Shopping platform Whatnot's rapid growth to multi-billion dollar GMV proves live streaming commerce works when built for ...

The newly extended Prime Day 2025 will determine whether Amazon's AI shopping features can solve the fundamental problem that ...

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 sellers now face less competition than in 2021, with over 30% more traffic per active seller available across its global marketplaces. Despite adding nearly a million new sellers annually, the ...

The e-commerce industry is bracing for impact as U.S.-China trade tensions intensify. Following the introduction and rapid escalation of reciprocal tariffs on Chinese goods by the Trump administration ...

Amazon launched in Ireland on March 18th, marking its 23rd global marketplace and 11th in Europe. It follows the launch of South Africa in 2024 and is part of an expansion strategy that is evolving ...

Etsy’s active seller count has declined for the third consecutive quarter, dropping from a high of 7 million to 5.6 million in the latest figures. Most notably, there was a sharp decrease of 600,000 ...

Amazon’s third-party sellers accounted for an all-time high of 62% of units sold in Q4 2024, though this is more by Amazon’s design than sellers’ dominance. One-fourth of Amazon’s revenue now comes ...

China-based e-commerce platforms built multi-billion dollar businesses by exploiting a customs loophole. That loophole – Section 321 ‘de minimis’ thresholds – is now closed, and with it, the current ...

In 2024, China-based sellers increased their market share to more than 50% on Amazon. American sellers have dropped below 50% nearly two years ago. However, Chinese sellers have grown above 50% only ...

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 ...

Amazon’s AI shopping assistant, Rufus, is now making product suggestions. The problem is that it is often wrong. Rufus has been available to all U.S. customers since July and beta testers since ...