According to IAB data out today, US advertisers spent $17.6 billion on digital ads in Q3. The trade organization said this was “the...
Fahad HDec 28, 20161 min readTop smartphone apps of 2016: Google and Facebook control 8 out of the top 10 slotsMany top year-end lists are now coming out, and Nielsen has released its ranking of the the top smartphone apps of 2016. In its ranking...
Fahad HDec 7, 20162 min readReport: iPhone sees sales gains though Android at 75 percent share globallyAndroid remains the dominant operating system globally, with a roughly 75 percent smartphone market share, according to Kantar Worldpanel...
Fahad HNov 28, 20162 min readData: Mobile drives majority of Black Friday traffic, but PCs dominate salesThere were record e-commerce sales over the past weekend, as more consumers shopped online. However, the rise of mobile commerce is the...
Fahad HNov 18, 20162 min readEuropean survey finds 70 percent of Android owners want pre-installed appsAccording to a new European consumer survey from the Application Developers Alliance, 70 percent of respondents would prefer to buy an...
Fahad HNov 11, 20162 min readReport: Most users will need multiple exposures to an app before they downloadHow does brand impact app installs? That’s a question TUNE sought to answer with a number of related consumer and app-download studies....
Fahad HNov 6, 20162 min readStudy says only 8 percent of shoppers use retailer apps. Should they give up?It’s very well established that consumers use smartphones as shopping assistants in stores. We’re now getting into the nuances of how...
Fahad HNov 1, 20161 min readSurvey: Amazon tops SMB Trust Index, Yelp ranks at the bottomLocal business networking site Alignable is collecting net promoter score (NPS) data on a wide range of companies serving the small...
Fahad HSep 17, 20162 min readNearly 85 percent of smartphone app time concentrated in top five apps — [report]Over the past two years, digital media time has grown significantly but most of that has been driven by mobile and apps in particular....
Fahad HSep 5, 20162 min readReport: More than two-thirds of digital media time now mobile, apps 50 percentAccording to July data from comScore, smartphone apps now constitute 50 percent of all digital media time. That’s up from 44 percent...
Fahad HAug 5, 20162 min readJack In The Box wins the night and other insights from QSR foot traffic reportThe ability to measure real-world foot traffic at scale is leading to very interesting competitive and customer insights. For example,...
Fahad HAug 2, 20161 min readApple owns the tablet market, but Amazon is the growth leaderAccording to new numbers from IDC, the global tablet market is contracting. The market declined 12.3 percent versus a year ago in terms...
Fahad HJul 28, 20161 min readApple sells its billionth iPhone, but Samsung gains market shareFollowing its quarterly earnings earlier this week, Apple announced that it had sold its billionth iPhone. Introduced in January 2007,...
Fahad HJul 11, 20162 min readIn-app purchases dwarf ad revenues, as iOS App Store exceeds $71 billionUS mobile ad revenue in 2015 was approximately 35 percent total digital revenue, or $20.8 billion. However, revenue from in-app ads is...
