Marketplace is produced in Los Angeles with bureaus in New York, Washington, D.C., Portland, Baltimore, London, and Shanghai.

[2] Besides the flagship daytime half-hour program, Marketplace also produces a companion show, the seven-and-a-half-minute-long Marketplace Morning Report, hosted by David Brancaccio, which airs on many public radio stations during the last segment of the NPR program Morning Edition.

The program survived through the help of the University of Southern California (USC), which acquired the show, and later, in 1990, with the underwriting of General Electric.

[9] This acquisition was the subject of a lawsuit by Public Radio International, which said it had not given its contractually required approval for the sale.

[10] In 2004, American Public Media was founded as the production and distribution arm of MPR, and is currently the producer and distributor of Marketplace.

In 2015, Marketplace began to offer non-broadcast-only podcasts: Actuality (2015–2016 with Quartz),[18][19] Codebreaker,[20] and Corner Office.