Stats: Search Behavior

Data roundup: Resources to help you market more effectively during COVID-19
Insights to help you evaluate and adapt your SEO, content and PPC efforts in a rapidly changing...
COVID-Consumers: Pessimistic, but spending more online
A large majority of consumers expect a recession next year but are spending up to 30% more online, according to new survey data....
Google Maps the dominant local search tool, followed by Facebook and Yelp
The average user is on a smartphone at home – and is most likely to visit a business the next day after a local search....
Organic search responsible for 53% of all site traffic, paid 15% [Study]
According to BrightEdge, paid and organic search drive more than 70% of revenues for B2B and the other verticals....
Why search queries and location data could trump polling as political tools in 2020
Location intelligence will be used to identify and target voters, and predict election results....
Cyber Monday dominated Black Friday in paid search spend, but AOV lagged
Mobile took a bite out of average order value, but sales from paid search over the holiday period rose....
TripAdvisor survey: TripAdvisor more trusted, widely used than Yelp, Google, Facebook
The sponsored survey looked at influence on restaurant decision-making....
IAB: Search, the largest category of digital ad spending, generated $40.6B in 2017
Mobile was responsible for 54 percent of paid-search ad revenue last year....
Search outpaced social for referral traffic last year, driving 35% of site visits vs social’s 26% share of visits
According to a new referral traffic report from Shareaholic, 2017 was the first time since 2014 search owned a larger share of visits over...
YouTube sees 90% lift in searches for football highlight videos during the last year
According to YouTube, sports fans are watching more sports-related videos than...
Survey: Smart speaker ownership steals time from smartphones, TV, radio
The study suggests there are about 40 million devices in US homes today....
Merkle: Black Friday, Cyber Monday sales from Google paid search up by double digits YoY
Phone sales from search ads continue to play a significant role for retailers....
Yext begins to verticalize local business listings syndication with ‘Yext for Food’
Moves seek to provide enhanced data with more vertically specific attributes to various consumer search and discovery points....
Report: 57% of smart speaker owners have bought something with their voice
Part two of NPR Smart Audio report exposes the 'v-commerce' potential of virtual assistant devices....
Amazon vs. search: Why you shouldn’t put too many eggs in one shopping basket
Where should retail marketers focus most of their time and effort: search or Amazon? Columnist Purna Virji shares data from an analysis of...
Data: Consumers grow more demanding, impatient as brands fall behind
Smartphones and social media have created a short-attention-span consumer that brands have increasing difficulty satisfying. ...
IAB: Paid search was 48 percent of total digital spend in 2016
Spending declined on the desktop but grew by nearly $6 billion overall because of mobile....
Data: Google monthly search volume dwarfs rivals because of mobile advantage
Google likely has 30+ billion queries per month across...
Survey: 60 percent of voice users want more answers and fewer search results
Making calls, searching, texting and map lookups were the most common use cases for voice....
Bing Ads shares Valentine’s Day CPC & CTR trends, including surprising mobile stats
Mobile plays a significant role, accounting for nearly half of all Valentine's Day-related searches on Bing....