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Our sister company Experian CheetahMail released an insightful white paper on the topic of free shipping email offers (download the paper here). Among several interesting findings, the paper provides some seasonality data on the percentage of clients that sent free... Continue reading...
Posted by Bill Tancer at 05:37 PM
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Despite survey results to the contrary and concerns of their viability in times of economic uncertainty, Internet searches for gift cards continue to surge this holiday season . If we look at the following chart of search term volume on... Continue reading...
Posted by Bill Tancer at 01:21 PM
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The term "layaway" seems so 1970's. Yet if you look at search terms sending traffic to the Hitwise Shopping and Classifieds category, you'll see this retro term resurfacing as consumers struggle to find ways of navigating purchases this holiday season.... Continue reading...
Posted by Bill Tancer at 12:49 PM
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In Categories Economy | Search | Shopping and Classifieds
Today we issued a release on the new 2007 Retail 100 Index, a collection of the top 100 retailers in our Shopping and Classifieds category (the category contains over 20,000 sites). Our analysis shows positive growth in visits to the... Continue reading...
Posted by Bill Tancer at 06:33 PM
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Occassionly strange data crosses my desk (o.k. maybe not occassionly, regularly really). Luke McGuinness our VP of Sales on the West Coast popped his head in my office to ask if I knew why Mrs. Fields, suddenly, was getting almost... Continue reading...
Posted by Bill Tancer at 02:51 PM
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Earlier this month I conducted a Hitwise client webinar with Anita Gandhi, our Client Intelligence Director. The topic of discussion was the growing popularity of Black Friday searches on the net. Anita pointed out during the presentation that the popularity... Continue reading...
Posted by Bill Tancer at 02:34 PM
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Reading the Sunday paper (San Francisco Chronicle) this morning, I came across a great article by Reyhan Harmanci about the increased interest in Bratz dolls v. the traditional Barbie (see LeeAnn Prescott's post here comparing searches in the top dolls... Continue reading...
Posted by Bill Tancer at 06:03 PM
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Following Heather's post in the UK, on the surging popularity of game consoles (she omitted Playstation 3 as its not commercially available in the UK), I decided to post some U.S. data comaring queries for the two popular console "playstation... Continue reading...
Posted by Bill Tancer at 04:38 PM
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This morning I taped a segment for CNBC about our press release yesterday on the hottest products this holiday season. One of the things that struck me about our search data this holiday is the resurgence of those foot warming... Continue reading...
Posted by Bill Tancer at 03:29 PM
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In Categories Shopping and Classifieds
Tomorrow we'll be releasing our hot searched-for-products of this holiday season. As a little taste of whats coming, over the last several weeks, we've noticed a steady increase in searches for Heelys (the tennis shoes with wheels responsible for many... Continue reading...
Posted by Bill Tancer at 05:37 PM
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The stats are in for the much-hyped Cyber-Monday and compared to Cyber-Monday in 2005, the Hitwise Retail 100 Index is up 13.3% for yesterday (11/27/06). As we've seen for the fourth year running (as represented in the chart below), Thanksgiving... Continue reading...
Posted by Bill Tancer at 06:10 PM
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In Categories Shopping and Classifieds
On Tuesday the National Retail Federation (NRF) released its forecast for holiday retail sales, expecting U.S. retail to increase by a very moderate 5% over the previous year. This article from CNN Money, makes the point that declining fuel prices... Continue reading...
Posted by Bill Tancer at 12:53 PM
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On Tuesday, the Department of Commerce issued their report on January retail sales excluding autos. According to the report, retail sales grew 2.3% when compared to January 2005. Below, I've created a chart of visits to the Hitwise Retail 100... Continue reading...
Posted by Bill Tancer at 05:24 PM
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In Categories Shopping and Classifieds
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... Continue reading...
Posted by Bill Tancer at 08:15 PM
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In Categories Shopping and Classifieds