The Digital Commerce Daily — May 25, 2026

The Digital Commerce Daily — May 25, 2026 Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing. In today's episode: • Europe's dominant secondhand marketplace has locked in its payments infrastructure for another term, signalling confidence in C2C commerce growth across the continent. • A Berlin startup that helps brands track their visibility inside AI search results just hit $10M ARR — proof that AI search monitoring is becoming a must-have for ecommerce marketers. • Germany's advertising market has broken the €50 billion barrier for the first time, with digital channels driving the record growth — a landmark moment for Europe's largest ecommerce economy. Fun fact: Facebook's ad auction doesn't actually sell to the highest bidder — a brand willing to pay $10 CPM can consistently beat one bidding $50 CPM if its creative drives stronger engagement, because Meta's algorithm weights predicted user value over raw bid price. This means a scrappy DTC brand with compelling video can outcompete a Fortune 500 with a massive budget simply by being more interesting. Hosted by Marco and Klara.