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US online sales during holiday period up by 12 percent

Just released data from comScore highlights a 12 percent increase for ecommerce in December, despite the performance during the week prior to Christmas fell behind expectations. In the biggest month of the year for retailers, there were 10 individual billion dollars spending days. In the week before Christmas, online sales continued to be strong...

Fashion

M&S online store visitors up by 1m

Marks & Spencer online saw 1 million extra visitors go to its website in October, according to the latest figures from internet tracking firm ComScore. According to reports, www.marksandspencer.com increased its unique users from 3.7 million visits to its website in September to 4.7 million unique in October. The 4.7 million users spent 55...

Design

Smartphone use in retail increases

The importance of smartphones within the retail industry is on the increase, according to new reports. According to digital analysts ComScore, 13.5 million consumers in the five leading European markets accessed retail sites via mobile phones in the three months to May 2011, and the number of smartphone users engaging with these sites grew 80...

Fashion

UK web rankings

For June 2008, one of the leaders in measuring the digital world, comScore released the Top UK web rankings. The company published the rankings of the largest and fastest-growing Internet properties and site categories in the U.K. based on data from the comScore World Metrix audience measurement service. June saw modest increases in the...