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Audit your platform dependencies and marketing channels this week as major marketplaces shift terms and growth rates face fresh scrutiny.
- E-commerceTikTok Shop reached fifty billion dollars in gross merchandise value in the first half of 2026 while Shein scaled back operations in Vietnam and faced slowing growth ahead of a Hong Kong public offering.
- MarketingAmazon will use Twitch streamer content to train its generative AI models by default and Stanley 1913 adapted its search marketing strategy to focus on natural language answers.
- SEAU Mobile partnered with OpenAI for enterprise AI solutions in Malaysia and South Korean label Satur launched a flagship store in Thailand via Jaspal Group.
Intelligence
Evergreen SEA commerce reference.
TikTok Shop's LIVE GMV Max formula divides GMV by ad spend only. The host fee isn't in it
TikTok's own liveroom ROI formula counts ad spend against GMV. The livestream's other real cost, the host or creator fee, has no published rate anywhere.
Account healthTikTok Shop can deactivate a shop at exactly 0 points. Shopee and Lazada never publish that number
Shopee, TikTok Shop, and Lazada each score seller standing differently. Only one of the three publishes its exact deactivation threshold.
GMVShopee's GMV grew 30% last quarter. Its own profit metric fell 16%
Shopee's Q1 2026 GMV grew 30.2% year on year. Adjusted EBITDA fell 15.6% in the same earnings release, the same quarter, opposite directions.
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Stack and SaaS comparisons.
TikTok Shop's ad platform stopped taking manual bids in July 2025. Shopee and Lazada still do
How Shopee Ads, TikTok Shop's GMV Max, and Lazada's Sponsored Discovery actually structure a budget and a bid, not what each one costs.
AccountingXero vs QuickBooks Online for GST-registered sellers in Singapore, 2026
Xero's Premium plan costs S$95 a month and gates multi-currency there. QuickBooks Plus costs S$79 and includes it two tiers earlier.
BankingDBS charges S$40 a month unless you hold S$10,000 in the account. Aspire charges S$0
Singapore business account fees compared across DBS, OCBC, UOB, Aspire, Wise Business, and Airwallex, for online sellers deciding where to bank.
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