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Just 19% of Consumers Have Made a Purchase Through a Group-Buying Site

A new study from Shop.org, comScore and Social Shopping Labs looked at how shoppers interact with retailers through social networks and found that retailers can use social media not only to build their brands, but to make money as well. The study also found that while a majority of consumers have...

Tablets More Conducive to Online Shopping Than Smartphones

A recent white paper from the e-tailing group shows that tablet devices are quite friendly for consumers looking to make online purchases. Tablet users not only make more online purchases via their devices than smartphone owners do - they’re more satisfied as well.

AOL, CollegeHumor See Big Gains in Online Video in April

According to The Nielsen Company, more than 141 million unique viewers watched online videos in the U.S. in April, up 1.9 percent from March. AOL Media Network and The CollegeHumor Network were among the big winners.

Mobile Email Viewership Surges 81%

"Mobile" is a word that seems to affect lots of areas these days, not least of all email. Today's picture paints a world that includes consumers using tablets and smartphones to access their email, but this doesn't mean that desktop and webmail experiences are to be ignored. According to Return Path, an inbox...

The Edu Conundrum

If we could, we would like to create a performance marketing index, not one that tries to guess at the total revenues of those running cost per action ads, but one that could truly answer the question of what are the best offers. Each network tends to send out emails suggesting what to run, but…

The Man. The Myth. The Willms.

Not long ago we covered the not unexpected but still unpleasant litigation taking place against several in the performance marketing world for their role in facilitating continuity offers, primarily in the health arena, in a manner that the FTC has deemed unacceptable. On that list was one of the largest affiliates. It...

Long-Form Content Has the Highest Video Ad Completion Rates

According to a report from FreeWheel, which helps entertainment companies scale and syndicate their content, online video consumption seems to be a nice complement to linear television viewing and doesn't eat into primetime viewing. Also, long-form content sees the highest video ad completion rates...

The Week in Review

Headlines from the industry. To receive daily updates please visit the Digital Moses fan page