The UK is launching a market investigation into Apple and Google’s dominance in the mobile market, especially cloud gaming and web browsing. Apple and Google have an undisputed duopoly in the mobile market. Blackberry, Palm, Nokia, Microsoft Windows, and others have all fallen by the wayside, unable to compete with Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android. […]

Learn how to use this untapped data source and maximize every dollar spent. Although we are all somewhat uncertain about the economy, marketers are still bullish on 2023. After recovering from the pandemic shutdowns and cutting back on budgets, growth is still predicted for next year. That growth may not be exponential, though. Because of […]

Is this the second generation of Google Glass, how will this change the future of search and marketing? Google will soon begin testing new AR prototypes in public settings worn or used by Googlers and trusted testers starting next month, the company announced. The applications for use include navigation, translation, transcription and visual search. AR prototypes. Google […]

Learn the tools and tactics to execute personalization across channels from a data-first organization. Customers have grown to expect tailored, timely offerings and marketers are challenged with delivering these real-time, personalized experiences to respond to their needs. As a result of this shift, enterprises are leveraging customer-centric strategies to drive smarter engagement across the full […]

Ecommerce is a lucrative market for many businesses. By now, nearly every retail brand has either started or is working on launching an ecommerce store. Global ecommerce revenue is projected to reach 5.4 trillion US dollars by 2022. Therefore, more and more retailers have jumped into the ecommerce space to make more money. With increasing competition, however, it has […]

The app represents a return to the simplicity of expert reviews. You can think of Tobiko as a kind of anti-Yelp. Launched in 2018 by Rich Skrenta, the restaurant app relies on data and expert reviews (rather than user reviews) to deliver a kind of curated, foodie-insider experience. A new Rich Skrenta project. Skrenta is a search veteran […]

Yelp analysis finds the devastation is 4X the magnitude of the biggest economic shocks of the past decade. The roughly 30 million small businesses (SMBs) in the U.S. employ nearly 48% of all workers, according to the U.S. Small Business Administration. The bulk of SMBs are very small and highly vulnerable to failure in the […]

Product ad spend growth on social outpaced search in the third quarter, Kenshoo reports. Product ad spending continued to grow year-over-year on both social and search channels. Source: Kenshoo E-commerce advertisers spent 39% of their search budgets on Shopping campaigns and 37% of their social budgets on product ads in the third quarter of the […]

Marketing executives from Procter & Gamble and Under Armour talked SEO, customer experience, and the influence of D2C. SAN JOSE – The rise of digital commerce is causing a sort of “renaissance” in today’s largest digital marketplaces, Search Engine Land Editor-in-Chief Ginny Marvin said Wednesday during her keynote at SMX West. This rebirth is driven […]

“If someone is out and about in the physical world right now, that alone is a signal that they are in-market,” said Foursquare CEO David Shim on Live with Search Engine Land. “Location [data] . . . allows you to look back and say, ‘Pre-pandemic, who are the folks who went to Whole Foods? Who […]