2017 holiday shopping trends: How consumers plan to research & purchase gifts this season
Two weeks out from the busiest holiday shopping time of the year, many holiday shoppers are already hitting the buy button. Cardlytics, a...
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Deloitte predicts e-commerce will outperform in-store spending this holiday season
After surveying more than 5,000 US consumers, Deloitte’s 2017 Holiday Retail Survey found, for the first time ever, that people plan to...
Survey: 37% of online retailers started holiday preparations earlier this year
As we head into peak holiday shopping season, a survey of online retailers conducted by BigCommerce reveals more than a third began their...
Online 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...
Survey: More consumers seeking to buy directly from brands vs. retailers
One of today’s marketing mantras is “brand loyalty is dead.” As always, the truth is more complicated than a slogan. While millennials...
2017’s holiday e-commerce sales projected to grow 10% over last year’s holiday season
Based on nine years of aggregate data from mid-sized and large online retailers, NetElixir forecasts this year’s holiday e-commerce sales...
New research shows Hispanic millennial shoppers are ‘a driving force’ of US economy
The US Hispanic population includes 59 million Americans, and more than 40 percent are millennials. That means that a wide margin of the...
Online 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...
Move over millennials, Gen-Z now the largest single population segment
According to Nielsen’s new Total Audience report, millennials and Gen-Z now comprise 48 percent of the total media audience. Gen-Z in...
Amazon Prime hits 85M member milestone, researchers say
With Amazon’s third annual Prime Day just days away, new research out today estimates that the program has grown by 35 percent in the...
95% 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...
5 key e-commerce & retail trends from Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends report
Kleiner Perkins venture partner Mary Meeker released her annual Internet Trends report on Wednesday. In total, the report comprises 355...
The silent revolution of search
Conventional wisdom within ad tech is that search is boring. In the display ecosystem, life is exciting: in the last decade alone,...
E-commerce sales reach $105.7B in Q1 2017, to make up 8.5% of all retail sales
The US Census Bureau released its latest e-commerce report, showing retail e-commerce sales reached an estimated $105.7 billion in Q1...
Report: E-commerce accounted for 11.7% of total retail sales in 2016, up 15.6% over 2015
According to a recent report from the US Department of Commerce, e-commerce sales brought in $394.9 billion in 2016. The Commerce...
Reports: Digital, especially mobile, driving trillions in offline retail spending
The $354 billion in 2016 e-commerce sales is small potatoes compared with offline retail spending: over $4.5 trillion, according to US...
Mobile makes up 21 pct. of online spending in Q4, as digital commerce reaches $109 billion
Full year US e-commerce spending numbers are out from comScore. In the holiday quarter, consumers spent $109.3 billion online, which was...
Data: Store closings generate new shopping patterns, especially among Millennials
Traditional retailers are closing stores as a result of changing consumer shopping patterns and, in some cases, weaker than expected...
Square offering merchants $12K in free payment processing with Apple Pay
Square 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...
Survey: Mobile devices eclipse PC usage and, in a surprise, drive more conversions
Many industry insiders expect mobile commerce to eclipse PC-based sales in the relatively near future. A new online survey from Fluent...
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