Posts Tagged ‘thanksgiving’
Holiday Desktop eCommerce Sales Growth Through December 22, 2012 vs 2013 [CHART]
The growth rate for the holiday season through December 22nd stood at 10%. Even so, IBM reports a robust 16.5% increase in online sales on Christmas Day.
Read MoreHoliday Desktop Retail eCommerce Sales Through December 15, 2012 vs 2013 [CHART]
Mobile shopping may be on the rise this holiday season, but that doesn’t appear to be affecting desktop e-commerce sales.
Read MoreUS Holiday Average Retail Transaction Value, 2013 [TABLE]
Adobe reported that online retail holiday sales were up 18% on Thanksgiving, a whopping 39% on Black Friday and 16% on Cyber Monday.
Read MoreUS Holiday Retail eCommerce By Shopping Period, 2013 vs 2012 [TABLE]
Overall, for the period beginning November 1 and ending December 9, digital retail sales were up 9%.
Read MoreHoliday Desktop eCommerce Sales Through Green Monday, 2012 vs 2013 [CHART]
Desktop retail e-commerce sales grew by 10% year-over-year on Green Monday (the Monday with at least 10 days until Christmas – typically the second Monday of December) to reach $1.4 billion.
Read MoreThanksgiving Weekend & Cyber Monday Desktop eCommerce, 2012 vs 2013 [CHART]
This year’s Cyber Monday set new records, with numerous researchers proclaiming it to be the biggest e-commerce spending day in US history.
Read MoreRNC's Historically-Inaccurate Rosa Parks Tweet & Amazon's Drones – Beyond Social Media Show [VIDEO]
Century 21’s Tryptophan Slow Jam; Chanukah ham; RNC’s Rosa Parks tweet; T-Mobile & AT&T’s Twitter fight; Dana Morales plays us all; Amazon Air drones for delivery; Facebook’s newsfeed algorithm tweak; GE’s 3D Printing Day; Apple buys Topsy; The Gap’s social listening & response; Verizon’s Mall of America Destination Store; some shiny new stuff & much more.
Read MoreThanksgiving Weekend Shopping Trends, 2012 vs 2013 [CHART]
Traffic was up on Thanksgiving Day, while e-commerce sales hit new highs on Black Friday.
Read MoreTime Of The Year When Holiday Promotions Will Run, 2013 [CHART]
Only 13% of American CMOs planned to begin holiday promotions in 2013 earlier than they had the previous year.
Read MoreGoogle+ Impersonator Flaw & Coca-Cola Kills Press Releases – Beyond Social Media Show [VIDEO]
Topics on Beyond Social Media Show: Twerking turkeys; Google+ security flaw; Google Helpouts; Jean-Claude Van Damme’s semi ride; Katie Couric to join Yahoo!; Zappos responds to Kanye West; KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Twitter customer service; Obama’s marketers join forces; Coca-Cola kills the press release; some shiny new stuff & much more.
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