OpenAI's Instant Checkout feature turns ChatGPT into a direct and instant threat to Amazon's most profitable business segment ...

Chinese sellers now represent 50.03% of Amazon's global active seller base, marking the first time they've crossed the 50% ...

If agentic is the future of AI-driven commerce, Amazon just took yet more significant strides ahead of its competition. Its ...

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 ...

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 sellers now face less competition than in 2021, with over 30% more traffic per active seller available across its global marketplaces. Despite adding nearly a million new sellers annually, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two years after its launch, Temu overtook eBay to become the world’s 2nd most visited e-commerce website. Temu, all caveats aside, is the only e-commerce company in the Top 20 most-visited list to ...