Trends for 2014

Matt made this at the end of 2013, but it hits the mark for what we are seeing this year. It’s only two minutes! Part of a series called ’Two Minute Tuesdays’, but of course we are showing it on a Friday.

But a lot of what you find on ecommerce is US-centric. This leads to the question –

Should We Be Afraid of Alibaba?

Alibaba is bigger than Amazon and eBay combined, leading to an alarmist Bloomberg article earlier this month Alibaba’s IPO May Herald the End of U.S. E-Commerce Dominance

Ecommerce Trends in China

This YouTube video is a test run of a talk given May 2014 in China, and contains some material at the beginning which I consider to be superfluous – biography of the presenter, etc. However, if you get beyond that, there are a lot of key stats presented in the slides and presentation. Valuable.