Just two years ago, the battle lines in e-commerce seemed clear. Amazon dominated through speed and convenience, Temu and Shein disrupted through price. Today, both sides are sprinting toward what the ...

Amazon's introduction of API fees for third-party developers represents another margin squeeze on sellers, this time arriving indirectly through the software tools that have become essential to ...

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 ...

If agentic is the future of AI-driven commerce, Amazon just took yet more significant strides ahead of its competition. Its newly enhanced Seller Assistant has evolved from a reactive support system ...

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 ...

Amazon’s advertising business hit another milestone in Q2 2025, capturing 9.36% of the company’s total revenue – the highest share ever recorded. At $15.69 billion in quarterly revenue, advertising ...

Amazon sellers generating million-dollar revenues have nearly doubled to over 100,000 globally, defying marketplace maturation predictions and confirming that reduced competition has created greater ...

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 ...

Aggressive China-specific tariffs announced and rapidly escalated by the Trump administration will not reverse the fundamental dynamics that have led Chinese sellers to dominate U.S. e-commerce ...

Amazon’s third-party sellers accounted for an all-time high of 62% of units sold in Q4 2024, though this is more by Amazon’s design than sellers’ dominance. One-fourth of Amazon’s revenue now comes ...

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 — 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 ...