Top 10 Local US Markets by Smartphone and Tablet Penetration
Smartphone penetration continues to grow, exceeding 65% of the US mobile subscriber market during the fourth quarter of 2013, according to comScore. A recent report [download page] from Nielsen pegs...
View ArticleSuper Bowl 2014 Ads: Facts and Figures (Updated)
The mountain of analysis concerning the Super Bowl and its ads continues to pour in. With a record average of 112.2 million viewers for the game, per Nielsen’s adjusted tally, brands had an opportunity...
View ArticleCPG Marketers Distributed 315 Billion Coupons in 2013, Up 3.3% Y-O-Y
CPG coupon distribution volume rebounded in 2013, rising for the first time in a couple of years, according to NCH Marketing Services’s annual report. The 315 billion coupons distributed represented a...
View ArticleFewer Valentine’s Day Celebrants This Year, But They Plan To Spend More
Some 53.8% of American adults plan to celebrate Valentine’s Day this year, a marked decrease from 59.9% last year and upwards of 60% in earlier years, per results from the NRF’s annual study. But while...
View ArticleAdvertisers’ Highest-Rated Media Brands in 2013
Meredith was the best media company partner for advertising companies last year, toppling the 2012 winner, Google, according to a survey of thousands of top-tier advertising (marketing and agency)...
View ArticleTop 10 Broadcast TV Engagement, Week of Jan. 20-26, 2014
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...
View ArticleTop 10 Cable TV Engagement, Week of Jan. 20-26, 2014
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...
View ArticleTotal Consumer Savings From CPG Coupons Fell Again in 2013
Despite a growing amount of CPG coupons distributed by marketers last year, American consumers redeemed the fewest amount (2.8 billion) in at least 5 years, according to a study from NCH Marketing...
View ArticleOnline Americans Say They Hold Generally Favorable Views of Mobile Marketing
Mobile is one of marketers’ most exciting opportunities this year, according to recent research, but are consumers resistant to being marketed to on mobile? Not so, say newly-released survey results...
View ArticleBrand Leaders in Meeting Customers’ Expectations
In its latest customer loyalty index [pdf], Brand Keys indicates that consumers have never had higher emotional expectations from brands – but that brands’ ability to meet those expectations hasn’t...
View ArticleWhat Affects Shoppers’ Image of a CPG Brand the Most?
A recently-released study [pdf] released by the Path to Purchase Institute (P2PI) in collaboration with CROSSMARK and Marketing Werks touts the value of experiential marketing by way of some...
View ArticleMore Data Supports Personalization of Emails
Research released last year by MailChimp and by MailerMailer supported the notion that personalized emails drive higher responses rates. A new study [download page] from Experian Marketing Services...
View ArticleOnline Merchants Report Increasing Value of Paid Search in 2013
E-commerce trends seen earlier in the year held true in Q4 and for 2013 overall, according to [download page] MarketLive’s latest Performance Index. Namely, for those online merchants comprising the...
View ArticleSharing Social Content on Twitter: Networks Used by Marketers at Mid-Size...
After examining the Twitter activity of North American marketing executives in general (Q1 2013), digital marketers (Q2 2013), and B2B marketers (June-August), LeadTail and DNN have set their sights on...
View ArticleMore Brands Promote Pinterest in Email Campaigns
Some 94% of brands display or promote social networks in their email marketing efforts, says Experian Marketing Services in its latest annual Email Market Study [download page] covering 2013 activity....
View ArticleWhat America’s Mass Affluent Are Up To Online
America’s “Mass Affluent” represent 12% of US households but enjoy an outsized 26% of the nation’s total wealth, says Nielsen [download page] in a new report. This group – which is defined as...
View ArticleTop 10 Brand Movers, January 2014
Note: Compete‘s clickstream data are collected from a 2,000,000 member panel of U.S. Internet users (about a 1% sample), using diverse sources. Using statistical normalization methodology, Compete...
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