
Smartphone Data: Android Regains Share, But Apple Maps Wins The iPhone
According to comScore’s latest data (October 2015), 78 percent of US mobile subscribers own smartphones. I suspect we’ll reach 80 percent...

Cyber Monday Online Sales Top $3 Billion For Another Record-Setting Year
Last week, my dental hygienist told me she was taking Monday off “for Cyber Monday.” Not Black Friday, but Cyber Monday. The irony of...

Millennials’ Growing Distrust Of Plastic Cards Pave Way For Digital Payments
Less than a decade from now most payments will probably be made with apps in phones or smartwatches, using biometric triggers or other...

Study: Mobile “Showroomers” Generally Buy In Stores, 18–34-Year-Olds Most Active
We learned over the weekend how prominent mobile devices were in the Black Friday shopping melee. And while a growing number of purchases...

Google Shows Offline Analytics Capabilities With Holiday Store Traffic Data
Like so many others, Google is putting out holiday shopping data this week. I’m sitting on 40 or more studies and surveys that discuss...

Study: Mobile Users Will Go On Roughly 4 Dates With Apps Before Breaking Up
If a new survey from Localytics is correct, apps will figure more prominently in future user behavior, but their success is contingent on...

Report: Most Calls From Mobile Display Ads Happen Up To Two Weeks Later
In conjunction with the announcement of a new product called “Marchex Display Analytics,” the company released a report that shows...

Laptops In Big Decline, Smartphones “At Saturation” For Under-30 Crowd
As we approach 2015’s holiday season, the mobile outlook for product sellers is mixed. Mobile ad spending is rising quickly, and...

Despite New Mobile Tech, Marketers Still Favor Coupons For Offline Attribution
There are now a variety of ways to determine whether someone who was exposed to an ad visited a store (that includes TV and out-of-home)....

IAB: US Internet Ad Revenues Up 19 Percent In First Half of 2015, Driven By Mobile, Social, Video
The second quarter of 2015 generated a record-setting $14.3 billion in online ad revenues in the US, up 22.5 percent year over year,...

Location Paradox: Mobile Users Recognize Its Value, But Many Won’t Share It
Call it the “location paradox.” Smartphone owners typically recognize that location improves mobile app experiences, but substantial...

NinthDecimal & TiVo Announce Partnership To Bring Offline Store-Visit Metrics To TV
Mobile devices are bringing digital analytics and targeting capabilities to all kinds of media, including “offline” traditional...

App Store Ratings: A Single Star Jump Can Mean 340% More Downloads
Given the data about app engagement, much is at stake in the success or failure of a marketer’s mobile app. App users spend more time and...

Mobile CPMs Now Higher And Growing Faster Than Desktop [Study]
Mobile CPMs are not only growing faster, but they were higher than desktop CPMs in Q3 2015, according to a new study from programmatic...

Study: Mobile Apps For Engagement, Mobile Web For Research & Comparisons
The mobile web and apps are complementary. However they’ve been treated as though they’re mutually exclusive in the press and in most...

Survey: Personalization & Relevance Increasingly Overlap In Consumers’ Minds
Another day, another survey about the gap between consumers’ stated desire for personalization and the ability of retailers to meet that...

Snapchat Bounced From comScore Top 15 Apps Chart By Google Drive
The comScore August smartphone market share figures are out. Smartphone penetration remains at just over 77 percent in the US....

Apps Eat Digital Media Time, With Top 3 Capturing 80 Percent
Measurement firm comScore has published a new report on mobile usage and user behavior. The highest-level takeaway is that cross-platform...

More Than 44% Of All Video Plays Happened On A Mobile Device In Q2 2015 [Report]
At six percent, the mobile video growth rate for the second quarter of 2015 was the most modest since Q4 2012, when mobile video views...
























