comScore Accurately Predicts Q4 2006 Retail E-Commerce Sales Within 3 Percent of U.S. Department of Commerce Estimates
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RESTON, Va., March 5  /PRNewswire/ -- comScore Networks, a leader in measuring the digital age, today reported that its U.S. e-commerce sales estimates for the fourth quarter of 2006 were once again closely aligned with the U.S. Department of Commerce estimates.
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Online retail sales in the US are expected to double by 2010, accounting for 12 percent of the total retail sales, a market research firm said Monday.
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U.S. buyers shopped aggressively online on Monday and Tuesday of this week, spending significantly more than they did on the comparable days last year, according to comScore.Online retail spending hit $700 million on Monday, up 33 percent from last year, and $670 million on Tuesday, up 25 percent, the Web-monitoring company said Thursday.During the first 48 days of the holiday shopping season -- Nov. 1 to Dec. 18 -- U.S. shoppers have spent almost $25 billion in online retail purchases, up 19 percent from the same period last year, according to comScore.As Christmas day approaches, the intensity of online shopping will ease up, although late-shipping deals, in-store pickup options and price reductions should keep growth rates strong in the remainder of the holiday season, comScore said.The company expects online spending during the holidays to reach $29.5 billion, which would represent a 20 percent increase over the 2006 season.Meanwhile, Nielsen Online said Wednesday that a majority of online shoppers it surveyed reported being either &quot;very satisfied&quot; or &quot;somewhat satisfied&quot; with the customer support they received from online shopping Web sites.Nielsen Online&#39;s survey found that of the 46 percent of respondents who had posted or planned to post reviews about their online shopping experience, 88 percent said those reviews were, or would be, positive.Netflix topped the survey&#39;s customer satisfaction list, having been rated &quot;very satisfied&quot; by 90.3 percent of respondents, and was followed by comparison-shopping site NexTag.com (87 percent), giant e-tailer Amazon.com (86.6 percent), Yahoo Shopping (84.3 percent) and Kohls.com (84.1 percent). Rounding out the top 10 were Barnesandnoble.com, HomeDepot.com, Circuitcity.com, eBay.com, and JCPenney.com.On the other end of the spectrum, sites that in recent days have been flagged for buckling under the strong holiday-season traffic include Mastercard.com and Macys.com.Macys.com&#39;s home page faced slowdowns throughout Tuesday, taking, at its worst, about 38 seconds to load, compared with the usual 2 seconds, according to Web site uptime and availability tracker Gomez.Apparently, while experiencing availability problems, Macys.com has been serving up a page telling shoppers that the site is crowded and that they have to wait until traffic decreases in order to be let in. An apparent screenshot of this page was posted by The Consumerist blog on Tuesday.Meanwhile, Mastercard.com has racked up downtime of almost five hours between Nov. 9 and Dec. 20, equivalent to uptime of 99.5 percent for that period, according to Pingdom, which also tracks Web site performance. As such, Mastercard.com has performed significantly worse than sites from competing credit-card companies like Discover, Visa, Diners Club, and American Express, all of which have had uptime above 99.9 percent during this period, Pingdom said Thursday.Neither Macy&#39;s nor MasterCard immediately responded to requests for comment.
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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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Czech Republic: The turnover of the Internet market was about CEK 14-15 bil in 2006, 40% more compared to 2005. In 2006 about 3 mil persons did Internet shopping. The number of buyers through the Internet incrase 15-times during 2000-2006.
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Retailers that saw impressive growth in year-over-year online sales during last year's holiday season should not look for the same results this year, according to estimates by Forrester Research.
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The e-commerce sector continues to outpace most other sectors of the economy in terms of satisfying customers, according to the latest American Customer Satisfaction Index.
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U.S. retail sales over the Internet  rose 0.9 percent in the second quarter of 2004 and gained 23.1  percent compared with the same period last year as consumers  continued to turn to e-commerce to make purchases, a government  report showed on Friday.
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WASHINGTON - US retail sales over the Internet rose 0.9 percent in the second quarter of 2004 and gained 23.1 percent compared with the same period last year as consumers continued to turn to e-commerce to make purchases, a government report showed on
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ComScore, an Internet data collection company based in Reston, netted an estimated $73.7 million in its initial public offering yesterday, and its shares rose more than 42 percent in the first day of trading.
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RESTON, Va., June 15  /PRNewswire/ -- comScore Media Metrix today released its monthly analysis of U.S.
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U.S. retail sales over the Internet rose 0.9 percent in the second quarter of 2004 and gained 23.1 percent compared with the same period last year as consumers continued to turn to e-commerce to make purchases, a government report showed on Friday.
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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.
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eBay exceeded Wall Street&#39;s earnings and revenue expectations for its fourth quarter and,&#160;as expected, announced that Meg Whitman will step down as president and CEO at the end of March, ending a 10-year tenure at the helm of the e-commerce giant.For the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2007, eBay had revenue of $2.18 billion, up $461 million from the fourth quarter of 2006 and above the $2.14 billion consensus estimate from analysts polled by Thomson Financial.Revenue grew across the board, but PayPal, StubHub, Skype, and advertising performed particularly well as eBay enjoyed strong sales during the 2007 holiday season, the company said Wednesday.New income was $531 million, or $0.39 per share, up from $346 million, or $0.25 per share, in 2006&#39;s fourth quarter. On a pro forma basis, which includes one-time items, net income was $611 million or $0.45 per share, topping the consensus expectation by $0.04.Whitman will hand over her CEO and president titles on March 31, but she will remain on the company&#39;s board of directors. She will be succeeded by John Donahoe.Whitman joined eBay in March 1998, when the company operated only in the U.S. and had 30 employees and $4.7 million in annual revenue. It now operates worldwide with more than 15,000 employees and almost $7.7 billion in revenue.Donahoe has been with eBay since February 2005, coming from Bain &amp; Company, where he was worldwide managing director since 1999. He is president of eBay Marketplaces, which generates more than 70 percent of the company&#8217;s global revenue.Rajiv Dutta, PayPal&#39;s president, has been named eBay executive vice president and will also replace Donahoe as president of eBay Marketplaces. Scott Thompson, PayPal&#8217;s CTO, will take over as PayPal president.Meanwhile, Bill Cobb, president of eBay North America, will step down and retire from the company at the end of the year. Lorrie Norrington, currently president of eBay International, will become president of eBay Marketplaces Operations and assume Cobb&#39;s responsibilities, eBay said.
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Web search leader Google Inc. in April showed a sharp gain in market share among U.S. Web search users, taking business from its three closest rivals, research firm comScore Inc. said on Friday.
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U.S. specialty apparel retailers saw  sales rise 3.6 percent in holiday shopping, at the lower-end of  expectations, according to data released on Tuesday by  SpendingPulse.
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AUGUST 20, 2004  - While they&#39;re still only a tiny portion of overall US retail sales, retail online sales continued to rise in the second quarter to $15.