The conventional narrative fixates on gross merchandise volume as the ultimate indicator of marketplace potential. By that ...

Additional tariffs imposed by the Trump administration caused U.S. customs revenue to surge to $215.24 billion in fiscal year 2025, an increase of nearly $120 billion compared to 2024 and almost $100 ...

The first quantitative analysis of Amazon marketplace performance across all global markets. Seven proprietary performance scores reveal which marketplaces reward seller investment — and which ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Hero Cosmetics, an acne care brand born on Amazon, was acquired for $630 million this week. Hero launched on Amazon in 2017 with one SKU that has since become the No. 1 beauty product on Amazon.

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 and its sellers sold $700 billion worth of goods in 2023. Gross merchandise volume (GMV) has more than doubled in four years; most of that growth came from the third-party marketplace.

Walmart’s marketplace reached 150,000 active sellers as new sellers joining the platform continue to accelerate, attracted by growing GMV. According to Marketplace Pulse data, Walmart added more than ...