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Dive into a collection of past posts and rediscover timeless content.

Marketplaces & Platform Power

News

Amazon's Shadow Help Desk

Frozen seller funds reveal the black-market price of marketplace access.

Commerce Economics & Market Structure

News

Prime Day Gets Smaller Baskets

Preliminary first-day U.S. Prime Day 2026 data shows more repeat orders but lower average order size and household spend.

Marketplaces & Platform Power

News

Shopify Closes The Vape Pipe

U.S. regulator pressure turns a product category into platform access risk.

Marketplaces & Platform Power

News

Coupang's Seller Trust Test

Private-label sales get protected, but sellers get a louder warning.

AI & Agentic Commerce

Insights

AI shopping traffic now converts

AI referrals now bring stronger ecommerce intent, not just incremental traffic.

Iberia Marketplaces Reward Vertical Focus

Marketplaces & Platform Power

Insights

Iberia Marketplaces Reward Vertical Focus

Sellers win by matching category intent, not chasing the biggest generalist platform.

AI & Agentic Commerce

Insights

Claude moves ahead in AI model odds

Prediction markets show AI model leadership shifting faster than commerce stacks can adapt.

Marketplaces & Platform Power

Insights

Marketplace GMV Moves To Discovery

GMV scale still sits with incumbents, but growth momentum follows discovery-led platforms.

AI & Agentic Commerce

Insights

AI Marketplace Stack Gets Real

AI tools now map the work from marketplace research to trust and operations.

AI & Agentic Commerce

News

Instacart Turns Chat Into Carts

The grocery assistant shifts discovery from search results to basket-building logic.

AI & Agentic Commerce

News

Mastercard Wants The AI Checkout

JD.com gives the payments network a cross-border marketplace test bed.

Social Commerce & Creator Economy

News

TikTok Shop Adds GMV Toll

Smart Promotion shifts seller discounts from campaign choice to platform-controlled marketplace margin economics.

Archive

Amazon's Shadow Help Desk

Prime Day Gets Smaller Baskets

Shopify Closes The Vape Pipe

Coupang's Seller Trust Test

AI shopping traffic now converts

Iberia Marketplaces Reward Vertical Focus

Claude moves ahead in AI model odds

Marketplace GMV Moves To Discovery

AI Marketplace Stack Gets Real

Instacart Turns Chat Into Carts

Mastercard Wants The AI Checkout

TikTok Shop Adds GMV Toll

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MarketMaze

Archive

Amazon's Shadow Help Desk

Prime Day Gets Smaller Baskets

Shopify Closes The Vape Pipe

Coupang's Seller Trust Test

AI shopping traffic now converts

Iberia Marketplaces Reward Vertical Focus

Claude moves ahead in AI model odds

Marketplace GMV Moves To Discovery

AI Marketplace Stack Gets Real

Instacart Turns Chat Into Carts

Mastercard Wants The AI Checkout

TikTok Shop Adds GMV Toll

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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