#166 - Amazon's Evolving Compliance Requirements, SWOT Analysis, and more
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U.S. Is Amazon’s Most Beginner-Friendly Marketplace
Amazon’s U.S. marketplace continues to be the most conducive environment for new sellers to achieve their first sales, with over 73% of sellers who registered in the past 12 months going on to make sales. This far outpaces other major marketplaces like Germany (38%), the UK (32%), and Canada (16%).
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SWOT Analysis of Amazon (Updated 2025)
Let’s delve into the SWOT analysis of Amazon, an e-commerce giant on a global scale, to understand its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Amazon Inc., established in 1993 by Jeffrey Bezos, is a world-renowned e-commerce giant, digital streaming provider, cloud computing leader, and artificial intelligence pioneer. Amazon is one of the “Big Five” in the U.S. information technology industry, along with giants like Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Facebook, and is involved in many facets of the digital world.
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Qalitex Laboratories Shares Guidance on Navigating Amazon's Evolving Compliance Requirements
As Amazon increases enforcement around product compliance and documentation, a growing number of consumer brands—particularly those in supplements, cosmetics, and wellness—are experiencing listing removals or disruptions. Behind the scenes, quality and compliance service provider Qalitex Laboratories is working with companies to better understand how to navigate these changes and reduce risk through a proactive, standards-driven approach.
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Good to Know
Another Billion-Dollar Creator Brand
Hailey Bieber’s sale of Rhode to e.l.f. Cosmetics for $1 billion this week adds to a growing list of creator-founded brands leveraging attention as their primary asset. The beauty brand, which launched just three years ago, achieved a ten-figure valuation not through marketplace optimization or supply chain innovation but by maximizing pre-existing audience capture to shortcut the traditional path to scale.
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Going beyond AI assistants: Examples from Amazon.com reinventing industries with generative AI
Generative AI revolutionizes business operations through various applications, including conversational assistants such as Amazon’s Rufus and Amazon Seller Assistant. Additionally, some of the most impactful generative AI applications operate autonomously behind the scenes, an essential capability that empowers enterprises to transform their operations, data processing, and content creation at scale.
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Walmart allows marketplace sellers to use Amazon FBA with restrictions
Walmart has long been protective over their operations, preferring sellers to use Walmart Fulfillment Services, or at least to ship from their own warehouse or 3p logistics operators. What they didn’t want was for marketplace sellers to use Amazon FBA packaging and goods arriving in an Amazon van.
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Amazon readies Premium Shipping changes in June
Amazon sellers offering Premium Shipping options will have to adjust to new on-time delivery requirements starting next month, according to an announcement May 12. Premium Shipping enables sellers to provide one-day and two-day delivery to shoppers using their own shipping methods, rather than Amazon's in-house network. Sellers need to maintain an on-time delivery rate of 97%, evaluated on a 30-day basis, to stay eligible.
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Amazon Goes Off-Site to Assess Seller Compliance
Sellers were buzzing upon learning that Amazon might be penalizing them for information it reportedly collects from other sites and stores in its own internal system. It's understood that marketplaces review sellers' product listings when reviewing compliance issues, but a new report says Amazon looks outside of its own platform to review product claims and enforce its policies.
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Amazon Sellers Summit Report 2025
This in-depth report, directly supporting the Amazon Sellers Summit 2025, distils expert insights and actionable strategies to help both established sellers and newcomers thrive. Discover proven methods for leveraging Amazon’s Fulfilment (FBA), optimising your advertising campaigns for maximum ROI, and harnessing the power of social media to drive traffic and conversions. Explore pathways for international expansion and understand how the transformative power of AI is reshaping the ecommerce landscape for Amazon sellers.
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Amazon to Crack Down on Fake Reviews After UK Regulator Probe
Amazon to Ban UK Sellers Over Fake Review Abuse: CMA forces tougher enforcement after probe into review manipulation and catalogue fraud. Aircapture Raises $50M to Scale On-Site Carbon Capture Tech: Startup expands global deployment of modular DAC units. EU Flags Vision Risk in Popular Weight-Loss Drugs: Semaglutide tied to rare eye disorder, EMA seeks warning update. Trump Administration, Nippon Steel Push Forward U.S. Steel Deal: Court pause extended as $14.9B talks continue.
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E-commerce worldwide - statistics & facts
E-commerce has become an indispensable part of global retail. Like many other industries, buying and selling goods has undergone a substantial transformation following the advent of the internet, and thanks to the ongoing digitalization of modern life, consumers all over the world now profit from the perks of online transactions. As global internet access and adoption rapidly increase, with over five billion internet users worldwide, the number of people making purchases online is ever-increasing.
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A new era for online shopping as Amazon expands product range in South Africa
Just more than a year after landing on South African shores with a .co.za domain, Amazon has expended its product range to take on entrenched retailers who have had a virtual presence since the COVID-19 lockdown spurred online and app-based shopping. Amazon.com started as a bookseller in 1995 out of founder Jeff Bezos’s garage and, at launch last May, was set to compete with Takealot, Loot.co.za, and Makro. And now it’s playing in the food and over-the-counter medicinal product space.
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Marketplace Battle Heats Up: Trust, Convenience and Choice Key as Pricing Pressures Grow
An exclusive Australian study by global ecommerce accelerator, Pattern, has shown that product range, convenience, and trustworthiness will be critical battlegrounds for online marketplaces in 2025. With international tariffs reshaping marketplace business models, platforms like Temu and Shein, once known for ultra-cheap products, are now raising their prices. In some markets, the cost of goods such as health and beauty products has surged by 51%.
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Tips and Tricks
From Suspension to Success: What Every Amazon Seller Must Know When Their Account Gets Suspended
Sarah stared at her laptop screen in disbelief. After three years of building her kitchen gadget business on Amazon, generating over $50,000 monthly in revenue, she was greeted by the dreaded notification: “Your selling privileges have been removed.” Her Amazon Seller Account Suspended overnight without warning, taking with it not just her income, but her entire livelihood. Sound familiar? If you’re reading this, chances are you or someone you know has faced this nightmare scenario.
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Best Tools For Amazon Sellers in 2025
Selling on Amazon has become one of the most popular ways to start in e-commerce. However, competition is fierce, and standing out in this market requires more than just good products. This is where the tools for amazon sellers come into play: smart solutions that help identify profitable opportunities, manage inventory, pricing and optimize sales strategies.
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Most Amazon sellers rely heavily on advertising to gain visibility, often treating it as a default cost of doing business. According to Jungle Scout’s 2024 State of the Amazon Seller Report, over 70% of Amazon sellers spend money on advertising, and more than half cite rising ad costs as threatening profitability. For many, visibility depends on ever-increasing budgets, regardless of return on investment. Oleksandr Trotsenko, a distinguished data analyst and e-commerce entrepreneur, presents a fundamentally different approach to marketplace growth. He is the founder and CEO of Asinstat.com and the author of Principles of Ranking and Product Promotion in Search — a proprietary methodology adopted by numerous sellers.
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Podcasts
Big Amazon/Walmart Change and New Amazon Expansion Course
We’re back with another episode of the Weekly Buzz with Helium 10’s VP of Education and Strategy, Bradley Sutton. Every week, we cover the latest breaking news in the Amazon, Walmart, and E-commerce space, talk about Helium 10’s newest features, and provide a training tip for the week for serious sellers of any level.
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