We’re all doing it: working on our laptop or desktop, but navigating, shopping and socializing on our phones or tablets. The mobile web is the same Internet we’ve come to know and love, but we’re finding radically different ways to use it. Sometimes our behaviour shapes the medium, and sometimes the medium changes us. What […]
Coming seemingly on the heels of AT&T’s directory business acquisition by YP Holdings, DexOne and SuperMedia today announced a company merger expected to be complete by the end of 2012. The newly merged company will become known as DexMedia. It is expected that the media properties that each company owns (i.e. supermedia.com; dexknows.com; switchboard, etc) […]
DAC/Kantar Media’s yearly media usage study looks at buying behavior separately in the U.S. and Canada. The two countries share a border, but do they share the same media usage habits? In many questions, the similarities between American and Canadian respondents were striking. However, there are still some notable differences between U.S. and Canadian shoppers. […]
Apple’s recent launching of its own mapping software, to replace the default Google Maps on iPhone and iPad devices, has been described by industry pundits and observers as the latest escalation in a war that is heating up between the two technology giants. Both companies have been focusing on mobile for several years now, and […]
Each year, DAC sets out to study consumer behavior at the point of purchase in order to keep a pulse on how consumers use media in their purchase decisions. The study is the largest of its kind with a sample size of over 5000 across the United States and Canada. Some of the dynamics explored […]
Search is the world’s biggest focus group. Speakers kept returning to this one phrase during yesterday’s Google thinkperformance Toronto event. Yes, we love numbers. We are at our core a bunch of data geeks. But yesterday was more about the human element; how data can help us understand our user, how it can help us […]
DAC held an American Marketing Association (AMA) lunch series session titled “Digital Lead Generation Minus the Guesswork” yesterday at the Doubletree Hotel in Cleveland. DAC’s Vice-President of Client Strategy Nasser Sahlool led the afternoon seminar. Topics discussed included: digital trends, SoLoMo – Social, Local and Mobile channels, methodologies to succeed in a dynamic digital environment, […]
There seem to be two types of companies: Those who get mobile, and those who don’t. It’s often a function of cost: they’re investing in search, SEO, local listings and landing pages — and mobile is simply one more line item. If a visitor can already access a site on his or her mobile device, […]
Recently, directory publisher AT&T reached a deal to sell a majority stake of their Yellow Pages division to Cerberus Capital Management, a deal that values the business at about $1.42 billion in equity. They are one of many directory publishers who have had to re-organize their businesses in recent years. For decades, directory publishers have […]
If your business is looking to maximize leads, then it is time to start thinking about how consumers are searching for your business. You should ask yourself “Can our customers easily access our company’s content and contact information from a smartphone?” If not, you could be missing out on potential sales. In the past, it […]