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Etsy Shares a Mid-Year Snapshot of Where Seller Trends Are Heading
Etsy published a mid-year trends update this week. Here’s our read on the directional shifts in categories and buyer behavior, and what’s worth acting on.
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Etsy Tightens the Wording on Its Prohibited Items Policy
Etsy revised language in its Prohibited Items policy this week, sharpening definitions around hazardous materials and weapon-adjacent listings. Here’s what changed.
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Etsy Quietly Redesigns Its Seller Community Forums
Etsy restructured its seller forums this week without an announcement email. Here’s what changed in the layout and categories, and how sellers are reacting.
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Etsy Is Testing a Revised Review Prompt, and Sellers Are Split on What It’s Doing to Review Counts
Etsy is A/B testing a revised post-purchase review prompt. Early seller reports since mid-July show faster reviews arriving, but with fewer written comments.
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Etsy Star Seller Criteria Quietly Adjusted for Q3
Etsy nudged part of the Star Seller badge evaluation this month. Here’s what actually moved, what didn’t, and what sellers near the threshold are reporting.
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Etsy Adjusts the Offsite Ads Opt-Out Window for Smaller Shops
Etsy is changing when new small shops can opt out of Offsite Ads. Here’s what’s shifting this month and what sellers under the $10,000 threshold should check.
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Etsy Updates Its Search Ranking Signals Again This Quarter
Sellers report search placement shifts since early July as Etsy adjusts ranking signal weighting. Here’s what’s changing and what to check in your own shop.
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The 4th of July Weekend, By the Numbers (Such As They Are)
Early Independence Day weekend reports from Etsy sellers show the usual holiday traffic dip, plus a few category patterns worth watching into next week.
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Etsy Moves to Let Sellers Appeal More Policy Violations
Etsy announced this week that it’s expanding listing-level appeals beyond Creativity Standards specifically, with a stated goal of broad appeals coverage across policy violation types by the end of this year. Given how central the appeals process has been to our coverage since almost the very beginning, this is a genuinely significant update worth unpacking…
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Summer 2026 Trends for Etsy Sellers: Full of Color and Creativity
Fresh trend guidance published this week updates and extends the Spring/Summer direction Etsy first outlined back in February, refining the seasonal picture specifically for the summer stretch now underway. How this builds on what we’ve tracked since February The Patina Blue and Washed Linen direction announced back in December, and elaborated in February’s Spring/Summer report,…