Fahad HNov 10, 20173 min read2017 holiday shopping trends: How consumers plan to research & purchase gifts this seasonTwo weeks out from the busiest holiday shopping time of the year, many holiday shoppers are already hitting the buy button. Cardlytics, a...
Fahad HOct 27, 20172 min readDeloitte predicts e-commerce will outperform in-store spending this holiday seasonAfter surveying more than 5,000 US consumers, Deloitte’s 2017 Holiday Retail Survey found, for the first time ever, that people plan to...
Fahad HOct 19, 20172 min readSurvey: 37% of online retailers started holiday preparations earlier this yearAs we head into peak holiday shopping season, a survey of online retailers conducted by BigCommerce reveals more than a third began their...
Fahad HSep 28, 20173 min readOnline holiday sales projected to reach $129B this year, up 12% over 2016 [Forrester]With eight weeks to go before Black Friday, online retailers are well into mapping their strategy for pulling as much of 2017’s holiday...
Fahad HAug 30, 20173 min readSurvey: More consumers seeking to buy directly from brands vs. retailersOne of today’s marketing mantras is “brand loyalty is dead.” As always, the truth is more complicated than a slogan. While millennials...
Fahad HAug 24, 20172 min read2017’s holiday e-commerce sales projected to grow 10% over last year’s holiday seasonBased on nine years of aggregate data from mid-sized and large online retailers, NetElixir forecasts this year’s holiday e-commerce sales...
Fahad HAug 14, 20171 min readNew research shows Hispanic millennial shoppers are ‘a driving force’ of US economyThe US Hispanic population includes 59 million Americans, and more than 40 percent are millennials. That means that a wide margin of the...
Fahad HAug 8, 20172 min readOnline retail sees continued growth with digital commerce up 14% YoY [Report]Tracking the online behavior of 500 million global shoppers, Salesforce Commerce Cloud’s Q2 2017 shopping index spotlights the various...
Fahad HJul 17, 20172 min readMove over millennials, Gen-Z now the largest single population segmentAccording to Nielsen’s new Total Audience report, millennials and Gen-Z now comprise 48 percent of the total media audience. Gen-Z in...
Fahad HJul 6, 20171 min readAmazon Prime hits 85M member milestone, researchers sayWith Amazon’s third annual Prime Day just days away, new research out today estimates that the program has grown by 35 percent in the...
Fahad HJun 6, 20172 min read95% of online shoppers say a positive return experience drives loyalty [Report]The key to getting repeat e-commerce customers might be a friendly policy and process for accepting returned items. According to a recent...
Fahad HJun 1, 20172 min read5 key e-commerce & retail trends from Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends reportKleiner Perkins venture partner Mary Meeker released her annual Internet Trends report on Wednesday. In total, the report comprises 355...
Fahad HMay 24, 20172 min readThe silent revolution of searchConventional wisdom within ad tech is that search is boring. In the display ecosystem, life is exciting: in the last decade alone,...
Fahad HMay 17, 20171 min readE-commerce sales reach $105.7B in Q1 2017, to make up 8.5% of all retail salesThe US Census Bureau released its latest e-commerce report, showing retail e-commerce sales reached an estimated $105.7 billion in Q1...
Fahad HFeb 20, 20171 min readReport: E-commerce accounted for 11.7% of total retail sales in 2016, up 15.6% over 2015According to a recent report from the US Department of Commerce, e-commerce sales brought in $394.9 billion in 2016. The Commerce...
Fahad HFeb 17, 20171 min readReports: Digital, especially mobile, driving trillions in offline retail spendingThe $354 billion in 2016 e-commerce sales is small potatoes compared with offline retail spending: over $4.5 trillion, according to US...
Fahad HFeb 14, 20171 min readMobile makes up 21 pct. of online spending in Q4, as digital commerce reaches $109 billionFull year US e-commerce spending numbers are out from comScore. In the holiday quarter, consumers spent $109.3 billion online, which was...
Fahad HFeb 8, 20173 min readData: Store closings generate new shopping patterns, especially among MillennialsTraditional retailers are closing stores as a result of changing consumer shopping patterns and, in some cases, weaker than expected...
Fahad HJan 31, 20172 min readSquare offering merchants $12K in free payment processing with Apple PaySquare has become a key Apple Pay partner. The San Francisco-based company has made a big bet on mobile payments — it wants its brand to...
Fahad HJan 23, 20172 min readSurvey: Mobile devices eclipse PC usage and, in a surprise, drive more conversionsMany industry insiders expect mobile commerce to eclipse PC-based sales in the relatively near future. A new online survey from Fluent...
