Google is trying to find a way to create a rival to Amazon's marketplace for merchants with some new features in development, including one that lets visitors use photos to search for products, according to a report.

In a sign that Amazon is continuing to aggressively expand its logistics business, the company has now started offering unbranded packaging to merchants in the UK for products that are ordered off-site.

Amazon recently announced their new Buy With Prime program, which will allow merchants to sell their products with Prime benefits on their own websites. Sellers should be aware that this has major implications when it comes to their data.

Changes both within Amazon and in the global economy may be causing a geographic shift among Amazon sellers, with a growing number of American sellers and a declining number of Chinese sellers, according to a recent report.

A new report claims that three quarters of Amazon sellers are profitable, and 95% plan to expand.

Vendors may notice discrepancies between the payment coop summary and payment details. Here's why that's happening.

Amazon has announced a new incentive program targeted at new sellers that would offer up to $50,000 in bonuses for launching their first product -- but current sellers can take advantage of the program as well if they launch a product in a new region after Jan. 1, 2022.

One frustrating aspect of dealing with data in Seller Central is the fact that often the data in the dashboard doesn't match up with data from other sources. Let’s take a quick look at why that is, and what you can do about it.

Amazon launched a new Seller Central inventory report called Manage Inventory Health. It replaces three reports that Amazon recently deprecated: FBA Inventory Age, Inventory Health, and Excess Inventory.

Data is vital to the success of any business, and control of that data is key. Many of America’s largest companies have gotten to that level because they zealously control as much data as possible, and Amazon is no exception. However, their data controls often come at the expense of sellers.

Amazon has announced a new financing tool for sellers called "Amazon Seller Wallet," and the company says they will roll it out over the next few months.

Sellers can order discounted shipping labels through Buy Shipping via a new program called "Amazon Sponsored Discount." The aim is to support sellers "in providing fast, on-time, and tracked products to customers," Amazon said in a post on Amazon Services Seller Forums.

Amazon has purchased Veeqo, a software company that helps sellers manage multi-channel businesses.

The retail industry was hammered by a record number of returns in 2021, and a new report suggests that Amazon likely lost billions of dollars in returns over the course of the year, meaning the company is likely looking for ways to trim the cost of returns.

In an effort to offset rising costs, Amazon is shifting some of it onto sellers by adding a 5% fuel and inflation surcharge to existing fees charged to sellers in the United States, according to multiple reports.

What experts had long expected is officially happening: Amazon is raising the price of Prime again, boosting it from $119 to $139 annually (and from about $155 to $180 for those who pay monthly). Here’s what that means for vendors and sellers.

Amazon is launching a new cash advance option for sellers starting in early 2023, the company announced in a statement. However, some sellers warn that this is an expensive funding option for ecommerce companies.

On March 29 2022, Amazon added mobile app traffic to Seller sales and traffic reports for the first time. Sellers now have visibility into mobile app sessions and pageviews. This is a major update with significant implications for how brands measure detail page conversion, ad performance, and more. 

Changes to sponsored product ads, changes to the search page UI and more. Stay up to date with the Amazon Analytics Insider. Posted biweekly.

In Q4 2020, Amazon quietly made replenishable out-of-stock (Rep OOS) and lost buy box (LBB) data available in Vendor Central for Amazon Business.