Even before the pandemic, ecommerce channel advertising was attracting a lot of attention from advertisers—especially in verticals like consumer packaged goods (CPG)—as well as retailers, which hoped to add new higher-margin revenue streams to their businesses after seeing Amazon’s success in the area. Amazon had become the No. 3 digital ad seller in the US thanks primarily to placements on its ecommerce property, and companies including Walmart, Target, and eBay had been growing similar businesses.

eBay seeks to plug small business financing gap with an embedded lending product for its UK SMB sellers. eBay and other ecommerce firms will likely add more financial services, like accounting solutions, to better serve their user bases.

eBay rolls out lending to UK SMBs: The ecommerce giant is partnering with embedded finance platform YouLend to extend loans to its sellers—giving the former a chance to make itself stickier for platform sellers and the latter access to data and loan growth.

Our latest forecast shows that Amazon, Walmart, and eBay will remain the top three largest ecommerce companies in the US by total sales volume, while Best Buy and Target will usurp The Home Depot and Wayfair for the No. 5 and No. 6 spots on the 2021 list, respectively.

.); consumer-to-consumer (C2C) platform sales (eBay, auction sites, etc.). Retail ecommerce sales include the sale of products and related services ordered using the internet, regardless of fulfillment method. We exclude the following consumer categories from our definition of retail ecommerce sales:.

On today's episode, we discuss how the pandemic changed the car buying customer journey and what BMW's digital experience is trying to achieve. We then talk about why online-only brands might need to do more to earn customers' trust, whether people want more—or less—human interaction when shopping, and what eBay's latest move says about the future of the retailer. Tune in to the discussion with general manager at Autogermana Andrés Fuse, eMarketer senior analyst Matteo Ceurvels, and analyst at Insider Intelligence Blake Droesch.

The 2020 holiday season’s unprecedented ecommerce surge helped total US retail spending remain positive, setting the tone for healthy outlook for 2021 holiday season growth.

In Spain, 82% of digital buyers polled by Elogia for Tandem UP in February 2020 said they purchased items on Amazon. eBay was No. 2 at 44%, and AliExpress came in third, at 43%.

While almost all of the top 15 saw a sales surge in 2020, only a handful—including Etsy, Amazon, and Costco—will see continued growth at higher levels than they did in 2019. eBay and Qurate Retail Group are at the bottom of the pack in terms of growth, though they are both experiencing a big turnaround from 2019.

Walmart (18.0% of app users), Wish (14.7%), eBay (13.8%), and Target (8.3%) rounded out the top five. Target requires curbside pickup users to download its app, a smart strategy to drive downloads given the popularity of this offering. Retailers can offer exclusive early access to doorbusters for app users or other incentives that give reason to download.

Overall, Walmart will represent 7.2% of all US ecommerce sales in 2021 and will further widen its gap with eBay, who’s in third place among the companies we forecast. Walmart is in second place. Sales in Q1 rose faster than expected thanks to government stimulus checks that stoked spending in nonfood categories, including recreation, home improvement, and apparel.