Sellers are frustrated with platform fees yet deepen their dependence on Amazon because alternatives don't offer comparable ...

Amazon remains the dominant U.S. marketplace, with an estimated $300 billion in third-party sales, more than seven times eBay’s and roughly 20 times that of the next competitors. Three platforms – ...

Amazon and Shopify together now account for approximately 50% of U.S. e-commerce. According to Marketplace Pulse estimates, Amazon generated roughly $440 billion in U.S. sales in 2025, representing a ...

Shopify merchants will pay OpenAI a 4% transaction fee on sales through ChatGPT’s checkout feature beginning January 26, a Shopify spokesperson confirmed to The Information. At 11 percentage points ...

Amazon.com registered just 165,000 new sellers in 2025, the lowest annual total since Marketplace Pulse began collecting data in 2015 and down 44% from 2024. The decline signals Amazon’s ...

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 ...

Amazon’s retail business now accounts for just 40.5% of the company’s total revenue, marking a new milestone in its evolution from an online bookstore to a commerce infrastructure provider. In Q3 2025 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Japan is the only remaining established Amazon marketplace where local sellers represent the majority, with 54% of active sellers being Japanese businesses. This stands in stark contrast to most other ...