Posts Tagged ‘ Shopping ’
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 [...][ READ MORE ]
Flash sales online have continued to grow in popularity, particularly in the apparel and home categories as new entrants emerge to compete with Gilt Groupe, RueLaLa, HauteLook and others. Visits to a custom category of 17 websites offering Online Flash Sales increased 235% year-over-year for the week ending April 24, 2010. Last year, the Gilt [...][ READ MORE ]
As I fired up my monitor this morning, I was greeted with a breaking news story by Eric Auchard at Reuters, detailing a broad alliance between Yahoo! and eBay. My first reaction… I need a scorecard to keep track of all the deals/alliances being announced in the portal-search space. My second reaction was (question actually)… [...][ READ MORE ]
I just can’t seem to get away from prom dresses (click here for my history on the subject, subscription required)! While preparing for last week’s Hitwise Search Breakfast, I created a chart on the search volume for the query “prom dresses.” The chart below is an excellent example of search criticality with the insight that [...][ READ MORE ]
