Shopify merchants will pay OpenAI a 4% transaction fee on sales through ChatGPT's checkout feature beginning January 26. At ...

U.S. e-commerce crossed $10 trillion in cumulative sales during Q3 2025, reaching a milestone that reveals something far more significant than the raw figure suggests -- three remarkably consistent ...

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 ...

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 ...

Temu wants to be more like Amazon, to reduce supply chain risk and offer faster shipping, while Amazon is racing to replicate Temu because it cannot ignore the fact that its low prices trump Amazon’s ...

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 ...

Amazon aggregators raised over $12 billion in 2021 - that’s at least a billion dollars for twelve months in a row. The amount raised includes both equity and debt financing. Forty-five Amazon ...

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.

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 ...