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The term "Cyber Monday" was coined by Ellen Davis, [6] [7] and was first used within the ecommerce community during the 2005 holiday season. [8] According to Scott Silverman, the head of Shop.org, the term was coined based on 2004 research showing "one of the biggest online shopping days of the year" was the Monday after Thanksgiving (12th-biggest day historically). [9]
Thanksgiving, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday, Christmas, Buy Nothing Day. Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving in the United States. It traditionally marks the start of the Christmas shopping season in the United States. Many stores offer highly promoted sales at discounted prices and often open early, sometimes ...
Fake news – a neologism to describe stories that are just not true, like Pizzagate, and a term now co-opted to characterize unfavorable news – has given new urgency to the teaching of media literacy. ^ abcdeAllcott, Hunt; Gentzkow, Matthew (May 1, 2017). "Social media and fake news in the 2016 Election".
In 2019, drawing inspiration from the World Cleanup Day, computer scientist Kévin Guerin came up with the idea of a digital version, specifically focused on the Cyberspace and comparable to Black Friday/Cyber Monday – the Cyber World CleanUp Day. Guerin proposed a partnership between World Cleanup Day France, providing communication and ...
GivingTuesday, often stylized as #GivingTuesday for the purposes of hashtag activism, is the Tuesday after Thanksgiving in the United States. It is touted as a "global generosity movement unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world". [1] An organization of the same name is an independent 501 (c ...
Small Business Saturday. Small Business Saturday is a marketing initiative created and promoted by American Express to encourage holiday shopping on the Saturday after Thanksgiving in the United States, during one of the busiest shopping periods of the year. This Saturday is always the last one in November, so it falls between November 24 and ...
Cyber Black Friday is a marketing term for the online version of Black Friday, [ 1] the day after Thanksgiving Day in the United States. The term made its debut in a 2009 press release entitled "Black Friday Goes Online for Cyber Black Friday". [ 2] According to TechCrunch, there was $9 billion in online sales on Cyber Black Friday, which is up ...
Ellen Davis (businesswoman) Ellen Davis (born 1978 or 1979) [1] is executive vice president of industry engagement at the Consumer Brands Association. Previously, she served as president of the NRF Foundation and senior vice president of strategic initiatives at the National Retail Federation . She coined the phrase " Cyber Monday ," now ...