Today Quantivo announced an exciting extension to our solution that enables the interactive discovery of behavioral patterns that span multiple web events. With traditional web analytics solutions, this is an extremely difficult and time-consuming endeavor, requiring some serious heavy lifting on the back end – both hardware and query creation. For more details, you can view our quick video overview and product demo, or read our announcement.
With this new ability, you can now quickly understand of how visitors respond over multiple visits, over varied content, and across any time span. Here are just a few examples of where this new value can be applied:
Check our video for more details, and be sure to let us know what you think with a comment below or an email to info@quantivo.com.
This data represents the activities of major brands and businesses as their consumers browse to mobile websites (measured by Bango Analytics) and buy mobile content and services (as measured by Bango Payment). The Bango’s stats will be of interest to businesses that monetize their mobile content and services across a wide demographic as spending by iPhone users is restricted to the Apple App Store.
Bango detected a total of 1,811 different types of handsets accessing the mobile Internet in just one month. The Bango chart shows that smartphones account for 30% of handsets in the Top 20; to view the full list go to http://bango.com/support/top20handsets.aspx
“The iPhone has done a lot to encourage people to browse the internet on their phones,” says Ray Anderson, CEO of Bango. “But to get the most out of their mobile marketing spend, companies who are riding the iPhone wave, attracted by its excellent features and user demographics, need to optimize their mobile websites for all phones - especially those in Bango’s Top 20 handset list. Without this, they will be missing out on the mass market”
This is particularly true for businesses with a mobile website who want to give their mobile visitors a great user experience optimized for their mobile device, as well as those selling mobile content and services.
Marketers need to choose their best channel to market and consider sales projections from the leading manufacturers. Based on the number of handsets projected to be sold by the end of 2009, outside of Japan and Korea, Nokia is the leader with sales of the S60 likely to reach 300m, followed by Windows Mobile and iPhone at 40m, RIM at around 25m and Google around 5m..
“What is clear is that mobile marketers need to better understand their users,” says Anderson. “Our Bango mobile analytics provides analysis of mobile visitors, mobile site activity and marketing campaigns, with detailed metrics including unique visitor count, country, network and handset of each user. This helps brands to make the best decisions about future mobile investments and get closer to their customers.
The job search site, Simply Hired, has announced its expansion to Germany, Spain and France. Simply Hired already has job search sites for the U.S., Australia, Canada, India and the U.K. and has aggregated 5 million jobs worldwide.
“Each of Simply Hired’s websites is tailored for the job seeker, with features and functionality that empower them to lead the pack of candidates applying for any given job,” said Sachin Shah, director of product management, Simply Hired. “By design, the Simply Hired websites show job seekers their requested results and then enable them to click directly to the originating website, facilitating the most direct interaction with the employer.”
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Another executive at Yahoo! is planning to leave the Sunnyvale search engine. Venkat Panchapakesan, executive vice president of the Audience Technology Group will say farewell at the end of the summer. It will be almost one year after consumer-facing platforms were moved under his direction after a Yahoo! reorganization last summer.
Panchapakesan was CEO of Yahoo! India R&D from 2003-2006. He’s returning to India after an 11 year stint as a Purple Person.
While at Yahoo!, Panchapakesan worked on a bunch of products including Mail, Flickr, Answers, Groups, Messenger and content properties. Prior to Yahoo!, Panchapakesan worked for Hewlitt Packard.
Jimmy Wales launched Wikia Search a little over a year ago. His idea was to build a user-generated search. It opened to not-so-great fanfare and the dismal economy didn’t help things. Wales said that due to a reassessment of priorities, he’s nixing Wikia Search.
Not all Wikia products are suffering a dark fate. Wikia Answers is proving to be quite popular, which holds with the current trend in the popularity of Answers sites.
Wales hopes to return to his Wikia Search project during future, more profitable times. He holds strong to his belief in openness and transparency in search.