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	<title>Hitwise Blog &#187; Holiday Retail</title>
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		<title>Holiday hot products &#8211; tablets top the list and the Furby is back!</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/11/12/holiday-hot-products-tablets-top-the-list-and-the-furby-is-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Illiano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hitwise Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Holiday Retail]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is time for us to polish off our crystal ball and give our predictions straight from consumers’ fingertips for the hot products of the 2012 holiday season. Gadgets will reign across many ages Tablets including LeapPads, Tabeos, iPads, Kindles and others will continue to be a popular gift this year, with more choices than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Identifying online Black Friday shoppers</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/10/10/identifying-online-black-friday-shoppers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 18:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Illiano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Black Friday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holiday Retail]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we head into the holiday season, one of the many capabilities Experian Hitwise has is the ability to segment web-users that performed a Black Friday-related search (e.g. ‘Walmart Black Friday,’ ‘Black Friday sales,’ ‘ad for black Friday’) OR visited a Black Friday website (e.g., blackfridayads.com, Bfads.com). We analyzed data for Black Friday shoppers between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The preparation for holiday sales</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2012/09/20/the-preparation-for-holiday-sales/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 19:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Illiano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hitwise Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Friday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cyber Monday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holiday Retail]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Retailers everywhere are getting in the spirit for the upcoming holiday season with Black Friday and Cyber Monday to kick off the busiest shopping season of the year. It is critical in today’s connected digital environment for marketers to do everything they can to stand out and reach potential customers where and when they are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holiday Retail &#8211; High Income Exodus</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2008/12/29/holiday-retail-high-income-exodus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2008/12/29/holiday-retail-high-income-exodus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Tancer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Audience Segmentation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holiday Retail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holiday Season]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As we examine the daily pattern of visits to our Retail 500 Index for the last three years we see that for most of the holiday season we trailed 2007 holiday traffic numbers, we consistently beat the 2006 holiday. However, that pattern changed for the days immediately after Christmas (is 12/26 the New Black Friday?) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holiday comparison &#8211; Brick &amp; mortar vs. online-only retailers</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2008/12/12/holiday-comparison-brick-mortar-vs-online-only-retailers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2008/12/12/holiday-comparison-brick-mortar-vs-online-only-retailers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Traffic Acquisition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holiday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holiday Retail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shopping and Classifieds]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One popular topic that comes up each year during the holiday season is comparing the amount of traffic to the websites of brick &#038; mortar retailers to the online-only players. In order to perform the analysis, we created 2 custom categories of retail websites (excluding auctions, classifieds, video rentals, and membership clubs) of the top [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shipping deadlines loom for holiday gifts</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2007/12/20/shipping-deadlines-loom-for-holiday-gifts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2007/12/20/shipping-deadlines-loom-for-holiday-gifts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Dougherty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holiday Retail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shipping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shopping and Classifieds]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With the majority of standard shipping deadlines upon us from online retailers, traffic has increased for the websites of major shipping providers. For these websites, avoiding a site failure should be easy thanks to the predictability of the peaks. Historically, there are 2 consecutive days that make up the peaks in traffic &#8211; the Tuesday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holiday Shoppers Seek Free Shipping and Products On Sale</title>
		<link>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2005/12/15/holiday-shoppers-seek-free-shipping-and-products-on-sale/</link>
		<comments>http://www.experian.com/blogs/hitwise/2005/12/15/holiday-shoppers-seek-free-shipping-and-products-on-sale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LeeAnn Prescott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holiday Retail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shopping and Classifieds]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Free shipping has long been a key offer from online retailers, to the extent that online shoppers have come to expect it. They also search for it, as the chart below shows, particularly during the holidays. We&#8217;ve been finding the new keyword breadth charting function (explained here) very useful in finding trends in searches for [...]]]></description>
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