Every year for the last three years Amazon has lent more than $1 billion in short-term business loans to sellers on its marketplace. According to our estimates the program will surpass $5 billion in Q2 2019.
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On February 1st new e-commerce rules in India kicked in, forcing Amazon and Flipkart to restructure their business strategies. According to our research millions of products are no longer available across all categories on Amazon India.
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The #1 best selling product in Clothing on Amazon is a winter coat. Unsurprising, it is winter after all. But it's not made by Canada Goose or any other major clothing brand. Nor is it one of the private label brands Amazon has launched. Instead, it is made by Orolay, a company no one has heard of from Zhejiang province in China.
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eBay wants new shoppers which don't want eBay, but to provide the eBay they would want, eBay loses existing shoppers. Pick one.
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24,000 businesses eclipsed $1 million in sales in Amazon's marketplaces worldwide in 2018. Millions of sellers from around the world are selling on Amazon, but less than one percent have been able to achieve $1 million in sales.
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On marketplaces there is a distribution with a small number of really big sellers and a long tail of sellers that provide product breadth and liquidity. That distribution looks like a power law.
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As once-giant Sears battles bankruptcy, we look back at the online marketplace it launched. It consists of 81,000 sellers today. The marketplace won't save Sears, but then nothing will.
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Jet website traffic reached new lows in December with 8 million visits, down from 22 million the year before. That's a decrease of 63% in a year. It’s not clear, honestly, why Jet is even still around.
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According to our research TVs sold by Best Buy have grown to dominate the Televisions category on Amazon. Eight of the top 25 best selling televisions on Amazon are sold by Best Buy.
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The Year in Review looks at the state of marketplaces and their challenges, and makes predictions on what’s to come next year. It’s a deep-dive report built on our research, highlighting more than twenty different metrics and the context surrounding them.
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