A new survey from Lloyds TSB and YouGov has shed some light onto mobile consumer use in the United Kingdom. The investigation, which interviewed 2,000 adults across the country, discovered that the street was the most likely place the public would use their mobile phone; 76 per cent of those interviewed said they most commonly [...]
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Twitter, the microblogging social media contact channel, reached 500 million users on Wednesday according to industry sources. The online network, which began life in 2006, registered the landmark figure sometime during the 22nd February. The research, by Twopcharts, suggested that the site would reach the milestone at 8:45pm GMT. Writing about the landmark figure, Laura [...]
commentNew research from PricewaterhouseCoopers has found that, during 2011, the UK high street lost 14 chain retail stores per day. The annual loss of 5,268 stores was blamed on a number of factors, including the growing number of consumers shopping online. The research, which examined the retail change across the 500 biggest town centres in [...]
commentSome interesting research regarding online behaviour during Valentine’s Day landed on our desks this morning, as research house Hitwise published a range of new research to commemorate the 14th. The investigation found that 6.7 million UK internet visits were made to websites related to flowers and chocolate, while at total of 830,000 hours were spent [...]
commentToday, numero would like to take a moment to congratulate Simon Khan, the European Tour Professional golfer, on his solid performance during this weekend’s Commercialbank Qatar Masters. Simon, who is sponsored by numero, placed 25th in the overall rankings for the tournament, coming four under par over three rounds. The result, which came amongst tough [...]
commentConsumer habits are changing. Traditional forms of communication – the telephone and the letter – are being joined by new methods of contact; the smartphone and social media. These new channels are being used by consumers in many different ways: to research a purchase, to check on the status of an order or to file [...]
commentThe extent of consumer mobile use was bought into focus this week with the release of the Mobile Online Journey Observation, a study from the Internet Advertising Bureau which focused on the different roles mobile devices played in purchasing behaviour. The research, which interviewed 800 smartphone users, discovered the extent of mobile usage in the [...]
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