We’re holding off publishing our social commerce trend predictions for 2011 – but there’s widely tweeted set of 4 social media tend predictions circulating of note from the Gini Dietrich, CEO of digital marketing firm arment...
Another large brand went Groupon yesterday – after August’s group-buy deal from logo-challenged Gap (441,ooo Groupons sold on one day on 19 August – about 5% of the total 9.4M Groupons ever sold at that time (commentary)), the cosmetics...
Just over a week ago, Eventbrite’s Tamara Mendelsohn published some interesting data, Social Commerce: A First Look at the Numbers, revealing the sales value of social media shares for the event ticketing site. The Eventbrite data is...
Syzygy, the European digital marketing agency and sponsors of Social Commerce Today, are offering a free download of the Social Commerce Report “Social Commerce – Monetizing Social Media” we penned and published in early 2010. Ten...
For those who don’t know, the quartely Compete US shopper intelligence study provides a wealth of, well, shopper intelligence. Data from last year’s 2009 Shopper Intelligence study Q3 created something of a stir – suggesting that...
In the lead up to holiday season, big US retailers are jumping on the social commerce train. First up, is department store Macy’s, which, taking a cue from Diesel’s Diesel Cam and Jeanswest’s Butt Cam is trialling a Magic Fitting...
The world’s biggest and longest running annual social media tracker survey – Wave – published by ad agency Universal McCann is just out, 37,600 internet users in 54 countries. The 2010 Wave 5 survey report is embedded below...
So here are our top takeouts from Altimeter’s ‘Rise of Social Commerce‘ conference in Palo Alto last week (see accompanying post of showcasing 42 real world social commerce example covered at the conference) Definition: Altimeter’s...
This month, Altimeter group ran a two-day ‘Rise of Social Commerce” conference in Palo Alto, bringing together some of the top players – retailers and solution providers – in the social commerce game. 720 minutes of video...
Another new and wondrous infographic from the Flowtown team – this time on ‘The Social Buying Universe‘ summarizing the size, age and reach of some leading group-buy and private-sale sites (thanks to Stefan at web-ideas.de for the...
Some interesting survey findings in a new social shopping research report published yesterday by immediate future – from a representative sample of 2000 online shoppers in the UK. Top line findings from The Social Shopping Explosion Study:...
With other brands jumping on the f-commerce bandwagon, French Connection (UK) has just gone live with a social shopping channel on YouTube – the Net’s third most popular website that is also the search engine of choice for Gen Y. ...