New Study Reveals Shopping Habits of Latino Consumers

| MCM staff

According to a new study, Latino consumers view shopping much differently than their non-Latino counterparts.In this release, you will get a better insight into the shopping habits of the fastest growing population in the U.S.

New Holiday Norms Motivate Merchants to Shift Strategies

| Ari Rosenstein

Though the clock is ticking on holiday shopping this year, retailers still have time to make the season brighter and improve the playbook for 2013. As demonstrated by the sales successes of Thanksgiving Day and Cyber Monday, the savviest retailers will be those that leverage advanced tools for managing paid search, mobile and PLA campaigns.

Cyber Monday Sales Reach Record High

| MCM staff

Holiday shoppers turned Cyber Monday into the biggest spending day ever with online sales growing 30.3 percent over the same period last year, according to cloud-based analytics findings by IBM.

How Google Makes $100 Million a Day in Search Advertising

| MCM staff

Last week, Google released its “disappointing” Q3 earnings (up 5% from Q2 and up 16% year-on-year.) To shed some light on how Google’s advertising revenues reached a whopping $10.8 billion in Q3, WordStream has undertaken a comprehensive analysis of the performance of Google AdWords during the quarter. The growth in ad impressions, combined with lower costs per click, means that advertisers are now literally able to get more customers for less spend, concludes WordStream’s CTO and founder, Larry Kim.

Google’s Paid Clicks Rise, Average CPC Drops

| Tim Parry

The number of paid clicks is way up, but the cost-per-click is down, according to the third-quarter financial report released last week by Google. Why has the cost-per-click dropped, and what does this mean for merchants as the fourth-quarter kicks into high gear? Here’s what three industry experts told Multichannel Merchant.

Google Shopping Pay-per-click is Here

| Michael Briggs

Google announced months back they were going to switch the currently free shopping results into a pay per click (PPC) model effective Oct 17. Now that the date has passed, it is perfect time to double check that your account has been configured correctly and that you are not going to suddenly lose a significant source of conversions.