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Marketplaces & Platform Power

Europe

Insights

Marketplace Returns Have A Cliff

Europe's biggest platform exits rewarded early category conviction

Regulation, Policy & Risk

Amazon

APAC

News

India Opens an Export Lane for Amazon

Foreign platforms can now own Indian-made inventory, but only when it ships abroad

ChatGPT Turns Conversation Into an Ad Auction

Retail Media & Advertising

OpenAI

Global

News

ChatGPT Turns Conversation Into an Ad Auction

Brands gain decision-stage inventory. OpenAI controls relevance, delivery and measurement.

Regulation, Policy & Risk

Google

Europe

News

Europe Opens Google's Search and Play Gates

The €890 million DMA decision targets who wins visibility and who controls the purchase channel.

Europe

Insights

Commerce Economics & Market Structure

Germany Runs Central Europe

ECDB’s forecast shows one market carrying the region’s ecommerce center of gravity.

Regulation, Policy & Risk

Europe

Insights

EU Closes Its Parcel Loophole

A three-euro duty turns low-value imports into a logistics and compliance test for marketplaces

Americas

Consumer & Category Trends

Insights

Brands Are Grading Their Own Homework

Deloitte finds online commerce confidence running 13 to 19 points ahead of customers

Americas

Amazon

AI & Agentic Commerce

News

Amazon Cuts the Lab, Funds the AI Checkout

Targeted AGI layoffs show Amazon moving resources from open-ended model work toward deployable products, AWS consumption and customer-facing commerce.

eBay

Europe

Logistics & Fulfillment

News

eBay Turns UK Shipping Into a Managed Risk Layer

Sellers gain reach and payout protection. eBay gains control after the hub.

Europe

Logistics & Fulfillment

News

Other Companies

Zalando Bets on Smarter Returns Robots

Its Sereact investment targets fashion logistics' hardest manual workflow: inspecting and restocking returned goods.

Insights

Global

Payments & Checkout

Loyalty Is Moving Into Checkout

Discounts win everywhere, but the next loyalty benefit changes sharply by region

Europe

Insights

Commerce Economics & Market Structure

Europe's Cross-Border Commerce Divide

Proximity to retail hubs matters more than market size.

Archive

Marketplace Returns Have A Cliff

India Opens an Export Lane for Amazon

ChatGPT Turns Conversation Into an Ad Auction

Europe Opens Google's Search and Play Gates

Germany Runs Central Europe

EU Closes Its Parcel Loophole

Brands Are Grading Their Own Homework

Amazon Cuts the Lab, Funds the AI Checkout

eBay Turns UK Shipping Into a Managed Risk Layer

Zalando Bets on Smarter Returns Robots

Loyalty Is Moving Into Checkout

Europe's Cross-Border Commerce Divide

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MarketMaze

Archive

Marketplace Returns Have A Cliff

India Opens an Export Lane for Amazon

ChatGPT Turns Conversation Into an Ad Auction

Europe Opens Google's Search and Play Gates

Germany Runs Central Europe

EU Closes Its Parcel Loophole

Brands Are Grading Their Own Homework

Amazon Cuts the Lab, Funds the AI Checkout

eBay Turns UK Shipping Into a Managed Risk Layer

Zalando Bets on Smarter Returns Robots

Loyalty Is Moving Into Checkout

Europe's Cross-Border Commerce Divide

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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