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We checked seller growth on competing marketplaces like eBay, Walmart, Google Shopping, etc. and found it to be the opposite - none are seeing accelerated seller growth.

Report here https://www.marketplacepulse.com/articles/sellers-are-not-di...

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Your analysis doesn't include Shopify which the fastest growing e-commerce platform right now.

We don't have data on this, but Shopify is not growing because of Amazon sellers opening up Shopify stores. The sets of businesses on Shopify vs Amazon are largely distinct. For example, most Amazon sellers are resellers of brand products; few of these are shifting to sell though their own e-commerce website.

Yep and actual stats in this report unlike OPs article.

There is only a single chart for Walmart. All other platforms are discussed with no numbers and no sources beyond "our ecommerce analysis platform" and the vague description of analyzing "millions of data points".

Not having heard of this company, I can only take their analysis with the same grain of salt that I would with other 'market research' firms that don't have access to actual transaction data or don't conduct surveys with representative samples of sellers.

FWIW, when I was a tech reporter at Inc. I found Marketplace Pulse helpful in covering ecommerce, and their data trends roughly matched what I heard from merchants directly.

As a big seller, yes that's the goal. Off all platforms and own your own stack. Be able to email retarget call text and shopify and click funnels allow this. None of these should be growing as they all are closed in a sense. Your own store and 3pl is the growth trend and for good reasons.

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