Wine.com said it raised $32.5 million in debt and equity financing from funds managed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s Private Credit Group (“GSAM PCG”). The capital will be deployed to enhance Wine.com’s customer experience, brand awareness, and scale of the…
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Thanksgiving Dinner: 30 Grams of Extra Sugar Before Desert
Cranberry sauce and salad dressing rank as the biggest sugar culprits, according to Label Insight, which analyzed its product and ingredient database to find how much sugar a typical Thanksgiving dinner plate would contain. Findings showed that people consume about…
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Eighty-six percent (86%) of consumers think of Wisconsin when they think of cheese.—Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin
Citizen Satisfaction with Federal Government Rebounds to Four-Year High
Citizen satisfaction with the federal government reached a four-year high at the end of 2016, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). Three years of eroding citizen satisfaction culminated in an all-time low score in 2015, but over the…
90% of U.S. Mobile Internet Time Said Spent in Apps
Apps continue to dominate U.S. time spent with mobile, says Flurry, reaching 90% of mobile minutes in June 2015, up from 86% share in Q2 2014. Breaking down mobile internet consumption by app and browser categories, the data shows Facebook’s…
How Prevalent is Ad Blocking?
Globally, the amount of internet users who use ad blocking software increased by 41% year-over-year in Q2 and reached 198 million in June, according to a recent study from Adobe and PageFair, which pegs the economic toll of this activity…
Customers Loathe Pay TV and ISPs, Love Their Smartphones
Customer satisfaction with information services – including subscription TV, Internet, wireless and fixed line telephone, and computer software – drops 3.4% to an ACSI score of 68.8 on a 0 to 100 scale, the lowest level in seven years. According…
Video Consumption, Ad Dollars Continue to Favor TV Over Digital
While TV’s share of adults’ daily media time has shrunk slightly in the past couple of years, the medium continues to pull in a disproportionately high share of ad spending, according to new eMarketer estimates. This year, TV is expected…
The Most — and Least — Trusted Companies in America
Just 63% of 293 organizations across 20 industries earned “excellent” (above 70%) trust ratings from consumers, according to the latest annual Temkin Trust Ratings. Another 28% earned “good” (60-70%) ratings. H-E-B and credit unions led the pack, with USAA capturing…
Form Conversion Rates: What’s Working?
Form conversion rates continue to depend more on the type of form being used than the number of fields in the form, reports Formstack in its second annual “Form Conversion” study. This year’s study adds lead generation forms (such as…