Online shoppers made history this year by spending a billion dollars a day from desktop computers for nine consecutive days beginning on Thanksgiving Day, the longest streak of billion-dollar days ever, according to comScore. This past Monday was Green Monday, one Read more
Ever wonder exactly how marketplaces like eBay and Amazon performed on key holiday shopping dates? Companies are generally stingy with their data, so a new report from ecommerce platform 3dcart provides insight into how small companies performed on Cyber Monday by revealing Read more
It’s always difficult to know how smaller merchants are performing due to a lack of data, that’s what makes reports from ecommerce platforms like Bigcommerce uniquely interesting, especially around the holiday shopping season. Tens of thousands of small and midsized Read more
eBay and Amazon were the most mentioned retailers on social channels over the long holiday-shopping weekend, according to the Adobe Digital Index. But how well did the two companies perform? Amazon issued a press release on Tuesday to boast that the Read more
Some people might be skeptical about the hype around Black Friday given the fact it feels more like a week or more of sales rather than one day. ComScore data shows that shoppers continue to like shopping on the day after Thanksgiving – and Read more
eBay says America is a nation of entrepreneurs and published an interactive map showing what it called “entrepreneurial hotspots” over the past four years. In the introduction to the map, eBay wrote: “In honor of Small Business Saturday (November 28th), Read more
It will be an okay holiday selling season, CEO Devin Wenig said last week when asked about the health of the global and US consumer. “It feels like growth is pretty good, we haven’t really seen a break in trend Read more
The US Postal Service kicked off a holiday marketing campaign this week featuring two television ads that debuted on November 2nd. A third commercial will begin airing on November 9th. Each ad is 15 seconds long and highlights real-time delivery Read more
Clothes and shoes top the list of most-wanted gifts this holiday, according to a survey conducted by cashback shopping site Ebates – topping even hot tech gadgets like iPads and Apple Watches. And, it points out, the Star Wars movie hype is Read more
It’s one thing to look at holiday shopping trends from the lens of all retailers of all sizes, but small sellers can now look at data more representative of what they are likely to experience. We’re talking about a new Read more
