iPhone users and sales stats
Key iPhone user stats. Includes data on sales, market share and more.
Topic: Consumer electronics
Reasoning lift: What happens to brand visibility when AI thinks harder
An analysis of 200 GPT-5.2 responses found high reasoning cites more sources, runs deeper research, and rewards early-funnel visibility.
New AI Visibility Awards spotlight brands thriving in AI-generated search results
Semrush’s new AI Visibility Awards reveal which brands are winning trust — and share of voice — in AI-generated search results.
AI Visibility Index: What three months of data reveals
Uncover which brands are rising, falling, and holding steady in AI search platforms – and get tactics to protect and grow your visibility.
ChatGPT boosts brand mentions as Google AI Mode narrows focus: Report
AI search is changing fast – and new Semrush data shows ChatGPT and Google’s AI Mode are moving in different directions.
AI Search Strategy: The Seen & Trusted Brand Framework
AI search strategy guide: Apply the Seen & Trusted Framework to get mentioned and cited by ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, and other AI platforms.
The list of features being removed from Google Assistant
Google said these changes are to "focus on quality and reliability" but Google has also fired hundreds of employees with these changes.
Less than essential: Why smart speakers are like smartwatches, not smartphones
The devices have reached 50% of US homes, but fallen flat as a channel
Alexa, Google Home now battling perception of being ‘surveillance’ devices
A new incident fuels the perception that smart speakers are spying on their owners.
Report: 65 million US smart speaker owners, smart displays quickly gaining traction
Surveys suggest there's still considerable room for growth.
Report: Google Home making gains on Alexa, Apple HomePod in 4th place
Even if Apple's smart speaker sales don't grow, they could still generate $800 million this year.
Apple says HomePod is finally coming on February 9, but can it compete?
Apple also said that Siri is now used on more than 500 million devices.
Survey: Smart speaker ownership steals time from smartphones, TV, radio
The study suggests there are about 40 million devices in US homes today.
Smart speaker sales grew 103% last year
The virtual assistant devices became the fastest selling consumer technology last year, dramatically outpacing wearables and VR.
Report: Smart speaker owners increasingly using them instead of typing or swiping
Survey respondents also showed openness to buying assistant devices from Facebook and other companies that don't currently offer them.
Amazon just upped the ante in the battle of the virtual assistants
Smart speakers are the 'gateway drug' to smart home adoption.
NPR survey: Americans love their smart speakers, 42% call them ‘essential’
There may already be 20 million virtual assistants in US households.
PPC Trademark Bidding In Q1 Fell Sharply After The Holidays; Highest In Home Services Industry
Study finds rates of brand bidding highest on Bing desktop/tablet, but lowest on Bing Mobile.
Search Arbitrage Accounts For Largest Percentage Of Ads Competing On Brand Trademarks
Brands are often struggling with other advertisers encroaching on their trademark terms in search ads. Sometimes brand trademarks are used by “friendly” advertisers such as resellers, but a study released today from BrandVerity shows that search arbitrage accounts for the majority of branded search competition. The study analyzed how core brand terms of more than […]
Samsung Vs. Apple In PLAs: Advertisers Spent 3X More On IPhone Ads Than Galaxy In Q2
Mobile device advertisers spent $26.4 million on Google product listing ads in Q2, according to new data from AdGooroo, which looked at 339 mobile device-related keywords. Apple iPhone-related keywords accounted for 45 percent of total spend on PLAs and dwarfed spend on Samsung Galaxy-related keywords. Among the 327 advertisers found running Google PLAs on the […]
Report: Search Trends Hint At A Holiday Season Filled With Tech Gadget Gifts
Analyzing search data for the four weeks leading up to November 9, Experian Marketing Services claims online product searches have been dominated by fitness gadgets, mobile devices and game consoles, giving evidence to a holiday season overrun with tech gifts. Based on search and click trends for the weeks of October 12 through November 9, […]
12 Top Search Trends To Kick Off 12/12/12 Google Zeitgeist
Don’t worry, Google’s year in review for 2012 isn’t that predictable for the once in a lifetime calendar event. On the official Google 2012 Zeitgeist website, you’ll find their biggest list ever published, with a total of 838 lists from 55 countries, covering 1.2 trillion searches done worldwide. Digging in deeper, Google has divided the massive […]
Mobile Search Strategies For Online Retail
Previously, I took a look at how the travel industry can use mobile SEO in conjunction with desktop-based campaigns to reach customers at two points during their vacation planning: at home while booking the trip, and at the destination while planning their activities. This timing element could be applied to a lot of other industries; […]
Google TV Struggling: Logitech Sees More Returns Than Sales Of Revue Console
Is Google TV testing Larry Page’s patience? With his renewed focus on streamlining Google’s product roster, this news surely isn’t going over well in Mountain View: Logitech has reported that its Logitech Revue console had more units returned than sold in the company’s latest financial quarter (Q1 2012). Ouch. As a result, Logitech says it’ll […]
Does Gilt Sellout Bode Well For Google Chromebooks?
Yesterday members-only site Gilt offered an invitation only one-day sale on a “limited edition” version of the forthcoming Samsung “Series 5” Chromebook — and reportedly sold out of it. The notebook will officially go on sale on June 15th. The model being sold by Gilt was the $499 3G version. The WiFi-only version is $429. […]
Search Engine Land’s Gadget Release Calendar
Wondering when that next tablet or smartphone will be coming out? We do, too! To keep track, here’s a rundown of what we know about particular devices. Devices below are listed roughly in order of release date. I’ll add more items over time. This isn’t a complete list of all coming gadgets out there. Far […]
Report: Tech/Electronics Q1 Search Ad Spending Surpasses Q4
Search ad spending among tech and electronics companies is way up so far in 2011, so much so that Q1 spending surpassed Q4 levels for the first time. That’s the word from Covario’s Global Search Advertising Spend Analysis, which tracks about $400 million in annual spending around the world. Covario says Q1 spending was up […]
Covario: Consumer Electronics Marketers Take Q4 Paid Search Boom Overseas
Holiday shopping for consumer electronics is starting earlier than ever in the Americas, according to new research released by Covario, a search marketing agency that works with large global clients such as Intel, Lenovo, Research In Motion and Adobe. Covario found that, among its tech and consumer electronics clients in the Americas, paid search spending […]
Internet-To-TV Players Compared: Roku, Apple TV, Boxee & Google TV
Looking to stream movies or television content from the internet to your TV? There are a variety of streaming media players on the market. The chart below provides an at-a-glance look at how the leaders — Roku, Apple TV, Boxee Box and Google TV — measure up against each other.
Report: Logitech Revue Paused, More Trouble In Google TV Land?
Last Friday a report appeared, citing the usual “anonymous sources,” that asserted Logitech asked one of its suppliers to “temporarily suspend shipments of [its Google TV] Revue set-top boxes for the period from December 2010 to January 2011 waiting for Google to complete updates or to launch a new version of its software for Google […]
November 2010: Search Engine Land’s Most Popular Stories
Below are Search Engine Land’s 10 most popular stories from November 2010: 1) Nicaragua Raids Costa Rica, Blames Google Maps – A Nicaraguan military commander, relying on Google Maps, moved troops into an area near San Juan Lake along the border between his country and Costa Rica. The troops are accused of setting up camp […]
Has Google Missed Its Window For “ChromeBooks”?
At the recent Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco Google CEO Eric Schmidt seemed to suggest that Chrome-based netbooks wouldn’t be available for holiday shopping (or even before the end of the year). A year ago, however, Google said it was aiming for the “holiday season” with the intended release of the first Chrome-powered machines. […]
Boxee Box: My First Day Review & Impressions
As part of my Life With Google TV series, I’ve been looking at other internet-to-TV devices. Previously, I reviewed Roku. Next up? The Boxee Box. If you’re already a fan of the Boxee software service, the device might be worth it. However, it left me underwhelmed. That may improve when Netflix & Hulu Plus support […]
Life With Google TV: My First Day Review & Impressions
Google TV has finally arrived, not just for pre-order but as an actual device you can get in a retail store. And so I did, hitting Best Buy yesterday and walking out with a Sony Blu-ray player that is Google TV-capable. Here are my impressions, after my first day — well, first evening — with […]
From Apple To Google TV: A Quick Overview Of Six “Connected TV” Offerings
While many people are focused on the recent launch of Google TV, there are a range of existing alternatives for people who want more than just TV on their TVs — or who may what to “cut the (cable) cord” entirely. The chart below offers a short overview and comparison of the major providers and […]
Search Dominates Social Media When Shopping Online: Study
A new study about the buying habits of computer and consumer electronics shoppers shows the importance of search to the online shopping process. Search engines, in particular, are relied on much more heavily than social media — but the study also speaks to the importance of on-site search boxes. The report — which can be […]
I Want My GTV: Will Google TV Soar Or Sink?
Notwithstanding the glitches, the demo last week was impressive: the seamless blending of TV and web content, the beautiful UI, the smooth search and browse capabilities. Now, a few days after the heady discussion and CEO briefings at Google’s I/O developer conference, we can reflect a bit on what the outlook might be for this […]
Putting The Google Phone (Nexus One) Into Some Perspective
As everyone knows by now the weekend saw an explosion of interest, speculation and posting around the “Nexus One,” the so-called “Google Phone” predicted first in an article by TheStreet in October and then further exposed by TechCrunch. I wrote two posts this weekend as the story evolved:
Reflections On Chrome OS From A Consumer Perspective
Google hosted something of a formal “status update” on Chrome the operating system in Mountain View on Thursday. There we discovered the company is open-sourcing the code. We also found out it’s intended as a netbook OS (for now) and that Google is working with several hardware partners to create a better netbook experience (full-sized […]
Obama Praises Twitter, Google & Facebook — But Not Microsoft’s Xbox
Does today’s speech from President Barack Obama to school children across the United States need any more controversy? Having listened to it, I personally can’t see many parents objecting. But I could see one tech company not happy: Microsoft. Competitors like Google got called out as “good” things to aspire to while a Microsoft’s Xbox […]