Posts Tagged ‘ thanksgiving ’

The preparation for holiday sales

Last year Cyber Monday was the busiest online shopping day. Apparel & Accessories, House & Garden and Toys & Hobbies sites saw the most growth YoY.[ READ MORE ]

Shoppers know the Thanksgiving weekend means deals and discounts

Over the past few years, shoppers have associated what we call “Peak Week”—the Tuesday before Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday—as a time for deals and discounts. What search trends have we been seeing this year?[ READ MORE ]

Get the most from high transaction days this holiday season

Shoppers are consuming more than turkey on Thanksgiving. Watch this video for trends we’ve been following and valuable insights for this holiday marketing season.[ READ MORE ]

Procrastinators gobble up Thanksgiving recipes

Thanksgiving is only a few days away and aspiring chefs are hungrily searching online for holiday recipes. Searches for Thanksgiving and turkey recipes traditionally peak the week of Thanksgiving, indicating that recipe searchers procrastinate and wait until the last minute before planning their feast. [ READ MORE ]

Don’t leave “Peak Week” money on the table

For the first seven years of studying online holiday shopping behavior, Experian Hitwise has been accurate in predicting the peak day for online traffic to retail sites. Here’s a look at what we’ve seen historically and what we’re predicting this year. [ READ MORE ]

Gift-Card Purchases Peak During Holiday Rush

Recent data from Experian Simmons shows that holiday shopping procrastination tends to result in the purchase of last-minute gift cards.[ READ MORE ]

The Party Started Before Cyber Monday

  • November 29th, 2010
  • Posted in Uncategorized

Well, you can say you heard it here first: Cyber Monday is barely a few hours into full swing and yet we’re already seeing email volumes increase by roughly the same percentage as last year in the run up to today’s mailing frenzy. Last year, we saw an increase in ‘Black Friday’ and ‘Cyber Monday’ mentions [...][ READ MORE ]

Online Shopping Starts Well Before Black Friday

This year, it appears that the seasonal increase in online purchasing began almost three months ago, the week of August 9, 2010. This suggests that, as far as online purchasing goes, the back-to-school and holiday shopping seasons have effectively merged with little to no break in between.[ READ MORE ]

Thanksgiving Turkey Dinner Preparations

New Segmentation Solution: Food Lifestyle Experian Simmons is providing its clients with a new and complimentary segmentation solution: Food Lifestyle. This segmentation divides the U.S. population into five consumer segments based on eating habits and attitudes about food. (For the definition of each segment, click here.) The Food Lifestyle segmentation solution will be available with [...][ READ MORE ]