With more than 50% of online shoppers buying directly from overseas sellers, cross-border E-Commerce sales have reached a triple-digit figure in billions of U.S. dollars. By 2020, this number is projected to increase still further, consequently gaining a higher share of the world’s online retail sales. Asia-Pacific is projected have…
Travel sales account for a major section of the online retail market, making it the third most purchased category by online shoppers across the globe. Furthermore, the online share of total travel sales worldwide were estimated at nearly 50%. Third party research forecasts that mobile sales of travel services will…
Alternative online payment methods are increasingly in demand as the worldwide E-Commerce market grows. Across the globe, online retailers offer a variety of online payment methods such as bank card, direct bank transfers, E-wallets such as PayPal, cash on delivery, invoicing, and much more. When looked at individually, E-wallets make…
The USA and China have the largest sales in the B2C E-Commerce worldwide market. In past years, the USA outpaced China in online retail sales and was the top contender, but as the USA reaches maturity, its share of the global market is predicted to decrease by a few percentage…
As the global online retail market continues to multiply, Japan, the fourth largest B2C E-Commerce market worldwide, is predicted to grow at small double-digit rates from 2015 to 2020, reflecting an overall increase in E-Commerce market sales in Japan. Furthermore, due to a growth in the smartphone penetration rate, M-Commerce…
The rapid growth of M-Commerce is a major trend for online retail markets around the world. Having already achieved more than a 50% share of online retail sales in China, M-Commerce is on the way to reaching this milestone in the UK and the USA within the next few years.…
Amazon is the world’s largest online retailer by direct-to-consumer sales. Our recent report “Top Players in Global B2C E-Commerce 2016” estimated Amazon’s share of worldwide sales at around 8% in 2015. This figure does not consider Amazon’s marketplace revenues which could make its share even larger, given that as of…
Two thirds of global online shoppers buy from E-Commerce marketplaces, and around half of them make all or nearly all of their online purchases through these intermediaries. The equivalent of hundreds of billions of U.S. dollar in value was transacted on marketplaces such as Alibaba and Amazon in 2015, and…
The global online travel market continues to expand, and several predictions can be made with regard to its nearest future: Asia-Pacific will become the largest region by online travel sales, overtaking North America China, India, Indonesia and other emerging markets across Asia are showing exponential growth in online travel sales,…
Underdeveloped B2C E-Commerce in emerging markets is often blamed on low Internet penetration rates, poor logistics, insufficient regulatory framework and other infrastructure-related factors. However, surveys show that both in emerging and advanced markets, there are multiple reasons why consumers who already have Internet access do not yet buy goods and…