ByBrian Krogsgard
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In a new post on Moovweb, they highlight that only 0.39% of mobile users use social sharing buttons. That’s quite low. And it doesn’t get that much better for desktop.
It’s a compelling argument to not have them at all, but definitely if you do have them, probably don’t push them too hard.
Search ads generated 50% of all digital revenue for the first half of 2016, as Greg Sterling reports over at SearchEngineLand.com. No surprise that mobile is still driving the growth and that it’s numbers are quickly approaching desktop levels. Combined, search revenues were $16.3 billion, with the desktop making $8.9 billion of that total and…
The boundaries between WordPress .com and .org have never been very clear. That may change as the WordPress mobile app sheds features the Jetpack app will gain.
Joseph Lichterman writes about The Pew Research Center’s annual State of the News Media report. Quick highlights: Nearly half of American adults now get news from Facebook. Daily newspaper circulation fell 7 percent from 2014 to 2015, and newspaper ad revenue fell 8 percent over the same period. In 2015 about half of all digital…
I really am excited about a new series on the Delicious Brains blog, where Jeff Gould is demoing how to use the WordPress REST API and React to create a mobile app. My favorite part is that they are creating a really simple app, but showing real code and step by step instructions, so that…
Tech Roundup Week Ending June 2: Check out what happened in WordPress (and other) tech this week.
WPEngine has announced “One-Tap Payments” for WordPress ecommerce sites. Their WooCommerce extension leverages the Payment Request API — which is already available in the mobile versions of Chrome for Android. There is not a huge amount of in-depth information in the press release, but Jason Cooper goes into detail in a comment on this ManageWP…
