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4 local e-commerce websites that are beating Amazon in 2024

When you think of e-commerce, your mind probably goes straight to the global online shopping behemoth Amazon. Amazon is so strong that its dominance can seem absolute – but there are in fact many markets where it is not the most popular destination for online shoppers. In this blog post, we will explore four e-commerce […]

6 markets where Bing is surprisingly popular in 2024

Bing is probably not the first search engine you think of when crafting your SEO or PPC strategies – but there are certain markets where you may actually benefit from targeting this search engine. Whilst Bing has less than 5% of the search engine market share in most countries around the world, this blog post […]

6 markets with an unexpected search engine landscape in 2024

When people think of search engine marketing, most will immediately think of Google; the most popular search engine in the world. But Google is not the only important search engine out there. In fact, there are certain countries where being aware of the popular local alternatives will be the key to success in your search […]

8 markets where Bing has over 5% of the search engine market share

When you think of search engines, Bing is probably not the first one to come to mind. But, with 100 million daily active users, Bing is still an important player in the worldwide search engine market – and ignoring it could lead to you missing out on opportunities. The infographic below lists eight countries where […]

8 countries with popular local e-commerce sites

Online shopping is popular in many places around the world. However, the most popular e-commerce site can vary from country to country. That is important to know if you are planning on selling your products online to a global audience. This blog post will look at eight countries where the top online shops are local […]

10 surprising facts from Webcertain Search And Social Report 2020

The latest edition of Webcertain Search And Social Report has just been published! It provides the most up-to-date internet penetration, search engine, social media and digital marketing stats and facts from 38 countries around the world. There are lots of interesting insights in there for international digital marketers to digest, but here are the top […]

Infographic – Who Is Using Google Analytics Worldwide?

Data privacy is a trending topic at the moment. Regulations and laws on cookies technology usage is now key. Most websites will run a cookies based web analytical tool or software like Google Analytics. Over 55 per cent of all websites in the world run Google Analytics, giving Google a comfortable 81 per cent market […]

European Interactive Advertising Association Report Dec. 2010

The European Interactive Advertising Association has published the EIAA European Media Landscape Report Summary December 2010 Key FIndings of the report: Key findings 521m 16+ year old people in the 15 European countries sampled According to EIAA’s latest Mediascope Europe study 76% (396m) of all 16+ year old people across 15 European markets surveyed use different media simultaneously with almost a third (30%) using the internet whilst they watch TV A third (33%) of Europeans cannot live without the internet, equal to the percentage of Europeans who claim they cannot live without TV 54% (279m) of Europeans use the internet in a typical week spending 12.1 hours online 16‐24 year olds use the internet more frequently than they watch TV – 79% of this younger demographic use the internet between 5 and 7 days each week while 76% watch TV as regularly More than 8 in 10 (83%) online Europeans use a broadband connection and over half (52%) of these broadband users are wireless The most popular web activities amongst all European internet users include; email (76%), communicating via social networking sites (45%) instant messaging (40%) watching film, TV or video clips (32%) contributing to ratings and reviews (27%)

Google expands new trademark policy – but sidesteps Europe

Following the expansion of their trademark policy to the UK last year, Google has widened its looser trademark policy which basically allows all-comers to bid on trademark keywords increasing the cost of trademark advertising via the number one search engine and allowing competitors to aggressively buy each others ‘marks. The new change expands the ‘we […]

Google to digitise 500,000 books in the 'Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon'

Abondance brings us further news of the Google book publishing initiative which sees Lyon, France’s second most important city (sorry Marseilles), jumping the gun on Paris and cooperating with Google. The digitisation will involve those books which are out of copyright. The library houses an important collection of books in the French language and some […]