Baird Capital Analysts late Tuesday lowered stock estimates for a majority of Internet companies the group covers to reflect the impact from a possible mild recession.
Study also underlines the benefits of bundling services, content to increase engagement, retention.
Marketers want more data to guide their decisions about buying online ad space from retailers.
Amazon, Target, and Walmart took the most in ad spend from brands, totaling more than $2.3 billion -- but the percentage in the top five categories differed, according to MediaRadar data.
Tech companies like Google implement controls that allow consumers to see and manage interests associated with them that are used to target ads. How does this awareness impact online behavior?
Amazon aired more total spots than Walmart and Target did on radio, broadcast television and local cable, though its strategy differed from those of its rivals.
After surging during the second and third quarters, the price of digital advertising grew more moderately during the final three months of 2021.
Comparisons with 2020 will be more difficult because the company moved its yearly Prime Day sales event back to its regular schedule in July.
Some 57% of retailers in a survey said most of their customers begin their shopping journey on Google or Amazon. Nearly 1 in 3 retailers with the highest sales performance say they spend too much on
search engine marketing and optimization efforts to garner new prospects, with the remainder most likely to say they are spending slightly too much.
Amazon has the biggest share of the smart-speaker market, but Apple customers are most likely to use voice commands to control other media devices.
An analyst report cites packaged goods marketers doubling ad spending on top retail media platforms.
IBM Watson Advertising today announced the availability of data from The Weather Company, an IBM Business, on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Data Exchange.
Consumers were more likely to open emails related to public events than those offering discounts. Personal-care brands in 2021 shifted the landing pages for their display ads, directing an even bigger
share of web visitors to Target than to Amazon for fulfillment.
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BrightEdge, known for its SEO focus, on Monday released insights on Black Friday and Cyber Monday trends, how Google searches changed on these shopping days, and what marketers can expect in 2022.
Google, Facebook and Amazon attract 46 cents of every dollar spent by advertisers.
There has been a 55% increase in phishing kits imitating Amazon in October and November, Egress reports.
Analysis of internal documents reveals how employees abuse customer data, stalk celebrities, and do little to plug major leaks. The clearance would reduce or eliminate some instances of data
mishandling.
More than half (57%) of survey respondents said they "always" or "frequently" notice product suggestions on the site.
Google and Facebook will continue to dominate the global stage for digital advertising, though retailers are becoming a bigger threat.
Netflix currently has high saturation among the older demographic, particularly in the U.S. But it may have a tough time keeping them in the face of cheaper competitors that offer sports and news.
The PowerReviews study reveals that when product Q&As are missing, one in four online shoppers question the quality of the brand.
What IS surprising: how few brands made their debut in the Brand Keys Loyalty Leader List this year -- the fewest newbies in over a decade.
The plan aims to "determine what types of content violate its cloud service policies, such as rules against promoting violence, and enforce its removal."
Kantar's ad-equity ranking of media channels and brands found that online and mobile games showed the greatest improvement in consumer receptivity. Consumers find gaming ads more "trustworthy,"
"relevant," and "useful" as well as "fun and entertaining." YouTube, Google, and Facebook are still the most trusted social media platforms.
While Google and Facebook remain the world's biggest advertising behemoths, four of China's media companies now rank among the world's top 10, including TikTok owner Bytedance, which barely even
existed just a few years ago.
Amazon's total video and music video spend for TV, movies, and other content for its Prime Video and other services rose 41% in 2020 to $11 billion, according to its annual report -- a level
rivaling other digital and legacy media companies. On a profit-and-loss basis, however, Amazon is still behind the bigger players. It grew 17% to $6.8 billion (from $5.8 billion in 2019) for its video
and music content.
The Salesforce survey of more than 1 billion shoppers from 40 countries and 22 billion visits across nearly 2,000 ecommerce sites shows retailers' digital gains extended their growth into Q1 2021.
Amazon expanded into search to bring silos of data together across all companies. This data is making Amazon the ecommerce business a powerhouse. Here's how.
Amazon's share of the U.S. digital advertising market rose from 7.8% in 2019 to 10.3% in 2020 -- and will continue to take search share, in particular, from Google, especially as Google phases out
cookies, according to new eMarketer projections reported by WSJ.