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Merchant-side, read sideways for demand signal

Weekly ecommerce market data and analysis from a transaction-data company.

Weekly, plus ongoing reportsFreeby ECDB analyst teamECDB (ecommerceDB)Own site and LinkedIn

Founded in 2022 by former Statista people. Runs a market intelligence platform covering 56,000+ retailers across 150+ countries and 250+ product categories, built on transaction analytics, web traffic and continuous crawling of retailer sites. The free output is the blog and the weekly recap, which run on revenue figures, growth rates and category movement rather than opinion. Useful for app vendors in a specific way: it shows which merchant categories and regions are actually growing, which is the demand signal behind who installs your app. Also published as a LinkedIn newsletter, "eCommerce in a Nutshell".

Watch for. Written for retailers and brands doing market analysis, not for app developers, so you are reading it sideways for demand signals rather than directly. The free material is the top of a funnel for an enterprise data product, and the revenue figures are modelled estimates rather than disclosed numbers.

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Entry last checked 17 September 2026.

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