LAS VEGAS – All access passes for Inspire are sold out, but founders looking to maximize their time (and ROI) when traveling to Las Vegas can still attend the Inspire event by Million Dollar Sellers (MDS). With little more than a week before Inspire and...
LAS VEGAS – Walmart just reported its fourth quarter fiscal year 2026 earnings — marking the eighth consecutive quarter of e-commerce growth above 20%.1 For Marketplace sellers, this isn’t just good news. It’s a clear signal. Expanding your business on...
by Andrew Maffettone LAS VEGAS – For most of the past decade, Amazon’s marketplace was the primary growth engine of e-commerce. Today, the marketplace is no longer the center of gravity. And while Amazon isn’t abandoning it, it is increasingly deprioritizing it...
LAS VEGAS – Prosper exhibitor Xnurta (Booth #321), the agentic AI-powered advertising platform, and Front Row, an e-commerce agency, recently formed a partnership to accelerate AI-driven Amazon advertising and retail media performance. As global competition...
LAS VEGAS – Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) has transitioned from buzzword status to standard vocabulary, but many Prosper attendees still don’t know how to properly use the technology to boost sales. Rob Wiltsey, founder and CEO of Pasadena,...
SEATTLE – Amazon.com financial results for fourth quarter ended December 31, 2025 revealed a net sales increase of 14% to $213.4 billion, compared with $187.8 billion in fourth quarter 2024. North America segment sales increased 10% year-over-year to...
BOSTON – Shoppers research all manner of products—food and beverages, fashion and apparel, and big-ticket items like electronics—across a variety of channels before they make a purchase. According to research from Salsify, prospective buyers most often...
HOWELL, N.J. – Sam Hershberg has helped to build New Jersey-based Smart Shipped into a viable option for domestic warehousing. As vice president of Business Development at Smart Shipped, Hershberg contends that a lot of Amazon sellers don’t realize...
CHICAGO – As artificial intelligence becomes embedded earlier in the shopping journey, consumers are increasingly relying on AI tools to research, compare, and make purchase decisions. According to a new study from Search.com, nearly 60% of U.S. shoppers...
BENTONVILLE, AR – Walmart hit a lofty milestone this week, crossing above the $1 trillion mark in market value. According to the NY Times and elsewhere, digital sales have been a “major driver” of growth. “Walmart’s e-commerce business includes curbside pickup,...
LAS VEGAS – First-time Prosper exhibitor Strategic Distributors has been selling directly to Amazon for the last dozen years. The last 10 of those years has focused on adding as many new brands as possible to be sold by Amazon themselves through Vendor Central. As...
by David Hewlett GREENBRAE, CA – Shifts in retail buying behavior take much longer than people expect. Early in my career, I worked at PriceGrabber during the rise of comparison shopping. Even though the company grew significantly, it still took a long time for...
BOSTON – Prosper exhibitor Teikametrics (pictured at Prosper 2025) recently introduced a patent-pending AI system called Artificial Retail Intelligence (ARI)—a proprietary engine designed to boost seller success on Walmart, Amazon, and TikTok as AI increases...
AUSTIN – It’s been almost two years since Congress passed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act in 2024, a rare bi-partisan piece of legislation mandating that TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, divest its...
