Consumer Insights

Online retail visits increase 8% year over year week of Dec 9 – 15

Posted on Dec 18 2012 by

With the busy holiday marketing season in full swing, Experian Marketing Services has released its online retail round-up for the week ending Dec. 15.

Online retail visits increase 5% year over year week of Dec 2 – 8

Posted on Dec 14 2012 by

With the busy holiday marketing season in full swing, Experian Marketing Services has released its online retail round-up for the week ending Dec. 8.

Young adults: Texting is just as meaningful as a phone call

Posted on Dec 03 2012 by

Twenty years ago this week, the first mobile text message, or SMS, was sent by British engineer Neil Papworth. Today, Americans are texting more than ever and among young adults, many of whom were not yet born when the first message was sent, texting is almost as common a mobile activity as talking. And why [...]

Bill Tancer talks consumer confidence and holiday shopping on Bloomberg TV

Posted on Nov 30 2012 by

Bill Tancer, head of global research at Experian Marketing Services, talks with Bloomberg’s Erik Schatzker and Sara Eisen about the holiday marketing season – featured on Bloomberg Television’s “Market Makers” show. Highlights include: Details on consumer confidence going into this holiday season, and how marketers can leverage multi-channel marketing to better reach consumers Insights on [...]

Cyber Monday online retail traffic increased 11% in 2012

Posted on Nov 28 2012 by

Continuing the strong holiday push from this past holiday weekend online traffic on Cyber Monday increased 11% in 2012 versus 2011 as the top 500 retail sites received more than 206.8 million total US visits. So far this past Holiday week of online traffic from Thanksgiving Day to Cyber Monday to retail sites is up [...]

Black Friday online retail traffic increased 7% in 2012

Posted on Nov 25 2012 by

Black Friday online traffic increased 7% in 2012 versus 2011 as the top 500 retail sites received more than 193.8 million total US visits. So far this Holiday week of online traffic to the top retail sites is up 10% on average. Online retail traffic was up 1% on Black Friday compared to Thanksgiving Day [...]

Thanksgiving Day online retail traffic increased 6% in 2012

Posted on Nov 24 2012 by

Thanksgiving Day online traffic increased 6% in 2012 versus 2011 as the top 500 retail sites received more than 192.5 million total US visits. So far this Holiday week of online traffic to the top retail sites is up 11% on average. Retail traffic also increased 43% on Thanksgiving Day 2012 versus the day before. [...]

Online retail visits increase 10% heading into the Holiday weekend

Posted on Nov 21 2012 by

As we head into the busiest Holiday shopping weekend the total US visits to the top 500 retail sites increased 10% this past week compared to the same time in 2011. The top 500 retail sites received more than 666.8 million visits for the week ending Nov. 17, 2012. Retail sites have been steadily growing [...]

Quantifying Latino influence

Posted on Nov 21 2012 by

The Latino Influence Project came about because we wanted to prove if Hispanics really are influencing the mainstream or not.

The holidays: family time, home-cooked meals and shopping!

Posted on Nov 21 2012 by

Dana here, getting ready for holiday shopping. While I have a variety on my list, it seems like it’s getting easier to get ideas and get what I need.