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As of Feb 2012

• 88% of American adults have a cell phone
• 57% have a laptop
• 19% have an ebook reader
• 63% go online wirelessly using one of those devices
• 46% of all American adults own a smartphone
• 68% of adults living in a household earning \$75,000 or more own a smartphone
• 60% of those with a college degree have a smartphone
• 19% of adults own a tablet
• 44% of smartphone owners access the internet on their device

During the 2011 holiday season:

• 24% of cell owners used their phone to look up reviews of a product online while in store
• 25% did it to see if they could get a better price somewhere else
• tablet ownership doubled (from 10% to 19%) between December 2011 and January 2012

Source: Pew Internet

Results based off responses from 800 smartphone owners

• 44% used mobile to respond to TV ads
• 50% of smartphone owners use their mobile to search for product information after seeing a TV ad
• 38% of respondents used their smartphone in store
• 49% used their phone to compare prices with other retailers
• 34% opted to make purchases on mobile
• 3.8% conversion rate on tablet vs 1.9% conversion rate on desktop
• tablet owners spent 4.4 hours / week browsing retail sites and made a purchase every week

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• mobile web growing 8x faster than desktop web did in the 1990s
• "Mobile is ramping up faster than any other technology we have seen in the past" Mary Meeker, Kleiner Perkins
• 3x more smartphones activated every minute than there are babies being born
• 1/5 ppl check their phones before getting out of bed
• over half of american's will have a smartphone by end of 2011
• 29.6% of restaurant queries are mobile
• 15.4% finance and insurance
• 79% of large online advertisers to not have a mobile optimized site
• compare mobile site now to desktop sites 10 years ago (retailer adoptions)
• 11% of mobile users have actually screamed at their phones over frustration at buying on mobile
• 61% of users unlikely to return to a mobile site if they've had trouble viewing on a phone
• 40% said they'd visit a competitor's site after a bad experience on your site
• research has shown that web retailers could increase consumer engagement by 85% with a mobile optimized site

Cross industry best practices

1. keep layout simple
2. design for thumbs, not mice
3. prioritize content
4. use uniquely mobile features
5. make is easy to convert

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• PayPal saw a 397% increase in consumers shopping via PayPal Mobile on Cyber Monday 2011, vs 2010.
• Rue La La saw an almost 200% increase in mobile sales on Cyber Monday 2011 vs 2010.
• Ebay’s mobile commerce doubled to $5Billion+ in 2011
• Ebay’s Black Friday mobile commerce sales were up 516%, over 2010.
• 2011 mobile commerce sales were up 91.4% over 2010.
• In 2012, mobile commerce is expected to increase another 73.1% to $11.6 billion
• The average mobile commerce purchase was $123 (vs. $87 for purchases from desktop PCs).

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