Just two years ago, the battle lines in e-commerce seemed clear. Amazon dominated through speed and convenience, Temu and Shein disrupted through price. Today, both sides are sprinting toward what the ...

Amazon's introduction of API fees for third-party developers represents another margin squeeze on sellers, this time arriving indirectly through the software tools that have become essential to ...

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 ...

If agentic is the future of AI-driven commerce, Amazon just took yet more significant strides ahead of its competition. Its newly enhanced Seller Assistant has evolved from a reactive support system ...

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 ...

Amazon sellers generating million-dollar revenues have nearly doubled to over 100,000 globally, defying marketplace maturation predictions and confirming that reduced competition has created greater ...

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 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 ...

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 ...