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Growth in Time Spent With Apps Not Being Driven by Top Apps
Source: Flurry Notes: Americans spent almost 3 hours per day with mobile apps and the mobile web during Q3 2014, reports Flurry, up by 15 minutes a day from Q1. Increasing time spent with mobile apps...
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Pay-TV Market Shrinks in Q3; Broadband Subs Pick Up Steam
Source: Leichtman Research Group (Pay-TV / Broadband) Notes: The largest pay-TV providers – representing about 95% of the market – shed roughly 150,000 subscribers in Q3, up from a loss of about 25,000...
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What Tech Marketers Want From Their Media Partners – And Why
More than 9 in 10 senior technology marketers believe that it’s critical or very important that their media partners deliver on promises (92%) and demonstrate reach into key targets (91%), according to...
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What Motivates Americans to Engage in Digital Activism?
Among Americans who made a donation in the past 12 months, more gave online (27%) than via regular mail (23%), while about 1 in 1 donated via their mobile device, finds Cone Communications in a new...
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The 10 Most Shared Video Ads of 2014
Source: Unruly Notes: World Cup-related video ads trounced Super Bowl ads in sharing activity across Facebook, Twitter and the blogosphere, says Unruly. Ads related to the World Cup accounted for 4 of...
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Weekend Reading, 11/21/14
Revenues grew last year in each of the nation’s 11 service sectors for employer firms, reports the US Census Bureau in new data from the 2013 Service Annual Survey. The information sector saw revenue...
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7 in 10 Enterprise CEOs Believe They Are Wasting Money on Marketing Initiatives
Some 35% of CEOs at large organizations believe that their marketing’s sales performance is exceeding expectations, while fewer CMOs (26%) agree, according to a Forbes Insights study [download page]...
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Marketers Rate the Most Valuable – and Difficult – Conversion Rate...
89% of company marketers (primarily UK-based) feel that conversion rate optimization is crucial (55%) or important (34%) to their overall digital marketing strategy, and 87% of agency respondents agree...
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Radio Revenues Dip in Q3 Despite Strong Gains in Digital
Source: Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB) [pdf] Notes: US radio industry revenues declined by 2% year-over-year in Q3 following a 3% drop in Q2. Digital (+11%) and off-air (+14%) were bright spots, though...
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3 in 10 American Women Becoming More Careful About Social Posts
Source: Ipsos MediaCT / FleishmanHillard / Hearst Magazines Notes: More than one-third (35%) of American women report having become more concerned about their online privacy over the past year, and...
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Global Consumers’ Perceptions of Private Label Products
Source: Nielsen [download page] Notes: Two-thirds of online consumers surveyed in 60 countries (74% in the US) around the world somewhat or strongly agree that private labels are usually extremely good...
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1 in 3 Marketers Report “Major Uplift” in SEM Conversion Rates From...
Source: Econsultancy / RedEye [download page] Notes: 32% of global company marketers (primarily based in the UK) say they have experienced a “major lift” in search engine marketing conversion rates...
View ArticleTop 10 at Domestic Film Box Office, Weekend of Nov. 21-23, 2014
Content in Rentrak Theatrical box office updates is produced and/or compiled by Rentrak Corporation and its Box Office Essentials theatrical box office data collection and analytical service.
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States of Mind That Lead to Impulse Shopping
Source: CreditCards.com Notes: Youth (18-29) are the most likely to have made an impulse purchase, per the CreditCards.com survey, with 88% claiming to have done so. Among the 3 in 4 respondents who...
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The “Coolest” TV Networks and Services, According to TV Viewers
Source: Ipsos MediaCT Notes: Netflix is among the top-3 “cool” networks or services for a leading 26% of TV viewers aged 18-49, according to results from an Ipsos survey, followed by YouTube (15%) and...
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Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday E-Commerce Results
With Black Friday in the books and Cyber Monday now in full swing, various sources are releasing reports on how the past weekend fared. The consensus appears to be that online – in particular mobile –...
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How Americans Approach Online Consumer Reviews
Almost 8 in 10 American adults read online consumer reviews for product and services before making a purchase, with this figure relatively constant across generations, according to a survey from...
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Content Sharing on Dark Social Channels, by Category
Source: RadiumOne [download page] Notes: Some 84% of global online consumers aged 16 and older report sharing content online, per a Radium One survey, and almost one-third claim to do so exclusively...
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Digital Media Players’ Threat to Regular TV Viewing
Source: GfK Notes: 19% of US households this year own a digital media player such as Apple TV or Roku, representing a significant step up from 12% penetration last year, per GfK. Interestingly, Roku...
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Are Men or Women More Brand-Loyal?
Who’s more brand loyal – men or women? Probably the only real correct answer is that it depends (sorry). And that appears to be the case according to recent study [pdf] results from Ipsos MediaCT,...
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