EP201 - Cyber5 2019 Hot Take Cyber 5 is the five shopping days from Black Friday through Cyber Monday (this year Nov 29 - Dec 2).   Adobe Recap Adobe Holiday Dashboard (note: numbers updated after show was recorded) Thanksgiving  11/28 - $4.2B (up 14.5% YoY) below forecast of $4.4B Black Friday 11/29 - $7.4B (up 19.6% YoY) below forecast of $7.5B Saturday - 11/30 - $3.6B (Up 18% YoY) at forecast Sunday - 12/1 - Not reported Monday - 12/2 - $9.4B (up 19.7% YoY) at forecast We'll have an Adobe analyst on next week to break down results. Don't forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. Episode 201 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Monday December 2nd, 2019. http://jasonandscot.com Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. Automated Transcription of the show Transcript Jason: [0:24] Welcome to the Jason and Scott show this is episode 201 being recorded on Cyber Monday December 2nd 2019 I'm your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I'm here with your Scot Wingo. Scot: [0:41] Jason and welcome back Jason Scott show listeners hope everyone is having a successful sales and up time Cyber Monday Jason how's your cyber monday going. Jason: [0:52] Mine is awesome I've been up all all day I haven't had any outages. Scot: [0:56] Very good nice to know I have you what's been hot on your must-buy list. Jason: [1:01] You know I'm falling the consumer Trends so I'm buying a lot of Frozen and PAW Patrol toys. Scot: [1:10] Very nice. Jason: [1:11] Yeah those are big sellers this year and my son is in one both. Scot: [1:16] Rachel have you seen Frozen to you. Jason: [1:19] We did we took baby geek to his very first movie was frozen to eat totally mean you did great and enjoyed it. Scot: [1:26] Awesome we did adults attitude is good. Jason: [1:31] There's a few good movies out right now and of course December going to be a big month for you and me. Scot: [1:38] It is so this is our Star Wars side Sidekicks the first. Star Wars fan I strongly recommend a really good Star Wars content and then yeah December 20th. We'll see it's kind of a Bittersweet classic but have to report on spoiler-free report on the shows that we do after that. Jason: [2:04] I will mark my calendar to listen to that one. Scot: [2:07] Well folks we are in the meat holiday 19 as mentioned coming to you live on Cyber Monday and wanted to give you a cyber five holiday 2019. As we mentioned on the show there 60 or days between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year so in a way everyone these days is really Amplified and much more important than usual so first want to set the table we did a new show that I'm sure you all listen to but just to refresh your memory when you kind of boiled all the different forecast online offline what not. The one I cared most about showed e-commerce coming out in the mid-teens for Holiday 19th that was kind of the pontification around the Halloween time frame for 4 we're going to see the shirt, we have been busy here at Jason Scott podcast headquarters Gathering all the data and are going to summarize it in this hot take, Jason you've been studying the Adobe data and we are going to have Adobe on the show later to go into this more detail but they walk us through what they reported so far. Jason: [3:13] Yep. So I would say it's but good news bad news from the Adobe data all the days are up pretty significantly but they're all down slightly from adobe's forecast so there it is supreme their forecast was slightly over Rosie and the the rate of growth is probably swelling so for Thanksgiving but that man was sales were up 22% which came in at 4.2 billion up sales in the US against the forecast at 4.4 billion so off the forecast a little bit but up a healthy n