Amazon’s Growth, YouTube and Instagram, FC Investments
Amazon’s Results Highlight Marketplace, Prime and One Day Amazon’s 4Q19 results came in very strong, with 1P sales growing 15% Y/Y (vs. 22% last quarter) and 3P sales reaching 30%... Learn More
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Amazon’s Future, Government Counterfeit Recommendations, Amazon Earnings
Amazon Likely Continues Shift Towards 3P Marketplace In our recent eCommerce Forecasts report we looked into Amazon over the next several years and saw several key changes occurring for the... Learn More
$1 Trillion of eCommerce, Hand Payments, Growth Opportunities
eCommerce Sales Likely to Reach $1 Trillion in Five Years eCommerce growth is likely to continue to far outpace overall consumer growth over the next several years, although it will... Learn More
eTailer Advertising, Google’s Latest, Marginal Impact of Ratings
eTailer Commerce Marketing Given the success that Amazon has had with its Amazon Advertising platform, a number of competing eTailers continue to expand their advertising offerings. Most notably, eBay highlighted... Learn More
eTailer Feature Improvements, Amazon Europe B&M, Social Commerce
eTailer Feature Improvements In an effort to better compete with Amazon’s leading marketplace, several pure play eTailers have recently highlighted new features on their marketplaces in an effort to drive... Learn More
Amazon Price Matching; Holiday Growth; Private Label Shoppers
Amazon Price Matching Advances Our research indicates that Amazon appears to have gotten more sophisticated with its price matching algorithms, with manufacturers now seeing Amazon match offers that historically had... Learn More
Private Label; Google 100; eComm Growth
Private Label and Non-Amazon Channels Our latest consumer research indicates that in addition to being an important tool for product research, social media presence is also important when it comes... Learn More
Marketplace Sales Tax, AmazonFresh Expansion, 2020 Home Improvement Growth
Sales Tax Changes Creating Sales Headwinds for Marketplace Sellers During 3Q19, 14 states began enforcing changes to sales taxes, which require small out of state sellers with no local nexus... Learn More
Amazon LTL, Holiday Advertising, Short Orders
Amazon Internalizing Less Than Truckload (LTL) Freight Our research has indicated that Amazon has shipped more LTL freight using its own network over the last few months, rather than using... Learn More
Social Path to Purchase, Singles Day, Amazon Chargebacks
Social Media in the eCommerce Path to Purchase US consumers are using social media across most phases of the path to purchase. Perhaps unsurprisingly, shoppers report that they are commonly... Learn More
