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Journalists all over the globe rely on our insights and data for their stories. Here are some of the most recent articles Marketplace Pulse was featured in.

For Some Brands, Searches for Dupes Top Those for the “Real Thing”

Marketplace pulse founder Jouzas Kaziukènas says that the striking number of searches for things like “Skims Dupes” on Amazon suggests that “just like shoppers on Canal Street, [these] buyers on Amazon are not getting tricked into buying knockoff Skims products – they know and want cheaper lookalike copies.”

The Fashion Law
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Amazon ‘roll-ups’ in ‘cycle of survival’ talks to boost balance sheets

Ecommerce businesses that “roll up” independent Amazon merchants raised more than $16bn amid the pandemic-driven boom in consumer spending, according to Marketplace Pulse, which tracks the sector.

Juozas Kaziukenas, founder of Marketplace Pulse, said the aggregators market was in a “cycle of survival”.

“Many of these firms entered the space when the hype cycle was at its peak,” he said. “It’s either figure out a way to survive, or give up and find a way to get out.”

Financial Times
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'Dupes' clothing, perfume craze lures holiday shoppers as major brands fret

For prospective dupe-makers, the Chinese marketplace Alibaba makes it simple to find and hire manufacturers. Some manufacturers use the same materials and fabrics as big-name brands, said Juozas Kaziukenas, founder of e-commerce analytics firm Marketplace Pulse.

Either way, sellers on shopping platforms like Amazon typically do not have the same overhead costs as retailers with brick-and-mortar locations, allowing them to bring goods to shoppers more cheaply. "They might not be exactly the same, but they're much cheaper," Kaziukenas said.

Reuters
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Best of friends? Inside Meta and Amazon’s shock tie-up

“This is quite surprising,” said Juozas Kaziukenas of the ecommerce consultancy Marketplace Pulse. “It’s two companies meeting to share their own advantages with each other, which is good for both of them, but perhaps not great for anyone else who’s not Facebook or Amazon.”

The Sunday Times
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How China took over the world’s online shopping carts

According to Juozas Kaziukėnas, founder of e-commerce analyst firm Marketplace Pulse, Shein’s strength is its ability to offer thousands of new items every day. It runs a flexible supply chain that sources from a vast network of Chinese apparel factories and quickly adjusts to customer sentiment. For customers, a key draw is Shein’s low prices.

Rest of World
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Amazon Allies With Meta For Shopping Via Instagram, Facebook

Shopping apps and social-media sites tend to be silos that don’t cooperate with one another, according to Juozas Kaziukenas, the founder and chief executive officer of Marketplace Pulse, which monitors online sales. But he says the partnership between Amazon and Facebook shows how their strengths can be complementary.

“Shoppers get more relevant ads and a faster checkout experience, Amazon gets more shopping volume,” he wrote in a post about the agreement.

Bloomberg
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Shopify Launches Web Version of Shop App to Grow Customer Loyalty, and Set Itself Apart From Amazon

"A marketplace connects sellers to buyers through a search-based product catalog. Shopify's web app and Shop app before it are as much marketplaces as Amazon," Juozas Kaziukėnas, CEO of e-commerce intelligence firm Marketplace Pulse, told Insider. "The only question: is Shopify driving buyers to use it, spending on marketing, or not? It has all the features in place. What's missing is users."

Business Insider
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Chinese apps are a mixed blessing for American big tech

Then there is e-commerce. Amazon’s platform has long hosted sellers of cheap goods from China. They seldom advertise their provenance. Nonetheless, Juozas Kaziukenas, founder of Marketplace Pulse, an e-commerce research firm, has combed through physical addresses to estimate that many merchants selling on Amazon are based in China. As Shein and Temu surge in popularity, some of those vendors may switch to their platforms. For now, Mr Kaziukenas does not expect the cut-price duo to materially challenge Amazon’s business, which is much bigger, has a broader range of goods for sale and vastly outpaces them on speed of delivery.

The Economist
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Amazon Confronts a New Rival: TikTok

The number of views of TikTok videos promoting Amazon Prime Day sales has doubled every year since 2019, to over 400 million for this year’s event in July, according to research firm Marketplace Pulse.

The Wall Street Journal
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Can Tesco make a marketplace work second time around?

Over the past 18 months, Walmart Marketplace has doubled in size, according to Marketplace Pulse research, and now boasts 100,000 active sellers, offering around 400 million SKUs: truly the “endless aisle”, the company boasts.

The Grocer
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The Best Thing About Amazon Was Never Going to Last

Last year, nearly 60 percent of units sold on Amazon came from third-party sellers rather than from Amazon itself. Want to set up a booth? There’s a nominal monthly fee to reserve the space. From there, though, the charges add up quickly, according to a report from the ecommerce-intelligence firm Marketplace Pulse.

The Atlantic
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What just happened to Amazon? The FTC’s antitrust lawsuit, explained.

Amazon charges marketplace businesses a sales commission of something like 15 percent of the total price of a product. (Amazon’s commission varies by the type of product.) But because of various other fees that the government says aren’t really optional, the company typically keeps for itself more than 50 percent of the total product price, according to estimates by e-commerce research firm Marketplace Pulse.

The Washington Post
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TikTok Shop's App Store Is Live As the Social Platform Dives Deeper Into E-Commerce

Juozas Kaziukėnas, CEO of e-commerce intelligence firm Marketplace Pulse, said TikTok Shop's new app store seems most similar to Amazon's app store in that its services enable functions like data syncing and order shipping without changing the way a store functions or looks.

"Those apps help you manage the business," which he said is "especially key for sellers that sell across many channels." He said highlighting third-party software partners could be a way to entice sellers to start using TikTok Shop.

"When you build a marketplace like TikTok did, you need partners that will be a source of sellers because sellers joining marketplaces that don't integrate with apps they already use is a big roadblock," he said. "It also saves marketplaces from building a lot of tech in its own seller dashboard because it can instead stream that data to third-party apps that have built it already."

Business Insider
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