Widespread predictions of disrupted U.S. holiday sales due to escalating tariffs proved unfounded. According to Adobe Analytics, online spending on Cyber Monday hit $14.25 billion, up 7.1% year over ...

The eighth edition of the Year in Review report condenses the topics explored on Marketplace Pulse in 2025. The Great Compression examines how multiple forces — tariffs, AI, advertising costs, ...

Shein and Shopify were the biggest e-commerce winners in 2022. Their sales are still significantly above pre-pandemic levels too. Etsy was strong, Walmart with Amazon did okay, and eBay struggled the ...

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 ...

Hundreds of software companies help businesses sell on Amazon with inventory management, product research, pricing, fulfillment, advertising, accounting, taxes, and more. The landscape map covers the ...

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 ...

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.

Chinese sellers now represent 50.03% of Amazon’s global active seller base, marking the first time they’ve crossed the 50% threshold across all of Amazon’s international marketplaces. But while ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...