This latest infographic, from Amazing Academy, gives you shocking insights into the global world of selling products online…
Here’s what they found…
-First, Amazon is still a huge player (obvious)… but what was NOT obvious to us is the sneaky Amazon country property lurking across the pond: Amazon.de (Germany).
-At over $10 billion in 2013 revenue, Amazon.de is larger than Amazon UK (.co.uk) and Amazon Canada (.ca) COMBINED (WOW). Definitely worth watching out for.
-Next, while we “know it”, we don’t really see it… the huge size of ecommerce in China… Alibaba.com, the parent company of ecommerce juggernauts Taobao and Tmall, had over $248 billion in transaction volume in 2013…. C-R-A-Z-Y (especially considering Amazon.com, Inc. “only” did $74 billion).
-Next, one of the other major insights from looking at this data is that there is still a MASSIVE amount of sales occurring on smaller sites… stores like the ones you and I can build and use to market physical products we want to sell online.
-The size of “All Other Retailers” (excluding the mega marketplaces)? $851 billion (just short of a trillion dollars).
