consumer behavior
Google’s Mobile Sales Head: US Smartphone Ownership Grew 7% Last Year — Plus, Predictions
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Jason Spero, Google’s head of mobile sales and strategy, will be taking the stage at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona later today, where he’ll be revealing new research about smartphone growth and making some predictions about what we’ll be seeing in the mobile world over the next year. In...
Glam Media cooks up new Foodie.com social site
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After months of silence, Glam Media finally revealed its plans for the company’s next big site launch, Foodie. Glam purchased the Foodie.com domain for $100,000 back in June 2011, which VentureBeat broke the news of. At the time, we theorized that the company was planning some sort of gender-neutral...
Apple Beats Out Google, Amazon For Highest Corporate Reputation Score
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Apple took the top spot from Google for the highest corporate reputation score, according to the 2012 Harris Poll Reputation Quotient, a survey which measures corporate reputation for brands and companies in the U.S. The poll asks the general public to measure the reputations of the 60 most visible companies...
Virgin becomes first UK service provider to block The Pirate Bay
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Mere days after the UK's High Court ruled that internet service providers must block access to file-sharing site The Pirate Bay, Virgin Media has erected the first walls. Visitors to the site are now redirected to the page above; clicking through to the top link gives users a notice...
Think Insights now includes research from 21 countries
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Whether you’re a marketer in Milan or a planner in Pretoria, you can now get your hands on more Google research and tools to help you better understand your audience and how consumer behavior is changing. Our Think Insights website has just expanded to cover 21 different countries across Europe, the...
Social Media Is Key for Marketers (But Not How You Might Think)
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NEW YORK — In the middle of the real social-media boom, advertisers and marketers are still getting a feel for how it can best be used to reach their audiences. Curtis Hougland, the CEO of the PR firm Attention, told Wired’s Disruptive by Design business conference Tuesday that much...
Bridging The Digital Divide – From Consumer Data To Consumer Engagement
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Consumer behavior has been in constant flux since the beginning of the Internet, but perhaps more than ever before, consumers today are setting the pace for digital marketers with the rapid evolution in how they shop online, connect with friends, and engage with content and advertising. They are in... Please...
Digging data: Media giant Hearst acquires 20% stake in the UK’s Stylus Media Group
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American media conglomerate Hearst Corporation has announced that it has acquired a 20% stake in Stylus Media Group, a London-based consumer intelligence provider. Hearst is one of the US’s largest media and information companies, and currently owns 15 daily and 37 weekly newspaper titles, including the Houston Chronicle and San...
Tablet adoption to grow by 40 percent by 2016, report says
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Rapid tablet adoption over the next four years could be accredited to shifts in consumer behavior when it comes to productivity and digital content....
New research shows 6 countries are the clear leaders in smartphone adoption. Do you know which ones?
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As smartphones grow in number and importance, finding good data to understand mobile consumer behavior is increasingly important for businesses. Today we are launching the new 2012 Our Mobile Planet smartphone research for 26 countries at thinkwithgoogle.com/mobileplanet. Altogether Our Mobile Planet provides free access to unique data for a...
New research shows 6 countries are the clear leaders in smartphone adoption. Do you know which ones?
Make your business’ data pretty with Roambi’s new iPad app platform
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Business intelligence app-maker MeLLmo, the creator of ultra-hot business iPad app Roambi, has launched a new app-building platform called ESX that will let other companies tap Roambi’s ability to make data gorgeous and accessible. Roambi ESX will give companies that sell data for a living a way to create...
Local Consumer Review Survey 2012 – Part 2
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In March, we published the findings of Part 1 of the Local Consumer Review Survey 2012. Part 1 dealt with the consumption of online reviews and the influence they have on consumer behavior & purchase of local business services. You can view the key findings and analysis here on Search...
Cable companies get a DoJ inquiry, will cord cutters get a respite?
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The Department of Justice is looking into cable providers’ power over how and where consumers can access television content via the Internet, according to the Wall Street Journal. It’s a step that finally acknowledges the vertical integration of cable providers as well as their ability to influence consumer behavior because of...
When Will Fashion Tech Just Be Fashion?
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Speaking at Peter Thiel’s class at Stanford last week, investor and entrepreneur Mark Andreessen called out retail as a “particularly promising” vertical for tech innovation. We’re seeing and will continue to get e-commerce 2.0, that is, e-commerce that’s not just for nerds. The 1.0 was search driven. You go to...
Facebook Needs To Figure Out How To Turn Socializing Into Shopping
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In the past year, Gamestop, Gap, JC Penny and Nordstrom - to name a few - have pulled the plug on storefronts they had set up on Facebook. There are other retailers on the list who have gotten fed up with their efforts to sell on Facebook, and without changes,...
How Mobile is Being Used in the Middle East
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Outside the United States and Western Europe and parts of Asia, mobile advertisers are just beginning to find their legs. Smartphone sales are popping internationally, and that is beginning to create entire new industries and market segments to be sliced and diced for analysis. In particular, mobile usage is...
The state of mobile payments: No more waiting on NFC
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Last year, I wrote an article for VentureBeat about how mobile phones and near field communication (NFC) technology could enhance the payments experience. I included a couple of important caveats: NFC technology, in and of itself, is not compelling enough to change consumer behavior away from using credit cards and...
With ad-saving business slow, Adkeeper expands to email, Pinterest
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When Adkeeper launched as a virtual ad-clipping service last February, the big question was: will people actually want to save online ads? More than one year later, the company still says the answer is “yes.” But they’re finding that consumer behavior isn’t changing as fast as they’d hoped. So while they...
UK High Court orders ISPs to block The Pirate Bay
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The UK's High Court has just ruled that ISPs must block access to file-sharing site The Pirate Bay within the next few weeks, the BBC reports. The latest court action follows a ruling from the England and Wales High Court that found both the users and operators of TPB...
Talking Less, Paying More for Voice
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The largest U.S. wireless carriers are working on ways to keep their customers paying up for something they do less and less — making phone calls. In a sea change for consumer behavior, the amount of time spent making old-fashioned voice calls has fallen every year since Apple Inc. introduced...
Brands are seeing a greater impact with online video, says report
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Brands across multiple industries are seeing more customers respond to online video than ever before, according to the latest report from research firm 33Across. 33Across measures the consumer behavior for brands, tracking things like blog consumption, search engine usage, content sharing, video watching, and more. The latest report measures...
MOBILE PAYMENTS: What's Taking So Long, And Who's Going To Win?
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Mobile payments: everyone talks about it, but no one knows exactly how it works or who will win In our special report published today, Business Insider Intelligence lays out the four kinds of mobile payment solutions that currently matter: Carrier billing. Where the consumer pays by text message and the...
Rewind.Me Lets You Explore Your Digital History, Then Rewards You For It
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Technology is all about looking to the future, but with so many different virtual identities and social networks it’s tough to keep track of who you’ve spoken with and where you’ve been. The Rewind.Me iOS app, however, lets you dive into your past experiences by pulling in your social network...
This Lucrative iPad Feature May Surprise You
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The new iPad's debut triggered comparisons to how it stacks up to prior versions: Camera. Battery life. Price. Storage. But there's an easily overlooked feature of the iPad that makes it attractive to major retailers: it's portable and comfortable enough to shop in bed. At least one study shows...
Here Are Four Reasons To Come To The Mobile Advertising Conference
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Hear from Bravo, 1-800-Flowers, the NHL and other brands at the Mobile Advertising conference on June 14, 2012 in New York. From branded apps to geo-targeting, from mobile video to iPad--find out the most successful strategies at Mobile Advertising.Brands, publishers and technologists in mobile advertising will convene June 14...
Video game consoles are growing energy hogs
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The amount of energy consumed by video game consoles has increased by almost 50 percent between 2007 and 2010 in the U.S., according to a report out from Carnegie Mellon University (hat tip CNET). As of 2010 game consoles consumed 16 TWh of energy in the U.S., which is about...
FCC Chairman is still cool with data caps
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FCC Chairman Julis Genachowski Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski reiterated his acceptance of broadband data caps and tiered pricing, at The Cable Show held today in Boston. In an interview with the National Cable and Telecommunications Association Chair (and a former FCC chairman himself) Michael Powell, Genachowski said he was...
Gartner: Mobile payments will top $171B this year, despite fragmentation
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The current state of the mobile payment industry could at best be called slightly confounding, or, at worst, a complete mess. But in spite of increased competition from stakeholders like Square, PayPal, Google, Mastercard, Intuit and, most recently, Verifone, the mobile payments industry is still set for some major growth. According to Gartner...
Hearst Takes 20% Stake in Stylus Media
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Publisher Hearst Corp. has acquired a 20% stake in Stylus Media Group, an online subscription service that tracks consumer behavior and trends for people who work in retail, technology and hospitality, among other industries, the two companies said. Financial terms were not disclosed. The investment was made through the publisher’s...
Digital game sales reach $3.3B in U.S. and Europe in Q4
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Digital game sales reached a total of $3.33 billion in the fourth quarter in U.S. and Europe, according to the NPD Group. That number is up 9 percent in the U.S. from a year ago, though comparison data isn’t available for Europe. The numbers show that digital games — excluding...
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