The data describes the number of active buyers on social commerce platform Etsy from 2012 to 2017. As of 2017, close to 33.4 million buyers had purchased goods through the Etsy ecosystem. This figure represents an increase from the 28.6 million buyers in the previous year.
Etsy is an online commerce website with strong integration of social features such as user profiles and collections, as well as interactive seller storefronts and the ability to share content to other social networks. In 2017, Etsy’s annual revenue amounted to more than 441 million USD, with the majority of revenues generated through its marketplace.
