“comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released U.S. e-commerce spending figures for the third quarter of 2007, showing that retail e-commerce increased 23 percent versus year ago to $28.4 billion.”

It’s a good time to be in ecommerce, if you are to believe the latest comscore stats (and I have no reason to doubt them).

“Online retail spending continues to grow at rates in excess of 20 percent year-over-year, which suggests that the market is still far from maturity”

“During the first nine months of 2007, total e-commerce spending surpassed $143 billion, putting it on pace to reach $200 billion by the end of the year. Retail e-commerce accounted for nearly $84 billion, or 58 percent of the total, while online travel spending came in just shy of $60 billion.”

Full release at http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=1842 .