Etsy announced a $100 million stock repurchase program, saying it would help offset the dilution of recent and future employee stock option exercises and restricted stock vesting. It will be funded from Etsy’s existing cash and cash equivalents or future Read more
Online sellers are busy with Christmas only 6 weeks away. Typically marketplaces put a moratorium on changes and tests during the holiday shopping season, but not this year. Whether announced or unannounced, changes are impacting sellers on eBay, Etsy, and Read more
Etsy is holding a sitewide sale that will kick off on November 20 and run through December 1st. The nearly 2-week promotion will feature a special landing page where Etsy will feature sale items, which must be discounted between 10 Read more
Etsy will run a big site-wide sale to attract holiday shoppers, CEO Josh Silverman announced on Monday during a call with Wall Street analysts. This will be the second site-wide sale after introducing new tools that let sellers opt-in to Read more
Etsy grew sales on its marketplace by 13.2% in the third quarter (July, August, September) compared to the third quarter of 2016. It reported $26 million in net income for the quarter, and it said it was expecting a strong Read more
Etsy is trying to make it easier for sellers to promote their shops and listings on social media sites with a new tool that centralizes the management of posts across social platforms. It makes suggestions on what sellers should share, Read more
Etsy is looking to facilitate more Forums discussions and is surveying sellers on how it can improve the boards where users gather to ask and answer questions, learn about site changes, and chat. Etsy wanted to know if participants believed Read more
Etsy CEO Josh Silverman announced a new mission and impact strategy as he digs into his role of growing the do-good B Corp to satisfy Wall Street. While focused on monetizing the site, Silverman wrote in a blog post on Read more
Etsy is starting to roll out a new option to offer gift wrapping, and all sellers should see the option in Shop Manager by Thursday. Etsy will begin displaying gift wrap options to shoppers over the next few weeks. The Read more
Etsy launched a new tool to help sellers edit listings more quickly. The bulk edit tool allows sellers to edit multiple listings at once and add up to 20 shop sections. Etsy answered seller comments and questions on an accompanying Read more
