Amazon Haul, Amazon's direct-from-China section for items under $20, has reached over 3,000 sellers since launching in November 2024, establishing itself as a credible competitor to Temu and Shein, ...

Walmart's advertising business grew more than twice as fast as Amazon's last year. Amazon generated $68.6 billion in advertising revenue in 2025, growing 22%. Walmart generated $6.4 billion, growing ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok are making forceful moves to stop directing people to external e-commerce websites to complete a purchase. The three biggest social networks in the U.S. influence a lot ...

Amazon acknowledged the Chinese seller market share on its marketplace for the first time, calling it “significant.” In the annual Form 10-K filing with the SEC, Amazon added new language to the ...

Amazon continues to grow its marketplace by both new sellers joining and long-time sellers staying on for years. There is no measurable fleeing by sellers crushed by changing conditions, nor is there ...

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 ...

The original class of Amazon Aggregators now span from bankruptcies to success to pivots. None call themselves aggregators anymore. Thrasio and the more than 100 firms that followed it set out to ...

Brazil, Mexico, and Australia are Amazon’s fastest-growing markets. Amazon’s web traffic has nearly tripled in Brazil in three years, and in Mexico and Australia, it more than doubled. Amazon’s other ...