Fahad HFeb 8, 20173 min readData: Store closings generate new shopping patterns, especially among MillennialsTraditional retailers are closing stores as a result of changing consumer shopping patterns and, in some cases, weaker than expected...
Fahad HJan 26, 20172 min readSurvey: Amazon remains most trusted SMB brand, Yelp still ‘number one’ at the bottomBusiness networking site Alignable yesterday released another installment of its small to medium-sized business (SMB) vendor trust...
Fahad HJan 23, 20172 min readSurvey: Mobile devices eclipse PC usage and, in a surprise, drive more conversionsMany industry insiders expect mobile commerce to eclipse PC-based sales in the relatively near future. A new online survey from Fluent...
Fahad HJan 20, 20172 min readSurvey: Social and mobile are top drivers of new small business digital spendingAlmost three-fourths of small businesses (70 percent) say they’re going to increase digital marketing investments this year. The primary...
Fahad HJan 11, 20172 min readStudy: Gen Z more discriminating, more advertising-resistant than Gen X or YA massive new demographically segmented study from Kantar Millward Brown presents an instructive (and challenging) set of findings for...
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 HJan 5, 20171 min readTop 10 most shared video brands in 2016: Red Bull ranks No. 1 with 27M shares – more than doubThe video analytics platform ranked the top 10 brands in 2016 based on how often a brand’s video content was shared versus the number of...
Fahad HDec 8, 20162 min readReport: 91 percent would use abandoned apps again if disliked issues addressedMobile apps command about 60 percent of digital media time, according to comScore’s 2016 Mobile App Report. However, that time is...
Fahad HDec 7, 20162 min readYouTube’s top trending videos in 2016: Adele & James Corden’s Carpool Karaoke wins In a year full of bad news from the music industry with the loss of Prince, David Bowie and Leonard Cohen, among others, YouTube’s list...
Fahad HDec 2, 20162 min readReport: 2.5 million US businesses buying Facebook ads, spending $1,500 per yearAccording to a new report from Borrell Associates, nearly 80 percent of local businesses have a Facebook page, and 62 percent are buying...
Fahad HNov 29, 20161 min readReport: Cyber Monday was the largest e-commerce day in historyAccording to data from Adobe, Cyber Monday became the largest day in US e-commerce history. Consumers spent roughly $3.4 billion online,...
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 28, 20162 min readE-commerce tops $5 billion over weekend, mobile beats $1 billion on Black FridayAccording to Adobe, Thanksgiving and Black Friday online retail sales exceed $5 billion. More noteworthy in some ways is that mobile...
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 7, 20161 min readReport: Amazon, HBO Now, Live.com only apps common to top app-install platformsAmong advertisers on the top app-install ad platforms, curiously, there are only a few apps that overlap. That’s according to a new...
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 2, 20161 min readOn a global basis, mobile internet usage surpassed the desktop in OctoberAccording to new data from StatCounter, mobile devices have, for the first time, overtaken the desktop as access points for the internet...
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 HOct 20, 20162 min readTop 10 video creators in September: UNILAD holds at No. 1 for 3 months in a rowUNILAD, Lad Bible, Tasty and Viral Thread remained in the top four positions, and eight of the top ten video creators from August all...
