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Social Commerce & Creator Economy

TikTok Shop

Europe

Insights

TikTok Shop Europe Finds Its Core

Three creator-friendly categories capture two-thirds of GMV across five very different European markets

Shein

Insights

Commerce Economics & Market Structure

Global

China Owns the Cross-Border Shelf

Five major markets reveal extreme import concentration just as tariff economics start tightening.

AI & Agentic Commerce

Insights

Global

AI’s Global Gap Is Mostly Offline

Connected users adopt generative AI similarly; unequal internet access creates the headline divide

Americas

Amazon

Retail Media & Advertising

News

Amazon's Ad Auction Is Now on Trial

The FTC and 22 states say a hidden reserve pushed sponsored-search prices toward advertisers' maximum bids

Marketplaces & Platform Power

Amazon

Europe

News

Amazon Turns Pan-EU FBA Into an Assortment Deal

Sellers keep cross-border fulfilment economics by opening Dutch and Belgian offers, while Amazon widens its Benelux shelf.

Temu's Creator-Ad Machine Has an Identity Problem

Regulation, Policy & Risk

Europe

Temu's Creator-Ad Machine Has an Identity Problem

Partnership ads can scale cheap creative faster than brands and platforms verify the person carrying the message.

Europe

AI & Agentic Commerce

Insights

AI Shopping Faces an Undecided Majority

Central Europe’s neutral majority makes trust, control and proof the real agentic commerce moat

Americas

Amazon

Walmart

Logistics & Fulfillment

Insights

One Doorstep, Three Grocery Economics

Faster fulfillment is expanding access while exposing a sharp divide in basket value

Americas

Consumer & Category Trends

Insights

Other Companies

Regional Grocers Gain Primary Shoppers

The U.S. supermarket average fell because national chains lost ground, not because every format weakened

Nvidia's Hugging Face Deal Targets the Open-Model Switchboard

AI & Agentic Commerce

Global

News

Other Companies

Nvidia's Hugging Face Deal Targets the Open-Model Switchboard

The reported $12.9 billion acquisition would connect AI's dominant chip supplier to a global model-distribution and deployment layer

Americas

Commerce Economics & Market Structure

News

Ecommerce Takes the Growth Lane Again

U.S. online retail is gaining share, while the biggest platforms capture more of the recovery.

Americas

Social Commerce & Creator Economy

Amazon

Google

News

YouTube Turns Amazon Links Into Tags

Native product tags shorten creator commerce while Amazon keeps the checkout and customer relationship.

Archive

TikTok Shop Europe Finds Its Core

China Owns the Cross-Border Shelf

AI’s Global Gap Is Mostly Offline

Amazon's Ad Auction Is Now on Trial

Amazon Turns Pan-EU FBA Into an Assortment Deal

Temu's Creator-Ad Machine Has an Identity Problem

AI Shopping Faces an Undecided Majority

One Doorstep, Three Grocery Economics

Regional Grocers Gain Primary Shoppers

Nvidia's Hugging Face Deal Targets the Open-Model Switchboard

Ecommerce Takes the Growth Lane Again

YouTube Turns Amazon Links Into Tags

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MarketMaze

Archive

TikTok Shop Europe Finds Its Core

China Owns the Cross-Border Shelf

AI’s Global Gap Is Mostly Offline

Amazon's Ad Auction Is Now on Trial

Amazon Turns Pan-EU FBA Into an Assortment Deal

Temu's Creator-Ad Machine Has an Identity Problem

AI Shopping Faces an Undecided Majority

One Doorstep, Three Grocery Economics

Regional Grocers Gain Primary Shoppers

Nvidia's Hugging Face Deal Targets the Open-Model Switchboard

Ecommerce Takes the Growth Lane Again

YouTube Turns Amazon Links Into Tags

Your smart, no-nonsense guide to the maze of e-commerce

Join 1,000+ other readers and get the week’s best ecommerce & marketplace insights.Always data-driven, always stunning in under five minutes.

MarketMaze

Join 1,000+ other readers and get the week’s best ecommerce & marketplace insights.
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