8 posts and columns on Andrew Lipsman

Apple Nipping at Target’s Heels for Fourth Most-Visited Site on Black Friday

in Commerce on November 28, 2011 at 1:31 pm PT

Amazon, Wal-Mart, Best Buy and Target are all obvious candidates for heavy Black Friday traffic online, but right up there with the big-box stores is Apple.
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Retailers Expecting Another $1 Billion-Plus Cyber-Shopping Spree Today

in Commerce on November 28, 2011 at 12:01 am PT

A year ago today was the biggest online shopping day of 2010, and now retailers are expecting another big blowout as consumers turn out to shop while they work.
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Why Open Stores Early, When the Internet Is Open 24 Hours a Day?

in Commerce on November 17, 2011 at 6:30 am PT

A handful of large retailers are opening their doors the night of Thanksgiving to get a jump on Black Friday. But the strategy is angering employees, and may go against online and mobile efforts.
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Google in the Library With a Candlestick: Demand Media's Traffic-Murder Mystery (Except It Didn't Die)

in News on August 13, 2010 at 8:30 am PT

Smart investors will decide whether or not they like online content maker Demand Media, which recently filed to go public. Before Wall Street buys into the IPO, those investors will peruse the financial disclosures, assess the management and analyze the market itself. And they’ll also look at the Santa Monica, Calif., start-up’s traffic, which has been growing steadily since its founding several years ago. Except, insisted two bloggers in posts on the exact same day earlier this week, it looked like Demand’s traffic dramatically fell off over the last month. Or did it?

Web Ads Are Growing Again. But by How Much?

in Media on May 13, 2010 at 2:02 pm PT

We know that the Web ad business (and the ad business in general) is much better than it was a year ago, when it was awful. How much better?

Samsung No. 1 Among U.S. Mobile Phone Makers, Apple No.6

in Mobile on May 6, 2010 at 3:00 pm PT

The latest metrics from comScore on the U.S. mobile market from comScore, published Thursday are about what you’d expect. Among mobile network operators, Verizon ranked highest; among mobile phone makers Samsung claimed the top spot.

Web Video Winners: YouTube, Hulu…and MegaVideo?

in Media on March 2, 2009 at 10:06 am PT

Anyone who pays attention to Web video knows what the top sites are: YouTube, followed very far behind by the big sites run by big media conglomerates. So how did an obscure Hong Kong site just crack the Top Ten?
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Hulu: Turns Out We Didn’t Miss Sarah Palin So Much, After All

in Media on December 31, 2008 at 3:00 am PT

The video site saw a huge surge in interest during the fall. But its post-election audience may not have eroded as much as we thought.