“It’s Time to Build” is a popular blog post by Marc Andreessen, the Internet pioneer and investor. He wrote it in April 2020 at the onset of the worldwide pandemic. Ecommerce businesses are lucky. Amid the global pandemic, our industry is thriving and pushing forward.

COVID-19 sent shock waves through most retail and ecommerce based businesses, which required some big pivots by marketers. Just how drastic were these changes? New research from CommerceNext highlights five of the most notable pivots.

Google’s main goal with this change is to lure sellers to list their items on the platform instead of skipping the option due to extra fees.

(Bloomberg) – The Covid-19 pandemic is fueling an e-commerce boom as shuttered businesses move online – but Google isn’t benefiting in the way its big tech rivals are.Google advertising sales fell 8% in the second quarter, causing overall revenue at parent Alphabet Inc. to shrink for the first time

Goldman Sachs now forecasts that online shopping will expand by 19 percent each year during the next three years to come.

Grocery ecommerce is having a moment. Already at an inflection point prior to the pandemic, the migration of essential goods to online has accelerated this trend by three or four years in the span of three or four months.

Otterbox partnered with Amazon to create an adorable Baby Yoda (The Child) stand for the third generation of the Amazon Echo Dot. This durable stand