Tag: Cyber Monday

December 13, 2022

Across the biggest retail events of the calendar year, ecommerce websites had to handle up to 80% more website traffic than normal, according to a new report by cloud hosting platform Platform.sh. Among the 12,000 websites that run on Platform.sh […]

November 29, 2022

Cyber Monday saw a 5% increase in transactions compared to last year, following in the footsteps of positive Black Friday figures, according to Barclaycard Payments. Barclaycard Payments processes £1 in every £3 spent in the UK. “Our data shows that […]

October 12, 2021

Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Christmas could see retailers’ ecommerce systems collapse entirely as tech bosses warn there “simply aren’t enough quality engineers to keep up with the demand”. The spike in online traffic expected to hit ecommerce sites over […]

December 15, 2020

Online fashion orders have skyrocketed 363 per cent since the start of November as Cyber Week and Christmas shopping provided a much-needed boost for the industry. According to the latest data from True Fit’s Fashion Genome, web traffic jumped 159 […]

December 3, 2020

Cyber Monday was the largest digital shopping day on record in the US seeing sales top $10.8 billion for the first time. According to new data from Adobe, sales grew 15.1 per cent compared to last year, with a large […]

December 2, 2020

The shipping showdown has started. With Black Friday and Cyber Monday raking in record amounts of online sales this year, according to Adobe, delivery rivals FedEx and UPS are gearing up for a busy holiday season. FedEx shares appear to […]

November 30, 2020

Cyber Monday will put retail websites and warehouses to their biggest test yet. The industry is bracing for what is likely to be the largest day for digital sales ever recorded in the United States, with spending expected to reach […]

November 25, 2020

Black Friday essentially began a month ago in October with Amazon AMZN +2.3% Prime Day as retailers started taking advantage of early promotional tactics to win over customers long before Thanksgiving weekend. However, even with the longer season for holiday […]

November 24, 2020

Cyber Monday is a critical online event for retailers. Last year, research conducted by Adobe Analytics found that Cyber Monday brought in $9.4 billion in sales, including $3 billion from mobile customers alone. With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic leaving many […]

October 27, 2020

The world’s largest online retailer has launched its Black Friday deals a whole four weeks ahead of time. While the rest of the US and more recently the UK’s retail sectors will plan in discounts around the end of November, […]

September 22, 2020

This year’s holiday season spending could be similar to last year’s, with 60% of consumers saying they will “spend about the same,” according to BlackFriday.com’s findings. That result falls in line with a recent Deloitte report estimating that retail holiday […]

September 3, 2020

Many are wondering how holiday sales and events such as Black Friday will be affected by the economic turndown. Klaviyo, an independently owned marketing platform focused on ecommerce business, predicts that Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2020 will be the […]

January 3, 2020

Analysts have been expecting plenty of discounts during the fourth quarter. Moody’s analysts warned in December that the six fewer selling days between Thanksgiving and Christmas could “exacerbate the promotional environment” for the period. They noted, as an example, that […]

December 20, 2019

The outlook is good for the growth of BOPIS, based on the results of the Kurt Salmon experiment. The average processing time was 2.5 hours, compared to 3.6 hours last year, and 85% of orders were fulfilled with no issues, […]

December 4, 2019

Cyber Monday once again set sales records, collecting an awe-inspiring $9.4 billion, making it the single biggest digital sales day ever, reports Adobe. Adobe bases its estimate by measuring transactions from 80 of the top 100 U.S. online retailers. The […]

December 2, 2019

For years now, Cyber Monday has served to extend the Thanksgiving-Black Friday sales event, and this year the trends observed over the weekend are expected to hold true, if not intensify. That includes the fact that mobile shopping was the […]

October 23, 2019

Deloitte’s holiday report notes considerable opportunity to woo what it calls “high spenders” this holiday season. This group tends to be older, with 65% of the group older than 40. But they don’t only spend more — they also spend […]

October 10, 2019

Consumer interests change year after year, and last year was an especially unpredictable one for consumer behavior related to holiday marketing. Key findings from a Yes Marketing report found that holiday sales in 2018 grew by 2.9% from the previous […]

December 3, 2018

The gateway weekend to the busiest shopping season of the year appears to be evolving in some interesting ways. Black Friday isn’t just for going out to ye olde brick-and-mortar shops anymore — it’s becoming much more of an online […]

November 27, 2018

Amazon benefitted from Whole Foods at Thanksgiving this year, and customers keep Alexa busy. The Amazon-owned grocery chain sold a record number of turkeys, and “more customers than ever” had them delivered this year through the company’s AmazonFresh and Prime […]