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1. State of the Netessential eBusiness intelligence for Irish managers
A quarterly bulletin on online activity in Ireland ISSN: 1649
Compiled by AMAS in association with the Irish Internet Association
w w w . a m a s . i e
issue 19 Winter 2010
compelling to battle-weary
investors, directors and senior
managers.
The scale of the market
opportunities and the ability
of either a start-up or an
established business to
capitalise on them are less
easy to define and articulate.
There is a scarcity of robust
eCommerce data in this
market. However, there are
sufficient clues from the Irish
market and other markets to
provide Irish businesses with
a good starting point on the
journey to creating successful
eCommerce offerings.
We know the broad internet
uptake, the explosion of
social media use, mobile
and particularly smart
phone adoption levels in
Ireland. We know that Irish
businesses are losing out
to overseas eCommerce
providers which have been
aggressively targeting Irish
consumers. And we know
that, by comparison, many
Irish eCommerce offerings lag
behind international ones, in
terms of the user experience,
the richness of the offer and
ultimately how much is taken
at the checkout.
From other markets, we can
understand how Irish businesses
can exploit eCommerce.
Our nearest neighbour,
which has a far more mature
eCommerce market, is a good
starting point. Across sample
areas of eCommerce, as the
graph shows, there is a higher
likelihood that UK consumers will
research and buy online, or buy
online following some offline
research, than Irish consumers.
Data from The Interactive
Media in Retail Group (IMRG)
are revealing:
• 51% of UK’s population buy
online and 15% do so via a
mobile phone
• Online sales were worth £45.6
billion between January and
October 2010, up a comparative
17% and not too far behind the
full 2009 figure of £49.8 billion
• “Multichannel” retailers,
those with traditional and
online outlets, are gaining in
LinkedIn
trends
page 2 USA
38.4m
SA
.4m
353,391
Worldwide 80 million
India
7.4m
UK
4.8m
Other
29m
Ireland
.ie
domains
rule OK
page 5
.info
.com
.eu
.org
.ie
.net
.biz
41%
30%
14%
3%
1%
6%
5%
Aileen O’Toole,
Managing Director,
AMAS
After several false dawns,
eCommerce is firmly
on the agenda of Irish
businesses. From wannabe
entrepreneurs to seasoned
traditional retailers,
eCommerce provides a
much-needed glimmer of
hope in an otherwise grim
economic climate.
Market opportunities
abound, domestically
and internationally, as
consumers turn increasingly
to the internet to research
and buy products.
Established and marketed
correctly, eCommerce
can deliver high-margin
sales, grow the customer
base, increase average
value per customer and
drive down costs. Certainly,
those kind of arguments are
eCommerce lift-off: trends for 2011
Research offline,
purchase online
Research online,
purchase online
0 10 20 30 40 50 60
Ireland
UK
Ireland
UK
Ireland
UK
Ireland
UK
Ireland
UK
BooksCd/DvdCamerasPhonesSoftware
Ireland
UKClothing
11 2
28 17
33 24
13 4
%
8 10
13 3
27 11
16 1
24 8
20 5
39 20
3 2
Source: Consumer Commerce Barometer, compiled
April 2010. Data based on a sample size of 2,000 in both
Ireland and the UK. Base for graph: those who purchased
a product in selected categories within 12 months of survey
Research and online sales
Continued on page 4
3. Top Trends
the opportunity to win online
Nov 09 Dec 09 Jan 10 Feb 10 Mar 10 Apr 10 May 10 Jun 10 Jul 10 Aug 10 Sep 10 Oct 10
0.2
0
0.4
0.6
0.8
1.0
1.2
1.4
1.6
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RTÉ
TV3
TG4
Millions
A further tranche of data confirms
what everyone involved in digital
advertising in Ireland is saying – that
digital continues to grow and is set
to become a leading category.
Research for the first half of 2010 from
IAB Ireland/PricewaterhouseCoopers
shows that, despite a bruising
advertising market, digital advertising
spend increased by just over 12% to
€53.9 million.
Google continues to be the primary
beneficiary, with paid search
accounting for 45% of digital spend.
The broad display category was
also a strong performer accounting
for 29% of share, with advertising
networks (including Google’s) and
social media campaigns on sites
like Facebook becoming a more
common feature on advertising
schedules. Online classifieds constit-
ute the balance of the digital spend.
This IAB/PwC research will be
repeated every six months and
within a few months of its launch
has become the industry
benchmark, just as its equivalent
research has become in other
more mature markets.
Separately, PwC has conducted
some forecasting about media
and entertainment trends globally.
For the Irish market, it describes
the advertising market as “fragile”,
and expects an overall decline of
5.1% this year. Digital will buck the
overall ad market trend this year
and in the years ahead, with PwC
forecasting compound growth
in Irish internet revenues of 16.3%
over the next five years.
3. Online TV
More indicators of how the internet is changing consumers’
media habits. Online TV has become an established
medium in Ireland, with consumers playing catch up on
their favourite TV programmes through the websites of Irish
television stations. The number of streams varies according
to the broadcasting schedules, with peaks being recorded
for major sport occasions and hit TV shows.
RTÉ Player was at its busiest in June with 2.3 million streams,
thanks in no small measure to the World Cup. TV3’s
highpoint was in October at 1.2 million streams, with X
Factor and The Apprentice being online crowd pullers.
October was also the best month for TG4 at 343,000
streams, with the Aussie Rules series and Oireachtas Festival
helping to boost the numbers.
Millions of streams per month
Source: Data supplied by RTÉ, TV3 and TG4. Note: TG4 Beo
Player streams Irish language programmes only
4. Digital advertising
Jan - June 2009 Jan - June 2010
40%
60%
80%
20%
0%
100%
27.6%
25.7%
46.6%
26%
29%
45%
€48m €53.9m
Search Display Classifieds
Source: IAB PwC Online Adspend Study for first half of 2010,
and PWC Global entertainment and media outlook 2010–
2014, both published in November 2010
Forecast Irish
advertising
market
2010
5.1
12.2%
%
Total market
Digital
Irish digital advertising market
5. Top Trends
Mobile, location technologies
and social media for the
retail sector are set to be key
themes in the Irish Internet
Association’s next “8Ways”
eCommerce conference
in 2011. It builds on the
phenomenal response to
the IIA’s initial “8Ways” conf-
erence earlier this autumn,
which had 120 delegates and
reflects a significant increase
in interest in eCommerce
during the past year.
The first “8 Ways to Sell More
Stuff” conference was
designed specifically for
eCommerce traders and
focused on the basics of
sales conversion and loyalty
techniques for members’
websites. The conference
found that while Irish
consumers out-shop their
European counterparts
online, Irish retailers are under-
selling online compared
with their international
counterparts. Irish consumers
are clearly shopping online
for value and/or product
range that cannot be found
easily in the Irish market.
Broadband is still prohibitively
slow in many areas, and is
not only a disincentive for
retailers to developing their
eCommerce offerings but is
also a barrier to consumers.
The final challenge is cost-
effective product fulfilment:
unless the product is truly
unique or exceptionally
less expensive, customers
overseas or indeed on the
other side of Ireland are
unlikely to be willing to absorb
the cost of shipping.
Within the grocery sector, some
of Ireland’s largest domestic
brands are still not trading
online. Smaller independents
have been more aggressive
and creative in adopting
online strategies to boost
sales. For these organisations,
eCommerce presents an
opportunity to expand the
business without the need
for capital expenditure. SMEs
and sole traders operate
lean and nimble operations
that allow them to respond
quickly to customer requests.
This was again evidenced by
the delegate profile at the
“8Ways” conference.
Such was the level of interest
in the conference and the
positive feedback from
delegates, the IIA will be
heading into 2011 with a
continued focus on this sector
and future “8Ways” events.
eCommerce conference puts spotlight
on mobile and social media
Joan Mulvihill
CEO, Irish Internet Association
6. Domains
What’s in a name and more
particularly a domain name?
An awful, awful lot if you
want to launch a new brand,
protect an existing one and
target different audiences
and markets. Increasingly,
businesses realise how
essential domains are to
their brand armoury.
Decisions about what type
of domain .com or .ie for
instance – often rest with the
aspirations of the business or
the brand and particularly the
market focus. Companies with
global ambitions often opt for
.com or .net but then try to
mop up the relevant market-
specific domains .co.uk for the
UK or .fr for France – to allow
for more market-specific focus.
As the IEDR celebrates
its tenth birthday, new
statistics shows that .ie is
performing strongly. The Irish
domain market accounts
for approximately 355,000
of the world’s total of
196 million domains. .ie
accounts for around 41% of
the Irish market, compared
with 29.5% for .com.
Benchmarked against other
similar countries, the Irish
share is ahead of the global
average of 39% for other
equivalent country code
top-level domain (ccTLDs).
Source: IEDR,
Domain Industry
Report 2010;
comparisons
based on data
from Directi
(webhosting.info),
Eurid and IEDR
.info
.com
.eu
.org
.ie
.net
.biz
41%
30%
14%
3%
1%
6%
5%
The IEDR is on a mission to promote the
value of the .ie domain to Irish businesses
and has launched a new site – and of
course a catchy domain, Why.ie. It has
also launched a publication, the Domain
Industry Report, which provides a wealth
of statistics on domains and the Irish
internet “ecosystem”.
AMAS Managing Director Aileen O’Toole
has written a piece for this publication
on how Ireland’s digital economy has
matured over the past ten years. It is
available for download on www.iedr.ie
.ie on a mission
Ireland’s
domain name
registrations