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Social and live stream commerce rose by 45 percent last year

02/23/202102/23/2021 Sam Lambert

Social platforms and real-time video drove a massive spike in shopping via apps in 2020. Social media and live stream commerce positively exploded last year, as the pandemic greatly changed the way people communicated and shopped, says new App Annie data. Many countries newer to m-commerce experienced even higher increases in their app-based shopping. According to new data, global time spent shopping via apps (not including China), rose by 45 percent in 2020 when compared to the same figures for 2019. Many countries that hadn’t previously adopted mobile commerce as…

Biometrics use could explode by 2025 due to m-commerce

02/16/202102/12/2021 Jesse Collins

The tech may not be perfect, but it is solid and provides considerably greater user convenience. Biometrics use is expected to skyrocket in popularity over the next handful of years as a result of the widespread adoption of mobile commerce. According to data in a recent Juniper Research report the mobile security tech could peak as soon as 2025. The use of fingerprints and facial recognition for identity verification rose by 650 percent in 2020. As the pandemic sent millions of people worldwide to do their jobs remotely, the use…

Mobile shopping share of e-commerce is spiking this year

12/16/202012/15/2020 Stephanie Beck

Mobile shopping share - mobile phone and laptop

In 2020, retailers are recording more digital conversions over smartphones than in previous years. Only a handful of years ago, the mobile shopping share was next to irrelevant in the grand scheme of e-commerce. Though it was relatively certain that smartphones would be a vital platform for making purchases, it hadn’t happened yet. In 2014, smartphones and tablets accounted for only 13 percent of al digital sales. Moreover, those numbers were for orders much different than those of today’s mobile shopping share. At that time, the trend clearly showed that…

Women plan more online and mobile shopping this holiday season

11/05/202011/04/2020 Jennifer Goula

Mobile shopping this holiday season - woman holding phone with laptop

Most women believe retail will not return to normal until 2022 at the earliest, says a national study. The results of the new national “Future of Shopping Women’s Study” has shown that women intend to participate in more online and mobile shopping this holiday season. Online purchases are already up substantially over the data from May 2020, said the study. The research was conducted by DaVinci Payments. It determined that mobile shopping this holiday season won’t reflect the end of the online-turning commerce trends. The majority of the survey participants…

Amazon Prime Day 2020 will be bigger than Black Friday and Cyber Monday

10/12/202010/09/2020 Jorge Gonzalez

67 percent of Americans intend to shop more tomorrow than on the traditional start of the holiday season. Amazon Prime Day 2020 will take place on October 13 and 14 and, according to a new CNBC report, 67 percent of Americans plan to shop more on those two days than they will on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. The holiday shopping season will apparently start more than a month early this year. Amazon Prime Day typically takes place in July. That said, it was moved this year in response to…