Shopping.com Closes Holiday Season 2006 and Reports Record Traffic to Merchants.Video Game Consoles This is a list of video game consoles by the era they appeared in. Eras are named based on the dominant console type of the era (even though not all consoles of those eras are of the same type). Some eras are referred to based on how many bits a major console could process. and MP3 Players Were Hottest Holiday Gifts; Clothing and Accessories and Home and Garden Categories Showed Strongest Growth BRISBANE, Calif. -- During the holiday shopping season, Shopping.com, the leading online comparison shopping site, experienced record-breaking traffic to its merchants. This season, the site also experienced the busiest day in company history on Monday, December 11, with 46 percent growth in traffic to merchants year-over-year. Seasonal increases in traffic began on November 13 and are expected - with stores offering post-holiday sales, as well as shoppers redeeming gift cards - to remain strong throughout January. In fact, though traffic dropped to normal off-season levels from December 22-25, traffic increased to higher than normal levels from December 26-28 during post-holiday shopping. Merchant traffic for the post-holiday period saw a 46 increase year-over-year, compared to the same period in 2005. "The significant jump in traffic to our merchants this season demonstrates the inherent value of our comparison-shopping model," said Josh Silverman, general manager of Shopping.com. "Today's net-savvy consumers use our site to save time and simplify their shopping so they can quickly find the best deal on gifts of every kind. It's like shopping every mall in America simultaneously, all from the comfort and convenience of your computer." The 2006 holiday season reinforced a shift in the types of products sought on Shopping.com. While traditional online categories, such as consumer electronics and computers, remained highly popular, emerging categories, including home and garden, clothing and accessories and kids and family saw tremendous activity this season. Merchant traffic within Shopping.com's home and garden category grew by 40 percent year-over-year, while clothing and accessories and kids and family grew by 27.5 percent and 37 percent respectively. Holiday 2006 Traffic on Shopping.com * Traffic spikes on Shopping.com began on November 13. Over the past three years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time traffic spike has continued to occur earlier in the holiday season. In 2005, the holiday rush began on November 22. * Cyber Monday The name given by online retailers and e-commerce experts to the Monday following the Thanksgiving holiday. With its Black Friday counterpart in actual store-based traffic, analysts have pointed to significant spikes in online shopping on Cyber Monday. , November 27, 2006, showed merchant traffic increases of approximately 40 percent, year-over-year. * However, December 11, 2006, not Cyber Monday, was the busiest day this season, reaching a 46 percent increase in merchant traffic year-over-year. * Starting with Black Friday Black Friday, Sept. 24, 1869, in U.S. history, day of financial panic. In 1869 a small group of American financial speculators, including Jay Gould and James Fisk, sought the support of federal officials of the Grant administration in a drive to corner the gold 2006, more shoppers visited Shopping.com each day than the busiest day of 2005, which was Cyber Monday, November 28, 2005. * Mondays dominated holiday traffic. Prior to Thanksgiving, Mondays were the biggest online shopping day of the week; that pattern continued both on Cyber Monday and the two following Mondays. Popular Holiday 2006 Products With 60 million products and more than 40 million unique online visitors globally per month, the types of shopping searches conducted on Shopping.com serve as a good barometer of the online shopping landscape. Top products on Shopping.com this holiday season (November and December): Electronics * Apple iPod nano A flash-based digital music player from Apple, introduced in 2005. Like larger iPod models, the nano has a color screen. Although the nano name suggests ultra-small "nanotechnology," the iPod shuffle is actually smaller. See iPod. and iPod Video * PlayStation 3 video game console A specialized desktop computer used to play video games. The three most popular game consoles are Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3), Nintendo's GameCube and Microsoft's Xbox. Game software is available on CDs or DVDs, although earlier game machines used cartridges containing read only memory and PlayStation Portable video game console * Microsoft Xbox 360 video game console * Nintendo Wii video game console * Garmin StreetPilot c330 GPS Receiver * Samsung 42 inch HDTV (High Definition TV) A set of digital television (DTV) standards that offer the highest resolution and sharpest picture. Although some HDTV sets are available in standard (rather square) screen sizes, the overwhelming majority of sets are wide screen, which eliminates Plasma TV Toys * TMX TMX Translation Memory eXchange TMX Trimix (mixture of oxygen, helium and nitrogen used by divers) TMX Tandem Mirror Experiment TMx Time Management System TMX Transparent Matrix (switch; Hekimian) Tickle Me Elmo Tickle Me Elmo is a childrens' toy from Tyco, introduced in the United States in 1996, becoming that year's top fad. Bright red in color and based on Elmo, a Muppet character from Sesame Street, when squeezed, Elmo would chortle. * Disney Pixar Cars Race Track Playset * Dora the Explorer Dora the Explorer is an animated television series that is carried on the Nickelodeon cable television network. A pilot episode for the series aired in 1999, and Dora the Explorer became a regular series in 2000. Talking Kitchen Furniture * Hasbro Fur Real Friends Butterscotch but·ter·scotch n. 1. A syrup, sauce, candy, or flavoring made by melting butter and brown sugar together. 2. A golden or tawny brown. Plush Pony * Hasbro Easy-Bake Oven * Lego Star Wars Lego Star Wars is a Lego theme which incorporates the Star Wars saga. The first Lego Star Wars in 1999, included model 7140, the first Lego X-Wing. The first few sets based on the original trilogy were released in 1999, coinciding with the release of The Phantom Menace. Jabba's Sail Barge For the Home * Dirt Devil Kone Bagless Vacuum * Cuisinart 12-Cup Coffee Maker * George Foreman G5 Indoor Grill * Zojirushi Home Bakery Bread Machine * Amana Easy Reach Refrigerator * Hamilton Beach 6-Quart Slow Cooker Clothing/Accessories * Ugg Women's Boots * Nike Air Max 360 Running Shoes for Men * Vans Slip on Sneakers sneakers Noun, pl US, Canad, Austral & NZ canvas shoes with rubber soles sneakers npl (US) → zapatos mpl de lona; zapatillas fpl for Kids * Michael Kors Kors Sloan Sport Suede Boot for Women * Spy Astro Sunglasses * Citizen Calibre Watch for Men Sports and Outdoors * Salomon Performa 7.5 Alpine Men's Ski Boot * Burton Women's Feel Good Snowboard * North Face Apex Bionic Men's Jacket * Coleman Golfcat Golf Cart Heater * Bowflex Sport Home Gym * Chicago Bears Brian Urlacher Replica Jersey About Shopping.com Shopping.com, an eBay company, pioneered online comparison shopping and today is one of the fastest growing shopping destinations on the Internet with items from thousands of trusted stores from across the Web. With a singular focus on shopping, Shopping.com offers shoppers easy-to-use search tools, engaging content, time-saving navigation, along with millions of product and merchant reviews from the Epinions community, all in one place. The Shopping.com Network powers the shopping experience for hundreds of websites. For more information, please visit www.shopping.com. |
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