ecommerce
Christmas Day is bigger than Black Friday for UK ecommerce retailers
In the UK, consumers are most likely to indulge in online shopping on Christmas Day. In 2017, traffic to online retailer websites on Christmas Day was almost double (45%) the December monthly average. Three days before New Year’s Eve (28 December) purchases were more than a quarter (26%) up on the December average.
Social and Shopping: Can Instagram Expect a Christmas Surge?
According to Instagram four in five users now follow at least one business and two-thirds of visits to Instagram business profiles are from people who don’t yet follow them. Phil Rooke at Spreadshirt looks at why Instagram could be about to have a big final quarter. Partly because it offers the best relationships between consumers … [Read more…]
Mobile Phones ‘driving 56% of festive online fashion sales’
Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2018 was 36% bigger for online fashion retail than 2017, according to new research.
Social media influence remains high, but shoppers are wary of social commerce
Shoppers are more influenced by social media than ever, but social commerce has yet to see widespread adoption, according to new research. SUMO Heavy, the digital commerce strategy firm, polled 1,046 adults (in the U.S.) to evaluate social media’s impact on consumer shopping habits and better understand the role of emerging technology in the future … [Read more…]