Nearly 40 percent of all global travelers shop for travel on mobile devices and complete transactions on mobile about a third of the time, with mobile transactions up three percent year-over-year as of the fourth quarter 2015. That’s according to Criteo, which analyzed more than 1.7 billion global travel and retail transactions from 3,300 business amounting to $720 billion in sales.
As mobile increasingly becomes an established channel for purchasing, retailers with strong smartphone shopping experiences are experiencing nearly double the growth rate in share of transactions, according to a new report released today by Criteo.
Apps consume 90% of our smartphone time. They're also increasingly consuming our bank balances. According to new shopping data from Criteo, mobile phones are displacing desktops as the digital shopping medium of choice. They're also increasingly taking the place of physical visits to stores—according to the National Retail Federation, more shoppers polled went online (103 million) than to stores (102 million) over the Thanksgiving/Black Friday weekend.
The results are in, and there is no question about what is happening with mobile retail. According to a new study of 1.4 billion online transactions during fourth quarter 2015 from marketing technology provider Criteo, mobile transaction share grew 15% from the same quarter the prior year. Mobile transactions accounted for 30% of all online transactions in the quarter.
Today's consumers are increasingly demanding meaningful, one-to-one experiences with brands, causing personalized marketing to reach tipping point. Moreover, the need for brands to deliver meaningful consumer journeys led to a surge in the adoption of performance advertising. Fortunately, marketers have new tools necessary to execute successful digital strategies. But those new tools present unique obstacles in terms of implementation and integration with existing advertising campaigns like social marketing or paid advertising. To find out how brands this year are investing and succeeding with performance marketing and overcoming its challenges, we commissioned Forrester Consulting to survey just over 150 marketers in the US, UK, France, and Germany.
Following a brutal 2015 for publicly traded ad platform companies (at least those not named Facebook or Alphabet), the first month of 2016 was, well, not much better. That is until Wednesday, when Criteo reported Q4 revenue growth of 55%, to $407 million (362 million euros). Additionally, the company crossed two symbolic milestones, hitting $1 billion in revenue for the year and surpassing 10,000 clients. Earnings release.
NEW YORK - February 10, 2016 - Criteo S.A. (NASDAQ: CRTO), the performance marketing technology company, today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2015.
Last June, shares in advertising tech specialist Criteo plunged 7% after Apple declared its intention to add ad-blocking technology to the mobile edition of its Safari browser. Despite that looming threat, Criteo’s mobile revenue is exploding, based on its 2015 financial results issued Tuesday. The company also added 900 customers in the past quarter, reaching 10,000 accounts, and crossed the €1 billion annual revenue mark for the first time.
While the year has been mostly crummy for tech stocks, Criteo (CRTO) has been able to buck the trend. On news of its latest earnings report, the stock price is up a sizzling 20% in early trading. In fact, the company has exceeded $1 billion in revenues for the past year and there continues to be hefty free cash flow generation. Not bad for a company that got its start back in 2005.
Criteo posted its full-year 2015 results on Wednesday and the firm is continuing to show it is the star-performer of the ad tech sector. The company's revenue crossed $1 billion for the first time — far outpacing the majority of the other publicly-traded ad tech companies.
