The holiday season is upon us! As we inch closer towards Christmas, below are a few quick stats regarding Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday, all in 140 characters or less for your tweeting convenience.
- Thanksgiving saw a 91% increase in consumers shopping through @PayPal mobile compared to 2012 http://bit.ly/IsDw6j
- Thanksgiving & Black Friday brick-and-mortar sales reached $12.3B - up 2.3% from 2012 http://cnnmon.ie/19huOyq via @CNNMoney
- Black Friday wasn't a bust. Shoppers spent about as much as LY. #Retail sales were up 3.2% in first 10 months of 2013 http://thebea.st/18iJu3l
- Holiday shoppers referred from #Pinterest on Black Friday spent 77% more per order than shoppers from #Facebook http://ibm.co/II533u
- New York took the top spot for total online retail sales on Cyber Monday followed by DC, LA, Chicago and Atlanta http://ibm.co/IEzDL6
- 18.3% of Cyber Monday online sales across 2,000 major #retail sites came from #mobile, an 80% jump over LY http://adobe.ly/1bh5pc8
- Average daily retail app installations grew by 29% during the 5-day shopping period http://ibm.co/IEzDL6
- Cyber Monday sales rose 16% to $2.29B, according to @Adobe, which tracks activity on over 2,000 U.S. retail websites http://usat.ly/1cbuIt2
- From Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, 49% of dollars spent online came from work computers http://bit.ly/IsDBqJ
Any surprises? How did your campaigns hold up to your projections?
