Figures are still being collated, but 2018’s Cyber Monday retail event looks on track to bring in a record $7.9bn (£6.2bn) in US online sales, as millions of shoppers look to online retailers for substantial discounts. According to figures from Adobe Analytics, sales were up 19.7 per cent year-on-year, a smaller increase than others seen […]
Though mobile payments have experienced only modest growth in the last year, the frequency of in-store mobile payments has increased significantly among one key demographic—25- to 34-year-olds. According to the December 2016 Deloitte Mobile Consumer Survey, which polled 2000 US internet users ages 18 to 74, older millennials are twice as likely to make mobile […]
Persil has teamed up with mobile dry cleaning service ZipJet, as its owner Unilever continues to expand into mobile commerce. ZipJet was founded in 2014 in Germany, and currently operates in three European cities- Berlin, London and Dublin. The company forges alliances with local launderettes and offers jobs for drivers to deliver freshly laundered and […]
Mobile app advertising company, Jampp, is tapping into the mCommerce opportunity and has just launched a new solution that lets retailers and businesses promote their entire product catalogue across their consumers’ mobile devices. Jampp Dynamic Product Ads are aimed at businesses wanting to engage their app users at the most critical point in the app […]
As ecommerce sales continue their meteoric growth, mobile is grabbing a larger market share, with smartphone-enabled purchases set to grow from $122 billion in 2015 to nearly $319 billion by 2020, according to a new report from Javelin. A greater number of overall ecommerce purchases will come from smartphones, per Javelin’s estimate that mcommerce purchases […]
Alibaba is to push forward with plans to sell more goods via mobile devices after the channel spurred its revenues in the second quarter to defy analysts’ estimates. Sales in the period rocketed 32 per cent year-on-year to $3.49bn for the three months to 30 September, ahead of the $3.34bn estimates from analysts. Mobile revenue […]