Posts tagged with 'stats'
Now it's a few weeks after Christmas, a few more stats on sales figures over the festive period have been released by various retailers and research firms.
Predictions for e-commerce sales were generally rosy in the run up to Christmas, and this seems to have been the case so far...
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by Graham Charlton
15 January 2010 09:34am
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Smartphones have been getting lots of attention lately what with Google's introduction of the Nexus One and all the ballyhooing going on over at CES this week. The world is seemingly poised for yet another "year of mobile" (I'm losing count, but it seems as if that scorecard is well into its second decade). So what are the opportunities? Where are the changes?
A new Questus study sponsored by AOL and Universal McCann takes the temperature of 1,800 smartphone users - because if any audience is not only receptive to, but equipped for mobile marketing messaging, it's very obviously these technology early adopters.
The findings? Heartening, but hardly earthshaking. Herewidth, some of the findings:
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by Rebecca Lieb
08 January 2010 17:37pm
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More people are choosing to do their online shopping on Christmas Day than ever before, with sales rising by 29% to reach £132m.
Boxing Day saw even higher sales of £281m, according to IMRG. These stats are backed up by an eDigitalResearch survey (PDF) of consumers' online activity over Christmas.
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by Graham Charlton
08 January 2010 12:11pm
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Thirty billion - that's a lot of videos. In fact, it's an all-time record for videos viewed online in the U.S., when online video views actually approached a number closer to 31 billion in November. With over 12 billion videos viewed, Google sites accounted for the lion's share of all that goggling. Overall, more than 170 million viewers watched an average 182 videos each.
comScore Video Metrix, which released these figures, also found Hulu achieving new highs with 924 million video views. The average Hulu viewer watched 21.1 videos that, another record for the property. Google video viewers watched an impressive 94.7 videos each on average, however it's notable that the overwhelming majority of these were on YouTube, which generally tends to feature much shorter clips.
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by Rebecca Lieb
07 January 2010 18:53pm
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The retail market is still recovering from the recession, but online there are more than glimmers of hope. Mostly because successful retailers are investing in the space, focusing on making consumers happier and bringing in higher earnings. According to comScore, retail ecommerce hit $29.1 billion this holiday season. That's up 4% since last year. Also important is the fact that consumers are happier with their experiences shopping online — and are likely to spend even more money in the space next year.
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by Meghan Keane
06 January 2010 22:29pm
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The issue of charging for online content is coming to head as companies watch their advertising revenues dip and costs rise. But a new survey from Nielsen provides new hope for content providers looking to monetize in the new economy: consumers are willing to pay for content. But the value of that content differs across media and location.
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by Meghan Keane
06 January 2010 00:30am
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More evidence for the growth of mobile commerce is provided by stats released yesterday which show that 37% of US smartphone users have made a (non-mobile) purchase on their handsets in the last six months.
The Compete stats come from its Smartphone Intelligence Survey. Here are some of the highlights...
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by Graham Charlton
05 January 2010 11:56am
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The average Internet user is now spending 13 hours online per week. And chances are 50/50 they bought something online this past week, too.
The average time spent online increased from 7
hours in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002, to between 8 and 9 hours in 2003,
2004, 2005 and 2006. In 2007, it jumped to 11 hours. Last
year (in October after the financial crisis broke and before the
presidential election) Internet users were online for 14 hours a week,
double the tally from earlier years. These and other findings come from a recent Harris Poll.
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by Rebecca Lieb
23 December 2009 21:52pm
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Predictions for online retail this Christmas have been generally positive, and initial results seem to be bearing this optimism out.
I've gathered together some stats on e-commerce spending for the holiday season so far...
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by Graham Charlton
22 December 2009 09:45am
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The mobile web is poised to be big. Really big. In fact, Morgan Stanley is estimating it's going to be at least twice the size of the "desktop internet." Within five years, the report predicts more users will connect to the web via mobile devices than PCs.
Morgan Stanley's report on the topic is truely massive: a 424 page report covering eight major themes; and an accompanying 659 slide PowerPoint deck. Both are available for download on the company's website.
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by Rebecca Lieb
16 December 2009 15:06pm
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