France and Germany See Highest Gains Yet in Pre-Christmas Cyber Shopping, According to comScore Networks
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LONDON, Dec. 18  /PRNewswire/ -- comScore Networks, a leader in measuring the digital age, today released an update on European online holiday shopping activity in the U.K., France and Germany.
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RESTON, Va., Dec. 17  /PRNewswire/ -- comScore Networks, a leader in measuring the digital age, today released its estimates of consumer online non-travel (retail) spending at U.S. sites for the 2006 holiday season through December 15.
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Vendors and researchers have detected various new trends at play in online retail shopping this holiday season, such as shoppers' increased use of search engines and comparison shopping services to make better informed buying decisions. Not all trends are encouraging, however, such as a disconcertingly high percentage of shoppers willing to buy from spammers.
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Spending by Americans shopping  online during this year's holiday season rose 24 percent from a  year earlier to $8.8 billion, with sharp gains in purchases of  clothing and entertainment, Web company VeriSign Inc. VRSN.O  said on Thursday.
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Millions of British consumers are expected to spend Christmas Day shopping online for bargains.
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Women will spend more online on Christmas gifts than men for the first time, according to Nielsen NetRatings.
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Hitwise, an online &quot;competitive intelligence&quot; service, has more interesting statistics about online holiday shopping. According to Hitwise, Shopping and Classifieds sites claimed an unprecedented 9.1 percent
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PC Tools' Malware Research Center reports a 57  percent increase in keylogging activity affecting both the consumer and  enterprise users in Europe and the United States.
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Holiday shoppers gravitated toward the Internet in big numbers late last year, with online retailers reaping some US&#36;23 billion from U.S. consumers. That figure marks a 25 percent increase from the &#36;18.5 billion spent online during the same period in 2003.
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U.S. online consumer spending from Nov. 1 to Dec. 31 was up 19% from the same time last year, according to comScore.
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The Internet holiday shopping  season got off to a hotter start this year, with "Cyber Monday"  the top day ever for online sales and the long Thanksgiving  weekend a busy time for browsing ahead of buying, both online  and in stores, researchers said on Wednesday.
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LONDON, Jan. 31  /PRNewswire/ -- comScore Networks, a global leader in digital media measurement, today announced the results of a usage analysis of career-related Internet sites in Europe based on data from its comScore World Metrix service.
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Web holiday sales are up 24 percent over a year ago, says comScore. However it is believed the shopping season may extend longer online this season as consumers appear to be confident that expedient shipping would get their gifts in time.
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The Internet holiday shopping season got off to a hotter start this year, with "Cyber Monday" the top day ever for online sales and the long Thanksgiving weekend a busy time for browsing ahead of buying, both online and in stores, researchers said on Wednesday.
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Holiday Web sales are running ahead of forecast as online gift certificates helped give Internet retailers a chance to participate in U.S. consumers' last-minute shopping spree, Internet research firm comScore Networks said on Wednesday.
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Online shoppers in the United States spent &#36;23.2 billion during the holidays, excluding travel, up 25 percent from the 2003 season, according to a new survey from Goldman, Sachs & Co., Harris Interactive and Nielsen/NetRatings.
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E-tailers have laggards and penny-pinchers to thank for last week&#39;s brisk sales, which grew 25 percent over the comparable period last year, according to comScore.Procrastinators and deal-seekers helped create a &quot;flurry&quot; of online spending last week in the U.S., keeping retail e-sales strong, comScore said Sunday.Between Nov. 1 and Dec. 21 -- the first 51 days of the holiday season -- U.S. shoppers have spent $26.3 billion online, up 19 percent compared with the corresponding period last year.So far, the heaviest online shopping day this season was Dec. 10, the so-called &quot;Green Monday,&quot; a term coined by eBay for the second Monday in December, which the vendor has identified as particularly heavy e-sales day. U.S. shoppers spent $881 million that day, up 33 percent from the corresponding day in 2006.By contrast, Cyber Monday, the first workday after the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S., ranks as this holiday season&#39;s ninth heaviest online shopping day, with $733 million in sales. Cyber Monday is considered the day when holiday online shopping kicks into high gear.Overall, comScore expects this year&#39;s holiday season to generate about $29.5 billion in online spending, which would represent a 20 percent increase from the same period in 2006.