TagMan has played a pivotal role in a new report from the IAB, which explores attribution and customer conversion journeys in the retail sector.
We were delighted to provide the IAB 
with the data and analysis for this latest research. It forms the heart of the report and shows the true path to sale for retailers.
Using the full conversion path and non-converting data feed reports for leading UK retailers TagMan partnered with the IAB to investigate the following key areas: Continue reading
With the assistance of Ghostery, we’ve put together some data showing that social plug-in adoption among Experian Hitwise Top 100 UK Travel Retail Sites lag far behind adoption among all top sites. While 50% of all top sites have a Facebook plug-in and 43% have a Twitter plug-in, it turns out that only 29% of the Top 100 UK Travel Retail Sites have any social plugin at all (see our infographic after the jump).
This despite evidence that shoppers are becoming increasingly social, with 58% of online consumers having “followed” a retailer through Facebook, Twitter or a retailer’s blog. Continue reading
With the assistance of Ghostery, we’ve put together some data showing that social plug-in adoption among Experian Hitwise Top 100 US Travel Retail Sites lag far behind adoption among all top sites. While 50% of all top sites have a Facebook plug-in and 43% have a Twitter plug-in, it turns out that only 29% of the Top 100 US Travel Retail Sites have any social plugin at all (see our infographic after the jump).
This despite evidence that shoppers are becoming increasingly social, with 58% of online consumers having “followed” a retailer through Facebook, Twitter or a retailer’s blog.
Rob Silsbury, marketing director of online glasses retailer Glasses Direct is under no illusions as to the state of the retail environment in 2012.
Speaking at TagMan’s most recent client get together TagMeet 2, Silsbury said: “It’s going to be a pig of a year.” And none of the other retailers in the room looked ready to disagree.
So what does Glasses Direct plan to do about it? Given its focus is online, then drive its online channels hard. Efficiency is the overriding mission. But, that doesn’t mean the company isn’t prepared to invest to get as lean as possible. Silsbury has a couple of things in mind: Continue reading
With the assistance of Ghostery, we’ve put together some data showing that social plug-in adoption among IR500 websites lags far behind adoption among all top sites. While 50% of all sites have a Facebook plug-in and 42.5% have a Twitter plug-in, it turns out that only 31% of the IR500 have any social plug-in at all (see our infographic after the jump).
This despite evidence that shoppers are becoming increasingly social, with 58% of online consumers having “followed” a retailer through Facebook, Twitter or a retailer’s blog.
While e-commerce sites generally feature less shareable content than publishers, we have to wonder if Continue reading
Shanti Shunn, Director of Online Marketing at Harry and David
Shanti Shunn, director of online marketing at Harry and David, discusses why e-commerce sites need tag management, how tag management has evolved, and how to select a tag management vendor.
When and why did you decide you needed tag management?
At Harry and David we’re in all the multichannel markets, we have a lot of third-party tags on our site that relate to tracking and/or CPA payouts. Continue reading
A SEO brand search features in half of all top-converting user journeys
Attribution matters. Take search, for example. In e-commerce, SEO is the most powerful converter to a sale outside of direct-to-site navigation. Yet marketers direct the bulk of their search efforts – not to mention search spend – into PPC.
“Search is great, but you probably don’t understand what the real story is,” Continue reading
Smart container tag and tag management system will be used to deploy and track all online campaigns
Debenhams, the UK’s leading department stores group, is working with super container tag and tag management system TagMan to help it implement and track all its online activity.
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With her team, Greenlight director of PPC Hannah Kimuyu has been integrating TagMan path-to-conversion data to understand the true role of paid and organic search in user journeys. Here she outlines some of the amazing insight they are becoming to able to feed into client strategies and tactics.
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I’d like to thank Dixons for their latest tube ads which should bring to light how important the consideration and selection of products are as well as the final purchase in the sales process. Continue reading
