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 ...

Walmart's advertising business is growing at six times the rate of its overall retail sales. Walmart Connect, the company's U.S. retail media platform where sellers and brands buy sponsored placements ...

Gross merchandise volume, or GMV, is the dollar value of items sold in Etsy marketplace and does not include other marketplaces owned by Etsy. Last reported quarter 2025 Q3 it was $2.43 billion, down ...

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 ...

Amazon acknowledged the Chinese seller market share on its marketplace for the first time, calling it “significant.” In the annual Form 10-K filing with the SEC, Amazon added new language to the ...

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 ...

Walmart is Amazon’s only competitor. Everyone else is too small, too niche, or not a good substitute. A bigger Walmart means a better alternative to Amazon, which means a better e-commerce market.

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 ...

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 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 ...

Amazon is summarizing reviews using AI, turning all reviews for each product into a few sentences that best describe consumer feedback. The feature is a building block of Amazon’s AI ambitions. Amazon ...

Amazon planned to launch marketplaces in Chile, Colombia, Nigeria, and South Africa in early 2023. It did not launch in any of those new markets. According to Amazon documents obtained by Eugene Kim ...