Under this marketplace-centric model, brands agree to have their products onboarded to publisher marketplaces and pay a CPA commission, as well as a revenue share on product sales.

No. 2 Walmart, No. 7 Target, and No. 9 Kroger are actively expanding their marketplace efforts. “The simplistic framework for marketplaces is price, selection, and experience,” said Guru Hariharan, CEO of CommerceIQ. “It’s hard to disrupt on price, which leaves you with experience and selection.

Google's redesigned version of Google Shopping brings its online marketplace center stage. But will the new platform—which merges Google Shopping with the company’s existing retail marketplace, Google Express—be able to compete with the likes of Walmart, eBay and Amazon?

Ecommerce sales at many of Amazon’s competitors—including Walmart and Target—are growing faster, but Amazon’s sales are still growing faster than the overall market. Its share of US ecommerce sales will increase from 39.8% in 2020 to 40.4% in 2021, and at a gain of 0.6 percentage points, this growth will be larger than that of any other company this year. What’s changed:.

As retail store closures continue at an alarming rate, consumer goods brands have fewer channels to sell their products outside of retail and ecommerce behemoths like Amazon, Walmart and Costco. This reality has many in the consumer goods industry looking to sidestep retail and online marketplaces altogether with hopes of selling to their customers directly.

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That could give other marketplaces like Walmart room to compete—they could offer to take a smaller cut of sales than Amazon and charge less for fulfillment and other services to encourage sellers to offer lower prices on their platforms, potentially helping them win customers from Amazon.

Goldman Sachs, through its direct bank Marcus, struck US SMB lending deals last year with two retail giants: Amazon in June and Walmart in September. Small business sellers that operate on Amazon’s marketplace can receive lines of credit worth up to $1 million, while the Walmart deal involves lines ranging from $10,000 to $75,000.

Following Amazon’s example with its surging ad business (Amazon’s ”Other” revenues, composed primarily of advertising, increased 87% year over year (YoY) to more than $7.9 billion in its Q2 2021 earnings), marketplaces like Walmart, Instacart, eBay, and Etsy have already established meaningful high-margin digital ad businesses.

“The most interesting aspect of Prime Day this year was Amazon showing their power to launch products,” said Joe Kaziukenas, founder and CEO of marketplace intelligence firm Marketplace Pulse. “The Lady Gaga brand Haus Laboratories was launched on Prime Day and was pushed to become one of the best-sellers in beauty. I expect future Prime Days and Amazon in general to focus on launches and exclusives.

Many Amazon sellers diversify to other platforms like eBay and Walmart, but approximately half generate less than 20% of their revenues from eBay (53%) and Walmart (46%). Beyond the top three ecommerce leaders, other marketplaces are also making a push. Home furnishings marketplace Wayfair, as noted earlier, will jump to No. 6 in the ecommerce rankings with an expected growth rate of 34.2% in 2019.

Walmart and Target have both made huge investments to improve their delivery offering. In May 2019, Walmart announced free next-day delivery—without an annual membership fee—for more than 200,000 of the most frequently purchased items.

But this could be an uphill battle for eBay as more ecommerce companies eye the marketplace space. Amazon has already established itself as a behemoth rival with a continually growing platform. And other big conglomerates, including Walmart and Google, as well as smaller ones like Etsy, StockX and The RealReal, are also hoping to expand their marketplace offerings.

The news: Walmart highlighted huge gains in its advertising business during its recent earnings call for the quarter ending on July 31, 2021. “We also saw nearly triple-digit growth in advertising sales through Walmart Connect and added thousands of new sellers on our ecommerce marketplace during the quarter,” said CEO Doug McMillon in his prepared remarks.

Amazon has revolutionized the online marketplace, but that doesn’t mean businesses are only interested in selling on a single platform. Diversification of marketplaces remains a key prospect, and given that each platform has distinct requirements, managing a multichannel ecommerce strategy can be an arduous task.

When looking at the largest US ecommerce sites, eBay is a distant second to Amazon. But as third-party sellers become more prominent on Amazon’s marketplace, many want to expand to other platforms, a possible silver lining for eBay.

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Insider Intelligence junior analyst Blake Droesch, research analyst Daniel Keyes and principal analyst Andrew Lipsman discuss Facebook Shops and whether businesses and customers will want to use it. They then talk about the significance of Walmart shutting down Jet.com, whether polls will work on LinkedIn and what shoppers expect to do after shelter-in-place orders end.

Thousands of new shopping apps continue to pop up in Apple’s App Store and the Google Play store each year as consumers gear their shopping habits towards mobile. But the increase in competition might be causing smaller retailers and startups to think twice about investing in app development, especially on the iOS marketplace.

On the ecommerce side, eBay suffered declines as US gross merchandise value (GMV) dropped 8% amid growing competition from Amazon, Etsy and Facebook Marketplace. Not sure if your company subscribes? You can find out here.

Additional data from a June 2018 Jumpshot survey found that a quarter of US marketers are concerned about biased private-label competition on marketplaces. Amazon’s ability to favor its own private labels creates huge potential for these CPG brands. Amazon-branded electronics have already reaped the benefits of homepage visibility and a concerted promotional effort within the Amazon ecosystem.