When you lead a paid search team, it’s tempting to sit back and breathe a sigh of relief when a major Google algorithm update like Hummingbird is announced. Let the SEO’s handle this one, right? After all, we’re still recovering from Enhanced Campaigns. Tempting, perhaps, but certainly not wise. Any change to the way Google […]
In my last post, I discussed the results of the 2013 Mobile Path-to-Purchase Study done by xAd and Telmetrics. The study found that mobile users were increasingly using their devices to initiate the purchase process, but how those purchases were completed differed depending on whether they were using a smartphone or a tablet. Another element of the […]
I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not a very big tech geek. While I spend most of my workday immersed in fancy Excel formulas and spend a good chunk of my evenings cuddled up with my laptop, that’s about where it ends. My cell phone is not-so-smart and I don’t even own an […]
Today Google announced some of the biggest changes to its Adwords platform in recent memory. With the rollout of what it’s calling Enhanced Campaigns, the search giant is doing a pretty dramatic 180 in its approach to the increasingly critical mobile space. Effective for everyone in June of this year and available as an option to all […]
If 2012 was the Year of Mobile, 2013 will be the Year of Mobile Done Better… But before we look at 2013, let’s travel back a decade. Remember the days when a cell phone was a somewhat foreign device you kept tucked away in a safe place, only to see the light of day in […]
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 behaviour at the point of purchase in order to keep a pulse on how consumers use digital 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 […]