Online Holiday Spending Grows 14%

comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, today reported the final 2012 holiday season retail e-commerce spending totals. $42.3 billion was spent online during the November-December holiday shopping season, marking a 14 percent increase from 2011. The latter portion of the season saw several days with particularly strong growth, including Free Shipping Day on Monday, Dec. 17 (up 76 percent to $1.013 billion) and Christmas Day (up 36 percent to $288 million), but they couldn't make up for the spending growth shortfall earlier in the month.