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Making the most of mobile over the holiday period

With mobile commerce continuing to gather pace through the performance channel, it has been interesting to look back across the past few weeks to analyse the role mobile played over the Easter bank holiday.

With our March stats indicating that traffic through mobile devices reached 21.1% while sales were at 14.2%, it was interesting to see the impact of a long weekend on mobile usage.

We have traditionally seen that consumers turn to mobile devices at weekends. This is not particularly surprising when we consider that office workers step away from their desktops and instead use mobile devices to access the internet.

by Matt Swan 17 April 2013 13:59pm 1 comment

How mobile-optimised sites drive conversion rates and AOVs

Over the past two years we have witnessed traffic through mobile devices increase from 2% to 19% of total network clicks.

If we exclude tablet devices from this equation, traffic through mobile handsets has grown from 1.8% to 11%.

With consumers increasingly using mobile devices to access the internet, it becomes of paramount importance to ensure that the mobile user journey is optimised for this experience.

by Matt Swan 01 March 2013 10:44am 3 comments

Post-Christmas sales and device trends: stats round up

With the festive break all but a distant memory, we have taken the opportunity to look back at our stats across the network for the run up to Christmas as well as the post Christmas sales.

As a company running affiliate campaigns for around half of the UK’s largest retailers as well as over 1,000 SMEs, we are able to interrogate our data to provide some insights into general retail trends over the Christmas and New Year period.

There were a number of predictions and subsequently reports of the largest online shopping days and in this post we are able to look across our advertiser base to identify the peak trading periods.

With consumer behavior shifting and mobile commerce playing a more prominent role, we also look at the device trends during this time.

by Matt Swan 14 January 2013 10:09am 0 comments

10 interesting digital marketing stats we've seen this week

It's been a slow week for marketing stats, but even so here are some of the best we've seen.

Stats include Boxing Day ecommerce traffic, mobile sales and conversions from Affiliate Window, a record week for app downloads and sales data from John Lewis, Amazon and Next.

For more digital marketing stats, check out our Internet Statistics Compendium.

by David Moth 04 January 2013 11:19am 3 comments

Android conversion rates higher than iPhone: stats

There is no escaping the fact that mobile commerce has been experiencing considerable growth. Recent research from Deloitte suggested that mobile devices would influence £3.5bn of retail sales this Christmas.

As well as understanding the anticipated growth of m-commerce, it is also important to recognise the devices that are fuelling this growth.

With targeting capabilities evolving, it is possible to segment audiences based on the device they are visiting through and advertisers are able to capitalise on this through targeted promotions.

by Matt Swan 20 December 2012 15:13pm 1 comment

Mobile conversions from affiliates hit a wall in 2012

New data from Affiliate Window shows that mobile conversion rates have plateaued this year, hovering around the 3% mark since January.

In 2011 mobile conversions increased from around 1.9% in January to more than 3.5% in December, but 2012 has seen a levelling out.

As m-commerce sites are becoming more common, these statistics highlight the difficulty brands face with increasing transactions on mobile.

We recently reviewed the top 20 UK retailers' mobile checkouts and found that in general the sites were user-friendly. But clearly consumers still prefer to make a purchase using a desktop or tablet rather than their mobile.

The AW stats show that August actually saw a slight drop in mobile conversions to 2.84% from 3.14% in July.

by David Moth 17 September 2012 12:31pm 0 comments

Fear Performance Marketing at your Peril

A wise man once said that “you always fear what you don’t understand” and, despite being over a decade since its initial conception, people still fear performance marketing.

The wise man in question was Carmine Falcone in Batman Begins, and for a brutal leader of Gotham’s criminal underworld, his philosophy certainly rings true.

I don’t think there are obvious comparisons to performance marketing and Batman, although it is nice to think that our industry is the anti-hero striving for universal approval, but his simple ethos has been resonating loudly throughout the performance channel recently.

by Nick Caulfield 01 August 2012 11:15am 8 comments

Sales and traffic up from affiliates, but conversions down

Increasing conversions on smartphones is notoriously difficult, with consumers often reverting to desktop or tablets to make a purchase.

This is highlighted by new data from Affiliate Window, which suggests that both traffic and sales through its network have increased in the past six months but conversions are down.

AW’s new white paper, M-Commerce: The Complete Picture, reveals the latest statistics from its affiliate network, as well as more general data on mobile commerce.

Here we look at some of the sales, traffic and conversion stats from AW's own network.

by David Moth 18 June 2012 13:57pm 2 comments

Performance Marketing Awards: the winners

On Tuesday night, the sixth annual Performance Marketing Awards was held in London, attended by more than 800 people and judged by Econsultancy Research Director Linus Gregoriadis, among others.

The event was previously known as the a4u Awards, but the name was changed to broaden the remit of the awards, allowing entrants from the various sub-channels of performance marketing, including social, mobile, email, search and display, not just just the affiliate sector.

by Graham Charlton 17 May 2012 10:24am 0 comments

Mobile sites and affiliate tracking: the stats

With consumer behaviour and shopping habits continually evolving, coupled with the increase in smartphone penetration, more and more consumers are accessing the internet through mobile devices.

This is something that we have been monitoring closely at Affiliate Window for the past 18 months. Back in December 2010 we saw traffic through mobile devices account for 2.4% of all network traffic and 1.7% of all sales.

Fast forward to March 2012 and these figures have grown considerably with 10% of traffic and 6.6% of sales coming through mobile devices.

by Matt Swan 25 April 2012 11:23am 6 comments