Group items tagged

due to the rising number of smartphone subscriptions (especially for LTE-capable smartphones), and the increasing data consumption per subscriber, the trend will continue, with a predicted tenfold increase - to 22GB per subscriber in North America - in mobile traffic by the end of 2021.

But you might be surprised by the second-leading source of the expected surge in traffic. It won't come from people, but from machine-to-machine communications, or "M2M." Think of sensors in cars and in appliances, surveillance cameras, smart electric meters, and devices still to come, monitoring the world and reporting to each other and to centralized computers what they're detecting. The chart below, reprinted from the Cisco report, shows just how extreme the jump in machine-to-machine communications could be. It is expected to grow, on average, 86 percent a year, and by 2016 it is expected to reach 508 petabytes a month, or half a billion gigabytes.

Overview of how HuffPo generates traffic

Traffic from the holiday shopping weekend

Brand using Pinterest

Referrals - power of FB, StumbleUpon, YouTube to drive traffic

Pulls you to mobile site, but you can't make purchases there and must go in-store.

Every check-in to a Hugo Boss store enters you to win a shopping spree in NY

IBM said mobile as a proportion of all digital sales doubled in December to 11% from 5.5% a year ago. And mobile traffic nearly tripled to 14.6% of all sessions on a retailer's site from 5.6% during the year-earlier period.

Info on Superbowl ad-driven traffic

kind of like the kiehls placecast thing for loreal

launched mobile ads within the Whitepages iphone app -- Nordstrom Beauty Bash. Friday, July 20 -- once the ad is clicked it will take them to mobile optimized page to invite them to come before store opesn for free goodies expert make up stylists will be present they can check out participating nordstroms and has click to call feature

While Shazam for TV has continued to grow, Shazam's music footprint still has a big affect on social TV. It's no surprise that many times users take out Shazam to uncover a song they're listening to on TV. Even for a recent WWE  episode there were over 1,000 tags, without any call-to-actions on TV. The most popular songs were:  "Voices," "Break the Walls Down," "Radio" and "I Came to Play," which are the entrance anthems for:  Randy Orton, Chris Jericho, Zach Ryder and The Miz, respectively. Additionally Shazam has shared with Lost Remote some of the most Shazamed songs during TV from June. British dubstep band, Nero, gained 100K tags since 7 June 2012 when the record was first used in the new ad campaign for HP dm 4 Laptop. Keeping with British acts Alex Clare's 'Too Close' gained 312K tags this month thanks to the record's inclusion in Internet Explorer ads. Some of these tags have been driven by radio, but generally we've seen that big spikes in traffic for 'Too Close' coincide with TV play. So far 'Too Close' has been tagged over 2 million times worldwide! Lumineers 'Ho Hey' scored 91K tags this month thanks to the inclusion of 'Ho Hey' in the new Bing commercial. Dire Straits 'Walk Of Life' gained 31K tags thanks to its use in a Burger King ad. TV shows also drove huge engagement this month. Suits (Caught A Ghost 'Time Go' was used and scored 12K tags) and Pretty Little Liars (The Strange Familiar 'Unwanted' 4K tags) both scored highly. The Middle East 'Blood' saw a huge rise in tags when HBO broadcast the film Crazy Stupid Love which uses the track. 'Blood' scored 29K tracks in June.

Eight cars will be employed in a test at a McDonald's store in Ibaraki Prefecture on March 5-16. When vehicles enter a region covered by an ITS -- which offers real-time traffic data and other information -- a McDonald's menu will be transmitted to car navigation systems, allowing users to order items via the touch screen. Users can pay with their credit cards through ITS-compatible devices in their cars.

Rummage is a visual browsing tool for eBay users that improves the discovery experience through deep integration with popular visual bookmarking site Pinterest that should drive more traffic to seller's listings.

Popdust has moved from being a website on celebrities, to being a platform to sell the stuff that is associated them. And as their traffic, and presumably their revenue, has grown, investors have noticed.

Gartner's survey of consumer sentiment, reported by the Detroit Free Press, shows that consumers give higher priority to "specific applications that make sense when they're driving," according to Gartner analyst Thilo Koslowski, including features like weather forecasting, traffic conditions, and parking availability, along with features such as voice recognition and automated crash notification systems. Gartner found that 82% of U.S. consumers would be willing to pay extra for such features, up from 20% just a few years ago.