
Thanksgiving Overtook Cyber Monday As Biggest Day For Visits To Retail Sites
Thanksgiving has quickly become a juggernaut for retailers online. New data from Hitwise, a division of Connexity, shows Thanksgiving...

Total Holiday E-Commerce: $69 Billion, Mobile $12.7 Billion — comScore
Mobile devices dominated the holiday shopping season, outpacing the PC in driving traffic to e-commerce sites and being used as shopping...

Google: Demographics Not As Good As Intent (Search) For Mobile Targeting
mama_mia / Shutterstock.com Facebook’s rich demographic and interest-based data have made it a powerful marketing platform and the major...

The Globalization Of Local Holidays: China’s Singles’ Day Catches On In US
Christmas. Hannukah. Kwanzaa. Festivus. As e-commerce retailers are in the throes of prime holiday shopping bidding wars, there may be a...

Mobile Has Its Big E-Commerce Moment While Online Traffic & Conversions Hit Seasonal Highs
If your Thanksgiving dinner table was populated with friends and family who couldn’t take their eyes off their mobile phones, you’re...

Cyber Monday Online Sales Top $3 Billion For Another Record-Setting Year
Last week, my dental hygienist told me she was taking Monday off “for Cyber Monday.” Not Black Friday, but Cyber Monday. The irony of...

Millennials’ Growing Distrust Of Plastic Cards Pave Way For Digital Payments
Less than a decade from now most payments will probably be made with apps in phones or smartwatches, using biometric triggers or other...

Study: Mobile “Showroomers” Generally Buy In Stores, 18–34-Year-Olds Most Active
We learned over the weekend how prominent mobile devices were in the Black Friday shopping melee. And while a growing number of purchases...

E-Commerce Conversion Rate Rose To 71% Higher Than October Average Last Week
Americans are getting more serious about their online holiday shopping as Black Friday approaches. According to aggregate e-commerce...

Adobe Predicts Online Holiday Sales To Hit Record $83B, Cyber Monday To Generate $3B
After last year’s record-breaking holiday season, Adobe predicts 2015 will grow even more, with total online spending during the holiday...

Google’s New Shopping Insights Tool Shows Retailers Product Search Intent At The Local Level
To help retailers better understand shopper search habits in the US at the local level, Google is opening up more of its cache of product...

Study: Mobile Apps For Engagement, Mobile Web For Research & Comparisons
The mobile web and apps are complementary. However they’ve been treated as though they’re mutually exclusive in the press and in most...

Online Sales Expected To Increase 6 To 8 Percent This Holiday Season, NRF Says
As retailers are gearing up for a holiday sales surge, the National Retail Federation announced Thursday that it expects sales...

Amazon Is the Starting Point For 44 Percent Of Consumers Searching For Products. Is Google Losing, T
In a survey of 2,000 US consumers, 44 percent of respondents said they go directly to Amazon to start their product searches. That...

Survey: Personalization & Relevance Increasingly Overlap In Consumers’ Minds
Another day, another survey about the gap between consumers’ stated desire for personalization and the ability of retailers to meet that...

E-Commerce Conversion Rates Improve In Q2 After Several Declining Quarters [Report]
In a reversal of what was looking like a year-long trend, e-commerce conversion rates improved year-over-year in Q2, according to the...

Survey: Teens Spend 2X More Time With Mobile Than PCs Or TVs
American teens, (so-called “Millennial teens”) spend more than twice as much time per day with mobile devices than they do with...

US E-Commerce Sales Jump 14 Percent, Account For 7.2 Percent Of All Retail
E-commerce sales in the US shot up 14.1 percent to $83.9 billion in the second quarter compared to Q2 2014 when adjusted for seasonality,...

Not Just A Boon For Amazon: Prime Day Effect Felt Across The Web
Several major retailers across verticals saw a lift on their own sites, says consumer identity platform Signal. The firm told Marketing...
























