Amazon.com registered just 165,000 new sellers in 2025, the lowest annual total since Marketplace Pulse began collecting data ...

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 ...

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 3PL business has shipped 70% more orders for sales channels like TikTok so far this year. Its business shipping goods for off-Amazon orders is growing faster than on-Amazon sales. Sellers who ...

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 ...

Shopify now allows customers to search for items across all Shopify merchants. The Shop app is thus a complete marketplace. However, the functionality is yet to be available to all users. Shopify’s ...

Container shipping rates from China to the U.S. have been above $10,000 for nine months. Compared to rates pre-pandemic, they are still up ten times. While global supply chains have slightly ...

Anker, an Amazon-native electronics brand from China, did over $1 billion in sales on Amazon in 2021. It is the most successful brand built on Amazon, yet the brand has been aggressively diversifying ...

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 ...

Shopify doesn’t want merchants using Amazon’s Buy with Prime. It is warning them that installing Buy with Prime removes Shopify’s ability to protect against fraudulent orders and could lead to stolen ...

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 ...

American sellers on Amazon are losing market share to international sellers and are now making up less than 50% of the sellers. According to Marketplace Pulse research, 48% of the top third-party ...