CPC rates saw a general increase cross the board during the last quarter. Amazon Product Ads had the best conversion rates for Q4 2012, notably even beating its own numbers for the previous quarter. Q3 2012 marked Google Shopping first recorded...
The stock has lost more than a quarter of its value in the following weeks. Investors seemed pleased despite Facebook’s $59 million loss, compared to a $227 million profit for the same quarter in 2011, before they became a public company.
Its three components will be rolled out in phases beginning in the firstquarter of 2013. The first component is the ability to build on the current Conversation Ads offering by letting people in a Skype conversation share and collaborate on content.
Research firm IDC said that the Google mobile OS is the first to surpass 100 million quarterly shipments in a single quarter. Second in the quarter was Apple's iPhone. The company noted that Android also saw its shipments rise by 91.5 percent over...
Payments and other fees revenue for the third quarter was $176 million, a 13 percent increase over the same quarter in the prior year and a 9 percent decline sequentially from the secondquarter of 2012.
As we reported last quarter, this was to be the first reporting period with Motorola completely factored in. Google revenues from outside of the United States totaled $6.11 billion, representing 53% of total Google revenues in the third quarter of...
Their recent analysis of "tens of millions" of consumer-generated search engine results pages from the last quarter of 2011 highlights a few interesting insights for marketers. In search marketing, the difference between a first and second place...
Set Targets With Reasoning for Each guesstimates” with reasoning for each in order to make analysis that much easier come month, quarter, and year-end. Filter First, Group Second, Then Segment Although few of us can claim mastery of all of these...
The secondquarter of 2012 looked a lot better than the first for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) using Facebook as a direct selling tool. The firstquarter of this year saw that rise to 17.7 percent and settle at its current high of 22.1...
Payments and other fees revenue for the secondquarter was $192 million. On net income, Facebook reported: “GAAP net loss for the secondquarter was $157 million, compared to net income of $240 million for the secondquarter of 2011.
Google revenues from outside of the United States totaled $5.96 billion, representing 54% of Google revenues in the secondquarter of 2012, compared to 54% in the firstquarter of 2012 and 54% in the secondquarter of 2011.
Retail e-commerce sales in the U.S.in the firstquarter of 2012 alone surpassed $53 billion. Google’s second acquisition of the year is trust seal provider KikScore, based out of Washington, D.C.and Denver.
Google revenues topped $10 billion for the secondquarter in a row, coming in only slightly higher than their Q4 2011 $10.58 billion. Google-owned sites generated revenues of $7.31 billion, or 69% of total revenues, in the firstquarter of 2012.
They also forecast the global smart mobile market will reach one billion devices in either the first or secondquarter of 2013. Smart mobile devices will account for 25 percent of all paid search ad clicks in Google’s network by December 2012, up...
Dell is also becoming a more common brand name in China, with Dell's Chinese sales growing by 22 percent in the firstquarter of this year. China is the world's second largest smartphone market, and it's currently dominated by Apple.
Yahoo's secondquarter report doesn't look pretty at first glance: GAAP revenue is down 23 percent. Microsoft then receives 12 percent of the generated ad revenue, which totaled to $36 million in the secondquarter.
Compared to the secondquarter of last year, Q2 of 2011 saw just a 7 percent growth, compared to a 26 percent growth in the firstquarter of 2011. A new study from Covario examining search advertising trends for high-tech industries shows intensely...
But Volkswagen will score in the second and fourth quarter with two spots that are already generating more buzz in social media and are likely to win first and second place when the game is over. Now, Audi will score first by running it's 60-second...
But whatever we think of Google, the company is still raking in billions every quarter and users haven't started abandoning their search product in droves (they just gained market share last month, again).