India is inching closer to becoming a trillion dollar digital economy with rapidly expanding digital infrastructure coupled and greater accessibility to technology. With 90% of India set to own a mobile phone by 2022, it comes as no surprise that mobile is the primary driver of this digital transformation.

The face of the Indian mobile user is changing and how! A distinctive feature of the change is that it is not just restricted to metro cities. Bharat - comprising of Tier II and III cities and rural India, is bringing an ever-increasing number of first-time internet user online. In addition, it’s not just the teens or young adults that are tech-savvy today. Digital adoption is growing across all demographics. India, like most countries, is also moving away from traditional means of content consumption to more convenient, one-to-one interactions enabled by mobile. Be it gaming, video-viewing or shopping, mobile is now the primary screen for users.

Spurred by affordable data and smartphones, India is coming online at an unprecedented pace. It’s estimated that by 2020, more than 650M people in India—double the population of the United States—will be connected to the internet.1 As more and more people in India discover the internet and its applications, it's fast weaving into the fabric of everyday life—and a significant portion of the online population is turning to search to look for information and to find answers.

Spanning 11 verticals, the annual Year in Search India report delves into consumer behaviors to uncover what’s top of mind for them and the implications this has for marketers. To find out more download the report. 

Discover how location intelligence produces powerful retail insights that can drive brand performance. Cuebiq and GasBuddy examined over 121 million consumer trips to C-Store and Fuel Retailers in 2017. Our latest Footfall Traffic Report sheds light on retail insights, consumer behaviors, trends and a 2018 forecast provided by CSP.

Key Retail Insights Include:

Retail Intelligence: How Brands Can Drive More Visits and Create a  Better Consumer Experience

2017 in Review: Top Brands, Visit Trends, Consumer Habits,  Shopping Preferences and More

2018 Forecast: Data & Analysis by CSP

It's no secret that companies, brands, and retailers are deploying beacons by the tens of thousands. The majority of the use cases we read about focus on one primary use case for beacons: the push notification. Walk in to a store, have that store's app on your phone, the app detects the beacon, the app sends you a push notification based upon that beacon bump. This type of marketing, when done right, holds big potential for mobile marketing. We believe that there's even bigger potential to use beacons for two different reasons. Retargeting Attribution Because beacons work passively in the background, they enable companies to build bigger audiences. Using lat/long to place someone at a location typically requires that person to pen their phone at that location. Even then, the accuracy is pretty poor. There's a key point here: beacons build bigger audiences than lat/long. We analyzed visitors to the retail locations of the four major mobile carriers: Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile. The result are pretty incredible. Verizon, which has beacons installed nationwide, builds audiences that were 200-300% larger than their peers. So what?