2014 Christmas shopping season. Online Black Friday sales far exceeded expectations on Amazon and beyond, and during so-called Manic Monday a week ago, online shoppers were spending almost half a...

While brick-and-mortar retailers are busy ramping up their online presence, online businesses are getting physical. In the U.S., examples include eBay testing out pop-up shops, Amazon reportedly planning a Seattle...

Online clothes shopping has come a long way from the beginnings of the Internet, when consumers were split between seeing it as the ultimate in convenience (infinite inventory without leaving...

Walmart’s new “Pay with Cash” program, enabling U.S. customers to shop online without having to use a bank card, is an interesting manifestation of one of our trends for 2012,...

Move over, Pinterest. Wisemarkit, whose invite-only site launched a month ago, marks an evolution in the online-curation space. Users can earn rewards—both points and real dollars—if someone buys one of...

...buy online is growing by leaps and bounds.” The investment company expects 9 percent of all Chinese purchases to be made online this year, up significantly from five years ago,...

One of the initial barriers to online shopping was consumers’ reluctance to buy something without seeing it. Shoppers tended to research products online, then go to a physical store to...

...business of online video heats up, Adweek and Ad Age cover the Digital Content NewFronts. The New York Times notes that it’s “street cred vs. quality” in online video pitches,...

...of Internet users in all markets surveyed felt the Internet has changed their lives. The survey was conducted using SONAR™, JWT’s proprietary online tool, and polled 9,000 adults aged age...

Shopping online has never been more easy or intuitive in China than it is now. The country’s digital retail industry used to revolve around its major e-commerce giants, Alibaba’s Tmall...