Etsy’s CEO said the company is running experiments to see if customers will engage with chat bots to help them find the perfect gift. Etsy CEO Josh Silverman was speaking at a Canaccord Genuity Virtual Ecommerce forum on Thursday when Read more
Etsy is planning to launch a loyalty program to get people to think of Etsy more often when shopping. Etsy CEO Josh Silverman spilled the news during Wednesday’s earnings call with Wall Street analysts. “We’ve got a portfolio of compelling Read more
Etsy will advertise its Home Furnishings category in 2023, Etsy CEO Josh Silverman said during a presentation at the UBS Global TMT Conference on Tuesday. The CEO said everything Etsy has done to date has been horizontal – it’s a Read more
Etsy CEO Josh Silverman spoke to about 80,000 sellers during the company’s EtsyUp: Holiday Edition virtual event on Thursday where he told attendees he was working to level the playing field for sellers. The EtsyUp event was focused on providing Read more
Etsy is holding its first virtual event for holiday selling on Thursday, September 8th, called Etsy Up: Holiday Edition. The marketplace promised sellers “tips and insights to help you get discovered and grow this holiday season.” Sellers will hear from Read more
One year after acquiring online marketplace Depop, Etsy is putting one of its own in charge. Kruti Patel Goyal, currently Etsy’s Chief Product Officer, will become CEO of the global fashion resale marketplace (based in London), effective September 12th. Depop’s Read more
The CEOs of retail giant Walmart, online marketplace Etsy, and other retailers met at the White House on Monday to brief President Biden on supply chain challenges. The roundtable included the director of the National Economic Council and the director Read more
eBay published a list of its most-wanted products this holiday season. Not coincidentally, the eBay hottest products list comes from a few select categories that eBay has spent the last 12 months investing in and promoting. eBay executive Jordan Sweetnam Read more
Sales on Etsy’s marketplace grew 12% in the third quarter year-over-year, while consolidated sales across all its platforms grew 18%. Excerpts from Etsy’s earnings press release follow: Etsy, Inc. Reports Third Quarter 2021 ResultsReports 18% Increase in Consolidated Year-Over-Year GMS Read more
Etsy will survive a consolidation in commerce, predicted CEO Josh Silverman, who painted a picture of the ecommerce landscape ahead. Silverman was speaking at a Wall Street conference last week and said there were hundreds of billions of dollars invested Read more
