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Six Trends in the Shifting World of
Mcommerce
Yory Wurmser
Retail Analyst
July 9, 2015
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Agenda
Forecast for US mcommerce sales
Trends within overall mcommerce
Evolution of the mobile user experience that will affect
mcommerce
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Sales on mobile devices are still relatively small:
1.6% of total US retail sales in 2015
$4.458 trillion
in offline retail sales
$74.93 billion
in mcommerce sales
$265.68 billion in
other ecommerce sales
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… But growth will be rapid in 2015
32% YoY
jump in retail
mcommerce
sales
22% of retail
ecommerce in
2015 will come
from
mcommerce
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Majority of US digital buyers will make a
purchase with a mobile device in 2015
121.8 million
mobile buyers
63.7% of digital
buyers
Increase in
mobile
buyers:
17 million
in 12 mos.
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Rapid
diversification:
Digital media
downloads and
in-app purchases
account for a
shrinking share
of mobile sales
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Smartphone shoppers will continue to
outnumber tablet shoppers in the US in 2015
123.2 million149.3 million
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… But US tablet owners are far more likely than
US smartphone owners to buy via their device
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Tablet buyers will outnumber smartphone buyers
in the US in 2015
99.7 million78.3 million
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… And tablet
conversion
rates and
average order
value (AOV) far
exceed those
on smartphones
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Tablets
produce the
majority of
mobile
revenue, but
their revenue
share has
peaked
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iPads generated nearly half of US mcommerce
sales during the 2014 holiday season
48%(Source: Adobe, “2014 Holiday Shopping Recap”)
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Even with an
iPhone 6
bounce in Q4
2014, Android
easily outsells
iPhone most
quarters
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iOS generates more mcommerce than Android
because of its higher conversion rates and AOV
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High-end Android devices have conversion rates
on par with iOS devices
“Everybody likes to pick on Android
conversions, but when we looked at our Black
Friday data, high-end Android devices that
people have to pay for [had conversion rates
that] were equal or better [than those on] iOS.”
—Laurent Meynier, head of marketing at Moovweb
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The gap between iOS and Android conversion
rates is narrowing
In January 2015,
iOS and Android had
nearly equal
conversion rates on
phones
iOS owners still
shop on their
devices more often
iPads still lead
Android tablets
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Three major improvements in mobile interfaces
will increase mobile sales
Bigger screen sizes
Optimized websites
Easier checkout
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The trend should continue with rapid growth of
phablet shipments
Phablets
accounted for
8.5% of global
smart device
shipments in 2014
Will account for
24.7% of global
smart device
shipments in 2019
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Mobile optimization is still not universal
44%
of Fortune 500 sites were not ‘mobile friendly’
in early April 2015
(Source: Boulder Marketing Technology, cited in Techcrunch, 4/12/2015)
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Google’s ‘Mobilegeddon’ is pushing companies to
prioritize mobile optimization
Update began on April 21
Google now prioritizes
mobile-optimized
websites
Google saw a 4.7%
increase in
mobile-friendly sites
between March and April
2015 (Source: Search Engine Land, 4/21/15)
Image from Search Engine Land, 4/21/15
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Responsive
design has
become a
major mobile
priority for US
retailers
Over half of retailers listed
responsive design as a
high (1 or 2) priority when
polled in October 2014
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Easier checkout
is the leading
factor that would
increase mobile
buying, according
to US digital
shoppers
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1- or 2-click buying is expanding beyond Amazon
OS-level payment systems: Apple Pay & Android Pay
Web-based payment systems: e.g., PayPal’s One Touch
Buy buttons in ads: Google and XpressBuy
Buy buttons in social media
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Apple Pay and Google Wallet are still relatively
lightly used
More US mobile
payment users
had used
Starbucks mobile
payments in the
year to December
2014 than used
either Apple Pay
or Google Wallet
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Mobile web is the default platform for casual
visitors
“The mobile web has
to be a workhorse. If
you know nothing about
Sephora and you’re on
the phone and you type
[a beauty brand], the
mobile web is where
you’re going to land.”
—Johnna Marcus, senior
director of Sephora’s
Sephora Innovation Lab
“Mobile web
dominates. It has
to do with
discovery. A lot of
shoppers will still go
to Google when they
are figuring out where
to shop.”
—Sonia Nagar, senior
director of mobile product
strategy at RetailMeNot
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Most retailers prioritize mobile sites for five
reasons
1. Easier for discovery and search
2. Cheaper to design
3. Universal
4. Not limited to core shoppers
5. Landing page for emails
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Only about a fifth of US consumers use a
shopping app
40% of respondents
had downloaded a
shopping app as of
October 2014
Of those who had
downloaded a
shopping app, only
39% used it for
purchases
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But an outsized portion of revenue comes from
apps
42%of mobile revenue comes from apps
(Source: Internet Retailer, August 2014)
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App shoppers are heavy buyers
“Mobile app users are probably enrolled in your
loyalty program. If there is a store credit card,
they’re probably enrolled in that as well. So it’s
a subset of your customer base. But that
20% of your customer base is actually
your most valuable 20%.”
—Maya Mikhailov, chief marketing officer and
co-Founder of GPShopper
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Apps will increase in importance
1. Much faster than the mobile web
2. Necessary for complex integrations—e.g., with device
sensors, mobile payments, loyalty programs
3. Majority of mobile time spent is on apps
4. Apps are becoming publishing platforms for
notifications
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Apps are necessary for complex integrations
Mobile Payment Device Sensors Loyalty Cards
Image source: Sephora via
iTunes
Image source: Walmart via
iTunesImage source: Staples via
www.businesswire.com
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Better notification layers are turning apps into
publishing platforms as much as destinations
“We’re already seeing a shift towards a notification
layer, where content can be shown in that layer
rather than in an app…. Businesses shouldn’t
be thinking about the app as a
destination, they should be thinking
about the ecosystem in which it exists.”
—Paul Adams, vice president of product at Intercom
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Scale remains an issue for retailer apps
Only 12%
of US consumers use a retailer app
(Source: Epsilon, 2015)
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Increases in app commerce will likely come from
third-party platforms, including:
App publisher networks
Mobile wallets
Social media apps
Images from: Freckle IoT
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Social media apps introduce simple shopping
Instagram Pinterest Twitter Facebook
Image source: FacebookImage source: TwitterImage source: PinterestImage source: Instagram
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Search is a huge opportunity for additional sales
89% of US
smartphone
users will search
with those
devices in 2015
Source: Placecast, 2014
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Four innovations in search will enable more
mcommerce:
1. Deep linking
2. Buy buttons
3. Visual search
4. Predictive search
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Deep linking lets marketers have their app
content indexed
Google and Bing now send
searchers straight to an
in-app landing page
iOS 9 will include deep
linking in iOS search
Quixey and URX are start-
up app search engines
based on deep linking Image from developers.google.com
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Google confirmed in May that it will add a buy
button to its Product Listing Ads
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Visual search will simplify real-time search and
buying
Image from Google Play
Neiman Marcus VivinoAmazon’s Firefly
Image from Yory Wurmser
Image from Neiman Marcus
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Predictive search anticipates needs
Vurb
Guided SearchGoogle Now
Image from www.Google.com Image from iTunes Image from iTunes
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6 major trends in mobile commerce:
1. Mobile buying is becoming mainstream
2. Smartphones are catching up to tablets as a sales
platform
3. iOS leads in sales performance, but the gap with
Android is narrowing
4. Better user interfaces will increase mcommerce
5. Mobile web dominates in sales, but apps are gaining in
importance
6. Search is evolving to fit mobile shopping
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