Amazon's retail business now accounts for just 40.5% of the company's total revenue, marking a new milestone in its evolution from an online bookstore to a commerce infrastructure provider.

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

The conventional narrative fixates on gross merchandise volume as the ultimate indicator of marketplace potential. By that logic, Amazon's U.S. marketplace, with an estimated $305 billion in ...

The number of top Amazon.com sellers based in China has surpassed US sellers. 49% of the top Amazon.com sellers are based in China, and only 47% are US-based, according to Marketplace Pulse analysis ...

Amazon has added an AI-powered shopping assistant customers could use to ask questions about the products. It is Amazon’s first move in the AI arms race. The section “Looking for specific info?” on a ...

TikTok officially launched its in-app e-commerce platform TikTok Shop in the U.S. Its ambition is to create a market for social commerce while its competitors like Amazon are undecisive about ...

Container shipping rates from China to the U.S. have been above $10,000 for nine months. Compared to rates pre-pandemic, they are still up ten times. While global supply chains have slightly ...

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 ...

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 ...

E-commerce spending in the U.S. exceeded $1 trillion over the past twelve months. A milestone that pre-pandemic trends predicted would only occur in 2024. According to the Department of Commerce, ...

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 ...

In 2024 — again — nearly a million new sellers joined the Amazon marketplace. There is no shortage of interest despite Amazon’s slower growth, increasing competition, and more complex rules to achieve ...