Last year, Black Friday and Cyber Monday led to record-breaking consumer spending, and this year is predicted to be an even bigger event as e-commerce methods are expected to take home more of the pie than ever before. So much so that Deloitte’s holiday retail forecasts predict that “total retail sales will increase 5-5.6 percent, […]
In many ways, the back-to-school season finds me coming full-circle. Once again I’m faced with the nervousness, the excitement, the “back-to-school jitters.” I have superiors to impress, and associates to both co-operate and build relationships with. I am once again judged on my critical thinking, my typing, my spelling, my rhetoric, and – lord, help […]
To help ourselves, our clients, and the industry orient themselves in this new voice-powered ecosystem, we launched the PMG Voice Lab. The initiative is a long-term investment in research, analysis, and experimentation in the field of voice search and voice-enabled technologies and opportunities. In our first Voice Lab analysis, we put the top voice-enabled technologies […]
In the PMG Voice Lab’s first analysis, we put the top voice-enabled technologies to the test to see how their AI capabilities compare, and most importantly, identify what brands can do to optimize their content for voice search. Download your copy of PMG’s voice search white paper, Why Voice Matters: Identifying the Latest Opportunities in Voice […]
In this month’s piece on global market trends, we’ve set our sights on exploring the rich historic culture and progressive economic and consumer trends of the third largest economy in the world, Japan. With the country’s unique position as the only Asian nation of G7, Japan’s sophisticated global economic influence is backed by a strong […]
Google has done it again. In yet another attempt to keep people on their site, Google has made their featured snippets dynamic by incorporating search refinement modifiers. For right now, this may just be a test considering not everyone is seeing this new answer box feature. After testing a few different queries, this dynamic featured […]
ReactJS is a popular JavaScript library used for a growing number of websites. In fact, 5.6% of the top 10,000 websites now use React, according to digital technology trending site BuiltWith. Building websites and mobile web apps in React can help create a modern user experience, however, like many JavaScript technologies, there are search engine […]
This week, Google announced that it will be taking a mobile-first approach to building a single search index. This means that eventually, Google’s algorithms will primarily use the mobile version of a site’s content to rank pages from that site. And what THAT means is that if your site isn’t optimized for mobile, both your […]
Smart Speakers & Connected Home Device Marketing The smart speaker market is climbing rapidly, up 300% from the previous year. According to an Edison/NPR survey, 42% of smart speaker owners say the device is “essential” to their everyday lives. With Gartner predicting 75 million US households will have smart speakers by 2020, brands need to […]
After attending an AdWords Boot Camp at the Google Campus in Austin, Texas a few weeks back, I gained a better look into some of Google’s most useful tools and wanted to take this opportunity to share them with our readers. Some of the Most Useful Google Tools from AdWords Boot Camp Google Consumer […]