Pinterest Referral Traffic Statistics | Shareaholic. Welcome to Shareaholic’s Referral Traffic Report. According to our findings based on aggregated data from more than 200,000 publishers that reach more than 260 million unique monthly visitors each month, Pinterest drives more referral traffic than Google Plus, LinkedIn and YouTube combined. The report doesn’t show all referral sources – there are hundreds of thousands – but it does shed some light on where some of the most talked about websites stand. Key Takeaways: Pinterest grew from 2.5% of referral traffic in December to 3.6% of the referrals in January. It’s the end of the month and the perfect time to dig into your analytics and measure the effectiveness of your content efforts so far this year. BY THE NUMBERS: Social Media Proves to Be a Powerful Force. Push/Pull Social Marketing on Facebook and Beyond. Consumer Insights Panel: Consumer Use of Social Media Report.
The Wave 2 Empathica Consumer Insights Panel surveyed more than 15,000 U.S. and Canadian consumers, in part focusing on their online habits and social media usage. This survey was part of a comprehensive study on North American consumer spending behaviors and sentiments in various industries, which includes additional surveys in domains such as customer service, the overall economy, and the financial services sector. This detailed examination can be analyzed on its own and also compared to data pulled from Q1 – serving as prolific insight into the movement of consumer spending behaviors this year.
The social media results specifically pulled from this survey indicate a number of trends surrounding online consumer behavior. Most notably, the study found that 60% of consumers follow a brand via social media, mostly because of coupons or promotions. In an era of economic uncertainty, consumers are clearly voicing the importance of finding deals through social media channels. Download Report. Gamestop to J.C. Penney Shut Facebook Stores. (Corrects to remove wrongly attributed quote in seventh paragraph of Feb. 17 story.) Last April, Gamestop Corp. (GME) opened a store on Facebook to generate sales among the 3.5 million-plus customers who’d declared themselves “fans” of the video game retailer.
Six months later, the store was quietly shuttered. Gamestop has company. Over the past year, Gap Inc., J.C. Facebook, which this month filed for an initial public offering, has sought to be a top shopping destination for its 845 million members. “There was a lot of anticipation that Facebook would turn into a new destination, a store, a place where people would shop,” Mulpuru said in a telephone interview. A year ago, investors hailed so-called F-commerce as the next big thing, speculating that the company had potential to threaten Amazon.com Inc. David Fisch, Facebook’s director of business development, said in June that the site would make shopping online, previously a solitary experience, more social. Physical Goods Shut Quickly.