Archive for June 26, 2012
Favorite eTailers For Personal Care & Beauty Products [CHART]
Amazon was the preferred online destination for beauty and personal care products for a plurality of buyers, but Sephora.com was not far behind, with a respectable 18% share. Read the rest at eMarketer.
Read MoreImportant Attributes to eShoppers for Beauty & Personal Care Products [CHART]
Fully 96% of online buyers shopping for personal care and beauty products said the ability to find a specific product was their topmost desire from an online retailer, followed closely by free shipping (93%), finding a favored brand (92%) and then best price (90%). Interestingly, online buyers indicated that receiving free samples and reading product…
Read MoreProduct Categories Purchased Online [CHART]
Online consumers spent 33% to 45% of their monthly beauty and personal care budgets online, according to a March 2012 survey of online buyers in North America conducted by A.T. Kearney. Shoppers are using both etailers and brick-and-mortar stores to purchase these types of consumer packaged goods, meaning that brands need to step up multichannel…
Read MoreArgentina Internet Use By Location [CHART]
via emarketer.com eMarketer expects internet user penetration in Argentina to pass the 50% mark during 2012, for a total of 22.9 million users. Broadband household penetration is close behind, forecast to reach 49.6%, or 5.7 million homes, in 2013. This translates to more users in Argentina accessing the internet at home than ever before. As…
Read MoreFacebook & Twitter Users' Opinions About The News They Get There [CHART]
via emarketer.com According to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, 39% of Twitter users said most of the news they got on Twitter in January 2012 was not material they would have read elsewhere. On Facebook, the corresponding percentage was a bit lower at 34%. This means that, by eMarketer’s estimates of…
Read MoreFacebook Timeline's Effect On Content Engagement [CHART]
via emarketer.com Since late 2011, Facebook has been gradually rolling out its Timeline interface, which puts greater focus on media activity compared with the previous iteration of the Facebook newsfeed. The experiment thus far seems to be successful. According to a report from Simply Measured, as of February, worldwide content engagement on Facebook has gone…
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