Thursday, November 29, 2012

Did You Buy Something on Cyber Monday? Congratulations, You Helped Set a Sales Record!



Earlier today, WWD posted an infodump of Cyber Monday analytics. You should not be at all surprised to hear that this year's Cyber Monday was the biggest and greatest and spendiest Cyber Monday in the history of Cyber Mondays. (Cyber Monday has only really been around for like 7 years, which may be a long time in the history of the Internet, but is only like, a second in the history of the world, so don't die.)

Both IBM and ComScore are projecting total sales figures which reach $1.5 billion, up 20-30% (depending on who you ask and how they do math) since last year. 

Here's are a few things I learned:

Well, the best thing I can think to say about all this shopping is: at least it was all done under the pretense of holiday gift giving. Also, hello economy! Are you feeling better yet? It says it appreciates all our recent efforts. And I appreciate all my new stuff. I love stuff. Can I have some more?

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