E-Commerce Platform Providers Grow 20.1% This Year Among Top 1000 Web Retailers

CHICAGO, Sept. 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- With online retail sales growing by 14% in Q2, according to the Commerce Department, more web merchants are heavily investing in e-commerce technology. More than 86% of e-retailers recently surveyed by Internet Retailer say they will increase their spending on e-commerce technologies and services next year. Internet Retailer's latest research guide, the 2016 Leading Vendors to the Top 1000, released today, demonstrates that the 1000 largest web merchants in the U.S. are deploying more commercial e-commerce applications and services, particularly in rapidly evolving areas such as mobile commerce and online advertising.

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The 2016 Leading Vendors to the Top 1000 ranks the top 10 e-commerce solution providers in each of 30 technologies and services categories--from affiliate marketing to web site testing and optimization--based on the number of their e-retail clients ranked in the Top 1000 and the annual web sales those Top 1,000 clients represent. (The Top 1000 rankings are culled from the Internet Retailer 2015 Top 500 Guide® and Second 500, which rank web merchants in the U.S. and Canada by annual online sales.)

While the number of clients for vendors ranked in the 2016 Leading Vendors to the Top 1000 across all 30 solutions categories (some appear in multiple categories) collectively grew their retailer base 4.8% to 14,328 in 2015 from 13,675 in 2014, vendors in several categories grew much faster. Based on the number of Top 1000 clients, e-commerce platform was the fastest-growing vendor category with a customer base that grew 20.1% to 508 retailers in 2015. That compares with growth of 19.2% to 236 retailers for mobile commerce, growth of 15.6% to 252 merchants for customer service software and 15.1% to 856 e-retailers in online advertising. The fifth-fastest growing vendor category, website testing/optimization, grew by 8.8% to 432 Top 1,000 retailers.

In all, 197 leading e-commerce vendors are listed with 45 data points per vendor listing that reveal robust details on the web technologies and services they provide and the top e-retailing clients they serve. "For web merchants looking for prospective technology and services providers and for e-commerce solutions providers wanting  to assess their competitors' market penetration and prospect for new retail clients, there's no better e-commerce resource than the Leading Vendors to the Top 1000," says Jack Love, Internet Retailer publisher.

The Internet Retailer 2016 Leading Vendors to the Top 1000 guide is available in a 362-page, full-color digital version.

For research information or to arrange an interview, contact: Mark Brohan, vice president, Internet Retailer, at 312.362.9535 or [email protected].

For media inquiries, contact: Anna Applegate, corporate marketing communications, Internet Retailer, at 312.572.6264 or [email protected]. 

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