Topic: Consumer Behavior & Insights
How Voice-assisted Shopping Drives Up Sales
June 21, 2021
Voice-assisted shopping is a relatively new way to purchase products, and so is the research into its effectiveness. A new MSI working paper finds that consumers who use voice AI tend to browse 13.6% more and spend 19.5% more, which corresponds to an extra $493 million in sales revenue every year. Those are eye-popping numbers […]
What’s Mine is Ours: How Consumption is Changing
April 11, 2021
Technology hasn’t just changed the way consumers use goods and services, it’s also changed the way they own them. Music collections, for example, have evolved from hundreds of alphabetically-organized records on a shelf, to carefully edited digital libraries, to the 2021 version — a list of songs stored on Spotify or some other streaming platform. […]
Shape Matters: How Packaging Can Influence Purchase Choices
April 11, 2021
New York University marketing professor Priya Raghubir’s lightbulb moment about consumer behavior came in the late 1990s, when she was a new mother struggling with a fussy baby who refused to eat. One particularly exasperating day, she switched the bowl she normally used to feed her son and was amazed that he gobbled up everything. […]