Between 2020 and 2021, it nearly tripled its revenues and more than doubled its gross merchandise volume (GMV). But its US GMV growth rate has slowed since 2021, just as the broader US retail ecommerce market has slowed. With digitally native vertical brands—Shopify’s mainstay customers—struggling, Shopify has sought to attract enterprise retailers to help it drive growth.
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| Jan 4, 2023
In the long term, PDD aims for Temu to directly compete with Amazon and eBay. And, in the short term, it wants it to surpass Shein’s gross merchandise volume (GMV) for at least one day by the time of its one-year anniversary on September 1, per Bloomberg. It is off to a good start. Temu generated nearly $200 million in sales in January alone, even before its buzzy Super Bowl ad aired.
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| Mar 20, 2023
TikTok Shop aims to generate as much as $17.5 billion in US GMV this year, which is 10 times what it pulled in last year, per Bloomberg. That massive growth is particularly notable given that TikTok’s goal in 2023 was to reach $20 billion in GMV worldwide—most of which was expected to come from markets outside the US. That strong growth is convincing TikTok it can drive more revenues from sellers.
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| Jan 22, 2024
Here’s how ad buyers ranked the retail media networks of 14 leading CPG-focused retailers—including Ahold Delhaize, Albertsons, Amazon, Costco Wholesale, CVS, Instacart, Kroger, Target, and Walmart—according to the attributes they value most.
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| Sep 12, 2023
Amazon is riding the massive retail ecommerce wave in the country, where online transaction values have more than doubled since 2019. We expect Amazon sales to grow by 5.0% through 2023 and another 9.3% by the end of next year. Amazon has aggressively built fulfillment infrastructure in Canada.
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| Jul 28, 2023
Gross merchandise value (GMV) increased 14% year over year (YoY) in Q2 2023, outpacing ecommerce’s 1% growth, per Salesforce data. And demand is strong for Pay Now, which it recently rolled out in Europe: the instant debit option now accounts for about one-third of all transactions in European markets. Klarna is pushing a wide European expansion, launching in 11 markets on the continent since 2020.
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| Aug 25, 2023
Ad revenues as a percentage of GMV reached 1.3% for the entire year, with the company raking in 2.7% of all digital ad spending in Latin America last year. Over 1 billion items were sold on—and shipped by—Mercado Libre for the first time in the company's history. That's more than triple the number of items sold and shipped just three years earlier.
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| Feb 24, 2023
Amazon now holds a 22% share of UK online health and beauty, per Kantar. And by 2026, it’s set to overtake Boots as the UK’s biggest health and beauty retailer by gross merchandise value (GMV), per Edge by Ascential. High street retailers are fighting back to maintain online market share.
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| Mar 20, 2023
The firm’s Q4 gross merchandise volume (GMV) increased 19% year over year (YoY), per its annual report. Klarna’s net losses of SEK 1.9 billion ($188 million) were an improvement from SEK 2.2 billion ($217 million) in Q3 and SEK 4.6 billion ($455 million) in Q4 2021. CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski said in December that the firm expects to achieve monthly profitability by August or September 2023. Sezzle.
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| Mar 1, 2023
Amazon has long offered used and refurbished goods on its platform, and secondhand offers appear alongside new options on product pages. More recently, Amazon has been testing the luxury resale waters through partnerships with Rent the Runway and consignment store What Goes Around Comes Around. Walmart is taking a dual-pronged approach.
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| Apr 3, 2023
There's some new data from YipitData that reported its May GMV at more than $630 million. That is up from less than $200 million in January and basically zero last summer. It's really in its hyper-growth phase of spending very heavily on customer acquisitions through digital marketing and very heavy discounts.
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| Jun 27, 2023
Key stat: TikTok Shop sold 68.1% of social shopping gross merchandise value (GMV) in February 2024, per the report. Livestream shopping app Whatnot has captured 31% of GMV, while the combined GMV of Instagram Checkout, Facebook Shop, and Flip App amounted to less than 1%. What it means: Consumers aren’t just using TikTok for social inspiration, they’re actually making purchases on the platform.
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| Apr 11, 2024