If agentic is the future of AI-driven commerce, Amazon just took yet more significant strides ahead of its competition. Its newly enhanced Seller Assistant has evolved from a reactive support system to an autonomous business co-pilot, marking Amazon's most ambitious leap into agentic commerce yet.
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Amazon's recent earnings report reveals its fundamentally different approach to artificial intelligence compared to Shopify's platform strategy. Amazon predominantly builds AI to optimize the experience of its customer – the shopper, whereas Shopify builds AI to optimize performance for its customer – the merchant.
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Over 800 Amazon sellers generate more than $1 million annually while listing just one product – a testament to the platform's unprecedented scale and the precision required to reach such focus. According to Marketplace Pulse research, 19 of these sellers are generating over $10 million with their single SKU.
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Pattern's IPO filing this month presents a fascinating counterpoint to the Anker playbook for Amazon-native success. While both companies achieved billion-dollar scale starting from Amazon, they chose radically different strategies.
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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.
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Amazon's advertising business hit another milestone in Q2 2025, capturing 9.36% of the company's total revenue – the highest share ever recorded. At $15.69 billion in quarterly revenue, advertising continues to be Amazon's fastest-growing segment, and will breach the symbolic 10% threshold by within the next year.
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Customer satisfaction with Amazon marketplace sellers has plummeted globally since 2020. Starting August 4, Amazon will exacerbate the issue by allowing customers to leave seller feedback with just star ratings – no written explanations required.
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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 opportunities for those who remain active.
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Amazon's Prime Day is a rising tide that is beginning to lift all boats. This year's event was a catalyst behind 30% growth across all U.S. e-commerce, yet Amazon itself remained conspicuously quiet about its own specific growth figures.
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Despite widespread predictions that escalating U.S. tariffs would prompt American sellers to expand internationally as a risk mitigation strategy, Marketplace Pulse data reveals this anticipated pivot has not materialized.
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