The Digital Commerce Daily — June 13, 2026

The Digital Commerce Daily — June 13, 2026 Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing. In today's episode: • Google and Walmart Connect have linked up so that brands buying YouTube ads can now see exactly how those campaigns drive actual Walmart sales — a closed-loop retail media first for the platform. • Visa and OpenAI are building the payment rails for agentic commerce — meaning AI agents will soon be able to complete purchases autonomously on a shopper's behalf, reshaping the entire checkout funnel. • European recommerce player Swappie has hit EBITDA profitability for the first time, proving that the circular electronics DTC model can actually make money at scale. Fun fact: Roughly 70% of all online shopping carts are abandoned before checkout — but triggered cart abandonment emails, which typically arrive within an hour, recover an average of 5-11% of those lost sales and generate around $5.64 per email sent, making them among the highest-ROI messages in all of digital marketing. That single automated email consistently outperforms most paid acquisition channels on a per-dollar basis. Hosted by Marco and Klara.