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Facebook DOMINATES Google+, Tumblr, And Pinterest (GOOG)

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-facebook-dominates-google-tumblr-and-pinterest-2012-2

Facebook is absolutely dominating other social networks — with users spending more than 6 hours on the site for the month of January, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.

comScore released some new data on social media site usage for the month of January. The next closest competitor is Tumblr — where users only spent about an hour and a half in January.

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Wednesday, February 29th, 2012 news No Comments

Android’s Marketshare Collapses For The First Time Ever

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-android-ios-2012-1

Android’s share of the the U.S. smartphone market collapsed for the first time ever in November and October as consumers bought up the iPhone 4S. Now that Apple sells the iPhone on Verizon, Sprint and AT&T, it actually closed the gap on Android.

The big question for Apple: Is this is a short term jolt driven by the iPhone 4S which came out in October, or is it a long term trend?

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Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 news No Comments

Groupon’s Revenue Mysteriously Collapsed To Close Out November (GRPN)

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-2012-1

Ugly chart for Groupon from daily deals aggregator Yipit. According to its data, Groupon’s gross billings, or gross revenue, fell 46% in the last week of November. Yipit says November’s revenue was up 6% overall.

What happened to close the month? Yipit doesn’t say, but if we were to speculate, we’d say there’s a chance Groupon users found plenty of deals elsewhere on Black Friday and just skipped out on Groupon. Another explanation: Maybe people didn’t buy Groupons as presents because it would look cheap.

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Thursday, January 5th, 2012 news No Comments

Apple Kills The Text Message (AAPL)

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-apple-kills-the-overpriced-text-message-2012-1

Apple’s iMessage is killing off the overpriced text message, at least for a narrow group of iPhone owners.

Graphic designer Neven Mrgan posted this chart showing how his text messaging use changed after Apple released iOS 5 with iMessage. As you can see, it dropped dramatically.

Most of Mrgan’s friends are iPhone owners, so iMessaging is free between them. If you own an iPhone but most of your friends are on Android, RIM, or feature phones, you’re still going to have to pay for text messages.

Regardless, the writing is on the wall for text messaging. Carriers are going to be losing one of their easiest sources of profits.

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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012 news No Comments

Hopefully You’re Not A Short Term Investor In Tech IPOs (P, JIVE, DMD, GRPN, ZNGA, LNKD)

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-hopefully-youre-not-a-short-term-investor-in-tech-ipos-2011-12

From Demand Media to LinkedIn to Pandora to Groupon, and then Zynga and Jive, 2011 was the year private companies finally started breaking into the public markets.

It’s all set up for next year when Facebook finally IPOs. That should be one of the biggest, most interesting events of the year.

But before we jump into 2012′s IPO market, we’re taking a look at how investors treated this year’s IPOs. As you can see, buying into a tech IPO on the open market was a losing move. (Of course, buying into any stock and hoping to win the investing game is a losing move.)

Will these crappy short term stock performances affect the next wave of IPOs? We doubt it. Each company is different. And Facebook is the big one everyone has been excited about.

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Friday, December 30th, 2011 news No Comments

Search as Research – Using Search for Continuous Consumer Insights

Chocolate Covered Cherries – every December

Chocolate Covered Strawberries – every February

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Condos – search volume drops dramatically into the 3rd and 4th quarters

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Related search for COPD drugs Advair, Spiriva, and Symbicort. The related searches reveal what users were actually looking for when they searched the base term.

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Sunday, December 4th, 2011 analytics, news No Comments

Developers Are Excited About The Kindle Fire (AMZN, AAPL)

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-kindle-fire-developer-interest-2011-11

Before the Kindle Fire even hits the market, it is drawing considerable interest from developers, according to an IDC poll of 2,160 developers.

The Fire is second behind the Galaxy Tab as the Android tablet developers are most interested in doing work for. Not a huge endorsement considering how weak the Android tablet app market is, but IDC says the level of interest is equal to what Apple had with the iPad pre-launch.

If the Amazon is going to have a long term life in the tablet market, it’s going to need developers building apps for its tablets.

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Monday, November 14th, 2011 news No Comments

Search Ads versus Display Ads

UPDATED: April 10, 2012

AdSafe study shows that a quarter of display ads are never in view on publishers’ websites. And it gets worse from there — 41% never in view for content networks and 46% never in view for ad exchanges. Users are there to view content, not ads. And they are conditioned to avoid the top, right side, and bottoms of web pages (see eye tracking at the bottom of this post).

Image Source: http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?id=1008965

ORIGINAL POST: March 25, 2011

Hands down, search ads beat display ads in click through rates (CTRs). In every one of the examples below and the several dozen more that I did not screen shot, search is more effective than display because the ads are brought up when the user types in the search term and are looking for something, vs display which is served up alongside content.

Facebook display advertising click through rates are even sadder (i.e. worse) as you can see from the chart below — like an order of magnitude

lower (0.024%)

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Eye tracking studies show that most users are already conditioned to avoid looking at the top and right side of web pages because they know that is where banner ads or display ads go.

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Friday, March 25th, 2011 analytics 1 Comment

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/xZHNT92BICw/bing-could-catch-yahoo-by-the-end-of-the-year

Since Microsoft’s Bing search engine launched last summer, it has gained market share at the expense of Yahoo. If the trends stay consistent, Bing could pass Yahoo in the U.S. by the end of November.

To be sure, some (most?) of Microsoft’s gains have come with an expense: The company is buying up toolbar deals to become the default search engine for more users — less-valuable, paid traffic that Yahoo seems happy to give up. And Microsoft has spent a lot of money advertising Bing.

But there’s no doubt that Yahoo’s declining search business, long term, is bad news for the company. Especially because its deal to farm out its search technology to Bing will only generate revenue for searches conducted through Yahoo, not through Bing, even though Yahoo is selling the ads on Bing.

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Friday, January 15th, 2010 digital No Comments

The Ten Commandments of Modern Marketing

Thou shalt not target customers with messages they don’t want.
Thou shalt be truthful.
Thou shalt respect your customers.
Thou shalt make it easy for people to find you.
Thou shalt be useful.
Thou shalt make it easy for people to pass along.
Thou shalt measure and optimize.
Thou shalt listen to customers.
Thou shalt remove any organizational barriers to speedy, collaborative innovation.
Thou shalt not do brand-ing.

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Thou shalt not target customers with messages they don’t want.

Thou shalt be truthful.

Thou shalt respect your customers.

Thou shalt make it easy for people to find you.

Thou shalt be useful.

Thou shalt make it easy for people to pass along.

Thou shalt measure and optimize.

Thou shalt listen to customers.

Thou shalt remove any organizational barriers to speedy, collaborative innovation.

Thou shalt not do brand-ing.

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