derickson, Author at e-Strategy

SMBs’ Top Sources Of Information About Tech Solutions, March 2014 [CHART]

SMBs pointed first to vendor and/or service provider websites (43%) followed by professional advisors and/or consultants (42%).

Domestic travelers in the UK were more than twice as likely to use their smartphones to find restaurants (60%) than those traveling abroad (29%).

When UK travelers visited another EU country, many of them switched off their mobile phones.

Hypergrowth SMBs in North America had seen the most success in branding, cited by nine in 10.

Nearly three-quarters of hypergrowth SMBs in North America had increased spending on social media and social ads.

Digital video ad spending also grew quickly last year, up 44.5% to $4.18 billion.

Spending on real-time bidding (RTB), which accounts for about half of US programmatic ad buys, grew 76.5% in 2013.

AOL will see its first double-digit US ad growth since the recession started, driven by accelerating display ad growth rates.

During the 3-month average ending in January 2014, some 66.8% of mobile subscribers in the US owned a smart phone.

Roughly two-thirds of Americans aged 12 and older have a social networking profile, up from 62% last year.