Amazon announced during its annual Accelerate seller conference that sellers will be able to manage their eBay, Shopify, TikTok Shop, and Walmart businesses from inside Seller Central. Its new ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jeff Bezos has famously said, “Your margin is my opportunity,” implying that Amazon delivered better prices by removing the costs added by the middlemen in the retail supply chain. But what is maybe ...

Hailey Bieber’s sale of Rhode to e.l.f. Cosmetics for $1 billion this week adds to a growing list of creator-founded brands leveraging attention as their primary asset. The beauty brand, which ...

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’s AI shopping assistant, Rufus, is now making product suggestions. The problem is that it is often wrong. Rufus has been available to all U.S. customers since July and beta testers since ...

Advertising has replaced product recommendations and personalization on Amazon and other retailers’ websites. They are no longer trying to guide product discovery, letting ads instead lead the journey ...

The launch will have minimal impact on Ireland’s GDP. According to Marketplace Pulse research, there are fewer than 15,000 Irish sellers across all marketplaces globally. While Amazon has launched a ...

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 – ...