comScore is releasing its first round of data for the 2009 Christmas shopping season, and the news is much better than last year.
Last year, online shopping on Black Friday was up only 1% from the year previous, coming in at $534 million. Well, this year online shopping on Black Friday came in at $595 million, up 11% over 2008.
Spending in November so far is up 3% compared to last year. Here's the chart for you visual types:
Bing has released its top queries for 2009. The late King of Pop tops the list, followed by a popular social network and a pandemic disease.
Over at Focus.com, they've graphed out some juicy data collected by the National Retail Federation and comScore showing that Cyber Monday is not the biggest online shopping day of the year. Not yet, at least.
Every year, the biggest online shopping day of the year becomes earlier and earlier. In 2000, it was December 18. Last year, it was December 9, a Tuesday.
Most of the biggest days of the past 9 years have landed on Mondays.
If this trend keeps up, Cyber Monday could become the biggest online shopping day of the year in about 6-8 years. But it could stabilize in the second week of December. Time will tell.
This year, December 7th is projected to be the biggest online shopping day of the year, and yes, it will fall on a Monday.
By the way - Black Friday is not the biggest in-store shopping day of the year either. The Saturday before Christmas is. This year, that's December 19.
via Consumerist
Google has launched a new Deals page, almost two months after Ask.com unveiled their new Deals site. Google's Deals page features the 900 retailers included in Google Checkout. The Deals site ain't pretty either:
You can access the Google Deals site at www.google.com/checkout/deals.html
Meanwhile, Google is taking on Yahoo! in Times Square. You might remember Yahoo! is offering free Wifi in Times Square. Google wants people in Times Square to search via Voice by calling 888-376-4336. Answers to the queries appear on electronic billboards. This is part of a campaign to promote the new Motorola Droid, which uses Android.
The billboard campaign doesn't run all day. You can find it going on from 12:30-2pm and 6:30-8pm most days.
(Times Square photo borrowed from the Official Google blog)
