Online retailers not offering free shipping may want to reconsider their delivery options. According to the Walker Sands Future of Retail 2016 study, nine out of 10 of the survey participants said free shipping was the No. 1 incentive when asked what would make them shop online more often. Surveying more than 1,400 US consumers…
Facebook has conditioned brands and media companies to believe mobile videos are best when they’re basically silent movies because they’re usually played on mute. “Not true!” according to Snapchat. Snapchat claims that two-thirds of the videos posted to its mobile app are viewed with the sound on, the company announced on Thursday. And it’s putting…
Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: Snapchat: We can prove people watch mobile videos *with* soundJun 9, 2016 by Tim Peterson Snapchat’s claim that two-thirds of its videos are watched with sound counters Facebook’s efforts to convince…
Virtual furniture on real space in Lenovo’s new Tango device, demo’d by TV renovation expert Nicole Curtis. Marketers, get ready to present your products and experiences inside real-world spaces. Today in San Francisco, Lenovo introduced via live video stream its phab2PRO phone, the world’s first Tango-enabled phone. Tango — formerly Project Tango — is Google’s…
There are weeks where I don’t find articles for the “Going Beyond” section of the Web Development Reading List at all. And then there are weeks like this one, where two brilliant pieces show up that reveal so much about how we live together with new technology and how this shapes our society. Along with…
