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Marketers’“Single Most Exciting Opportunity For 2014″ Is…
What are marketers most excited about this year? That was one question posed by Econsultancy and Adobe in their latest quarterly intelligence briefing [download page]. The most accurate answer is… that...
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1 in 5 Social Network Users Likely to Make A Purchase Directly On A Social...
While there is plenty of research out there looking at social’s role (or lack thereof) as an e-commerce traffic driver (with the focus on the last click likely undervaluing social’s role in the...
View ArticleTop 10 Broadcast TV Engagement, Week of Jan. 6-12, 2014
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Source: Rentrak. Content in Rentrak updates is produced and/or compiled by Rentrak Corporation and its TV Essentials data collection and analytical service. The “Stickiness” Index is the average...
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“TV Everywhere” Moving the Needle in Pay-TV Satisfaction
Pay-TV providers suffer from chronically low customer satisfaction ratings, but new research from GfK suggests that “TV Everywhere” (TVE) deployments might be giving them a boost. According to GfK’s...
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Who Has The Most Credible Voice When Speaking About Companies?
Traditional media and online search engines are the most trusted forms of media for “informed publics” looking for general news and information, according to the “2014 Edelman Trust Barometer.” But...
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Social Revenue-per-Visit: Tumblr Overtakes Twitter, Pinterest
Social networks referred a “record amount” of revenue to US retail sites during the fourth quarter of 2013, reports Adobe in its latest social intelligence report [pdf]. But none of the major...
View ArticleTop 10 TV Programs on Twitter, Week of Jan. 20-26, 2014
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View ArticleTop 10 at Domestic Film Box Office, Weekend of Jan. 24-26, 2014
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6 in 10 Agency Media Buyers See Negative Impact of Bot Traffic on Campaigns
Last month, Solve Media reported that a slim majority of US web traffic could be deemed “suspicious,” representing a new high for potentially fraudulent traffic. It seems that online publishers and...
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Online Video Ad Types Ranked by Appeal to Viewers
Online video ad views have gone on a tear in the past few months, with the growth in ad views outpacing content view increases by a significant margin. In a recent study, Yahoo looked at the online...
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Phone Calls Still Consumers’ Preferred Method of Contacting Businesses
Demand for customer service via social media is on the rise, but consumers still find good old phone calls to be the best way to contact businesses, according to a study from NewVoiceMedia. Some 45% of...
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Spending Philosophy Differs Across Generations, But All Turn More Practical
A slight majority – 53% – of Millennials (born 1981-1995) say they have a “live for today” spending philosophy, a mindset which is not shared by older generations, according to a study [pdf] released...
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StumbleUpon Refers More Traffic to Publishers Than Reddit, YouTube, LinkedIn...
Shareaholic has released its latest set of data concerning social referral traffic to publishers, and while Facebook’s share of site visits retreated a little after a surge in November, it remains the...
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Viewability of Display Ads Placed Through Direct Publishers Continues to Improve
About 2 in 3 ads placed through direct publishers stayed in-view for at least 1 second during the fourth quarter of 2013, representing continued improvement from 61% in the first half (H1) of 2013, 56%...
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Mobile Now A Majority of Facebook’s Ad Revenues
Facebook has crossed a threshold of sorts, with mobile now comprising a majority 53% share of its growing ad revenues, according to the company’s latest earnings release. That represents a hefty rise...
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Tablet Owners’ Content and Experience Preferences When Browsing the Web
A new study [download page] from Usablenet finds that the majority of tablet users surveyed in the US and UK generally want the websites they visit on tablets to have the same content they see on...
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Social Networks Play A Leading Role in Online Video Discovery
How do frequent online video viewers find the content they watch? Yahoo posed the question to 1,775 consumers aged 16-44 who watch online video at least several times a week, finding that almost 8 in...
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Millionaires per Capita: Which States Have the Most – and the Fewest?
Last year, almost 5.2% of the US’ 119.2 million households had more than $1 million in investable assets, according to [pdf] a study from Phoenix Marketing International (PMI). But those per capita...
View ArticleTop 10 Broadcast TV Engagement, Week of Jan. 13-19, 2014
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