Doing business with Chinese domainers by way of PayPal should be coming soon. PayPal is coming to China it looks like. TechCrunch reported that through an acquisition of Go Pay Ltd, PayPal will become the first foreign payment platform to provide service in China. The market is expected to grow to on the mobile payments side alone to $96.73 trillion in 2023, driven partly by increasing demand … [Read more...]
The app market is slowing down
comScore published a study that showed we might be reaching the peak for app downloads. The report showed that 49% of all smartphone users don't download any apps per month. They published an infographic to highlight their study. Download Report and Infographic … [Read more...]
.Club Passes 9 Year Old .Mobi In Numbers of Domain Registrations
.Club has just passed .mobi in terms of domain name registrations. According to RegistrarStats.com .club has 691,522 domain registrations while .mobi is at 691,342 .Mobi become available to be registered in 2006. .Club was 1st available for general availability on May 7th 2014 making it less than 2 years old. According to registrarstats.com, .club becomes the 9th most registered TLD, … [Read more...]
60% of all Mobile Banner Ad Clicks Are Accidents
Ben Frederick, published a piece on Media post that looked at mobile advertising and how the majority of clicks on an ad are an accident. I know that sometimes when I come across a site on my iPhone when I click an (X) to close, it still goes through and takes me to the advertiser's website. Mobile location firm Retale conducted the survey that showed among other things: After accidentally … [Read more...]
Mobile Advertising Prospects Take A Hit – Adblocking is coming to the iPhone with iOS 9
Mobile Advertising has been a hot topic for the last couple years, back in April there was an article by Business Insider titled, "Mobile is growing faster than all other ad formats." From the article: Mobile is growing faster than all other digital advertising formats in the US, as advertisers begin allocating dollars to catch the eyes of a growing class of "mobile-first" … [Read more...]
Google to add Buy Buttons to Mobile Search
Google is planning on launching buy buttons in mobile search only, there will not be buttons when someone searches on desktop. One has to wonder how all the advertisers who spend big money on Adwords will feel about this. Engadget stated there are several reasons why this will be mobile only. The biggest reason ? Mobile searches outpacing desktop searches. The Wall Street Journal is responsible … [Read more...]
Facebook Is Becoming A Bigger Rival To Google In The Mobile Ad Space
Jennifer Booton of MarketWatch reported that when it comes to mobile advertising Facebook is unrivaled according to Morgan Stanley analyst Ben Swinburne. Google and Facebook are duking it out in the mobile advertising space and mobile has been an area that has been challenging for Google. Morgan Stanley analyst Ben Swinburne predicted Monday, after initiating coverage of Facebook at overweight. … [Read more...]