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. PLA dominated traffic generation for Q4 2013...
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.
Fully one-quarter of newspapers studied have no Pinterest presence whatsoever. Pinterest exploded onto the social networking scene last year, after a closed beta launch late in 2010. The UK study discovered links to web pages from the Dailymail.co...
Advertising revenue represented 86 percent of total revenue and a 36 percent increase from the same quarter last year. Payments and other fees revenue for the third quarter was $176 million, a 13 percent increase over the same quarter in the prior...
The reported Q3 2012 $14.10 billion in revenue is another new record and reflects a 45 percent increase over the same quarter last year. As we reported last quarter, this was to be the first reporting period with Motorola completely factored in.
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...
The second quarter of 2012 looked a lot better than the first for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) using Facebook as a direct selling tool. Last quarter, we spoke with Ruslan Fazlyev, CEO and founder of Ecwid, Inc.on his outlook for F...
It still only accounts for around a quarter of total usage however and has perhaps already come close to its saturation point. Additionally, many users speak English as a second language. And that can make it worth every last bit of extra effort.
According to Facebook, revenue from advertising was $992 million, representing 84 percent of total revenue and a 28 percent increase from the same quarter last year. Payments and other fees revenue for the second quarter was $192 million.
The Q2 2012 $12.21 billion in revenue is another new record and reflects a 35 percent increase over the same quarter last year, when Motorola is factored in. Google-owned sites generated revenues of $7.54 billion, or 69% of Google revenues, in the...
Amid an otherwise strong earnings report, Google for the second consecutive quarter announced CPC prices were down, by 12 percent year over year for the quarter. Aggregate paid clicks rose 39 percent over Q1 of last year.
Google revenues topped $10 billion for the second quarter in a row, coming in only slightly higher than their Q4 2011 $10.58 billion. The Q1 2012 $10.65 billion in revenue is a new record and reflects a 24 percent increase over the same quarter...
In November, the company was said to have been targeting the second quarter of 2012 for its stock offering. Last year, social networking site LinkedIn saw its share price double within minutes of trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
Though I personally would prefer far fewer marketplace train wrecks in this last quarter. But as we enter the fourth quarter, which is typically a time when momentum gets lost as thoughts turn to "how much budget is left to find booze for the...
Yahoo's second quarter 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 second quarter.
Compared to the second quarter of last year, Q2 of 2011 saw just a 7 percent growth, compared to a 26 percent growth in the first quarter of 2011. A new study from Covario examining search advertising trends for high-tech industries shows intensely...
With only a quarter of Brazilian households hooked up to fixed broadband, mobile Internet seems poised to connect many more to the net. The most popular online community by a landslide 80 percent market share is Google's Orkut, while last year...
The scary stat is the fact that this number was 96 percent more than in the same quarter in the previous year. Growth in the fourth quarter of 2010 took the total value of China's search market to 3.85 billion yuan, according to Enfodesk.
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).
