MediaMarkt saw its marketplace revenue double in the past fiscal year. In the new year, the electronics retailer will open its virtual doors in Belgium, Poland, and Turkey. An additional expansion into new product categories is expected to attract new buyers and sellers.

A new European regulation imposes strict requirements on products sales in the EU market. Many online stores and marketplaces sellers in the United Kingdom lack sufficient arrangements and have opted to stop selling to customers in the EU altogether.

If Zalando acquires About You, the company will not only strengthen its position in the consumer market but also become the new owner of Scayle, a provider of ecommerce software. This acquisition would create "the next B2B powerhouse for the ecommerce industry in Europe".

The Irish ecommerce landscape will change in the coming months. This month, TikTok Shop has opened for business in the country. And in 2025, the launch of Amazon Ireland will take place.

Marketplace solution provider Mirakl has announced the acquisition of Adspert, a data-driven advertising optimization tool. Thanks to the acquisition, Mirakl can enhance its retail media solution and add AI-driven advertising optimization software to its platform.

Ecommerce giant Amazon has announced that it has finished a first test with delivery drones in Italy. The company wants to deliver items weighing up to approximately 2 kilograms to customers’ gardens with these drones. It is unclear when it will start using this service in the country.

TikTok Shop has launched in Spain today, according to various market observers and sellers on the platform. This marks the first country in continental Europe where TikTok users can shop directly.

With 16.3 million monthly users, Temu is more popular in Germany than anywhere else in the European Union. The more well-known Shein attracts more attention in France, Spain, and Italy, but generates the most revenue in Europe in Germany.

According to Eurostat figures, 58.1 percent of all consumers in the European Union made a recent online purchase last year. Ecommerce is most established in the Netherlands and least in Bulgaria. In many parts of Southeast Europe, adoption remains below 35 percent.

Shopify now supports payouts in multiple currencies for European merchants. For many larger online retailers, this eliminates a key reason to operate multiple stores simultaneously or opt for alternative ecommerce software.

Ecommerce giant Amazon is currently having capacity problems in its logistics centers in Europe. It is now warning sellers that it cannot accept all shipments. This means that merchants might have issues getting their inventory to the marketplace in time for the holidays.

Payment methods have been rapidly developing in recent years and the market has seen a lot of changes in 2021. Amazon Pay is an online checkout solution that lets customers use their Amazon information to shop on other sites. In an interview with Ecommerce News, Jenny Catterfeld looks back at achievements and to what the payments industry has to offer in the future.

During September and October, average return values reached almost 127 euros (106 British pounds) in the United Kingdom. This was a 7 percent increase from the same period last year. It seems that consumers are returning more high-value products.

The Platform Group collaborates with approximately thirteen thousand sales partners, the German company behind several vertical marketplaces reports. In the first nine months of this year, trading volume increased by 30 percent. Profits grew even more significantly.

The ecommerce market of Eastern Europe may be the smallest of the four European regions, it has seen in fact the biggest growth in terms of percentage. Because with an average growth rate of 35.7% over the year 2012, this ecommerce market was the strongest growing region in Europe that year.