27 Dec 2010
| by Staff
Online retailers enjoyed a welcome boost following a December blighted by weather-related disruption with Christmas Day achieving record figures and Boxing Day proving to be the busiest online shopping day of the year.
17 Dec 2010
| by Staff
Independent record label Infectious Music is launching its new e-commerce site with a social media push offering VIP membership in return for recommendations via Twitter and Facebook.
17 Dec 2010
| by Keith Glasspoole
Fifty five percent of UK adults agree that Christmas ads help set the mood for the festive season, new research from Ipsos ASI reveals.
Consumers are downloading the Argos app more than any other, as the Christmas shopping season nears its final furlong, with Kindle also rising through the ranks.
15 Dec 2010
| by Rosie Sayers
Following Google's recent algorithm changes to combat retailers looking for negative feedback, brands will have to be more alert than ever to bad reviews, writes Reform's Rosie Sayers.
10 Dec 2010
| by Julie Forey
Online mums are unafraid to try out new technology to help them juggle their busy lives, according to new research from Microsoft Advertising's research, data and analytics team.
09 Dec 2010
| by Ed Owen
Frantic shopping brought Tesco's Christmas clubcard website offer to a standstill earlier this week, as consumers chose to redeem a Christmas offer at the last-minute.
08 Dec 2010
| by Mark Palmer
Google's rejected bid for US-based startup Groupon could signal a sea change in where marketing spend is heading, writes Mark Palmer, founder of Maverick Planet and non-executive director of RMM.
08 Dec 2010
| by Richard Morris
How men's purchasing decisions change as they progress through different stages in life and the importance of their 'involvement' in those decisions is revealed in data from Carat's CCS study.
Waitrose's Christmas app has broken into the BR app chart, while celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has made a higher entry with his new Jamie's Recipes app.