Posts Tagged ‘ Fashion ’

Vouchers vs. sales: battle of the online discounts

Tweet Around this time last year we reported that post-Christmas sales searches had trebled; a couple of weeks ago we noted that this year the increase was just 3.2%. However, if Christmas 2007 was the year that online sales went mainstream, this year it was the turn of discount vouchers. As the chart below illustrates, [...][ READ MORE ]

UK online retail: Christmas round up

Tweet Given the economic conditions, people are watching Christmas retail numbers like hawks. Below are the key numbers for online shopping in the UK over the last few days. Sales searches up 3.2% Combined, UK Internet searches for the terms ‘sales’ and ‘sale’ increased by 3.2% between the week ending 29/12/07 and the equivalent period [...][ READ MORE ]

Pre-Christmas peaks in online retail traffic

Tweet In our retail webinar last week I noted that UK pre-Christmas Internet traffic to Shopping and Classified websites has already started to decline from its peak on Sunday November 30th. As the data in the chart below illustrates, the week which started on that Sunday and ended on Saturday December 6th was also the [...][ READ MORE ]

High street retailers’ online demographics

Tweet High street retailers received 22% more UK Internet visits than online only retailers in November, and the gap is likely to widen during December. The chart below illustrates UK Internet visits to our two custom categories of high street and online only retailers over the last couple of years, and the trend is clear. [...][ READ MORE ]

Marks & Spencer and Debenhams sales

Tweet As many had predicted, the pre-Christmas sales and discount offers started in earnest last week, with Marks & Spencer and Debenhams amongst the high profile names offering reductions both on the high street and online. As you would expect, both retailers achieved a significant boost in traffic, with M&S in particular doing extremely well. [...][ READ MORE ]

Olympics winners: sports sites, bike retailers and sportswear manufacturers

Tweet Following the success of Team GB in Beijing, we were curious to see who else benefited from the Olympics hype. As the chart below illustrates, the most clear online winners were sports websites, both information and retail sites. UK Internet traffic to sites within our Sports category shot up to an all time high, [...][ READ MORE ]

Fast moving search terms: Olympics, BBC iPlayer, UCAS and fantasy football

Tweet The 10 fastest moving search terms in the UK last week were: 1. ucas track 2. bbc olympics 3. fantasy premier league 4. dream team 5. michael phelps 6. tom daley 7. the sun dream team 8. joules 9. last choir standing 10. carphone warehouse uk The Olympics continue to dominate the fast moving [...][ READ MORE ]

Price comparison traffic up 37% thanks to economic downturn

Tweet With prices rising and the credit crunch biting, consumers are taking more time to find the best deals online. Last week we contributed to an Experian Footfall report which highlighted the downturn on the high street and in out of town shopping centres, compared with the increase in online retail traffic. Although the high [...][ READ MORE ]

Asos.com: growth and demographics

Tweet Internet clothing retailer Asos.com seems to have shrugged off the economic downturn by yesterday announcing that it had doubled sales over the last 3 months. Following our analysis of the rapidly growing UK online fashion market last week, this didn’t come as a huge surprise to us. We’ve been tracking Asos for a while: [...][ READ MORE ]

Online fashion retail still growing despite high street slowdown

Tweet The CBI has issued a report claiming that clothing retailers have just experienced their worst month for quarter of a century. I can only assume that this fall in sales must be down to an underperforming high street, because the online fashion industry is booming. Our Apparel and Accessories category is currently the fourth [...][ READ MORE ]