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 ...

Sellers have adopted AI broadly but narrowly, putting it to work overwhelmingly on content tasks like listings and imagery, while platforms rebuild discovery around AI and consumers adopt it faster ...

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 – ...

Amazon Haul, Amazon’s direct-from-China section for items under $20, has reached over 3,000 sellers since launching in November 2024, establishing itself as a credible competitor to Temu and Shein, ...

Amazon and Shopify together now account for approximately 50% of U.S. e-commerce. According to Marketplace Pulse estimates, Amazon generated roughly $440 billion in U.S. sales in 2025, representing a ...

Editor’s note: This article was updated on April 24, 2026 to clarify that Marketplace Pulse’s new seller figures reflect sellers who launched at least one product listing, not account registrations.

Over 780 Chinese sellers changed their Amazon legal entity to Hong Kong in November 2025 alone – a dramatic response to Beijing’s first-ever mandate requiring platforms to report quarterly seller ...

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. In Q3 2025 ...

OpenAI’s Instant Checkout feature turns ChatGPT into a direct and instant threat to Amazon’s most profitable business segment. With 700 million weekly active users generating an estimated 75.6 million ...

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 ...

Pattern’s IPO filing this month presents a fascinating counterpoint to the Anker playbook for Amazon-native success. While both companies achieved billion-dollar scale starting from Amazon, they chose ...