Brands have long considered the value and prospects of selling directly to consumers. In some instances, marketplaces tampered with those considerations providing quick and efficient ways to reach consumers and sell products with a lower level of effort and barriers to entry. While serving a need to some, marketplaces present their own set of challenges that can be solved by going direct leading companies to either diversify their current channel mix by launching their own DTC or shift their strategy to just DTC which has been supercharged by COVID-19.