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. ...
So after dipping its toes in the f-commerce water, consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble has taken the f-commerce plunge, opening up a new Facebook store selling 29 of its top brands, from Always to Zest. In the fast evolving world of social...
Here’s an interesting quote from this weekend’s New York Times on social commerce “Buy My Stuff, and Their’s Too” (archived below): “But social commerce doesn’t usually come naturally. Companies are awkward. They...
Event: L2 Social Commerce Clinic 2010 (New York) Presented by L2 Date: October 15, 2010 Location: NYU Stern, 40 West 4th Street , New York, NY 10012 Theme: Driving and Deriving Revenues Online Delegate Fee: $1000 (25% reduction with discount code...
So here’s an interesting spin on Uniqlo’s recent holding page social commerce promotion; Volkswagen’s Škoda brand is running a “The More You Like, The Less You Pay” promotion on Facebook in Belgium for its Fabia model...
A Wall Street Journal article by Scott Morrison is being widely re-tweeted around the Net “Facebook sees social commerce reaching tipping point”. It’s subscription only, but the article has been widely reposted (e.g. here), and...
Last week’s Financial Times article on how Facebook’s Like button is becoming e-commerce’s new best buddy contains a number of factoids and figures for the data minded: The beauty of the Like button is that it allows people to casually signal...