Earlier this year Google honored the Canadian penny being removed from circulation ]and has done special logos for Canadian Thanksgiving, Canada Day, and Canadian Elections days. While Google is celebrating with one of its Doodle 4 Google winners...
A rebounding economy and a longer period between Thanksgiving and Christmas helped to fuel this trend. Thanksgiving day is now force to be reckoned with. Thanksgiving Day: A Force to be Reckoned With This year Black Friday deals started much...
Based on recent research of online retail sales during the four days after Thanksgiving, it appears one simple trick boosted sales for many retailers: retargeting. According to ComScore, consumers spent $4.8 billion online during the four days...
Cyber Monday continues to be the blockbuster day for retailers online, garnering more clicks than any other day, but the five day period between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday is growing in importance as shoppers look for deals throughout the week.
Yet IBM also shared, "This year's holiday shopper was hungry for great deals and retailers didn't disappoint, rolling out compelling offers which consumers gobbled up on Thanksgiving straight through Black Friday.
Snoopy (along with Woodstock) has also appeared in a Google Doodle, for Thanksgiving in 2009: Snoopy is hanging out with a bird of a different feather today. Rather than his traditional playmate, Woodstock, Snoopy appears with Dax, the mascot of...
Thanksgiving Day Increasingly Important for Retailers Meanwhile, Thanksgiving Day – which has historically been a lighter online holiday shopping day – continues to gain steam and grew well ahead of the current pace as more consumers opted to kick...
Only 28 percent of those surveyed reported they would be shopping for post-Thanksgiving deals exclusively online. A recent study from enterprise data and analysis firm Qualtrics surveyed 1,100 consumers to find out how they choose to shop during...
When their “Black Friday” deep discount promotions begin (it’s no longer exclusively the day after Thanksgiving). As such, it's critical that retailers and catalog houses maximize the impact of their paid search campaigns as the year draws to a...
That joyous time of year is upon us again, that magical time that kicks off holiday shopping right after Thanksgiving with Black Friday and Cyber Monday. If you haven’t already started, right now would be the perfect time to deploy some last-minute...
I once had a colleague that was very worried about a campaign’s performance, which dropped off sharply 8 weeks after launch, only later to learn that it was a back-to-school campaign and we were approaching Thanksgiving.
Only Thanksgiving has a longer tradition, having first appeared in 1999, while the Fourth of July Doodle started in 2000. Happy Fourth of July to all of our readers in the United States! Just as barbecues and fireworks have become tradition on this...
What do black hat SEOs eat on Thanksgiving? Search Engine Watch sat down recently with Sloof Lirpa, the reclusive founder and director of the Sloof Lirpa Center for the Study of Long Tail Profitability.
We spotted Pinterest as a viable traffic source around Thanksgiving, one because I hang out in a lot of jewelry forums and a lot of people were literally begging for invites,” he said. Earlier this month we reported that Pinterest is driving more...
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The daily deal space during the holiday season was projected to be anywhere from $80 million to $100 million between Thanksgiving and Christmas. TIPPR, a daily deals website, has compiled an infographic which summarizes consumer activity in the...
Customers apparently stop searching at Thanksgiving and refuse to look at Google until the following January. Much of the hullabaloo is focused on Black Friday, Cyber Monday and the marathon leading up to Christmas.
Cyber Week, which starts with "Cyber Monday" – the day after Thanksgiving weekend – saw phenomenal figures this year. As we reported on previously, holiday shoppers got started early, with 2011's shoppers buying 18 percent more year-over-year in...
Across the board, with our retail clients we saw a significant spike in traffic, beginning on Thanksgiving. Online newsrooms are spreading the holiday cheer – and sales – this year. That’s why optimizing your company’s online newsroom is a smart...
Issues with the popular Google service were first reported on Thanksgiving. Google's AdWords Keyword Tool has been experiencing some substantial and ongoing issues over the past week. Complaints have arisen from marketers using the service that the...
