Survey Results: How Important Is Video in Ecommerce?

excerpt from: August 05, 2010 · by Practical eCommerce Staff

Practical eCommerce polled readers in July about the use of video in ecommerce. We wanted to know how many of our readers have posted product videos on their ecommerce sites, and if not, why.

The July 2010 survey asked four questions about ecommerce video usage, with a comment section for each response. Readers who completed the survey, and then provided us with their names and email addresses, were automatically entered in a contest to win a $25 Amazon gift certificate. The July contest winner, selected via a random number generator, is Linda Boggs with Les Vogt Performance Programs, a site that promotes rodeo horse riding and sells tack.

Do you use product videos on your ecommerce site?

Around two-thirds of respondents (63.9 percent) said they are using product video on their websites. One respondent commented, “Video helps educate customers and gives more visual info on our brand. It creates trust and builds a relationship.”… read entire article here….

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By DOUG HEMPSTEAD, Ottawa Sun
Last Updated: March 4, 2011 6:35pm

The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board has received permission to conduct a voluntary, anonymous student survey about sexuality, religion and family life.

The board announced the decision Friday morning and will start distributing the surveys April 18.

The student survey, originally planned for the fall of 2010, was delayed while the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario conducted an investigation into privacy issues associated with personal questions in the survey… <see article here..>

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The opposition Law and Justice party has filed a complaint to the Media Ethics Council after the anti-clerical ‘NIE’ weekly published a survey in which respondents discussed the possible suicide of the party’s leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski.

The weekly, whose editor-in-chief, Jerzy Urban was a government spokesman during Martial Law at the beginning of the 1980s, is known for its anti-clerical and often sardonic take on Polish current affairs.

The survey asked about the demise of Jaroslaw Kaczynski, with a number of political and social figureheads giving their responses.

Among those who aired their opinion were deputy parliamentary speaker Jerzy Wenderlich (Democratic Left Alliance), former Civic Platform MP Janusz Palikot, as well as independent politician and renowned film director Kazimierz Kutz.

The populist leader of the Self-Defence party, Andrzej Lepper, journalists Jacek Zakowski and Piotr Najsztub, as well as Janusz Czapinski, a social psychologist also took part in the survey… see full article here

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By Marisela Burgos – bio | email

LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) – Strong opposition continues from parents who are suing the Jefferson County Public Schools over the student assignment plan. A day after the district’s consultant said the plan needed tune ups, those nine parents and their attorney told us the survey was skewed.

“There is zero doubt in my mind that the desired result was accomplished,” said Ted Gordon, the attorney for the parents.

Gordon referenced a stat released by the consultant which said that 90 percent of parents support a student assignment policy that allows for family choice, but parents would also like to have diverse schooling options in their neighborhood, too, if possible. (see entire article)

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March 01, 2010|

By Doug Gross,CNN

More Americans get their news from the Internet than from newspapers or radio, and three-fourths say they hear of news via e-mail or updates on social media sites, according to a new report.

Sixty-one percent of Americans said they get at least some of their news online, according to a survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.

That’s compared with 54 percent who said they listen to a radio news program and 50 percent who said they read a national or local print newspaper.

Survey: More Americans get news from Internet than newspapers or radio

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  Social networking sites like Facebook have made news a more participatory experience, the survey suggests.

More Americans get their news from the Internet than from newspapers or radio, and three-fourths say they hear of news via e-mail or updates on social media sites, according to a new report.

Sixty-one percent of Americans said they get at least some of their news online, according to a survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.

That’s compared with 54 percent who said they listen to a radio news program and 50 percent who said they read a national or local print newspaper.

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Brain Teasers is an amusing collection of ten basic mathematical and logic related puzzles that will both mystify you as well as get a chuckle or two from you. Like a good book that we sometimes read from cover to cover in one sweep, “brain teasers” will not give you peace of mind until you have gone through them all… Click here and tease YOUR brain!

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By Mahar Mangahas Philippine Daily Inquirer

First Posted 21:37:00 12/24/2010

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LAST THURSDAY, SWS reported through BusinessWorld that 69 percent of adult Filipinos expect this Christmas to be happy, according to the Fourth Quarter Social Weather Survey done on November 27-30, 2010.

Another 24 percent chose to say that it would be neither happy nor sad, and 7 percent said it would be sad, i.e. this was a multiple-choice item with three answer-options.This year’s expected happiness percentage is five points above last year’s. Throughout 2004-2009, the happiness rate was statistically flat at 62-64 percent. The new rate of 69 is a statistically significant increase, given the 3 point survey-error-margin. It is far below the record-high 82 percent of 2002, the year our Christmas-happiness surveys began, and the 77 percent of 2003.

Thus Christmas-happiness was well afloat in 2002-2003, sank to a virtual seabed in 2004-2009, but now has risen towards the waterline…

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Mixed Reactions to Media Coverage

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Most Americans following news about the WikiLeaks website’s release of a huge trove of classified documents about U.S. diplomatic relations see the revelations – which have received extensive media coverage – doing more harm than good….

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Updated: Wednesday, December 15, 2010, 6:37 PM

Star-Ledger Staff By Star-Ledger Staff

Nearly 20 percent of New Jersey residents were born outside the United States, one of the highest rates for immigrant populations in the country, according the American Community Survey released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau.  The five-year survey of nearly 3 million Americans, which provides the most detailed portrait of American life in the country’s history, shows New Jersey ranks behind just New York and California for percentages of foreign-born residents. < see more>

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