Seasonal Shopping Stats

2005 Online Holiday Shopping Stats:

- Online shopping sessions have risen over 33 percent from last year.

- The 2004 holiday shopping season brought in 348.3 million shopping sessions online.

- The 2005 holiday shopping season brought in 462.5 million online sessions.

- Most categories are growing in revenue for online purchases. However, the category of books, music and video had a whopping 238 percent increase from last year.

- More shoppers are turning online for Internet purchases. 2010 Internet advertising revenue is predicted to account for 10 percent of total U.S. advertising dollars.