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 […]
5 countries with the biggest growth in internet penetration in 2023
When businesses think about expanding internationally, they tend to focus on countries such as the US, the UK, Germany and Japan. These markets are already very mature, wealthy and have very high levels of internet penetration. It can be easy to only focus on this kind of market, but by doing that, you could be […]
Christmas traditions around the world
Hi, I’m Wilbur. I’ve noticed that everyone’s been getting really excited about one thing lately: Christmas! We don’t have Christmas back in Monstonia, so I’ve asked my friends here at Webcertain what it’s all about, and it seems that different countries have their own unique Christmas traditions. Come globetrotting with me to discover Christmas traditions […]
Neighbours Are Not Twins – Why Knowing *Every* Market Is Crucial
I work for a PPC agency that advertises across nations and in most cases, we use native language speakers to run campaigns for each country. This isn’t overkill, it’s essential. If you’re based in a single country and trying to internationalise your customer base or formulate an international online strategy, it must go beyond simply […]
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 […]
Portuguese Online Buying Behaviour
Portuguese who search for products of services online, spend in average €220. This is the main result of the first online buying behaviour study done by Google Portugal. In this study more than 2.000 people were asked for their online buying (and searching) habits. Other interesting conclusions were: People who search online and buy offline […]
Google Analytics now in Portuguese
Google Analytics is now available in Portuguese. Google Analytics is a widely used web analytics tool, provided for free by Google and already used by many webmasters in Portugal. In October, Google had already announced that Google Sites – a tool for creating free sites online – was also available in the Portuguese language.
Portugal buys 500,000 Intel classmates
Intel signed a deal with the Portuguese government in which they will provide experience and know how in the education market in order to put 500,000 small PCs in the hands of children with ages raging from 6 to 10 years old. The computers, named “Magalhães” in honour of the Portuguese explorer, will cost between […]