📦 The Order : Weekly Roundup - New Amazon Marketplaces & Shopify Q1
Issue #162
Happy Sunday,
Here’s a quick roundup of last week’s news :
Chart of the Week #1: SMB Stats
Amazon released its 2023 data for the Small Business Empowerment Report:
Chart of the Week #2: Traffic In/Outflows
Amazon’s website inflows & outflows according to Semrush in Mar 2024:
Chart of the Week #3: The Ads Flywheel
Marketplace Pulse’s Joe Kaziukėnas posts about Amazon’s ads powerhouse:
Strategy 🦈
Amazon launches Amazon.co.za in South Africa [Amazon]
Amazon launching new online store in Ireland, Amazon.ie, in 2025 [Amazon]
Amazon's AI growth story: Big Tech's race for AI dominance [Yahoo]
Amazon’s New Fees on Sellers Likened to 'Kick in the Gut' [Bloomberg]
Amazon's warehouse robot army keeps getting bigger and bigger [Business Insider]
Walmart and Amazon Expand Private-Label Plays to Compete in Grocery [PYMNTS]
Amazon Counterfeit Crackdown: “Leader of Massive Scheme to Traffic in Fraudulent and Counterfeit Cisco Networking Equipment Sentenced to Prison” [Justice Department]
After a Taylor Swift viral lift, Popflex faces off against AI-enabled counterfeits on Amazon & TikTok [Modern Retail]
E-commerce is witnessing the Amazon-ification of Shein, as the fast-fashion behemoth woos skincare and toy brands [Fortune]
Shopify Q1 beats estimates but Q2 forecast raises concerns [Yahoo]
Alibaba's To Overhaul Taobao In Strategic Move to Reclaim E-commerce Dominance [Yahoo]
Accel, Fireside lose their taste for online-only D2C brands [LiveMint]
Job Opportunity 👩🚀
Operations Specialist - Amazon Automation Control Center ]with Autopilot]
Events 🎤
Amazon Ads Developer Summit, May 16-17 in New York
Shoptalk Europe, Jun 3-5 in Barcelona
Amazon Seller Partner Dev Summit, Jun 28-29 in Seattle
Amazon Accelerate, Sep 17-19 in Seattle
Make this week count 🙌
Christian