99% of the UK’s top 100 fashion retailers are failing to provide customers with a personalised post-checkout experience by neglecting to send tailored shipping communications to their customer, meaning the majority are missing out on a vital marketing channel, according to parcelLab’s ‘UK E-Commerce Shipping Study 2020: Fashion Edition’. The study, which analysed the checkout, […]
The global marketing technology market is now valued at an estimated $121.5 billion, representing a year-on-year increase of 22%, finds international accountancy and business advisory firm BDO, and WARC, the worldwide authority on advertising and media effectiveness. This and other key findings are included in their ‘Martech: 2020 and Beyond‘ report, published on October 14. For […]
A new report – Click and Regret – from marketing agency Gekko has revealed the shocking waste now involved with online shopping. According to the survey, £641m is the astonishing figure consumers are wasting online every year buying goods they don’t want and failing to return them. The survey of 2,000 UK adults conducted by […]
Women’s sport on our screens is set to skyrocket as 94% of industry professionals have stated that they’re planning on increasing investment in the creation, production and distribution of content, according to research conducted by Imagen. The survey of more than 300 senior sports industry executives found that this development is predominately being motivated by […]
Young people are beginning to recognise the negative impact social media has on their lives, with many aware they spend too much time using the platforms and some already having deleted the apps from their devices, according to research from MediaCom. The survey of 1,200 eight to 19-year-olds in the UK found that 48 per […]
Over the past seven and a half years, the Subscription Economy has continued to thrive, growing more than 350 percent, as consumers increasingly demand access to convenient, digital services over the ownership of physical products. The latest edition of the biannual Subscription Economy Index from Zuora – the leading cloud-based subscription management provider – has […]
Advertisers will spend more on social media platforms than on print for the first time this year, according to Zenith’s Advertising Expenditure Forecasts, published on October 7. Advertising expenditure on social media will grow 20% this year to reach US$84bn, while advertisers’ combined expenditure on newspapers and magazines will fall 6% to US$69bn. Social media […]
The importance of Facebook as a mobile app in the eyes of consumers across the US, UK, Germany and Northern Europe is in steep decline a major study of 13,000 people by technology-based market research company AudienceProject has found. The study set out to ask consumers in seven markets how indispensable different apps on their mobile […]
By 2024, the Asia Pacific will have the most 5G subscriptions in the world, with an estimated 954m users in the region, according to a new report by data and analytics company GlobalData. The report also predicts North America and Europe will follow in second and third place, with 254m and 242m, respectively. Regions including Africa, […]
Snapchat have released a new report which has found that the smartphone has overtaken the laptop as the top device when shopping: 85% shop online using their smartphone versus 63% on laptops. The report, which was conducted by consumer research experts, Sparkler, surveyed 2,977 people across the UK, to gauge how technology is transforming our […]