The Digital Commerce Daily — June 08, 2026

The Digital Commerce Daily — June 08, 2026 Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing. In today's episode: • The UK's CMA has just forced Google to let publishers opt out of AI search features — a regulatory first that could directly reshape how product content surfaces in AI-generated results. • Western European brands expanding east are discovering that Central and Eastern Europe is not a cheaper version of Germany — it has fundamentally different fulfilment, payment, and trust expectations that are tripping up even experienced operators. • Sonos has quietly rebuilt its B2B digital commerce portal to give dealers a consumer-grade buying experience — a signal that even hardware brands under financial pressure are doubling down on owned digital channels over marketplace dependency. Fun fact: Amazon's affiliate program, Associates, launched in 1996 — making it older than Google itself — and it quietly pays out billions in commissions annually to over 900,000 participating publishers worldwide. The model was so unconventional at the time that industry analysts widely predicted it would fail within a year. Hosted by Marco and Klara.