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Depop

Youth fashion C2C marketplace now owned by eBay and kept as a distinct brand.

marketplace · Index #4 · confidence high

Intelligence briefing

Depop is tracked on Mooselen as a marketplace running a peer to peer model across US, UK, Global. Headquarters: London, United Kingdom. Ownership status in the Mooselen ledger: owned by ebay. eBay completed acquisition July 30, 2026; Depop remains a distinct brand.

Categories covered: fashion, youth. Authentication model: marketplace policies. Fulfillment model: seller fulfilled.

Youth fashion C2C marketplace now owned by eBay and kept as a distinct brand. Mooselen treats this as a verified profile card fact, not a forecast.

On the Mooselen Index (edition 2026-08-03), Depop ranks #4 in the Marketplace tier. Youth fashion resale marketplace now owned by eBay after the July 30, 2026 acquisition close, kept as a distinct brand. The Mooselen Index ranks operators on disclosed scale, category position, and momentum. Detailed company profiles are included with Mooselen Professional. Current ranking edition cutoff: August 3, 2026 (includes eBay completion of the Depop acquisition).

Disclosed revenue and full GMV definitions are not invented on this public profile. Where Mooselen has published numbers, they appear in Wire, Analysis, or Index sources linked below. Profile last verified 2026-08-03 with high data confidence.

Structured profile

Business model peer to peer

Headquarters London, United Kingdom

Geography US, UK, Global

Ownership owned by ebay

Ownership note eBay completed acquisition July 30, 2026; Depop remains a distinct brand.

Categories fashion, youth

Authentication marketplace policies

Fulfillment seller fulfilled

Disclosed revenue Not publicly disclosed on this profile card

Disclosed GMV/GMS See Index scale notes when entitled; public Signal and Wire disclosures are linked below when available

Last verified 2026-08-03

Company developments

Chronological, attributable developments. Dates describe when events occurred, not when every underlying company field was reverified.

  1. marketplace launch

    Depop unveils first campaign under eBay ownership, deepens music strategy

    Source reference pending public link verification

  2. market data release

    Depop reported GMV above $1 billion as of February, according to Glossy coverage cited in Mooselen Wire.

    Youth fashion marketplaces use GMV as a scale headline; Mooselen treats it as incomplete without margin context.

    Source reference pending public link verification

  3. acquisition

    eBay completed its acquisition of Depop and said Depop will remain a distinct brand and platform.

    Ownership close is when trust tooling, paid acquisition, and inventory strategy can change without a separate board.

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This profile was last verified 2026-08-03. Older information is retained as historical evidence until new sources are reviewed.

Mooselen Analysis

Wire coverage

August 11, 2026

Resale platforms lean on GMV even as operators need margin and take-rate context

Glossy reported that The RealReal and other resale marketplaces routinely emphasize gross merchandise value when communicating with investors and the public. Fashionphile disclosed GMV exceeding $500 million, while Depop reported GMV above $1 billion as of February, according to the outlet. The RealReal similarly highlights the metric across its financial communications.

August 11, 2026

Week in fashion resale: ThredUp Q2 print and Depop under eBay still set the operating agenda

The material public signals since late July remain eBay completing its Depop acquisition while keeping Depop as a distinct brand, and ThredUp posting second quarter 2026 revenue of $90.8 million with record Active Buyers before softening second half guidance for price-sensitive demand, according to the companies' primary releases covered in prior Mooselen Wire editions.

July 1, 2026

Depop flips its fee model: sellers stop paying, buyers start

Depop is removing the 10 percent selling fee it charged sellers and shifting the cost to buyers, who will now pay roughly 5 percent extra at checkout, the platform confirmed. The move follows a pattern Vinted set years ago: kill the seller fee to flood the marketplace with supply, then recover the take rate on the buy side where price sensitivity is lower.

June 18, 2026

eBay still dwarfs the pure-play field on volume

eBay reported gross merchandise value of 79.6 billion dollars in 2025, a reminder that the largest resale-capable marketplace is not a fashion specialist at all. The pure-play resale names compete for a category eBay treats as one vertical among many, which is precisely why eBay is buying Depop to sharpen its fashion and younger-buyer position.

June 4, 2026

eBay to buy Depop from Etsy for 1.2 billion dollars

eBay agreed to acquire fashion resale marketplace Depop from Etsy for about 1.2 billion dollars, a deal aimed at strengthening eBay’s fashion offering and drawing a younger demographic, first reported as the largest resale deal of the period. Etsy exits a property that never fit its handmade-goods core; eBay gains a Gen Z-heavy fashion community it has struggled to build organically.

June 2, 2021

Etsy buys Depop for 1.6 billion dollars to reach Gen Z

Etsy announced it would acquire Depop for 1.625 billion dollars in a mostly cash deal, according to reporting in Vox and the Wall Street Journal, betting that the London-founded, Gen Z-heavy resale app could extend Etsy beyond handmade goods. The deal landed at the peak of pandemic-era resale enthusiasm, when tech valuations were soaring and secondhand was reframing itself as the future of fashion retail.

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Executive notes

Jamie Iannone and Peter Semple frame Depop under eBay ownership

After eBay completed its acquisition of Depop on July 30, 2026, eBay chief executive Jamie Iannone said the combination expands reach with the next generation of buyers and sellers while Depop keeps a distinct customer experience. Depop chief executive Peter Semple called the move a new chapter and said Depop would continue delivering the experience its users value, according to eBay's press release.

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