NetRatings: Holiday Online Spending Jumps 29 Percent Year-Over-Year
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Nielsen//NetRatings reports:
Holiday Online Spending Jumps 29 Percent Year-Over-Year as Consumers Spent $4.5 Billion During the First Three Weeks of November, According to the eSpending Report From Goldman Sachs, Harris Interactive and Nielsen//NetRatings.
American consumers spent more than $4.5 billion online during the first three weeks of November, according to the eSpending Report from Goldman Sachs & Company, Harris Interactive®, and Nielsen//NetRatings. Boosted by a 29 percent increase year-over-year, online shoppers spent more than $1 billion more this year than in the first three weeks of November 2001.
The eSpending Report also showed that spending per person increased to nearly $88 during the week ending November 22, surging 22 percent over the previous week and rising 8 percent as compared to the same time last year.
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