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Amazon

Insights

Commerce Economics & Market Structure

Global

Amazon's Quiet B2B Growth Engine

Amazon Business turns consumer convenience into controlled procurement at sixty-billion-dollar scale

Consumer & Category Trends

Insights

Global

Shopping Apps Won. Retailers Lagged.

DHL finds a 34-point global gap between shopper preference and retailer app availability

Insights

Global

Payments & Checkout

One Average Misreads Conversion

Why ecommerce conversion targets need a market and category

Marketplaces & Platform Power

Amazon

Insights

Global

Amazon's Store Is Now the Front Door

Nearly two-thirds of revenue now comes from businesses beyond direct online store sales.

AI & Agentic Commerce

OpenAI

Global

News

OpenAI Turns Cheap Tokens Into Workflow Strategy

Luna's 80% price cut makes high-volume AI easier to justify—and disciplined model routing more valuable

Mastercard Wants to Guard the Agent Checkout

Global

News

Payments & Checkout

Other Companies

Mastercard Wants to Guard the Agent Checkout

AI may choose the purchase, but the network still wants to authorize the money

Marketplaces & Platform Power

Amazon

Global

News

Amazon Puts Product Titles on Autopilot

Brands get fourteen days to stop AI rewrites before Amazon changes the catalog

Social Commerce & Creator Economy

Shopify

Shopify Turns WhatsApp Into a Native Marketing Channel

Merchants gain one campaign workflow, while Meta keeps approval, reach and pricing control

Shein’s Consumer Engine Gets a Regulator

Americas

Regulation, Policy & Risk

Shein

News

Shein’s Consumer Engine Gets a Regulator

An undisclosed FTC probe turns checkout risk into IPO math

Amazon

Google

AI & Agentic Commerce

Insights

Global

Search Splits Into Specialist Platforms

Claude gains attention while Amazon turns product discovery into its own search lane.

Google

Retail Media & Advertising

YouTube's $8.91 Monetization Problem

Unmatched reach still produces a fraction of Facebook's ad revenue per user

Americas

DoorDash

Logistics & Fulfillment

News

DoorDash Wants to Own the Air Lane

The delivery platform is adding its own aircraft, air-carrier operation and dispatch stack to a network built around human couriers and partners

Archive

Amazon's Quiet B2B Growth Engine

Shopping Apps Won. Retailers Lagged.

One Average Misreads Conversion

Amazon's Store Is Now the Front Door

OpenAI Turns Cheap Tokens Into Workflow Strategy

Mastercard Wants to Guard the Agent Checkout

Amazon Puts Product Titles on Autopilot

Shopify Turns WhatsApp Into a Native Marketing Channel

Shein’s Consumer Engine Gets a Regulator

Search Splits Into Specialist Platforms

YouTube's $8.91 Monetization Problem

DoorDash Wants to Own the Air Lane

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.
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MarketMaze

Archive

Amazon's Quiet B2B Growth Engine

Shopping Apps Won. Retailers Lagged.

One Average Misreads Conversion

Amazon's Store Is Now the Front Door

OpenAI Turns Cheap Tokens Into Workflow Strategy

Mastercard Wants to Guard the Agent Checkout

Amazon Puts Product Titles on Autopilot

Shopify Turns WhatsApp Into a Native Marketing Channel

Shein’s Consumer Engine Gets a Regulator

Search Splits Into Specialist Platforms

YouTube's $8.91 Monetization Problem

DoorDash Wants to Own the Air Lane

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.
Always data-driven, always stunning in under five minutes.