Every day, the Yandex.Maps app responds to more than a million search queries made in Russia. Nearly half of them are searches for various organizations: where the nearest ATM or produce stand is? what’s the fastest route to the civil records office? where a given market? church, or museum is located, etc? By looking at …
Listen to the audio version of this article: EU, Turkish and Israeli startups raised a record €25 billion in 2017 – up €8.6 billion (+52.4%) from 2016, which was also a record year increase. These and other key numbers and trends are revealed in “Next Station: Europe,” a new industry report published by Tech.eu with support …
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Over 71 million people over 18 years-old use the Internet in Russia, and the daily audience of Yandex’s Advertising Network serves about 60 million users. Every day visitors to sites in the Yandex Advertising Network see about 4.3 billion ads, 8 millions of which convert. Yandex, the number one search engine in Russia, has studied …
With 20.6 billion visits to piracy sites in 2017, Russia ranks the second biggest consumer of digital piracy content in the world, suggests a report by Muso, a London-based global authority on digital piracy. The US tops the list with 27.9 billion visits to piracy sites last year. The listing also includes such countries as India …
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East-West Digital News and ICObench have studied the ICO market in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), a region that includes Russia and more than 20 other countries. This region boasts an impressive record on the global ICO scene, according to this research. Analyzing some 237 ICOs and pre-ICOs with roots in CEE the region conducted last …
Report: Central and Eastern Europe accounts for 20% of the global ICO market Read More
The Russian smartphone market continues to grow compared to other parts of the world where mobile Internet penetration has peaked. In this blog, Russian Search Marketing compares smartphone manufacturers’ distribution in Russia to the top 10 smartphone manufacturers’ distribution globally during 2017. According to research from Counterpoint’s Market Monitor service, smartphone distribution in Russia increased by …
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The Russian online market is hotter than ever with over 50% of surveyed shoppers indicating they book more travel online than offline, according to recent studies. Historically, travel agents have been very popular for booking travel in Russia but the market has seen a major shift thanks to a number of new online options for booking travel in …
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Every year Yandex, the leading search engine in Russia, provides results to over 250 million user queries. At the end of each year, the company’s research team compiles these queries and analyzes them to publish a list of the year’s top search trends. While these categories don’t cover everything, it gives us a great picture …
This year, Black Friday began on Thursday, November 23, with retailers launching their offers and special proposals at 4:00pm GMT. A number of e-merchants opened the clearance sales even earlier (some of them starting the operation on November 20) and continued these until December 1. admitad, a major international ad network, has reviewed its in-house …
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On November 11 each year, Alibaba Group, China’s biggest e-tailer, holds its flagship event, the “11.11 Global Shopping Festival.” This year was no exception. With much fanfare, the group announced that the event generated $25.3 billion of gross merchandise volume (GMV) – an increase of 39% compared to 2016. Mobile GMV settled through Alipay accounted for 90% …
11.11 Global Shopping Festival: Striking numbers from Chinese malls Read More
As new data emerges on the political activity of Russian entities in the 2016 election year, research from HubSpot finds that US adults aren’t sure about how much to trust ads on social networks. In fact, the level of distrust discovered by HubSpot was nearly identical no matter the platform, whether it was Facebook, Twitter or Google. …
About six years ago, a number U.S. venture investors were bullish about Russia’s startup scene. Well-known VCs like Accel and Intel Capital led rounds for emerging Russian Internet brands. Cisco also targeted the region, backing a fund focused on Russia and Eastern Europe. In 2012, the peak year for cross-border deals, U.S. VCs backed nearly 50 rounds for Russia-based startups. But that was …
