Mobile Apps Archives

Civil Social Networks: Telepath & Clubhouse

Several entreprenuers are trying to rebuild social media from the ground up, with new features and codes of conduct that they hope will create a more civil environment and one less susceptible to manipulation by malign influences.

Grocery Shopping

Explore an extensive compilation of grocery shopping statistics from 2012 to present about how consumers interact with their grocery providers.

Millennials Are Social Shoppers

GfK found that more than half (52%) of US consumers believe they can shop online for almost 100% of the products or services they need, up from 48% feeling that way last year.

Mobile Media Consumption, 2018-2022

Adult Americans will spend an average of 4 hours, 1 minute (4:01) on mobile devices per day in 2020, with 3:35 of that time spent on mobile apps.

Digital Marketing News This Week

Topics: McDonald’s new stop-motion 30-second spot featuring the Travis Scott Meal; Logofonts; Snapchat’s voting tools; YouTube Shorts; Kara Swisher’s Sway podcast; Patagonia’s pottymouth; Facebook’s failure to act; YouTube blocks iOS picture-in-picture mode; cool marketing tools; virtual reality statistics.

AlcoGait Knows You’re Drunk

Time-Lapse Video Showcases Hotel Experience

Researchers are creating smartphone apps that can detect when you’ve drunk too much.

Food Delivery App Users, 2019-2023

eMarketer forecasts that the number of smartphone food delivery app users will rise 25.2% to 45.6 million this year.

Most Popular Podcast Distribution Channels

Spotify’s focus on developing its podcast content appears to be paying off. Last year, 58.4 million people in the US were expected use Spotify, making up 20.8% of internet users.

Time Spent With Digital Video By Device, 2018-2022

This year, time spent with mobile video apps will gain 10 minutes, second only to social media. Overall, mobile video will gain 5 minutes, since video watched via mobile web has decreased as people continue to shift such viewing to apps or other devices.

Digital Marketing News This Week

Topics: The pending/paused TikTok acquisition by Microsoft; Deadspinners split to Defector Media; Nike’s amazing You Can’t Stop Us ad; Country Time’s little bailout fund; virtual influencers’ time may have come; the Walmart Nazis; the Consumer Electronics Show goes virtual until 2022; the Harper’s Letter decrying cancel culture;…and much, much more.