We are pleased to announce that Channel Intelligence (CI) has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Google!

For over ten years, we have focused on making it easy for consumers to find and buy products online and help our clients grow their business. We’ve worked with Google for years, and look forward to the great things we will be able to do together.

All CI services will continue to offer the excellent client service and great performance that our clients have come to expect over the years.

The CI Team

* Please send all press inquiries to press@google.com.

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Apparel & Shoes Holiday Shopping Results

Channel Intelligence (CI) tracks online retail sales for a variety of verticals including computing, home improvement, appliances, consumer electronics, toys and other consumer packaged goods.

The following infographic summarizes Holiday sales data for Apparel & Shoes across multiple digital channels such as product search, retail websites, and shopping engines.

This is the eighth in the series of infographics.  Check out our previous blog posts for Computing & Electronics, Games & Toys, Flowers, Food & Gifts, Baby, Automotive, Boats & Vehicles, Video Games, and Home & Office.

If you would like more information on the hottest products and categories, please view our recent Holiday Shopping webinar series.

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Home & Office Holiday Shopping Results

Channel Intelligence (CI) tracks online retail sales for a variety of verticals including computing, home improvement, appliances, consumer electronics, toys and other consumer packaged goods.

The following infographic summarizes Holiday sales data for Home & Office across multiple digital channels such as product search, retail websites, and shopping engines.

This is the seventh in the series of infographics.  Check out our previous blog posts for Computing & Electronics, Games & Toys, Flowers, Food & Gifts, Baby, Automotive, Boats & Vehicles, and Video Games.

If you would like more information on the hottest products and categories, please view our recent Holiday Shopping webinar series.

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Video Games Holiday Shopping Results

Channel Intelligence (CI) tracks online retail sales for a variety of verticals including computing, home improvement, appliances, consumer electronics, toys and other consumer packaged goods.

The following infographic summarizes Holiday sales data for Video Games across multiple digital channels such as product search, retail websites, and shopping engines.

This is the sixth in the series of infographics.  Check out our previous blog posts for Computing & Electronics, Games & Toys, Flowers, Food & Gifts, Baby, and Automotive, Boats & Vehicles.

If you would like more information on the hottest products and categories, please view our recent Holiday Shopping webinar series.

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Automotive, Boats & Vehicles Holiday Shopping Results

Channel Intelligence (CI) tracks online retail sales for a variety of verticals including computing, home improvement, appliances, consumer electronics, toys and other consumer packaged goods.

The following infographic summarizes Holiday sales data for Automotive, Boats and Vehicles across multiple digital channels such as product search, retail websites, and shopping engines.

This is the fifth in the series of infographics.  Check out our previous blog posts for Computing & Electronics, Games & Toys, Flowers, Food & Gifts and Baby.

If you would like more information on the hottest products and categories, please view our recent Holiday Shopping webinar series.

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Baby Holiday Shopping Results

Channel Intelligence (CI) tracks online retail sales for a variety of verticals including computing, home improvement, appliances, consumer electronics, toys and other consumer packaged goods.

The following infographic summarizes Holiday sales data for the Baby category across multiple digital channels such as product search, retail websites, and shopping engines.

This is the fourth in the series of infographics.  Check out our previous blog posts for Computing & Electronics, Games & Toys and Flower, Food & Gifts.

If you would like more information on the hottest products and categories, please view our recent Holiday Shopping webinar series.

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Flowers, Food & Gifts Holiday Shopping Results

Channel Intelligence (CI) tracks online retail sales for a variety of verticals including computing, home improvement, appliances, consumer electronics, toys and other consumer packaged goods.

The following infographic summarizes Holiday sales data for Flowers, Food & Gifts across multiple digital channels such as product search, retail websites, and shopping engines.

This is the third in the series of infographics.  Check out our previous blog posts for Computing & Electronics and Games & Toys.

If you would like more information on the hottest products and categories, please view our recent Holiday Shopping webinar series.

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Games & Toys Holiday Shopping Results

Over the holidays, Channel Intelligence (CI) tracked online retail sales for a variety of verticals including computing, home improvement, appliances, consumer electronics, toys and other consumer packaged goods.

One of the hottest categories this season was games and toys.  The following infographic summarizes sales data across multiple digital channels such as product search, retail websites, and shopping engines.

This is the second in the series of infographics.  Check out our previous blog post for Computing & Electronics.

If you would like more information on the hottest products and categories, please view our recent Holiday Shopping webinar series.

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Computing & Electronics Holiday Shopping Results

Over the holidays, Channel Intelligence (CI) is tracking online retail sales for a variety of verticals including computing, home improvement, appliances, consumer electronics, toys and other consumer packaged goods.

One of the hottest categories this season is computing and electronics.  The following infographic summarizes sales data across multiple digital channels such as product search, retail websites, and shopping engines.

We will report on additional categories over the next two weeks so please check back with us often.

If you would like more information on the hottest products and categories, please view our recent Holiday Shopping Report webinar.

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Takeaway from Holiday Shopping Report…bid up on what’s trending now

On November 29th, Larry Weeks, Vice President of Performance Marketing, co-hosted a Holiday Shopping Report with Jon Venverloh, Head of Business Development, Platforms at Google Shopping. During this report, Weeks and Venverloh provided retailers with holiday insights, consumer trends and suggestions for better performance during the holiday season.

Below, you will find a short excerpt from the webinar that you might find useful.  It supports the importance to bid up on high selling products and categories in Google Shopping for best results.

LARRY WEEKS:

So just to outline in a trend line to show you this in that same period, you can see electronics and computing really taking off from a sales standpoint.  You can see that trend line spiked up. 

You can also see sports, games and toys where that purchase behavior really spiked up, and apparel got soft….home office and pets dropped off a bit.  Then, the key core consumer areas from a Christmas holiday season, from Thanksgiving through that Black Friday weekend, we see that the electronics and the toys really, really took off here. 

So you’re probably seeing that in your data.  Again, what do you do with this?  I would get those products out there.  Make sure to bid up on these categories across the shopping channels you’re advertising on and especially on Google Shopping.  Now, let’s go into the detail…

The above was an excerpt from the Holiday Shopping Report on November 29th.  For a complete update to all the top performing categories and products, view the full recorded session.

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