The conventional narrative fixates on gross merchandise volume as the ultimate indicator of marketplace potential. By that ...

The first quantitative analysis of Amazon marketplace performance across all global markets. Seven proprietary performance scores reveal which marketplaces reward seller investment — and which ...

Firms acquiring successful brands on Amazon have attracted over $16 billion in capital raised. They are known as Amazon seller aggregators. The market had a breakout year in 2020 because of three ...

Temu wants to be more like Amazon, to reduce supply chain risk and offer faster shipping, while Amazon is racing to replicate Temu because it cannot ignore the fact that its low prices trump Amazon’s ...

Shopify doesn’t want merchants using Amazon’s Buy with Prime. It is warning them that installing Buy with Prime removes Shopify’s ability to protect against fraudulent orders and could lead to stolen ...

Walmart is Amazon’s only competitor. Everyone else is too small, too niche, or not a good substitute. A bigger Walmart means a better alternative to Amazon, which means a better e-commerce market.

Walmart’s marketplace has crossed 200,000 active sellers for the first time, driven by the fastest seller acquisition rate in the platform’s history. According to Marketplace Pulse data, 44,000 ...

Amazon acknowledged the Chinese seller market share on its marketplace for the first time, calling it “significant.” In the annual Form 10-K filing with the SEC, Amazon added new language to the ...

The seventh edition of the Year in Review report condenses the topics explored on Marketplace Pulse in 2024. Disruptors from China — Shein and Temu — and Amazon’s reaction to them, the unique shopping ...

Temu has started onboarding U.S. and European brands to its marketplace. Its challenge is that most brands don’t want to be in the same shopping cart with Temu. Now, nearly two years since Temu’s ...

Five years after COVID-19 shocked the world into digital shopping, U.S. e-commerce has finally crawled back to the summit it briefly scaled in the spring of 2020. According to the Census Bureau’s ...