Amazon GMV Surpassed $800 Billion in 2025
Amazon and its sellers sold $830 billion worth of goods in 2025, tripling its GMV from $277 billion seven years ago.
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Death by Valuation: The Amazon Aggregator Autopsy
Thrasio's collapse doesn't prove that consolidating Amazon brands was a bad idea; it demonstrates that executing the strategy during an unprecedented capital bubble made success nearly impossible.
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Trump's Tariffs Won't Save American E-commerce
Aggressive China-specific tariffs announced and rapidly escalated by the Trump administration will not reverse the fundamental dynamics that have led Chinese sellers to dominate U.S. e-commerce marketplaces. Historical evidence shows they simply make products more expensive for American consumers.
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Amazon's Unhelpful AI Shopping Assistant
Amazon's AI shopping assistant is great at answering questions about a specific product but cannot help sort through the endless aisles of its infinite catalog.
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Amazon Fees Only Go Up
Amazon offers dozens of services that sellers and brands can use to grow their businesses. It insists these are optional, and strictly speaking, that is correct. But while Amazon itself doesn't require them, it has created an ecosystem that does.
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Threecolts Acquires Marketplace Pulse
Threecolts has acquired Marketplace Pulse, an e-commerce industry publication founded by Juozas Kaziukėnas in 2015.
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16 Million People Who Love eBay
eBay's new goal is to "reinvent the future of e-commerce for enthusiasts." It says it has 16 million of them.
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Amazon Is Summarizing Reviews With AI
Amazon is summarizing reviews using AI, turning all reviews for each product into a few sentences that best describe consumer feedback. The feature is a building block of Amazon's AI ambitions.
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Amazon Marketplace Tech Landscape
One hundred software tools help businesses sell on Amazon with product research, pricing, inventory forecasting, advertising management, accounting, and more.
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Amazon Seller Exits Evolving Past Aggregators
The pool of buyers acquiring Amazon sellers has expanded beyond Amazon aggregators. Thus despite challenges faced by some, the M&A market remains active since it isn't solely reliant on aggregators.
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