Posts Tagged ‘ Holiday ’
The short holiday season is rapidly coming to an end, but shoppers have not given up on looking for the hot products online. The Wii Fit continues to dominate the fast moving search terms list, when comparing the top searches to the Appliances & Electronics and Toys & Hobbies categories for last week with the [...][ READ MORE ]
Yesterday I posted about the uptick in traffic and searches related to coupons during this holiday season, but I would be remiss not to give special attention to one of the most popular online promotions of all – free shipping. Why does free shipping outshine the majority of promotions offered each year by online retailers? [...][ READ MORE ]
Amid the trying financial climate, consumers are still doing some holiday shopping, although in more moderation than last year. For the week ending Dec. 13, 2008, the market share of visits to the Retail 500 represented 4.28% of all internet visits, down 6% from the same week last year (week ending Dec. 15, 2007). The [...][ READ MORE ]
One popular topic that comes up each year during the holiday season is comparing the amount of traffic to the websites of brick & 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 [...][ READ MORE ]
Every holiday season we comb through our search data to find the season’s most popular products. Some are recurring favorites – like Ugg boots (much to my chagrin) and the Wii, but to help mix up the wish lists some new entrants swing through each year and for 2008 it is Bakugan. These popular toys [...][ READ MORE ]
Today MasterCard Advisors’ Spending Pulse service announced that year-over-year holiday spending increased 8.7%. This is pretty close to the 9% that we predicted going into the holiday season. The chart below provides market share growth for our Retail 100 index (top 100 retailers in our Shopping & Classifieds Category) for 2004 versus 2005. It is [...][ READ MORE ]
