Companies in Hong Kong ignore the new personal data rules at their peril. In 2010, Hong Kong’s Privacy Commissioner found Octopus Holdings to be contravening the Data Protection Principles by selling personal data of approximately 2 million of its reward card holders to third parties for use in direct marketing campaigns. The company wasn’t punished [...]
The latest Quarterly Australian Travel Report from Experian Hitwise has just been released and it is packed with more insights on popular tourist destinations and industry movements. One of the most interesting changes from last quarter was the most popular flight destinations. The top 3 changes this quarter for flight destinations: Melbourne regained the top spot [...]
Getting onto the train last week, I noticed a sea of buried heads on mobile devices, commuters immersed in content on their smartphones and tablets. The carriage remained in this state for the rest of the journey and left me contemplating how mobile has become the ‘sticking glue’ that connects consumers to the online and [...]
It’s en vogue these days for statisticians and business analysts to refer to themselves as ‘scientists’, which is fine —as long as such people bring a scientist’s mindset to the task. “Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.” So said David Ogilvy sometime in the 1960s, and the [...]
Big Data seems to be on everyone’s minds at the moment: The national media are talking about its potential to change our lives across a huge range of areas (the BBC has had 7 separate programmes focusing on Big Data since November last year Specialist technology websites such as my favourite, The Register, which published [...]
This week saw the second installment in the Click Frenzy franchise – a digital day devoted to attracting consumers in light of upcoming Mother’s Day. Many retailers partnered with Click Frenzy hoping for a similar consumer uptake as was seen in November last year, when the Click Frenzy site crashed from excess demand. This time [...]
Australians spend less time per visit on mobile. This is probably a no brainer when you consider the smaller screen size of smart phones and tablet devices compared to desktop PC’s and the notion of using the internet on the go. Until now, we have not been able to measure just how much shorter a [...]
Easter has come and gone, with Australians spending (wait for it) $157 million dollars on chocolate! Just think of those poor cacao beans… But children (and adults alike) weren’t the only ones to benefit from the delicious holiday festival. Many online players took advantage of the seasonal celebrations as an opportunity to get in front [...]
Australians web browsing behavior on mobile devices is more likely to consist of checking the weather, browsing fashion retail websites and consuming the news. We are addicted to checking the weather on websites such as the Bureau of Meteorology and Weatherzone, and visiting fashion retail websites such as OZSale, ASOS and The Iconic on mobile [...]
A few weeks ago Pinterest took the next step in building their platform into a potential revenue making machine by creating their own in house analytics tool, allowing businesses to track who is pinning what content from their accounts. What does this mean for businesses on Pinterest? This new analytics tool can assist you in [...]
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