Let's talk MarketplacE
The Podcast for all Marketplace People
Ten years after the Brexit referendum: what did leaving the EU actually do to British e-commerce? The surprising answer from Chloë Thomas – someone who has worked in every conceivable corner of UK online retail for over 20 years, from the agency side to the client side – is that hardly anyone noticed. Cross-border trade...
Round about two thirds of all European online sales happen on online-marketplaces – surely that calls for a regular talk show!
Let’s talk Marketplace is the podcast where Valerie und Ingrid share their thoughts and insights into the marketplace world each week – sometimes just the two of them, sometimes with the help of knowledgable guests. We are entertaining, competent, out-spoken – and won’t stand for bullshit!
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Ten years after the Brexit referendum: what did leaving the EU actually do to British e-commerce? The surprising answer from Chloë Thomas – someone who has worked in every conceivable corner of UK online retail for over 20 years, from the agency side to the client side – is that hardly anyone noticed. Cross-border trade...
50+ marketplaces, one company, remarkably little chaos – that’s the puzzle at the heart of this episode. Daniel Müller built his career in mechanical engineering, not fashion – and today runs Leogra Trading and Leogra Services, selling across more than 50 marketplaces with 30,000 to 40,000 SKUs. Over 35% of revenue comes from Germany, with...
Starting July 15, Amazon is requiring strict delivery standards from FBM sellers in five EU markets – 90% on-time delivery, one-day processing, or deactivation looms from September. The catch: Amazon doesn’t always meet these same standards with its own FBA program. Valerie and Ingrid discuss in this news episode just how fair that really is...
Is TikTok Shop an e-commerce channel or a marketing channel? Ask ten marketplace managers right now and you’ll get ten different answers – and that confusion is exactly where this episode starts. Ingrid and Valerie sit down with Max Burianek, Head of TikTok Shop Germany, who built the platform’s UK business before bringing it to...
When German e-commerce expert Stefan Wenzel took the stage of the K5 conference last week to show a satellite photo of the Atacama Desert — where unsold fashion goes to die — you could hear a pin drop. His thesis: Sales-led commerce is broken, the numbers have proven it for years, and the industry has...
Amazon lost 50% of its Czech e-commerce revenue. Not once — twice, in two consecutive years. That’s the data point that triggered this conversation. But the more interesting story isn’t Amazon’s decline. It’s what that decline reveals about a region that Western e-commerce still fundamentally misreads. David Cikanek is a Prague-based marketplace expert who has...
The EU fined Temu €200M, France hit Shein with another penalty. Is this the turning point many in European e-commerce have been waiting for? In this episode, Ingrid and Valerie go through the most important marketplace news of the last few weeks. Their take on regulation: it works – slowly, but for real. The first...
A 130-year-old brand on a channel that didn’t exist five years ago – and one of the most honest assessments of TikTok Shop you’re likely to hear. Stephanie Vanderplank-Jones built Philips’ TikTok Shop business in the UK from scratch and is currently expanding into Germany, France and Spain. In this episode, she explains why 80%...
AI can generate an impressive product image – but can it deliver that same image, correctly named, in the right format, and on time to Zalando, About You, and Amazon simultaneously? That, says Fabio Loparco, CEO of Pixel Moda, is where the real problem lies. In this episode, Valerie speaks with Fabio about what has...