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Mobile shopping share of e-commerce is spiking this year

12/16/202012/15/2020 Stephanie Beck

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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…

Lockdown m-commerce growth rate moved channel ahead by “3 to 4 years”

08/26/202008/25/2020 Jesse Collins

A recent analysis showed that mobile shopping saw 30 percent growth in a handful of months. The Q2 2020 m-commerce growth rate in the UK jumped by 30 percent when compared to Q1, which were already 25 percent higher during the last quarter of 2019. Though users were already increasingly going mobile, the pandemic greatly accelerated the trend. An increase in m-commerce growth rate was recorded in wide swaths of the world as shoppers worldwide have already spent a massive 1.6 trillion hours on their devices this year. Moreover, this…

4 out of 5 m-commerce purchases is for physical products and services

06/19/202006/17/2020 Stephanie Beck

Consumers are shopping for real-world products and services, not digital in-app downloads. Last year, Apple’s app ecosystem saw $519 billion in m-commerce purchases, said a third-party report the tech giant released this week. Of that total, only $61 billion was spent on buying digital products that could be downloaded. Out of $519 billion, only $61 billion was for m-commerce purchases such as digital games, e-books and apps. Another $45 billion was spent on in-app advertising. The vast majority – $413 billion – was spent on physical products and services in…