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Holiday E-Commerce Season Sales Finally Match Last Year as Two Workdays This Past...

Holiday E-Commerce Season Sales Finally Match Last Year as Two Workdays This Past Week Each Surpass $800 Million in Online Spending Sales Since Cyber Monday Up 9 Percent Versus Year Ago RESTON, Va., Dec. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- comScore (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today reported its tracking of holiday season retail e-commerce spending for the first 35 days of the November - December 2008 holiday season. For the holiday season through December 5, $14.92 billion has been spent online, essentially the same level compared to the corresponding days last year. For the five days beginning with December 1 (Cyber Monday), the kick-off to the heaviest part of the online shopping season, sales totaled $3.74 billion, up 9 percent versus year ago.

Holiday SEO - start working on next year now

If you've got holiday content that you want to promote for the November/December holiday season, I have some bad news. If you're starting now, you're way too late. According to Google Trends people start searching for the terms "Christmas gift" as early as July. But even if you haven't thought about the holidays until the Christmas music started up in stores, you can still benefit from the tips in SEO Book's article Holiday SEO. I especially like the suggestions to watch historical trends and to rely on solving problems rather than offering brands. Plus there is a great suggestion in the comment to offer daily specials to get people coming back. When did you start optimizing your holiday pages for the season?

Online Holiday Shopping Season Down, Cyber Monday Up

Research firm ComScore said sales were up 15 percent on Cyber Monday compared to a year ago, but sales were down for the holiday season as a whole. ComScore reported its tracking of holiday season retail ecommerce spending for the first 31 days of the November - December 2008 holiday season. For the holiday season-to-date, $12.03 billion has been spent online, marking a 2 percent decline versus the corresponding days last year. However, Cyber Monday saw $846 million in online spending, up 15 percent. The four-day period from Black Friday through Cyber Monday saw ecommerce spending jump 13 percent as both weekend days and Monday all achieved double-digit gains.

Online Holiday Sales Down 3 Percent

Holiday shopping on e-commerce sites declined by 3 percent, according to the latest numbers released by comScore, which tracking online spending and internet traffic. comScore reported Tuesday that spending for the holiday season, beginning November 1st and ending December 23rd, totaled $25.5 billion, down 3 percent versus 2007. The results were the first decrease for holiday seasons since 2001, when comScore began gathering e-commerce statistics. comScore also reported the top e-commerce sites for the month, showing that sites with the most Internet traffic increases were HP, with a gain of 28 percent increase in visitors over last year; Apple, with a 19 percent increase; and Amazon, with a 7 percent gain. The sites with the most unique visitors for the period were eBay, with 85M uniques; Amazon with 76.

Holiday E-Commerce Season Sales Finally Match Last Year as Two Workdays This Past Week Each Surpass $800 Million in Online Spending

a leader in measuring the digital world, today reported its tracking of holiday season retail e-commerce spending for the first 35 days of the November - December 2008 holiday season. For the holiday season through December 5, $14.92 billion has been spent online, essentially the same level compared to the corresponding days last year. For the five days beginning with December 1 (Cyber Monday), the kick-off to the heaviest part of the online shopping season, sales totaled $3.74 billion, up 9 percent versus year ago. Two individual days in the past week achieved more than $800 million in online spending: Monday, December 1 ("Cyber Monday") with $846 million, and Tuesday, December 2 with $823 million.

Holiday e-commerce is down for the first time, research firm says

U. S. online retail spending fell 3% over the holiday season compared with the same period last year, the first decline after eight years of growth, digital research firm comScore reported. U. S. e-commerce retail spending totalled US$25.5-billion during the Nov. 1-to-Dec. 23 period, down from US$26.3-billion in the corresponding period of 2007, comScore said. "The 2008 online holiday shopping season has declined 3% versus a year ago, falling behind our expectation of flat sales this year," said Gian Fulgoni, comScore chairman. "This marks the first time we've seen negative growth rates for the holiday season since we began tracking e-commerce in 2001. The combination of having five fewer shopping days between Thanksgiving and Christmas and the severe economic headwinds faced by consumers has made this a really tough season for retailers,

Holiday E-Commerce Season Sales Finally Match Last Year as Two Workdays This Past Week Each Surpass $800 Million in Online Spending

RESTON, Va., Dec. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- comScore , a leader in measuring the digital world, today reported its tracking of holiday season retail e-commerce spending for the first 35 days of the November - December 2008 holiday season. For the holiday season through December 5, $14.92 billion has been spent online, essentially the same level compared to the corresponding days last year. For the five days beginning with December 1 (Cyber Monday), the kick-off to the heaviest part of the online shopping season, sales totaled $3.74 billion, up 9 percent versus year ago. Two individual days in the past week achieved more than $800 million in online spending: Monday, December 1 ("Cyber Monday") with $846 million, and Tuesday, December 2 with $823 million.

Holiday E-Commerce Spending Accelerates in Most Recent Week as This Year's Compressed Shopping Season Increases Urgency to Spend

RESTON, Va., Dec. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- comScore (Nasdaq : SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today reported its tracking of holiday season retail e-commerce spending for the first 37 days of the November - December 2008 holiday season. For the holiday season through December 7, $15.63 billion has been spent online, essentially the same level compared to the corresponding days last year. During the first week since Cyber Monday (December 1 - December 7), sales totaled $4.45 billion, up 7 percent versus year ago.

Report: Holiday Online Spending Down

Market research firm comScore recently reported its tracking of holiday season retail e-commerce spending for the holiday shopping season, which began Nov. 1 and ended Dec. 23. Online spending reached $25.5 billion during that period, down 3 percent compared to the corresponding shopping days in 2007. The results fell "behind our expectation of flat sales this year," said comScore Chairman Gian Fulgoni. "This marks the first time we've seen negative growth rates for the holiday season since we began tracking e-commerce in 2001. The combination of having five fewer shopping days between Thanksgiving and Christmas and the severe economic headwinds faced by consumers has made this a really tough season for retailers, both offline and online." To date, the growth rate for the fourth quarter of 2008, compared to the same period a year ago, wil

CHICAGO — NEWS: DuSable Museum Gets Holiday-Party Bailout From Kahlua

With bailouts and canceled holiday parties dominating the headlines this December, Kahlua decided to make lemonade—and a great PR opportunity—with its "Save the Holiday Party" initiative, through which five small businesses received $10,000 grants for their end-of-year celebrations. Chicago's winner, the DuSable Museum of African American History, will host its holiday fete tomorrow.

Amazon Gains as Holiday Sales Stall

Amazon.com was among the top online retail web sites for December, posting a 7 percent gain in unique visitors and taking second place in the latest numbers from comScore. According to comScore, Amazon.com had 76.24M unique visitors in December, for the period including December 1st through December 24th, putting it second in traffic just after eBay. Amazon beat out Wal-Mart, Target, Apple, and many others in unique visitors for the period, and was one of the few sites showing a big gain in Internet visits. Overall, holiday shopping on e-commerce sites declined by 3 percent, comScore reported, for the holiday season beginning November 1st and ending December 23rd. Spending totaled $25.5 billion, down 3 percent versus 2007. The results were the first decrease for holiday seasons since 2001, when comScore began gathering e-commerce statisti

Winter storms help Amazon deliver best holiday season sales on record

Online retailer Amazon.com Inc. reported yesterday its best holiday sales season yet, even as sales and traffic at U. S. store chains were the weakest in decades, sending its shares up nearly 4%. Analysts have pointed to Amazon as a rare bright spot in this year's holiday shopping season due to its scale and flexibility. Online sales were also helped by winter storms that hit large sections of the United States on the last major shopping weekend before Christmas. In a release titled " Amazon.com's 14th holiday season is best ever," the company said more than 6.3 million items were ordered on its site worldwide for the peak shopping day of Dec. 15, amounting to 72.9 items ordered per second. On its peak day, it shipped more than 5.6 million units.

Free Shipping an Important Stimulus of E-Commerce Spending Again This Holiday Season

RESTON, Va., Dec. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- comScore , a leader in measuring the digital world, today reported its tracking of holiday season retail e-commerce spending for the first 44 days of the November - December 2008 holiday season. For the holiday season through December 14, $20.17 billion has been spent online, essentially the same level compared to the corresponding days last year. For the fourteen days beginning December 1 (Cyber Monday), the kick-off to the heaviest part of the online shopping season, sales totaled $9 billion, up 2 percent versus year ago. However, the most recent week (week ending December 14) saw e-commerce sales decline 2 percent, a sign that consumers have once again moderated their spending.

Heavy Online Spending Continues Later Into the Season But Fails to Make Up for Compressed Holiday Shopping Schedule This Year

RESTON, Va., Dec. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- comScore , a leader in measuring the digital world, today reported its tracking of holiday season retail e-commerce spending for the first 49 days of the November - December 2008 holiday season. For the holiday season through December 19, $24.03 billion has been spent online, down 1 percent versus the corresponding days last year. The most recent week of the season has seen several strong online spending days, including Monday, December 15 with $859 million in spending to rank as the second heaviest day of the season, behind Tuesday December 9 when $887 million was spent.

E-commerce holiday holiday spending slows

DEC. 15 | U.S. online retail spending fell during the later part of last week after showing strong growth during the week following the Thanksgiving holiday and reaching record levels last Tuesday, ComScore said in a report yesterday. A pullback in consumer-electronics demand helped lead to the overall spending decline.

Black Friday Sees $534 Million in E-Commerce Spending, Up 1 Percent Versus Year Ago

Black Friday Sees $534 Million in E-Commerce Spending, Up 1 Percent Versus Year Ago Upcoming 'Cyber Monday' Represents Strong Historical Bellwether for Total Holiday Season E-Commerce Spending RESTON, Va., Nov. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- comScore (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today reported its tracking of holiday season retail e-commerce spending for the first 28 days of the November - December 2008 holiday season. For the holiday season-to-date, $10.41 billion has been spent online, marking a 4-percent decline versus the corresponding days last year, while Black Friday saw $534 million in online spending, up 1 percent. For the combination of Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday, online sales were up 2 percent relative to last year.

Holiday E-Commerce Season Sales for the first 35 days flat with Last Year - Quick Facts

Holiday Season Retail e-commerce Spending for First 35 Days of Holiday Season Flat with Last Year - comScore

Holiday Songs Come To Rock Band

Holiday music is coming to Rock Band, albeit in a barely timely fashion. Harmonix will be releasing a special holiday pack of three songs on December 23rd and hurray, it doesn't include "Last Christmas" by Wham.

Holiday shoppers hunt for values online

The 2008 holiday shopping season may be the most challenging yet for e-retailers, with October’s e-commerce sales up only 1% year-over-year, compared to a rise of 19% recorded in October of 2007, according to comScore Inc. Even with a 14% increase in spending by households with incomes of $100,000 or more, the overall rise in online spending for the August-October period this year was only 4% above the same period last year. Nonetheless, the online channel offers solid opportunity as consumers flock to the web in search of the best value, Forrester Research Inc. says in the report “Outlook for U.S. Online Holiday Sales.” 48% of respondents said they expect to find the best values online, up from 41% a year ago. Another Forrester report, “How Shoppers Evolve Online,” notes that the longer someone has shopped online the more they spend on t

Holiday Ecommerce Spending Is Down One Percent

ComScore reported on ecommerce spending for the first 49 days of the November - December 2008 holiday season. For the holiday season through December 19, $24.03 billion has been spent online, down 1 percent versus the corresponding days last year. The most recent week of the season has seen several strong online spending days, including Monday, December 15 with $859 million in spending to rank as the second heaviest day of the season, behind Tuesday December 9 when $887 million was spent.

Holiday web sales seen up on Monday; season weak

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Retail sales online are expected to surge on Monday as shoppers look for more discounts than they found during the holiday weekend, but overall holiday web sales will remain weak due to the economy, analysts said.

Holiday Shopping Computer Security

This past Friday was Black Friday- the biggest shopping day of the year and the official launch of the holiday shopping season. That means that tomorrow is Cyber Monday. The reason there is no Cyber Friday or Cyber Saturday is that people wait to do their 'cyber' shopping until they return to work on Monday. Expect productivity to be down and network bandwidth to be up as employees return to work on surf the web in search of tremendous holiday deals.

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