Market Share news and trends

Robinhood vs Coinbase: The Battle for the Retail Crypto Trading Market
Cryptocurrency // June 15, 2023

Coinbase, a major player in the retail crypto trading market, may be losing some retail crypto trading business to Robinhood, possibly due to Coinbase’s higher fees on small-ticket trades. “Our analysis suggests that COIN’s share of combined COIN retail + HOOD crypto volumes trended lower...

As Amazon Ramps Grocery Plans, Walmart Leverages Flywheel and Stores
Retail // February 17, 2023

From its founding 60 years ago to its most recent press release this week, Walmart has never strayed from its core message: helping people live better and save money.   While the Arkansas-based retailer has grown and changed over the decades, with more locations and services...

Can Amazon’s CEO Eclipse the Bezos Legacy?
Amazon // February 13, 2023

Nineteen months and $1 trillion of lost market value later and Amazon CEO Andy Jassy is fast approaching a second anniversary and a reckoning. This, as talk of Jassy struggling to put his own stamp on the company he took over from billionaire founder Jeff Bezos in...

Amazon and Walmart Market Share Battle Crossed New Lines In 2022
Retail // December 21, 2022

The epic battle for wallet share between Amazon and Walmart entered uncharted waters in 2022. Tracking the action in the PYMNTS Amazon Versus Walmart report series, the year began with big news: the eCommerce titan bested the Bentonville behemoth for the first time in history,...

Interviews & Exclusives
BNPL Extends Credit Lifeline For Consumers In The Digital Economy

June 07, 2021
The rivalries in the financial services business are legendary. Companies and their chief executives back in the day made no bones about their competitive obsessions and their desire to be on top of the heap. There was Citi vs Chase; Sandy Weill vs. Jamie Dimon. Or there was Goldman Sachs vs. Morgan Stanley; UBS vs. […]

Grubhub Pays The Price Of Keeping Its Customers

February 06, 2020
The year 2020 is off to a rocky start for food delivery platform Grubhub. Shortly after the new year began, rumors started circulating that Grubhub — facing increasingly stiff competition...

Mastercard On Helping Retailers Strike The Right Innovation Balance

January 21, 2020
Mark Twain famously said there are three kinds of untruths: lies, damned lies and statistics. And nowhere is that aphorism better illustrated over the last decade than with the statistic...

Quick Reads
Binance Market Share Drops Amid Regulatory Pressure and Fee Changes

July 18, 2023
Binance has reportedly taken a hit in its share of the global cryptocurrency spot market. From the beginning of the year, Binance’s share of spot trading plunged by 17 percentage points, from 90% to 73%, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (July 18), citing data from cryptocurrency market data provider Kaiko. At the same time, other offshore platforms are capitalizing on […]

Robinhood vs Coinbase: The Battle for the Retail Crypto Trading Market

June 15, 2023
Coinbase, a major player in the retail crypto trading market, may be losing some retail crypto trading business to Robinhood, possibly due to Coinbase’s higher fees on small-ticket trades. “Our...

Lenovo Leads PC Sales Spike With 24 Pct Market Share

January 13, 2020
The annual global sale of PCs saw its first gain since 2011, when sales went up 1.7 percent, according to the International Data Group. The data, released on Monday (Jan.13), showed...

Amazon’s Share Of Total eComm Sales: Now 37 Percent?

June 14, 2019
New estimates from eMarketer say that Amazon’s share of the U.S. eCommerce market is far below previous projections. According to reports in The Information, eMarketer has lowered its 2019 estimate for Amazon’s share of U.S....