April 22, 2024 1 minute read A common mistake made in benchmarking Amazon’s performance is what to compare it to. The FTC, most analysts, and often retail leaders like to compare Amazon to the eCommerce channel. They limit the comparison of Amazon’s growth rate to just the digital portion of omnichannel retailers’ growth rate. At […]
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April 15, 2024 3 minute read Stratably’s eTailer Index comprises 13 of the largest eCommerce platforms in the U.S. market that account for $820 billion in annual global gross merchandise value (GMV). Analyzing the Index sheds light on a subset of eCommerce, and it illuminates performance differences for pure eCommerce models compared to their omnichannel […]
April 1, 2024 2 minute read The purpose of writing “Amazon Marketing Cloud (everything I’ve learned so far)” in April 2022 was to alert brands and agencies that Amazon Marketing Cloud was a new, under-adopted, powerful tool that they could use as a competitive edge against their competition. Few had heard of it and even […]
March 27, 2024 2 minute read We consistently benchmark the brand community to understand how their Amazon business is performing relative to expectations. The latest results include insights into sales and advertising performance, along with promotional intensity. This is a Gated Article Just for Premium Members Join the Stratably community Access independent research on the […]
March 25, 2024 4 minute read The following analysis compares recent performance across Amazon, Walmart, and Target, which together make up Stratably’s Mass Index. Given their size, strategic importance to brands, and outperformance in the market, the performance analysis reveals who’s winning and losing and illuminates what’s driving success in retail today and what we […]
March 21, 2024 The Amazon Vendor Services (AVS) program (also known as Strategic Account Services or SAS) provides your brand with a dedicated contact inside Amazon (called a customer success manager or CSM) to solve day-to-day issues and support a variety of operational initiatives, from getting started with a new supply chain programs to catalog […]
March 14, 2024 4 minute read Amazon annual vendor negotiations (AVNs) are tough. That’s why we’ve had hundreds of brands leverage our webinar, whitepaper, and 5-step framework this year, which provide quantitative data and expert advice to support this critical aspect of their Amazon business. These brands also weighed in on why AVNs are so […]