A new Ofcom report has shown that broadband services in the UK are among the best in Europe. The research also highlighted the fact 81% of Brits go online at least once a week. According to the Ofcom report, UK consumers also benefit from some of the lowest prices in Europe in terms of broadband [...]
Christmas 2012 smashed all previous ecommerce records in the UK, according to a new report. Boxing Day in particular saw a huge number of punters flock to a variety of online retailers. The report from Experian Hitwise showed that consumers spent a staggering 14m hours surfing the Web and made a whooping 113m visits to [...]
Christmas day once again saw the record shattered for new smart device activation and app downloads on both iOS and Android platforms. The report from mobile analytics firm Flurry, showed a staggering 17.4 million devices were activated on December 25 this year – a 332% increase on the period from December 1 – 20. The [...]
With the festive holidays now just a couple of weeks away, many shoppers across the United Kingdom are doing their best to avoid the mad rush of the high streets by doing their gift shopping online – as has been the case for a number of years. However, according to a number of recent studies, [...]
In excess of a third of the most popular UK online retailers have been told to change their websites by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT). The OFT found that 62 out of the 156 sites checked in total might not be in full compliance with the consumer protection laws currently in place. It checked [...]
Search engine giant Google is set to overtake Facebook as the biggest earner for US display adverts in 2012. A recent forecast provided by eMarketer displayed that Google is expected to earn around $2.31 billion from display ads – a share of around 15.4 per cent of the total amount spent on display advertising in [...]
Statistics released by Google have revealed that many people who use the internet on their smartphones are engaging with online marketing services delivered through the platform. According to the company's survey, 82 per cent of mobile phone users noticed the ads they were served with, while half of users took some form of action, Search…
Retailers looking to improve their internet marketing services may like to consider the possibilities afforded by mobile platforms, as new figures have shown this area is experiencing large growth. According to the British Retail Consortium (BRC), queries from such devices accounted for 11 per cent of all retail searches in the first quarter of 2011,…
Online marketing services providers may be interested in a new report that has forecast spending on search in the US will reach almost $20 billion (£12.11 billion) this year. According to the State of Search Marketing report, produced by Econsultancy and Sempo, more than half of firms (54 per cent) expect to put more money…
Search engine Yahoo! has revealed that its revenues from the online marketing services it provides were down in the first quarter of the year compared with the same period 12 months ago. The firm reported total revenues of $1.06 billion (£647 million) for the first three months of 2011, a six per cent decline from…