It’s a safe bet to assume that mostly every marketer across the globe is familiar with a fairly new cyber holiday, Singles’ Day, celebrated on November 11th. Originally serving as an “intermittent” holiday for lonely, single college-aged students (call it a Valentine’s Day rebuff) , Singles’ Day is now the biggest shopping day of the entire holiday shopping season. Well, it didn’t take long for a newer yet like-minded “holiday” to emerge that would be celebrated on December 12th, or 12/12, known as Double Twelve and even Couples Day.
The impetus behind Double Twelve (December 12th) was to highlight some of the smaller and medium-sized retailers that were essentially choked out by the staggering Singles’ Day success experienced by so many of the larger businesses. Double Twelve may be in part contributed to e-commerce titan, Alibaba who helped catapult online shopping day into a must-shop event. To help put this into perspective, within the first 96 seconds of Singles’ Day, Alibaba sold $10B RMB or $1.53B USD in goods. Not too shabby. Typically, Double Twelve can see more than 500 million customers on the 12th as well as the few days that lead up.
An interesting element of Double Twelve is that it historically focuses on deeply discounted product. Many marketers even include Double Twelve in their Singles’ Day plans as a back-up strategy to unload any unsold inventory before the year’s end, but this doesn’t mean that Double Twelve isn’t successful in its own right as it very much is. Having said all that, let’s take a look at some of Double Twelve’s performance on Pepperjam’s Ascend™ Affiliate Cloud platform:
REVENUE: YoY Double Twelve revenue was up 14%—largely attributed to an increase in average order value (AOV)
AVERAGE ORDER VALUE (AOV): YoY AOV is up 17% from $62.31 in 2019 to $73.17 in 2020
% OF NEW CUSTOMER REVENUE: YoY new customer revenue was up a whopping 32% from 31.83% in 2019 to 41.98% in 2020
RETURN ON INVESTMENT (ROI, includes publisher & site commission): YoY ROI, including publisher and site commission is up 26%
MOBILE REVENUE: YoY mobile revenue was up 33%
MOBILE AOV: YoY average order value on mobile was up by a whopping 40% from $60.43 to $84.40
CONTENT REVENUE: YoY content revenue was up an incredible 67%
CONTENT REVENUE SHARE: This rise in revenue brought by content partners is up 46%
