Comparison Shopping Engines Survey Report 2008

This DoubleClick-sponsored research is based on a survey of retailers and agencies carried out in August and September 2008, with the aim of understanding more about the use of comparison shopping engines. On average, retailers get 10% of their online sales through the comparison shopping channel and 43% of merchants surveyed say that this proportion has increased in the past year. The report findings are divided into the following sections: -) Use of comparison shopping engines (CSEs)
-) Budget and spending
-) Measurement and tracking
-) Ratings of comparison engines
-) Optimising feeds
Highlights from the findings include: -) Some 21% of retailers surveyed are not currently using any comparison engines to advertise their products on, while a further 16% use just one CSE.
-) Google Shopping / Google Base is the most commonly used comparison engine, utilised by 63% of surveyed retailers.
-) The majority of retailers (59%) are not using online marketplaces to sell their products.
-) Most retailers (74%) manage their CSE feeds in-house, whilst only 13% use specialist feed optimisation companies.

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