ComScore reported its final holiday season U.S. retail ecommerce spending from desktop computers for the full November-December 2013 holiday season this week, showing that $46.5 billion was spent online from desktop devices, an increase of 10 percent vs. year ago. Read more
Online shoppers spent a record $1.735 billion on Cyber Monday 2013, 18% over the same day last year, but the season as a whole rose only 10% higher than last year to $42.8 billion, according to comScore numbers, which counts Read more
Online shoppers have spent $37.8 billion from their desktop computers for the first 45 days of the November-December 2013 holiday season, according to comScore, which said strong weekends helped online spending exceed expectations. For the first time ever, the most Read more
Merchants in the U.S. do a lot of importing of goods from other countries to sell online, but how much shopping do international buyers do on U.S. websites? Statistics from Borderfree suggest it’s growing at a fast pace thanks to Read more
Holiday shoppers spent $1.4 billion online from their desktops on Green Monday (December 9th), up 10 percent versus year ago. It represented the third heaviest online spending day of the holiday season-to-date. ComScore chairman Gian Fulgoni noted that the 10-percent Read more
eBay and PayPal nearly doubled the amount of “mobile enabled commerce volume” (ECV) for the recent 5-day Thanksgiving holiday weekend period, seeing an increase of 96% year-over-year. eBay spokesperson Ryan Moore confirmed the mobile ECV figure took into account eBay Read more
With Black Friday creep, brick-and-mortar stores weren’t the only retailers working on Thanksgiving Day. Endicia, whose online postage service helps online merchants ship their ecommerce orders via the U.S. Postal Service, found shipping volume was up 45% on Thanksgiving Day over Read more
Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson took to the company blog to report strong sales over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Sales from Thursday to Cyber Monday increased 60% year-over-year compared to last year’s Thanksgiving weekend. There were more than 36 million visits Read more
The Monday following Thanksgiving, known as Cyber Monday, is traditionally one of the busiest online shopping days, and this year, research firm comScore said desktop sales (not including mobile) grew 18% over last year to $1.735 billion. That makes it Read more
Social networks have different levels of commitment and aspirations toward the ecommerce space. Facebook has tried various efforts and angles to try and become a driver of online sales, while Pinterest has gradually rolled out some tools to help people see how Read more
