Adobe Digital Economy Index
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Top-line spend trends across key consumer categories.
2024 has shown early growth and the momentum is poised to continue through the summer. Consumers spent $84.3 billion dollars online in July, up 8.1% year over year. Top-line spending growth has been driven by growing categories like grocery, apparel, and cosmetics. Year to date, consumers have spent over $587.1 billion dollars online.
Monthly online spending
Total online spend
Year-over-year growth in online spend
October 2023 – July 2024
Market share of mobile spend revenue.
Mobile revenue share surpassed desktop share for the first time during the 2023 holiday season, when mobile hit 51%. Mobile revenue share hit its peak on Christmas Day 2023 at 61% of revenue. The momentum is expected to continue in 2024. So far this year, mobile spend is $280 billion dollars.
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The impact of buy now, pay later solutions.
Consumers continue turning to buy now, pay later (BNPL) options with BNPL online spending seeing continued growth this year. So far, $46.3 billion dollars have been spent through BNPL services. This is up 11.8% from the same period in 2023. In July, consumers spent $6.69 billion dollars through BNPL, up 9.7% year over year.
Buy-now-pay-later monthly spend
Year-over-year BNPL spend growth
Total dollars spent through BNPL
October 2023 – July 2024
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