Online Trends and Audience Insights
Elizabeth de Freitas Digital Consultant
[email protected] 6538551078544130143
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Agenda
o Top shopping days in 2015o Key dates to look out for in 2016o Mobile search themes in retailo Trending giftso Taking an audience-centric approach
@connexityEU#festiveinsights
Hitwise/AudienceView
• 160 million searches• 9 million websites• 172 industries• 1 million mobile
devices
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Traffic to the Shopping and Classifieds Industry over the past 3 years
Top dates
Shopping & Classified9.3 billion visits last festive season
07/11 14/11 21/11 28/11 05/12 12/12 19/12 26/12 02/01 09/01 -
200,000,000
400,000,000
600,000,000
800,000,000
1,000,000,000
1,200,000,000 2015 2014
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Key online shopping dates
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Source: BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor
BRC weekly salesBlack Friday has shifted Christmas trade
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4-5%-4%-3%-2%-1%0%1%2%3%4%
Christmas
Black Friday
Source: Springboard
Footfall declined 4.5% on Black
Friday compared with +9.8% in
2014
Footfall analysis YoY change
Key dates to plan around
Email campaigns:
Begin week of Black Friday
Click & Collect:
Picks up two weeks before
Christmas
Gift guides:
Shoppers need help the
week after Cyber
Monday
Package Tracking:
Peaks on December 22
and also every
Tuesday.
Key dates to plan around
Christmas Jumper Day:
December 15th
Gift vouchers:
Peak Christmas
Eve; increasingly late, mobile
Gadgets come to life!
Engage new customers when they
activate new gifts
Amazon UKArgos John Lewis Marks & Spencer Debenhams NextASOS Tesco Direct Currys Boots House of Fraser New Look Amazon.com Etsy VeryOther
Top retailers
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Who has increased their online market share the most over the past 3 years?
Retailers to watch
Jun-15 Jul-15 Aug-15Sep-15 Oct-15 Nov-15Dec-15 Jan-16 Feb-16 Mar-16 Apr-16May-16 Jun-160
500,000
1,000,000
1,500,000
2,000,000
2,500,000
3,000,000
3,500,000
4,000,000
4,500,000
5,000,000
Series 1
Print Fashion
MultimediaAuctions
Rewards and DirectoriesEmail Services
Apparel and AccessoriesSocial Networking and Forums
Department StoresSearch Engines
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%
Clickstream:Search, social, multimedia
Mobile search overview
Mobile dominant in key industries
Banking
Entertainment
Property
Travel (non-maps)
Automotive
Lifestyle
Retail
Sports
News &Media
Food & Beverage
Health
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%
43%
44%
59%
60%
63%
64%
65%
67%
68%
72%
76%
Mobile dominant in key industries
Mobile and desktop extremes
Navigational searches
Location-based searches
Desktop Mobile
Other mobile-skewing trends
Need-to-know now
Question searches
Big purchases
/Trip PlanningBreaking news
Medical symptoms
Recall information
Declines as consumers move on
to more intense research
How…?
Where…?
Is/Are…?
Used more in the early stage of the purchase
journey
Industry spotlight
Retail
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Price
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Desktop to mobile search continuum
Retail
Mobile searches are longer
Retail Food & Bev Travel Auto0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
Share of searches that are mobile number of words in search
1 word 2 words 3 words 4 words 5+ words
Product trends
“Pandora charms”
“Fitbit” “LEGO”“Pie Face
game”
“Clarks shoes”
“Amazon Fire
Stick”“Elf on the
Shelf”
“Yankee Candle”
“Hotel Chocolat”
“iPhone 6S”
Hot products 2015
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Amazon Prime Day trends
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What were people looking for now?
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Home Automation
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Home Automation
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Home Automation
Subscription boxes
Graze765,000 Loot
556,000
Cornerstone
325,000 Birchbox226,000
Gousto209,000
£4 £30 £14 £10 £27
Personalisation in gifting
Personalisation in gifting
73%
27%
Female Male
Male
Female
A. City Prosperity +1.1X
G. Domestic Success +2.1X
H. Aspiring Homemakers +1.7X
Audience-centric marketing
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Gift Guides for Publishers
Gift guides for publishers
Gift Guide:Rugby and football fans
Gift guideAffluents: income £50,000+
Top Tips
Campaigns need to get started earlier
Black Friday is the new Boxing Day.
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Explore using action buttons in your social campaigns.
Social is back as a driver of retail visits.
Top Tips
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2016 will be the first mobile Christmas. Make sure to develop content optimised for mobile devices
prioritising common mobile search themes.
Take a mobile-first approach.
Top Tips