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The summer sales calendar now revolves around Amazon's anchor, with most major U.S. retailers scheduling competing events within days of Prime Day's expanded four-day window.
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 ...
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 continues to add international marketplaces, but most sellers aren’t following them across borders. Despite Amazon’s efforts to make global selling easier, nearly 70% of sellers remain active ...
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 ...
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 ...
Two years after its launch, Temu overtook eBay to become the world’s 2nd most visited e-commerce website. Temu, all caveats aside, is the only e-commerce company in the Top 20 most-visited list to ...
Walmart’s marketplace reached 150,000 active sellers as new sellers joining the platform continue to accelerate, attracted by growing GMV. According to Marketplace Pulse data, Walmart added more than ...
Amazon took advantage of tax laws that allowed online retailers to avoid collecting sales tax to create a pricing advantage. Now, Temu has a pricing advantage created by not paying customs duties ...