Highest Spend Ever For Cyber Monday
The latest numbers from comScore show that US online shoppers spent $733 million on the Monday after Thanksgiving, aka Cyber Monday, more than 20 percent than last year and 84 percent more than the average daily online spending totals during the preceding four weeks.
"While that makes it the heaviest online shopping day on record, we expect that a number of individual shopping days during the coming weeks will surpass the Cyber Monday total, with some days potentially surpassing $800 million," said comScore Chairman Gian Fulgoni, in a statement.
VeriSign reported that online consumers saw more than 150 million instances of the VeriSign seal on Cyber Monday. The one-day total was an all-time record and represented a 50 percent increase over last year's 100 million impression milestone. The VeriSign Secured Seal, which includes the widely recognized "VeriSign check mark," is a common fixture on Web pages of leading online merchants, financial services providers and other business.
