"You don't need to eat the elephant in one bite," M^2 CEO Madan Bharadwaj said during a Yelp Ad Summit on Thursday.
A survey by user-generated mapping platform Atly suggests an "alarming level of distrust" in Google Maps, mostly based on outdated location-based search and saving methods.
More than half of survey respondents said online reviews need to be posted within the past month to be relevant.
Some 88% of respondents to a survey said it's important to understand how online review platforms determine reliability of reviews, and 85% said they trust written reviews more than a star rating.
The PowerReviews study reveals that when product Q&As are missing, one in four online shoppers question the quality of the brand.
Data from Milestone research shows local is the second-largest channel behind organic search. The two organic channels combined dominate the traffic at 69%, in page views, and channel revenue
contribution.
Birdeye analyzed data from more than 60,000 businesses to understand the pandemic's impact on reviews related to retail, automotive, healthcare and beauty and wellness. Google, rather than Facebook or
Yelp, had a greater impact due to reviews.
Netflix accounted for the top seven of 10 most in-demand original series.
Uberall on Wednesday announced the appointment of Greg Sterling to the team in the newly created position of VP, market insights.
Only half of UK consumers would consider buying from a company with a rating of less than four stars, new research from search agency BrightLocal suggests, according to Netimperative.
A recent analysis found that some 46% of listings featured missing information such as a phone number or hours of operation, while 51% had misspelled names, wrong addresses, or other errors. Only 3%
of the listings were completely accurate.
"Which?" magazine is claiming Amazon is awash with fake five-star reviews, the BBC reports. The consumer magazine claims that 87% of the reviews it investigated were from sources that were not
verified for having made a purchase.