Apparel & Fashion was the second largest sub-category (to Consumer Electronics) in terms of the total number of active advertisers in 2012 and it was easily the most dynamic sub-category, with one quarter of the advertisers in 2012 not appearing...
Microsoft Reports Third-Quarter Results – Microsoft News Center"The Online Services Division reported revenue of $832 million, an 18% increase from the prior year period. Reports First Quarter 2013 Results – Yahoo Investor RelationsYahoo reported...
Online commerce continues to growth in the double digits every quarter, and with more money being spent online, online vendors are constantly being presented with the opportunity to increase their online sales.
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.
Its three components will be rolled out in phases beginning in the first quarter of 2013. The second component is sponsored content that would encourage interlocutors to share it. Venkatachalam said that a large and growing percent of portion of...
The company noted that Android also saw its shipments rise by 91.5 percent over the previous year's quarter, a growth rate roughly double that of the smartphone market as a whole. Second in the quarter was Apple's iPhone.
The average cost per click is now $0.35, down 18.2 percent from the quarter before. Google search ads have a slightly higher conversion rate, at 5.63 percent, compared to 4.68 percent for Google Display Network ads.
Fully one-quarter of newspapers studied have no Pinterest presence whatsoever. In the U.S.the New York Times led, the LA Times was second with 28,567 pins, and Wall Street Journal finished third with 25,140 pins.
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 second quarter of 2012.
Google revenues from outside of the United States totaled $6.11 billion, representing 53% of total Google revenues in the third quarter of 2012, compared to 54% in the second quarter of 2012 and 55 percent in the third quarter of 2011.
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. The second sees 15 percent of the action, the third 9 percent, the...
Revenue for About.com, which has declined to $25.4 million in the second quarter (a drop of 8.7 percent), is generated by advertising (display and click-through), so it follows that it would be negatively affected by a large drop in internet traffic.
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. More businesses are jumping on board, with 26 percent more Facebook stores operating this quarter.
Why, then, the precipitous drop to just 6 percent in the second quarter of this year? Over the past few years, investment in social media by the financial sector grew steadily; by Q4 2011, 22 percent of companies in the financial services sector...
It still only accounts for around a quarter of total usage however and has perhaps already come close to its saturation point. A recent study conducted across the European Union found that only 18 percent of users said they would make online...
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.
Google revenues topped $10 billion for the third quarter in a row, up 15 percent from the $10.65 billion reported in Q1 2012. The Q2 2012 $12.21 billion in revenue is another new record and reflects a 35 percent increase over the same quarter last...
But it still only accounts for around a quarter of total usage, and this proportion is falling. As of June 2012, Karmasnack reported the search engine giant had a whopping 87.6 percent market share worldwide.
Retail e-commerce sales in the U.S.in the first quarter 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.
