Andy Hoar

Senior Analyst serving eBusiness & Channel Strategy PROFESSIONALS

Andy serves eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals. He focuses primarily on B2B and B2B2C eCommerce, as well as issues related to enabling channel partner businesses for manufacturers. Andy's current research areas include multichannel retailing, mobile couponing, affiliate marketing, and enabling manufacturers to sell online.

Previous Work Experience

Prior to joining Forrester, Andy spent 11 years in product and marketing leadership roles within Silicon Valley. In that time, he developed Yahoo's Web2Store local shopping initiative, co-founded an eCommerce company, and helped create several award-winning products in the consumer Internet and mobile software spaces. Before moving to Silicon Valley, Andy spent four years in Washington, D.C., as a research analyst for an economic consulting firm.

Andy has been quoted in various media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, Internet Retailer, Direct Marketing News, American Banker, and CNBC.


Education

Andy is a summa cum laude graduate in economics from the University of Dayton and holds an M.P.A. from Harvard University and an M.S. in integrated marketing from Northwestern University.

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  • For eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals

    Report:Using Video To Drive Online Financial Services Sales

    How Financial Services eBusiness Executives Can Use Online Video

    More people than ever before watch online video. In response, an increasing number of financial services eBusiness teams are using online video to drive sales. Nevertheless, based on our study of...

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    Report:Using Online Video To Drive Clicks And Conversion

    A Guide To Approaching Or Revitalizing A Retail eCommerce Video Campaign

    Shoppers are beginning to use online video to inform their purchases. Although consumer uptake is slow when compared with the wider acceptance of Internet video, online retailers are turning to video...

    • Downloads: 995
  • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

    Report:Forrester Research Mobile Media And Messaging Forecast, 2010 To 2015 (Western Europe)

    ForecastView Spreadsheet

    Mobile Media And Messaging Forecast (Western Europe): Total SMS and MMS volume. Usage of and revenue generated from ring tones and ringback tones, mobile gaming, and mobile video. Distribution of the...

    • For CMO Professionals

      Report:Crowdsourcing Gains Legitimacy For Advertisers

      Leverage Professional Crowdsourcing Networks To Create New Video Content

      The demand for video advertising and content — whether for television, online, or cinema — is outpacing the rate at which marketers can supply it. Specialized crowdsourcing networks are...

      • Downloads: 380
    • For CIO Professionals

      Report:US Tech Market Outlook Dims For 2012 To 2013

      US Tech Spending Growth Will Maintain A Mediocre 4% To 5% Pace

      This report details Forrester's projections of tech market growth in the US. We have reduced our forecast for 2012 growth in the US tech market from our April projections of 7.5% for total US...

      • Downloads: 569
    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:US Marketers: Stay Ahead Of 2D Bar Code Adoption

      Start Piloting Now To Be Prepared To Benefit From Growing Consumer Use

      The 2D bar code is a promising mobile marketing tactic: It provides marketers a quick way to bridge the offline-online gap and enhance consumer engagement with their target audience anytime, anywhere...

      • Downloads: 342
    • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

      Tool:Customers Are Highly Engaged Across Multiple Channels

    • For CIO Professionals

      Report:Welcome To The Empowered Era

      An Empowered Report: Reinvent Yourself To Serve Empowered Customers And Employees

      Your customers and your employees have more power than ever before. Mobile, social, video, and cloud technologies give individuals tremendous access to information and resources. To succeed in an era...

      • Downloads: 1204
    • For CIO Professionals

      Report:The Social CIO

      Future Look: The Social Business And Collaboration Playbook

      Free access to and sharing of ideas is the hallmark of the digital age. Today, your customers, partners, and employees can share information to form opinions that can affect your business and, on a...

      • Downloads: 568
    • For CIO Professionals

      Report:Segmenting The US Tech Market

      SMBs' Tech Buying Outpaces That Of Enterprises Or Consumers, But The Situation Will Reverse In 2013

      For CIOs, understanding trends in the broader tech market is useful, but even more useful is information on trends for companies of their size and in their industry. With IT consumerization or...

      • Downloads: 452
    • For CIO Professionals

      Report:US Tech Market Outlook For 2012 To 2013

      Improving Economic Prospects Create Upside Potential

      CIOs care about tech market trends for three reasons: 1) to understand how much other firms are spending on information and communications technologies (and where); 2) to determine where they ought...

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      Report:Best Practices For Tablet Media Apps

      Leverage These Business Models And Features For Media App Success

      Product strategists launching media applications on tablets have an opportunity to launch new products on these devices and enter a new era of media consumption. The tablet is a unique device with...

      • Downloads: 939
    • For CIO Professionals

      Report:Smart Computing Connects CIOs With The Business

      Sensors, Machine-To-Machine, Analytics, And Collaboration Help CIOs Solve Business Problems

      It is no surprise that CIOs have shown keen interest in cloud computing, since its variations can help reduce IT's capital and operating costs and speed up delivery of projects. But many CIOs are...

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      Report:TechRadar™ For Content & Collaboration Professionals: Enterprise Video, Q1 2011

      Tools To Manage And Deliver Video Are Growing; Videoconferencing Makes A Comeback

      Enterprises increasingly use video in a wide range of use cases, changing how they collaborate, issue communications, train their employees, and even talk to customers. But the transformational...

      • Downloads: 1209
    • For Customer Experience Professionals

      Report:Customer Experience Trends: Leaders At FedEx, Time Warner Cable, And USAA Weigh In

      A Panel Discussion At The 2010 Customer Experience Forum

      Highlights of the Trends In Customer Experience panel at Forrester's Customer Experience Forum 2010 included a debate about the need for a chief customer officer (CCO), a prediction that "Web sites...

      • Downloads: 1057
    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Tool:European Smartphone Owners Are More Likely To Share Files/Storage Across Multiple PCs

    • For CIO Professionals

      Report:Budgets And Priorities: Global Benchmark 2012

      Strategic Planning Forrsights For CIOs

      CIOs are under more pressure to do more things, do them faster, and do them with less money than ever before. This has made the IT budget process increasingly stressful and often contentious, as...

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      Report:TV And Video Advertising Is On The Upswing In 2012

      Forrester partnered with the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) to better understand marketers' current attitudes toward TV and digital video advertising. Marketers have regained their...

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      Report:Portable Media Players Must Evolve With Cloud Or Become Extinct

      Strategies To Counter Disruptive Smartphone Competition

      Smartphones' benefits mean they continue to trample on adjacent product categories as the mobile market collides with the consumer electronics market. The role of the smartphone in consumers' lives...

      • Downloads: 471
    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:Case Study: CNN iReport's Mobile Army Of Creators

      An Empowered Report: CNN Turns Smartphone Owners Into Civilian Reporters

      CNN has created an army of engaged civilian reporters though the iReport feature of its iPhone app. By taking advantage of the advanced capabilities of today's smartphones, iReport both enhances...

      • Downloads: 252
    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Report:2011 Mobile Trends

      For consumer product strategy professionals who want to engage with their customers in the mobile environment, navigating the complex mobile ecosystem with its many different devices, platforms, and...

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    • For Marketing Leadership Professionals

      Tool:More Than 20% Of German, Swedish, And Dutch Households Have More PCs Than People

    • For Application Development & Delivery Professionals

      Report:Four Questions Guide Web Mobile Content Management Plans

      As consumers access online content on more devices — computers, smartphones, tablets, TVs, eReaders, and even gaming consoles — managing and delivering digital content has grown...

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      Report:SharePoint Adoption Faces Three Barriers: Mobile, Social, And Cloud

      These data charts contain the full results of Forrester's August 2012 Global SharePoint Usage Online Survey. The results indicate that weak mobile access and social computing features combined with...

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