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*** KEY TAKE OUTS *** 1) Top 2 shopping environments eBay and Gumtree attract overseas buyers. 2) Bottom 4 battle competitively for monthly site traffic between 1-3m visitors. 3) All shopping environments have small amount of traffic across each from America. 4) Opportunity to use competitive offers across Social and Display to drive customers to shopping environments to out-do competitors. 5) Customers are quite savvy online buyers, researching products on Whirlpool. 6) Customers using the bottom 3 shopping environments are typically looking for specific things. 7) Top shopping environments push specific products but not necessarily matching what customers are looking for. This suggests you could partner with shopping site to push your products.

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1. The Competitor Set.

2. Site Profiles.

3. Traffic Drivers.

4. Summary.

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Competitor Set

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Six competing shopping environments chosen via:

Top Google search for “Australian Shopping Sites”.

“Similar sites” on SimilarWeb.

1. eBay

2. Gumtree

3. Catch Of The Day

4. OzBargain

5. MyShopping

6. ShopBot

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SimilarWeb is a research tool that will help you discover the most important traffic insights for any website. SimilarWeb makes web analytics simple and accessible to everyone, showing you the story behind any website with data that will help you analyse your competitors’ traffic and identify growth opportunities online.

SimilarWeb is owned by SimilarWeb Ltd. a company established in 2009 by Or Offer

SimilarWeb utilizes a Web crawler to display relevant statistics. The platform analyses millions of Web sites on a monthly basis

This is accomplished through semantic analysis, website structure, site metadata, public information, anchor text analysis, domain name understanding, and a system that utilizes a website similarity engine to automatically determine the category of any website on the Internet

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Site Profiles.

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eBay Gumtree Catch Of The Day OzBargain MyShopping ShopBot

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Top 2 shopping environments attract overseas buyers.

Bottom 4 battle competitively for monthly site traffic between 1-3m visitors. 7

Source : SimilarWeb August 2014

All shopping environments have small amount of traffic across each from America. 8

Source : SimilarWeb August 2014

Shopping Site eBay Gumtree Catch Of The

Day OzBargain MyShopping ShopBot

Country #1 85% AU 93.89% AU 96.79% AU 93.93% AU 68.88% AU 85.53% AU

Country #2 4.98% US 2.01% US 1.41% US 1.84% US 7.43% US 3.25% US

Country #3 1.18% UK 0.63% UK 0.21% India 0.40% UK 1.39% UK 1.19% FR

Traffic Drivers

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Opportunity to use competitive offers across Social and Display to drive customers to

shopping environments to out-do competitors. 10

Source : SimilarWeb August 2014

Shopping Site Direct Referring Sites Search Social Display TOTAL

eBay 46% 29% 23% 2% 0% 100%

Gumtree 41% 21% 33% 2% 2% 100%

Catch Of The Day 68% 19% 11% 2% 0% 100%

OzBargain 62% 23% 12% 1% 2% 100%

MyShopping 9% 5% 86% 0% - 100%

ShopBot 18% 8% 74% 0% 0% 100%

Customers are quite savvy online buyers, researching products on Whirlpool.

Also they compare price across shopping sites. 11

Source : SimilarWeb August 2014

Shopping Site eBay Gumtree Catch Of The

Day OzBargain MyShopping ShopBot

Referring Sites 29% 21% 19% 23% 5% 8%

Upstream #1 OzBargain Au.Indeed OzBargain Feedly Gumtree WhirlPool

Upstream #2 Gumtree JobSeeker.Com Dashboard

Catchgroup Whirlpool Whirlpool eBay

Upstream #3 eBay AdZuna Scoopon DealDumpSearch.SmartSho

ppingGumtree

Top 3 shopping environments’ customers just want to go to their site.

Bottom 3 are typically looking for particular things. 12

Source : SimilarWeb August 2014

Shopping Site eBay Gumtree Catch Of The Day OzBargain MyShopping ShopBotSearch Traffic 23% 33% 11% 12% 86% 74%

Search OrganiceBay, eBay

Australia, eBay AU, eba

Gumtree, Gumtree Perth, Gumtree

Sydney, Gumtree Australia, Gumtree

Melbourne, Goggles Search

Catch of the Day, COTD, Catchathon

OzBargain, OzBargin, Dominos

Coupons

MyShopping, eBay, Calcium Citrate

Malate

ShopBot, Price Comparison, Sony

Xperia

Suggests you could partner with shopping site to push your products. 13

Source : SimilarWeb August 2014

Shopping Site eBay Gumtree Catch Of The

Day OzBargain MyShopping ShopBot

Search Traffic 23% 33% 11% 12% 86% 74%

Search PaidEbay,

Nutribullet, ChromeCast

Gumtree, Youtube,

Gumtree.com.au, Gumtree

Catch of the Day, COTD,

CatchOfTheDay Non

eBay, MyShopping, Nikon D810, Urban Decay

ShopBot, Compare , Sennheiser

Px685i

Summary.

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Top 2 shopping environments eBay and Gumtree attract overseas buyers.

Bottom 4 battle competitively for monthly site traffic between 1-3m visitors.

All shopping environments have small amount of traffic across each from America.

Opportunity to use competitive offers across Social and Display to drive customers to shopping environments to out-do competitors.

Customers are quite savvy online buyers, researching products on Whirlpool.

Customers using the bottom 3 shopping environments are typically looking for specific things.

Top shopping environments push specific products but not necessarily matching what customers are looking

for. This suggests you could partner with shopping site to push your products.

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