Infographic: Is Brand Loyalty Dead?

Infographic: Is Brand Loyalty Dead?

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Is The Street Wrong? What Best Buy $BBY Is Doing Right (video)

What Best Buy Is Doing Right

Video above published Aug 29, 2017, by Fortune.com: Best Buy (NYSE: BBY)(domain: bestbuy.com), the electronics retailer, has been steadily boosting sales and pleasing investors, BUT .... Best Buy: Well That's Peculiar | SeekingAlpha.com Aug 29, 2017: "Best Buy has just reported its Q2 earnings, and the initial reaction was positive but now shares are getting crushed ... We think the Street has this one wrong."

• Best Buy headquarters: Richfield, MN
• CEO: Hubert Joly (Sep 2012–)
• Number of locations: 1,026 (October 29, 2016)
• Founder: Richard M. Schulze
• Subsidiaries: Geek Squad, Pacific Sales, Magnolia Audio Video, MORE

Q2 FY18 Results:

• Earnings Release (embed below)

• Non-GAAP Reconciliation

• Webcast

Q2 FY18 Results Press Release (embed below):

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Apple $AAPL Q1 2017FY Earnings, LIVE Stream Jan 31st Replay

Apple $APPL UP 26.13% since Feb 1, 2016 (source: google.com)

Apple.com: Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) Apple Q1 2017FY (Q4 2016) financial results conference call January 31, 2017, 5:00 pm ET: http://www.apple.com/investor/earnings-call/.  (Note: Live streaming uses Apple’s HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) technology. HLS requires an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with Safari on iOS 7.0 or later, a Mac with Safari 6.0.5 or later on OS X v10.8.5 or later, or a PC with Microsoft Edge on Windows 10.)

“We’re thrilled to report that our holiday quarter results generated Apple’s highest quarterly revenue ever, and broke multiple records along the way. We sold more iPhones than ever before and set all-time revenue records for iPhone, Services, Mac and Apple Watch,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “Revenue from Services grew strongly over last year, led by record customer activity on the App Store, and we are very excited about the products in our pipeline.”--January 31st press release, infra.

Consolidated Financial StatementsDownload (pdf) and Data SummaryDownload (pdf)

Summary: revenue $78.4B (+3.3% Y/Y) beat estimates), EPS $3.36 beat estimates, share repurchases and dividends $15B. $AAPL shares UP in after hours trading Jan 31, 2017.
Press release Jan 31, 2017 excerpts:

1. LIVE streaming of Apple's Q1 2017 financial results conference call 2:00 p.m. PST on January 31, 2017 at www.apple.com/investor/earnings-call/. This webcast will also be available for replay for approximately two weeks thereafter.
2. Apple posted all-time record quarterly revenue of $78.4 billion and all-time record quarterly earnings per diluted share of $3.36. These results compare to revenue of $75.9 billion and earnings per diluted share of $3.28 in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 64 percent of the quarter’s revenue.
3. Declared a cash dividend of $0.57 per share of the Company’s common stock.  The dividend is payable on February 16, 2017 to shareholders of record as of the close of business on February 13, 2017.
4. Apple is providing the following guidance for its fiscal 2017 second quarter:

1. revenue between $51.5 billion and $53.5 billion
2. gross margin between 38 percent and 39 percent
3. operating expenses between $6.5 billion and $6.6 billion
4. other income/(expense) of $400 million
5. tax rate of 26 percent

Apple Earnings: iPhone 7 Plus Could Save the Day

Can Apple come out of its recent earnings doldrums through higher prices for iPhones? WSJ.com's Tripp Mickle explains on Lunch Break with Tanya Rivero. Video above published Jan 30, 2017.

Apple's booming app sales

In recent months, Apple has put a spotlight on revenues from online services such as the App Store, iCloud and Apple Music, in order to counterbalance concerns on Wall Street about the iPhone, which saw its first ever drop in sales last year. Video above published Jan 5, 2017 by FT.com

See also:

• Apple $AAPL, Q3 2016 Earnings Results, LIVE Webcast Oct 25, 5pm ET | DomainMondo.com
• Apple vs Qualcomm (search results page)
• Apple wobbly? "I thought one of the big four (Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon) would falter in 2016. All produced positive stock performance in 2016. None appear to have faltered in a huge way in 2016. But Apple certainly seems wobbly. They can’t make laptops that anyone wants to use anymore. It’s no longer a certainty that everyone is going to get a new iPhone when the new one ships. The iPad is a declining product. The watch is a mainstream flop. And Microsoft is making better computers than Apple (and maybe operating systems too) these days. You can’t make that kind of critique of Google, Amazon, or Facebook, who all had great years in my book."--Fred Wilson, What Did And Did Not Happen In 2016 | AVC.com.

• Chart: The Age of Tech | Statista:

• Chart: US Tech Companies With The Most Money Held Offshore | Statista.com:

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Twitter $TWTR Q3 2016 Results, LIVE Webcast Oct 27 8am EDT

1-year chart of Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR)

Twitter Inc.

Twitter is a U.S.-based online social networking service that enables users to send and read short messages called "tweets". Registered users can read and post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them. Twitter's headquarters is in San Francisco, CA.  CEO is co-founder Jack Dorsey.

Stock exchange: symbol | NYSE: TWTR
Principal domain: twitter.com
Investor Relations: investor.twitterinc.com

To avoid conflicting w/ peer calls, we've rescheduled Q3’16 earnings release/call to pre-market on 10/27 https://t.co/njFKHWLDoe #TWTR $TWTR

— TwitterIR (@TwitterIR) October 24, 2016

Twitter, Inc. will release financial results for the third quarter of 2016 at approximately 7:00 a.m. EDT, on Thursday, October 27, 2016, before market open. On the same day, Twitter will host a conference call to discuss these financial results at 8:00 a.m. EDT. To have your questions considered during Q&A, Tweet your question to @TwitterIR using #TWTR.

LIVE audio webcast--Oct 27, 2016, 5:00 AM PT / 8:00 AM ET--Listen to webcast replay.

Twitter has used, and intends to continue to use, its Investor Relations website and the Twitter accounts of @jack, @twitter and @TwitterIR as means of disclosing material non-public information and for complying with its disclosure obligations under Regulation FD.

Q3 2016 Earnings: Q3 revenue totaled $616 million, an increase of 8% year-over-year, and. Q3 GAAP diluted EPS of ($0.15) and non-GAAP diluted EPS of $0.13, beat analysts consensus estimates. Stock was up in pre-market trading. A 9% (approximately) global workforce reduction was announced, which includes a regrouping of sales, partnership and marketing initiatives. The strategy announced by CEO Jack Dorsey is consistent with a company forging an independent path to profitability, with acquisition hopes now off the table:

 "Our strategy is directly driving growth in audience and engagement, with an acceleration in year-over-year growth for daily active usage, Tweet impressions, and time spent for the second consecutive quarter. We see a significant opportunity to increase growth as we continue to improve the core service. We have a clear plan, and we're making the necessary changes to ensure Twitter is positioned for long-term growth. The key drivers of future revenue growth are trending positive, and we remain confident in Twitter's future."--CEO Jack Dorsey

• Twitter Third Quarter Earnings Conference Call
• Q3' 2016 Shareholder Letter (pdf)
• Earnings Press Release (pdf)
• Slide Presentation (pdf)
• Selected Company Metrics and Financials (pdf)
• SEC Form 8-K (pdf)
• Twitter (TWTR) Q3 2016 Results - Earnings Call Transcript | SeekingAlpha.com

See also: 

• Twitter Planning Hundreds More Job Cuts as Soon as This Week | Bloomberg.com: October 24, 2016 "Twitter said to plan cut of about 8 percent of workforce."
• Twitter’s sales team is taking a hit in big upcoming layoffs | TechCrunch.com
• Twitter's Dorsey Rallies Staff Around Independent Strategy in Internal Memo | Bloomberg.com
• Twitter $TWTR in Play: Is the Price Too High? (video) | DomainMondo.com (Sep 28. 2016)

Tweets by TwitterIR

Coverage on DomainMondo.com will include later on Oct 27th: $GOOG, $NSR, $VRSN, $AMZN

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Growing Brands: Healthy Lifestyle, Digital Ecosystems, Social Platforms

Digital IQ Index® - Food 2016:

2016 has been a bad year for sugary foods—packaged food sales in the US have registered slow growth as healthier alternatives usurp share.

The fastest growing Index brands are snacks positioned around a healthy lifestyle.

As these health-oriented upstarts gain share, legacy brands look to mergers and acquisitions to grow earnings in a static market.

Meanwhile, digital efforts can differentiate brands looking for growth, online or in-store.

While only two percent of the $675 billion in U.S. grocery sales occurred online in 2015, e-commerce is enjoying rapid growth across grocery categories—thanks in part to visibility on retailer sites.

99 percent of brands are present on at least one of the sixteen major grocers profiled in this year’s study, and 12 percent of brands have signed up for the Amazon Dash button since introduction last spring.

Brands have increasingly invested in digital ecosystems with rich recipe content shared across social platforms, increasing brand awareness and easing the path to purchase.

Lastly, adoption of mobile tools and emerging platforms are reaching scale—94% of brands have mobile optimized sites, up from 82% in 2015, and 82% of brands are now present on Instagram, up from 61% in 2015.

Kraft (domains: kraft.com / kraftheinzcompany.com / kraftrecipes.com) rises to the number one spot in this year's Digital IQ Index: Food, boasting a recipe site with shopping list functionality and local offers on subsidiary brands' products, strong visibility across brand and category searches, and aggressive advertising on mobile, desktop and video platforms.

These are the top 10 #food brands in #digital: https://t.co/JdkMsvgLm5 pic.twitter.com/vpW9DytsO4

— L2 Inc (@L2_Digital) September 19, 2016

The study attempts to quantify the digital competence of 126 Food brands operating in US market. Members can download the full report at L2inc.com. Video above published September 19, 2016.


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What Happens in an Internet Minute in 2016 (infographic)

Courtesy of: Visual Capitalist

Courtesy of VisualCapitalist.com: Platforms such as the ones listed above are comparable in magnitude to other mega-sized companies, but without the intense capital expenditures, debt, or hard costs. That’s why Alphabet, Google’s parent company, can spend over a billion dollars each year on “moonshots.”

The full stats on what happens every internet minute:

• 701,389 logins on Facebook
• 69,444 hours watched on Netflix
• 150 million emails sent
• 1,389 Uber rides
• 527,760 photos shared on Snapchat
• 51,000 app downloads on Apple’s App Store
• $203,596 in sales on Amazon.com
• 120+ new Linkedin accounts
• 347,222 tweets on Twitter
• 28,194 new posts to Instagram
• 38,052 hours of music listened to on Spotify
• 1.04 million vine loops
• 2.4 million search queries on Google
• 972,222 Tinder swipes
• 2.78 million video views on Youtube
• 20.8 million messages on WhatsApp

This volume of data, or information, is part of the reason that these same companies are prioritizing the ability to process and interpret big data more than ever before.


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Apple, Smartphones, Market Share, iPhone Sales, $AAPL Bad News?

Apple 1-year stock chart (NASDAQ:AAPL) (source: google.com)

1. Why Apple Is Likely Underperform the Nasdaq in 2016 - 24/7 Wall St.: "... The problem for Apple is that China is its third largest market, and the fastest growing one at 84% growth year over year. It is unlikely that this rate of growth will continue in 2016 ... the Chinese economy has a lot of readjustment to do ..."

2. Smartphone vendors are engaged in ever more competitive cut-throat markets for market share, yet the smartphone OS platform wars appear to be over, and Android won over iOS:
 source: Statista

3. Bad News for Apple investors? According to a research note published by Morgan Stanley analysts, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) may only sell 218 million iPhones in fiscal 2016, which would be equivalent to a 5.7 percent drop compared to the fiscal year that ended in September:


 source: Statista

• Principal domain name: apple.com
• Investor Relations: investor.apple.com

See also on Domain Mondo: 

• Apple, iPhone Vulnerability, Product Concentration, $AAPL Unsustainability
• Worldwide Smartphone Marketshare by Geography, OS, 2015-2019

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Evolution Of Brands In Digital Advertising: Jet.com, Amazon, Macy's (video)

Evolution Of Brands In Digital Advertising | The holiday season is here so advertisers are trying new and different tactics to drive sales. (Nov 26, 2015)

Companies referenced:

• Jet.com
• Amazon.com
• Macys.com

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Smartphone Sales Fall in China, Market Saturated, India Booming

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UPDATE August 21, 2015: But Smartphone Sales in India are booming! -- India's Smartphone Market Soars in the Second Quarter of 2015 Says IDC: "While both China and India offer a huge consumer base, there are few differences between the two markets including:

• In the latest quarter, almost one-fifth of the smartphones sold in China were sub-US$100, while in India almost 50% of all smartphones shipped during the same period were in this price segment; 
• Apple has 19 Apple Stores in China at present, whereas India doesn’t have an Apple Store; 
• The high-end Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge had a small contribution to the total Samsung smartphone sales in India, but a considerably larger contribution in China; 
• Unlike China, we don’t expect the Indian consumer to make a quick switch to the smartphone, and vendors should keep in mind that they are here for the long haul.
• IDC expects India to maintain a double-digit growth rate in the smartphone market over the next few years as people switch to smartphones and gradually upgrade to 4G smartphones as well. 
• By 2017, we expect India to overtake the United States as the second largest smartphone market globally."

Source: Statista

Gartner chart: Worldwide Smartphone Sales 2Q2015 by OS

1. Worldwide Smartphone Sales Recorded Slowest Growth Rate Since 2013 
2. Smartphone Sales Declined for the First Time in China 
3. Android's Year-Over-Year Growth Rate at its Lowest 

In a report likely to have wide-ranging ramifications--from Apple to Android OS manufacturers--Gartner (gartner.com) says smartphone sales have fallen for the first time in China, and the market is saturated:

"Gartner, Inc. said worldwide smartphone sales recorded the slowest growth rate since 2013 in the second quarter of 2015. Worldwide sales of smartphones to end users totaled 330 million units, an increase of 13.5 percent over the same period in 2014 (see Table 1).  "While demand for lower-cost 3G and 4G smartphones continued to drive growth in emerging markets, overall smartphone sales remained mixed region by region in the second quarter of 2015," said Anshul Gupta, research director at Gartner. Emerging Asia/Pacific (excluding China), Eastern Europe and Middle East and Africa were the fastest-growing regions, driven by good performance from Chinese and local vendors. 

"By contrast, smartphone sales in China fell for the first time year over year, recording a 4 percent decline.  "China is the biggest country for smartphone sales, representing 30 percent of total sales of smartphones in the second quarter of 2015. Its poor performance negatively affected the performance of the mobile phone market in the second quarter," said Mr. Gupta. "China has reached saturation — its phone market is essentially driven by replacement, with fewer first-time buyers. Beyond the lower-end phone segment, the appeal of premium smartphones will be key for vendors to attract upgrades and to maintain or grow their market share in China."  Despite the launch of new S6 models, Samsung's premium phones continued to be challenged by Apple's large-screen iPhones. Samsung lost 4.3 percentage points in market share and declined 5.3 percent in unit sales in the second quarter of 2015. Huawei recorded the highest sales growth rate of 46.3 percent, thanks to strong overseas sales and 4G smartphone sales in China. iPhone sales increased 36 percent, which helped Apple gain 2.4 percentage points in market share..." 

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The Three Tiers of Top-Level Domains (TLDs)

So thanks to ICANN and its new gTLDs program, we now have three tiers of Domain Names (TLD domain name extensions) in the domain name ecosystem:

First Tier Top-Level Domain Names: .COM domain names
Second Tier Top-Level Domains: .NET, .ORG, ccTLDs and other open, unrestricted gTLDs
Third Tier Top-Level Domains: everything that's left--restricted, branded, closed, etc.--TLDs

A check with RegistrarStats and a review of Domain Name Sales reports confirms the above--you can't argue with the market consensus as to valuations and sales!

And so, unfortunately, we have to endure for several months more, the now boring, mundane release of countless additional new gTLDs still to come (yawn), second tier and third tier. Here's an example of a new third tier TLD:

The 'Land Rush' Has Begun: Register Your .nyc Domain | Gale A. Brewer - Manhattan Borough President: "... All registrants are required to have a physical street address in New York City (with no P.O. boxes permitted)... By October 7, if nobody else has requested the same address, it's yours. If there are multiple requests for the same address, an auction will be held to determine who will own it. A successful domain name registered during Land rush will cost $30 plus $20 for each year it registers the name... We don't want the .nyc portal to become a corporate playground; it should enable local organizations and businesses to have a presence online. The bodega, the corner pizza place, the 24-hour locksmith, the family-run shoe repair service -- that's what this is about..." --great, every corner pizza joint in New York City needs its own .nyc domain name (even if it costs more than double what you would pay to register a dot COM domain name)--such a deal!

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