Monthly retail ecommerce sales pass CA$2.9 billion following the impact of the pandemic in 2020, with May of last year registering $3.9 billion. The statistics, which run until September of last year, show that every month after April 2020 surpassed the total ecommerce sales in December of 2019, CA$2.7 billion. Retail ecommerce registered in sales…
Statistics show that ecommerce sites gain a 35% increase in conversion rates when using an optimised checkout design. Features such as free shipping and simple purchases have shown to have a big influence on customers, with more less straightforward designs resulting in people dropping purchases. 2 out of 3 ecommerce websites lose money due to…
2020 saw usage of social media sites increase across multiple platforms and with it, more people shopping online via social media networks. Estimates by eMarketer put 2021 to see 7.9 million social buyers in Canada, up a million from 2020, accounting for roughly a quarter of the population above the age of 14. A Bazaarvoice…
Presenting the opportunity for customers to make purchases from wherever they are has allowed mobile shopping to become extremely popular, with the convenience and increase of mobile payment options helping drive its use. Statista estimates that by the end of 2021, 73% of all ecommerce sales will be done via a mobile device. Whilst this…
Ecommerce experience platform Shogun has shown in new survey data that 42% of people who have shopped online during the pandemic will continue to do so after The findings also revealed some of the main factors that lead consumers to avoid certain online stores or brands. The highest ranking was a website or app “that…
YouTube has become a perfect place to connect brands and customers, especially targeted at mobile users, which hold a large amount of YouTube’s total audience. Since 2017, mobiles devices have watched over 50,000 years worth of product reviews, as the platform has become popular for consumers to find information on products It is not just…
The platform has a global user base that is over 2 billion people and has proven a useful tool for marketers, allowing a connection to be established with the target audience Last year showed how well it can make that connection and drive engagement, with Google showing in a study that 70% of viewers had…
The State of Email Marketing in 2020 report by Hubspot has shown email marketing to have had a strong 2020, with 78% of marketers seeing an increase in engagement in the last 12 months The statistics also showed a strong preference among millennials, with 73% preferring communications from business to be via email Email marketing…
Facebook has added to its ecommerce features for Canadian users, as several social media sites have moved to expand their online shopping options The ‘Shop’ option will now be highlighted on menu bar and on the mobile app, with new options for product searches and by-product notifications This follows a move by Twitter in February…
Twitter Canada has announced a partnership with so.da to create a new “online shopping experience” called Twitter Shops Fueled by so.da Using virtual pop-ups to target users with brands they may be interested in, Twitter hopes it will provide a new way for users to discover and shop for products Social shopping and ecommerce saw…