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Personalizing your Honeymoon Registry with Honeymoon Pixie

Today we're happy to announce our partnership with Honeymoon Pixie!

Honeymoon Pixie, offers brides and grooms to the ability to register for their dream honeymoon, and invites wedding guests the chance to gift a honeymoon experience or activity.

“Engaged couples want their honeymoon gift registry to be as personal as possible,” says Andrew Marino, CEO of Honeymoon Pixie. “Now they can integrate a personal video, welcoming wedding guests to their honeymoon registry and thanking them for their gifts. This depth of personalization improves the level of emotional connection felt by wedding guests viewing the couple’s honeymoon registry.”

“We are confident that brides and grooms will appreciate the ability to personalize their honeymoon registries,” says Ryan O’Donnell, CEO of Sociagram. “A honeymoon is an extremely personal experience and our video technology helps to amplify the excitement around this event.”

Honeymoon Pixie’s registered couples can now record and share their dream honeymoon plans with friends and family through personal video on their registry.

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The Rise of Video in 2013

  "It goes without saying that video is really powerful. We're seeing brands in so many different verticals leveraging video platforms in all different ways. A mistake I see is how many companies push out their own content exclusively. In 2013, I see the rise of consumer generated content through video platforms and plugins adding tremendous value for companies across the board."

-Ryan O'Donnell, CEO of Sociagram

  Check out more on video trends for 2013, and what other thought leaders in the space have to say via our friends at Econsultancy: http://bit.ly/Xn0dOZ

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Ecommerce results in for Q3, up 15% to $42b, bodes well for upcoming Holiday season

comScore’s e-commerce numbers are out today for the third quarter, showing that online retail spending reached $41.9 billion for the quarter, up 15 percent versus year ago. This is the twelfth consecutive quarter of positive year-over-year growth and eighth consecutive quarter of double-digit growth for online spending. This growth bodes well for the upcoming holiday shopping season.

The top-performing online product categories were: Digital Content & Subscriptions, Consumer Electronics, Event Tickets, Apparel & Accessories, and Computer Software. Each category grew at least 16 percent vs. year ago.

“The Q3 growth rate of 15 percent growth remained in line with the prior quarter and provided confirmation of the strength in the e-commerce sector, despite a few negative headwinds in the macroeconomic environment during the quarter,” said comScore chairman Gian Fulgoni in a release. “Such performance offers some optimism as we approach the holiday season, especially given recent improvements in consumer sentiment. With the housing market beginning to show signs of recovery in addition to increasing – if still underwhelming – job growth, there appears to be strong enough footing to support a very healthy online holiday shopping season.”

According to comScore’s quarterly online retail survey, 37 percent of U.S. consumers has uses a smartphone while in a brick and mortar store to check prices or to even purchase a product online. This represents an increase of 5 percentage points in the past two quarters.

Amazon has been aggressively trying to get consumers to purchase on the e-commerce site while in stores, but retailers are catching on to this.

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Tagman Partnership Announcement!

Hi!

We're thrilled to announce our partnership with TagMan. 

That's right, we've joined the "best-of-breed" ranks of Certified TagMan Partners!

We are excited to join the “STREAM™” Global Partner Program. The STREAM program is open to best-of-breed application providers; marketing and analytics agencies; and CRM, marketing and ecommerce platforms. 

“TagMan’s STREAM Global Partner Program is built on a firm understanding of partners’ and their customers’ needs. Benefits of the program include a strong focus on developing joint sales and marketing opportunities plus an increased investment in supporting new partners with account management, technical support, training, and consulting services.” says Ron Brien, SVP of Global Marketing at TagMan.

Want to learn more? You can check out the full press release here, or say [email protected].

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29% of retailers surveyed say video is their top budget spend for the next 6 months.

Sociagram powers the only social video platform to enable retailers to add social, mobile and video for the Holiday season. Coupled with personalization and post transaction engagement, Sociagram is the platform for Holiday 2012.

Want to learn more? Say [email protected]

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Hindsight: 2011 E-Commerce Holiday Season Review

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Will M-Commerce Overtake E-Commerce? 

Today more than ever before we're seeing a shift toward m-commerce. Statistics show that m-commerce will soon outpace e-commerce, and even brick and mortar shops.

Brands are utilizing mobile spending as a way to engage their consumers. Specifically m-commerce helps retailers target their male demographic of which 59% prefer to shop via mobile devices and are also likely to outspend their female counterparts.

Is your brand ready to participate in this consumption shift? Check out this great infographic to see how well you are leveraging mobile commerce this season.

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Beta Testers, We Love You!

Hi Friends!

We're super excited about our upcoming launch! Our VIP Beta Testers are loving Sociagram, and we know you will too. 

Since launch is just around the corner, we wanted to send a big Thank You from the team here at Sociagram. We have learned so much from our Beta team and couldnt have built this without your input! 

We'll keep in short for now, but  THANK YOU for all of your help!

As always we're here to help, so let us know if you want an early invite, or just want to say hi!

Check back in a few days for a big announcement from our CEO!

Love,

The Sociagram Team