eBay's revenue in the first quarter of 2025 amounted to approximately 2.6 billion U.S. dollars. This figure is slightly higher than the reported net revenue from the previous quarter. eBay's net revenue peaked in the fourth quarter of 2018 when it reached almost 2.9 billion U.S. dollars.

eBay's classifieds revenue in the second quarter of 2020 amounted to 201 million U.S. dollars. This represents a 26 percent year-on-year decline. The classifieds revenue is counted towards the company's marketing services and other revenues segment.

In the third quarter of 2024, eBay reported a net income of 588 million U.S. dollars, up from the 545 million dollars reported in the corresponding quarter in the previous year.

eBay is an e-commerce platform, at first only providing customer-to-customer auction services, expanding into business-to-consumer shortly afterwards. In the 2000’s, eBay went on a spending...

From 2004 to 2024, the net revenue of Amazon e-commerce and service sales has increased tremendously. In the fiscal year ending December 31, the multinational e-commerce company's net revenue was almost *** billion U.S. dollars, up from *** billion U.S. dollars in 2023.Amazon.com, a U.S. e-commerce company originally founded in 1994, is the world’s largest online retailer of books, clothing, electronics, music, and many more goods. As of 2024, the company generates the majority of it's net revenues through online retail product sales, followed by third-party retail seller services, cloud computing services, and retail subscription services including Amazon Prime. From seller to digital environment Through Amazon, consumers are able to purchase goods at a rather discounted price from both small and large companies as well as from other users. Both new and used goods are sold on the website. Due to the wide variety of goods available at prices which often undercut local brick-and-mortar retail offerings, Amazon has dominated the retailer market. As of 2024, Amazon’s brand worth amounts to over *** billion U.S. dollars, topping the likes of companies such as Walmart, Ikea, as well as digital competitors Alibaba and eBay. One of Amazon's first forays into the world of hardware was its e-reader Kindle, one of the most popular e-book readers worldwide. More recently, Amazon has also released several series of own-branded products and a voice-controlled virtual assistant, Alexa. Headquartered in North America Due to its location, Amazon offers more services in North America than worldwide. As a result, the majority of the company’s net revenue in 2023 was actually earned in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. In 2023, approximately *** billion U.S. dollars was earned in North America compared to only roughly *** billion U.S. dollars internationally.

This statistic shows the revenue from online retail and mail order goods in Germany from the third quarter of 2014 to the third quarter of 2018, broken down by type of seller. In the third quarter of 2018, online market places like Amazon and eBay generated a revenue of 7.39 billion euros.

With around 9.4 million downloads both on Android and iOS devices, most downloads of the eBay app in 2023 came from users located in the United States. The United Kingdom ranked second out of 60 countries analyzed, with a total of 2.4 million downloads on both operating systems. In Germany, downloads via the Google Play Store exceeded those on the Apple App Store. The most popular C2C marketplace Globally, eBay nets an average of two million downloads each month from online shoppers around the world. The C2C (consumer-to-consumer) company, founded back in 1995, has become one of the most popular marketplaces globally. The website, ebay.com, also receives hundreds of millions of visits each month. Along with popularity, eBay has seen recognizable success over the decades. Since 2014, eBay has consistently seen quarterly revenue figures over two billion U.S. dollars. eBay in the U.S. As the marketplace’s home market, it comes as no surprise that the United States, leading in the ranking of eBay app downloads, is also its most lucrative country of operations. In the U.S. alone, eBay’s revenue in 2022 reached over 4.8 billion U.S. dollars, meaning that the U.S. generated roughly half of the company’s global earnings that year.

According to estimates, Amazon claimed the top spot among online retailers in the United States in 2023, capturing 37.6 percent of the market. Second place was occupied by the e-commerce site of the retail chain Walmart, with a 6.4 percent market share, followed in third place by Apple, with 3.6 percent.

Amazon’s continued success

Amazon has long dominated the e-commerce market as the world’s favorite online marketplace. In 2022, company hit over half a trillion U.S. dollars in net sales. The United States is by far Amazon’s most profitable market, as the U.S. branch generated over 356 billion U.S. dollars in sales in 2022. Germany ranked second, with 33 billion dollars, followed closely by the United Kingdom with 30 billion dollars.

Online shopping on the rise

Online shopping has grown significantly over the past decade, with more people turning to the internet for their shopping needs. The proof is in the numbers: the U.S. e-commerce industry was worth almost a trillion dollars in 2023. By 2027, forecasts show that the online market will grow to more than 50 percent. U.S. online shoppers purchase fashion and food and beverages the most via the internet.

Consumer purchases of secondhand goods in Great Britain from 2011 to 2023 has seen fluctuations. In 2020, the percentage change in the sales volume of secondhand good reached its lowest ever and decreased by **** percent. In 2023, the percentage change in the sales volume of secondhand goods from the year prior recorded a decrease of ** percent. Revenue of ethical products in the UK The revenue from ethical clothing sales in the period between 2014 and 2020 has been on an upward trend. The revenue from the ethical consumer market in 2020 was ** million British pounds. Compared to 2015, this is ** million pounds higher. This is similar to the revenue trend seen from ethical cosmetic sales and fair-trade food and drink sales in the UK. The sales revenue from ethical cosmetics in the UK from 2008 to 2020 doubled in value, starting at *** million British pounds in sales and reaching *** million pounds in 2020. The sales revenue from fair-trade food and drink have an even larger market than that from ethical cosmetics. In 2020, sales revenue from fair-trade food and drink reached *** billion pounds. Revenue of vegetarian and plant-based products in the UK One of the easiest ways for consumers to reduce their carbon footprint and, in the process, to improve their health and be ethically minded is to reduce consumption of animal and meat-products. Unfortunately, the sales revenue of vegetarian products and plant-based alternatives in the UK from 2010 to 2018 has struggled. However, since 2016 these products seem to be gaining popularity once more. Plant-based alternatives could be the key to boosting revenue, since when combined with the revenue from vegetarian products, sales reached *** billion British pounds in 2018.

PayPal's users - tracked by way of active registered accounts - increased into the first quarter of 2025, after several quarters of decline in early 2024. Daily active users (DAU) can vary per country, however. PayPal use in the UK, for instance, was somewhat higher than in Germany but significantly higher than the DAU found in 19 other European countries. PayPal in general PayPal is a global online payment business allowing users to make payments and money transfers online. In 2002, PayPal was acquired by auction site eBay and has made great gains in visibility and online popularity since then. The service is often considered as the leader of the online and mobile payment market. Many retailers such as Best Buy and Home Depot and digital content sellers like Humble Bundle or Valve use PayPal as an in-store payment or digital wallet top-up method. Online payment providers usually generate revenue through transaction fees. Adoption Recently, brick-and-mortar retailers and shops have also begun to accept PayPal as a mobile payment method. As of December 2018, 36 percent of North American retailers already accepted PayPal as a payment method and 34 percent planned to accept it within the next 24 months. Customers are required to use their NFC-enabled mobile device to pay or use a PayPal card, which can also be swiped or touched in at physical point-of-sale locations. In 2018, the service's annual mobile payment volume amounted to *** billion US dollars, representing a ** percent growth compared to the previous year.