EP216 - Marketplace Pulse founder Juozas Kaziukenas  Episode 216 is an interview with Juozas Kaziukenas aka “Joe” (@juokaz), the Founder and CEO of Marketplace Pulse (@marketplacepulse). In this interview, we discuss the state of North American marketplaces, their trajectories, and current impacts of Covid-19. Don’t forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. Episode 216 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded live on Thursday, April 17th, 2020. http://jasonandscot.com Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. Transcript Jason: [0:24] Welcome to the Jason and Scott show this is episode 216 being recorded on Thursday April 16th 2020 I’m your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I’m here with your co-host Scot Wingo. Scot: [0:39] Hey Jason and welcome back Jason Scott show listeners Jason we’ve had on our list of folks who want to have on the show for a while our guests today, but because we have a weird recording schedule because you and I have day jobs we usually record late at night and that’s inconvenient for most guests we were excited one of the Silver Linings of the pandemic is we can now record during the day so we are really excited to have Joe Kazuki – also known as Joe Joe is the CEO and founder of marketplace pulse welcome to the show Joe. Joe: [1:14] Hey Jason and Scott thanks for having me. Jason: [1:17] It’s awesome to finally have you on the show Joe and as Scott pointed out I’m having trouble adapting to this giant Yellow orb that’s facing me while I record a podcast that feels very unusual for me. So Jo I know you’ve listened the show before before we jump into it what we always like to get a little bit of background about our guests so can you tell us a little bit about what you you did prior to Marketplace pulse and what led you to start. Joe: [1:49] So I think all the way back in 2008 me and a bunch of friends started the books e-commerce company. Kind of Amazon 0.1 and then 10 years forward from that I’ve been much more focused on marketplaces stand of understanding the markets both here in the US and. And what right. Jason: [2:13] That’s awesome and so then like what gave you the actual inspiration to launch launch the like sort of editorial side versus being a practitioner. Joe: [2:26] It’s funny because I was reading about biggest stars and YouTube. And it kind of meat it’s kind of made me think like who would be the biggest retailers and the biggest merchants on marketplaces specifically being Amazon so Marketplace post ended up starting off as literally a list of top Amazon sellers. Thank you used to be called Doubles in size that’s calm and since the launch I started noticing that a lot of Sellers and other brands in this space, kept coming to the site to check the rankings to see how everyone’s doing and since we were kind of collecting so much data and through that data getting so much Insight that overtime kind of blood more and more towards the story of content as you can. The trends we’re seeing the changes we’re seeing that the data we are seeing that all about that content and. I think I spent the next three no it and it sort of content and kind of sharing articles on our side became a pretty big Focus. Scot: [3:28] Very cool so tell us where does the data come from so so I think I have an idea but I kind of want to hear it from you and you maybe include what marketplaces does your technology look at and then what types of things do you look at across those marketplaces. Joe: [3:45] So we try to look at all the major Market places both in the US and Europe and elsewhere so like Amazon eBay Walmart cool shopping target market place which at Sea and I’m sure and others as well. And the data you collect is kind of center aro