Posts Tagged ‘ Christmas ’

What do people associate with Christmas?

Tweet It’s Christmas Eve and as I sit here in a very quiet office I wondered what items people most associate with Christmas. Clearly, Christmas is a time of celebration, of gifts and parties and over eating, but what is the essence of Christmas for the British population? What are the things that make Christmas [...][ READ MORE ]

Lego, Onesies and iPads top Christmas wish lists

Tweet We are now well into the festive shopping season and so I thought it would be good to take a look at the top gifts which are going to be underneath the tree this year, based on the millions of product searches the UK was making on Cyber Monday, the biggest online shopping day [...][ READ MORE ]

What’s the difference between Mega Monday and Cyber Monday?

Tweet Somehow it’s magically become Christmas time again and 2012 is going to be another record breaking year for online retail. On Cyber Monday (3 December 2012) we’re predicting UK Internet users will make 115 million visits to retail websites, up 36% from last year and setting a new record as the busiest day ever [...][ READ MORE ]

Christmas 2010 retail summary – the biggest post-Christmas shopping season ever

Tweet With Christmas over and the New Year in full swing it’s time for us to reflect on Christmas 2010 and the key trends in retail this year. The two biggest factors which affected online retail this Christmas were the December snow falls and the January VAT increase. With consumers squeezed on both sides of [...][ READ MORE ]

27 December second busiest day of the year in online retail

Tweet Over the last few days the UK Internet population have been prolific online, in one of the busiest post-Christmas periods ever. Boxing Day was the busiest day of the year for online retailers again this year, but the sales have continued to perform ahead of last year’s figures with 27 December being the second [...][ READ MORE ]

Boxing Day the busiest day of the year for online retailers in 2010

Tweet Repeating the pattern that we have seen over the last few years, Boxing Day was again the busiest day of the year for online retailers during 2010. Yesterday (December 26th) UK Internet visits to online retail websites were 12% higher than on the pre-Christmas peak in traffic (December 5th) and 26% higher than on [...][ READ MORE ]

Facebook more popular than Google on Christmas Day

Tweet As we predicted last week, for the first ever time Facebook received more UK Internet visits that Google UK on Christmas Day. As the chart below illustrates, on Christmas Day (December 25th) facebook.com accounted for 10.50% of all UK Internet visits, while the figure for google.co.uk was 9.77%. This was the first time that [...][ READ MORE ]

Christmas Day 2010 was the busiest ever for multichannel retailers

Tweet UK Internet visits to retail websites increased by 32% between Christmas Eve (December 24th) and Christmas Day (December 25th). With IMRG reporting that 4.8m British consumers spent £153m online yesterday, the real winners were the multichannel retailers. As the table below illustrates, eBay UK and Amazon UK were the most visited online retailers in [...][ READ MORE ]

Christmas 2.0 – a time for sharing (on Facebook at least)

Tweet Social networking has become an integral part of our lives and this Christmas more people will be sharing messages of good will with each other than ever before. As we get closer to Christmas Day visits to social networking sites have reached a new peak for the year, accounting for nearly 13.5%of all UK [...][ READ MORE ]

2010 Online: the year in review

Tweet I can scarcely believe that a whole year has passed since I was sitting here writing the 2009 review, but 12 months to the day here we are, and it’s been another fascinating year in the digital world. Once again I have cherry picked the best blog posts from the year which have either [...][ READ MORE ]