“55 percent of online shoppers start their product searches on Amazon” Source: Recode.net
“Amazon is the 5th most visited website in the U.S.” Source: Alexa.com
“Between 40 million and 50 million people in the United States use Prime, and, according to Morgan Stanley, those customers spend around $2,500 on Amazon annually” –FastCompany.com
“Amazon spent $7.2 billion on marketing in 2016, with that spending aimed at driving customers to its websites.” –Business Insider
Over 1/3rd of Christmas shopping was done at Amazon, including 50% of all online sales the last Monday before Christmas. –USA Today
“90 percent of U.S. consumers said Amazon is the ecommerce site they use the most” –RBC Capital Markets survey
“Amazon wants more sellers because it keeps bringing new product to their platform,” –James Thomson, a partner in the Buy Box Experts consulting group and the former head of Amazon Services.(Tampabay.com)