Amazon disclosed in its Q1 earnings call that nearly 20% of shoppers who interact with a sponsored brand prompt in Rufus continue the conversation about that brand while ChatGPT completes its pivot ...

Third-party sellers accounted for 60% of paid units sold on Amazon in Q1 2026, down from 61% in Q4 2025 and 62% the quarter before that. It's the first time the metric has fallen for two consecutive ...

Amazon aggregators raised over $12 billion in 2021 - that’s at least a billion dollars for twelve months in a row. The amount raised includes both equity and debt financing. Forty-five Amazon ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Temu has started onboarding sellers with inventory in local warehouses rather than shipping from China. But there are no U.S. sellers yet. Instead, it is Chinese sellers with inventory in the U.S.

Amazon and its sellers sold $700 billion worth of goods in 2023. Gross merchandise volume (GMV) has more than doubled in four years; most of that growth came from the third-party marketplace.

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 ...

Amazon, Walmart, and TikTok Shop are the three top marketplaces for U.S. brands. However, if Temu and TikTok achieve their goals this year, they will overtake Walmart in the marketplace ranking.

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

Amazon remains the dominant U.S. marketplace, with an estimated $300 billion in third-party sales, more than seven times eBay’s and roughly 20 times that of the next competitors. Three platforms – ...