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Ecommosaurus Podcast
by Ecommosaurus Podcast by 50 Pound Boson
Ecommosaurus is the podcast for ecommerce marketers of physical products brands.Ecommosaurus because it is big. Ecommerce as a channel is huge, it’s growing, and it’s eating physical brick-and-mortar retail.And Ecommosaurus because more than the other digital marketing disciplines, ecommerce for physical products brands requires using old school marketing and logistics skills that aren’t relevant to other digital marketing niches. Lead generation doesn’t require thinking about brand strategy. App marketing doesn’t require supply chain logistics or warehousing or fulfillment strategies.
Episodes
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Ep 213 - Amazon Seller Assistant Reality Check: Great Demo, Complicated Reality
Amazon made a lot of big promises about Seller Assistant at Accelerate. It would know your business, remember your goals, monitor your account, optimize your ads, and essentially run your store while you slept. The Ecommosaurus crew actually used it and is here to report back. The honest answer…
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Ep 212 - September Ecom Recap: Fake Influencers, Real Lawsuits, and Amazon Bidding on Reviews Now
September was a full one. The Ecommosaurus crew runs through the month's biggest stories, starting with Temu's army of fake influencers, 73 of the top 100 being artificial humans, and the swift and quiet dismantling of that network once it got exposed. Meta launched Muse to much fanfare, Amazon...
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Ep 211 - Amazon Accelerate Recap: Big Promises, New Tools, but Do We Believe It?
Amazon Accelerate delivered a lot of announcements and the Ecommosaurus crew is here to sort through what is genuinely exciting, what is probably overblown, and what deserves a raised eyebrow. The new Seller Assistant is promising to run your business. The new AI ads dashboard wants to manage…
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Ep 210 - What Agencies Know and Clients Do Not Want to Hear
Running a business is hard, and most business owners are doing it while also doing ten other things at once. The Ecommosaurus crew is not here to shame anyone. They are here because they live inside ecommerce accounts full time, and there are patterns they see over and over again that nobody is...
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Ep 209 - Ask the Dinosaurs: Amazon Seller Reddit Is a Cry for Help and We Are Here
The Ecommosaurus crew goes spelunking through Amazon seller Reddit and finds exactly what you would expect: genuine frustration, cautionary tales, a few great questions, and at least one post about somebody's mom getting scammed out of thousands of dollars. The crew works through the threads…
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Ep 208 - TikTok Shop: From Dance Videos to $112 Billion in GMV
Amazon spent 25 years building a place people go to buy things. TikTok spent three years building a place people go to be entertained, and commerce followed anyway. The Ecommosaurus crew does a full deep dive into TikTok Shop, where it came from, how fast it is actually growing, and what SMBs…
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Ep 207 - Fake Receipts, Fake Labels, Real Consequences: August Ecom Recap
August was a month full of people and platforms getting caught doing things they should not have been doing, and the Ecommosaurus crew is here for all of it. AI-generated fake expense receipts are now showing up in over 70% of flagged fraud cases, Made in USA labels are being faked at scale while...
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Ep 206 - Six Pack of Ecom: Ads, Inventory, AI Models, and a Crocs Mascot Named Niles
The Ecommosaurus crew cracks open a six pack of ecom topics and gets into it. Some of it is the kind of thing Amazon would prefer you not notice until it is already affecting your numbers. Some of it is policy changes with bad timing that will hit sellers hardest right before Q4. Some of it is...
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Ep 205 - Subscriptions 101: Not Just For Your Streaming Services
Subscribe and save is everywhere now, from Amazon to TikTok, but does it actually work for your business or your wallet? This episode, Parker, Sonny, Amy, and Amber get real about their own subscription habits, from dog food to kitty litter, and dig into what makes a subscription model worth it...
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Ep 204 - Christmas in August: Everything You Need to Do for BFCM Right Now
If you are waiting until fall to think about Black Friday, you are already behind. The Ecommosaurus crew breaks down everything sellers need to know about BFCM 2026 inventory planning, starting with the hard truth that FBA cutoff dates are closer than they feel and freight timelines are less...
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Ep 203 - July Ecom Recap: Amazon Crossed $200B, eBay Paid $56M, and TikTok Wants to Be Amazon
July had range. The Ecommosaurus crew runs through the month's biggest ecommerce stories, starting with Amazon crossing $200 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time while AWS and a $53 billion paper gain on the Anthropic investment stole the show. Then there is the eBay harassment scandal...
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Ep 202 - Would You Buy From You? What Actually Makes Shoppers Trust an Online Store
You have about five seconds to convince a first-time visitor that your store is the real deal, and most of them are judging you on design before they read a single word. In this episode the Ecommosaurus crew looks at online trust from the customer's perspective, covering everything from visual…
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Ep 201 - The Grumpy Guide to Amazon Listing Optimization in the AI Era
Fair warning: the Ecommosaurus crew was feeling a little Statler and Waldorf this episode, and honestly the topic earned it. Amazon is no longer just a keyword matching engine, and the way you optimize your listings needs to catch up. The crew breaks down what has actually changed now that Cosmos...
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Ep 200 - Ecommerce Then and Now: Ten Years of Chaos, Change, and Cheap Facebook Ads
The Ecommosaurus crew takes a trip down memory lane and looks at how much the ecommerce world has changed since they started working in it. Back in 2016, Facebook ads were absurdly cheap and hyper accurate, Amazon's ad system was an afterthought, and mobile checkout was so painful that cart...
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Ep 199 - Shopify Spring Editions: Everywhere, or Nowhere?
Shopify dropped its Spring Editions in late June, which is a choice, and the theme is Everywhere, meaning Shopify wants your products discoverable and purchasable inside AI engines, social platforms, and anywhere else a consumer might encounter them. The Ecommosaurus crew digs into what that...
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Ep 198 - June Ecom Recap: Shorter Titles, Smaller Commissions, and Emotional Support Tacos
June kept the crew busy. The Ecommosaurus team runs through the biggest ecommerce stories of the month, starting with Amazon shortening product titles from 200 characters down to 75 with a hard July 27 deadline, which is either fine or a complete disaster depending on how many SKUs you have.…
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Ep 197 - Dear Amazon: It's Not Us, It's You
Look, we love Amazon. We build businesses on Amazon. But sometimes Amazon makes it really, really hard to love Amazon. In this episode the Ecommosaurus crew sits down and does something therapeutic: they make a wishlist. A big one. And the theme that keeps coming up is that none of this stuff...
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Ep. 196 - The Ecommerce Health Check: Measuring Success Without Looking at Dollar Signs
Sales, ROAS, and ad spend tell you what happened. The right performance metrics tell you why. In Episode 195, the Ecommosaurus team breaks down the non-dollar-sign metrics that reveal the true health of your ecommerce business, including sessions, conversion rates, CTR, buy box percentage,...
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Ep 195 - From Search to Shop: How Google I/O 2026 Changes Everything (Maybe?)
Google I/O 2026 was full of big swings, and the Ecommosaurus crew is here to separate the signal from the hype. The Universal Cart and Universal Commerce Protocol promise a world where consumers can discover, compare, and buy without ever leaving Google's ecosystem. On paper it sounds...
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Ep 194 - May Madness: Google Wants Your Cart, Amazon Wants Your Data, and GameStop Wants eBay
May 2026 was a lot, and the Ecommosaurus crew is here to make sense of it. Google made its most aggressive move into commerce yet with a Universal Cart, Universal Commerce Protocol, and a Gemini-powered shopping agent that has Amazon squarely in its crosshairs. Amazon fired back by retiring Rufus...
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Ep 193 - The SEO Busy Work Trap: Where to Actually Spend Your Hours
How important is SEO busy work when you've got a thousand-page site and limited time? Episode 193 breaks down what actually matters in 2026 ,why meta keywords are dead for Google but alive for Baidu and your product feeds, why meta descriptions are really ad copy, and a triage framework for...
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Ep 192 - Five Scenarios, One Budget: The SMB Guide to Amazon Advertising
Your promotion budget is limited, but your business situation is anything but. In this episode, the Ecommosaurus crew tackles one of the most practical questions in Amazon advertising: given a finite budget, where exactly should your dollars go? The team walks through five distinct SMB scenarios....
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Ep 191 - Revisiting Brand Tailored Promotions: Growth Engine or Margin Killer?
Brand Tailored Promotions has been around long enough to go through a full evolution. Amazon originally launched it as a way to reach audiences with messaging and new product announcements, but inbox fatigue set in fast and Amazon retooled the program with a tighter focus on actual discount…
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Ep 190 - Robots, Revolts, and Reference Prices: April Ecommerce News Recap
April was a lot. Amazon now has a million robots in its warehouses, its AI shopping assistant Rufus is quietly adding things to your cart, and sellers chose Tax Day to stage an ad boycott over fees that are eating into already thin margins. Were they heard? We get into it. Shopify had a genuinely...
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Ep 189 - What to do if your once growing business stalls out?
When ecommerce growth hits a plateau, many brands fall into the "Agency Carousel" trap—firing partners instead of auditing their own business fundamentals. This episode provides a systematic framework to diagnose whether your decline is caused by a shrinking market, aggressive new competitors, or...
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Ep 188 - Is Amazon Still a Good Place to Launch a Business in 2026?
In this episode of the Ecommosaurus podcast, we host a six expert roundtable to determine if Amazon remains a "Buy" for new entrepreneurs in 2026 or if the "Great Squeeze" has made it too difficult to launch. We explore the massive shift in the marketplace, including how new tax regulations and…
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Ep 187 - Beyond the Hype: How SMBs Can Use AI to Save Time and Money
AI is everywhere, but how can small and mid-sized businesses actually use it in a way that drives real results? In this episode of the Ecommosaurus podcast, we break down the practical side of AI, moving beyond the hype and into everyday applications that save time and money. We explore the four...
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Ep 186 - Amazon Fee Fatigue vs. The Walmart Gold Rush: Reality or Mirage
In this episode of Ecommosaurus, we break down Amazon fee fatigue and whether the “Walmart Gold Rush” is real or just hype. We unpack the 2026 Amazon fee increases and what they actually mean for margins, then compare them to Walmart’s promise of lower fees and cheaper ads. From conversion rates...
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Ep 185 - Cinderella Stories & Checkout Collapses: March Madness in Ecommerce
In this March Ecommerce News Recap, we break down one of the most chaotic months in recent memory, from Burger King’s AI “Patty” monitoring employee manners to Walmart pulling the plug on ChatGPT Instant Checkout after major conversion failures. We dig into what this means for the future of…
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Ep 184 - From DTC to Amazon: The Mistakes That Kill Your Launch
In this episode of Ecommosaurus, we break down the most common mistakes DTC brands make when launching on Amazon and why so many get it wrong. From misunderstanding Amazon as a controlled storefront instead of a competitive search engine, to underestimating inventory, reviews, and PPC, we unpack...
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Ep 183 - What really is the Marketing Funnel in 2026?
In this episode of the Ecommosaurus podcast, the team dives into the heated debate over whether the traditional marketing funnel is officially dead or simply evolving into a messy "Brand Web" of touchpoints . They break down why the classic AIDA model—Awareness, Interest, Desire, and Action—is...
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Ep 182 - Oil, Outages, AI Backlash, and Burger CEOs: The Ecommerce Six Pack
In this episode of Ecommosaurus, we crack open a six-pack of ecommerce stories shaping the current business landscape. We start with global unrest and rising oil prices threatening supply chains and freight costs, then dive into the growing QuitChatGPT movement after OpenAI’s defense contract...
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Ep 181 - Tariffs, Harassment, AI Agents, and a Pig Mask, February Got Weird: Ecommerce News Recap
In this February ecommerce news recap, the Ecommosaurus team breaks down a month that felt more like a season finale. We unpack the final $3 million settlement in the eBay harassment case, the Supreme Court’s tariff ruling and the immediate policy scramble that followed, and what ongoing trade...
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Ep 180 - Your Amazon Listing Is a Taco (And Quality Is the Secret Sauce)
In this episode of Ecommosaurus, we break down Amazon listing quality through a simple lens: think of it as a funnel or maybe even a taco. At the top, SEO-driven titles and keywords help you show up in the grid (and yes, you can measure this inside Brand Analytics). In the middle, your hero image...
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Ep 179 - Ads Are Coming to ChatGPT: Smart Monetization or Slippery Slope?
In this episode of Ecommosaurus, we break down OpenAI’s decision to begin testing ads inside ChatGPT and what it could mean for ecommerce. Still in beta, these placements raise big questions about user experience, trust, and performance. We look at early examples like the sponsored “Heirloom...
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Ep 178 - AI Data and Traceability 101: What Ecommerce Can Measure (and What It Cannot)
AI traffic has officially moved from curiosity to concern for ecommerce sellers. In this episode of Ecommosaurus, we break down AI data and traceability 101, explaining where AI-driven visibility actually shows up, how to find it in Google Analytics and Shopify, and why traditional click-based...
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Ep 177 - AI Wants a Cut, Returns Want Your Margin, and TikTok Wants Your Warehouse: January Ecom News Recap
AI wants a cut of your checkout, returns are eating your margins alive, and TikTok is eyeing your warehouse space. In this January ecommerce news recap, the Ecommosaurus team breaks down the biggest stories shaping the start of the year, from Shopify’s AI checkout tax and agentic shopping...
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Ep 176 - Fandom Commerce 101: What Taylor Swift, Pat McAfee, and Twitch Teach Small Brands
Influencer marketing is not about chasing big names or massive follower counts. It is about turning relationships into revenue. In this episode of Ecommosaurus, we break down how SMBs can use influencers, creators, and even themselves to build fandom-driven commerce that big brands struggle to...
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Ep 175 - Ecommerce in 2026: What Actually Matters vs Guru Fear-Mongering
Every guru seems to have a hot take on what you must do in 2026 or your ecommerce business will fail, and most of it sounds suspiciously like advice from five years ago with a fresh coat of AI paint. In this episode of Ecommosaurus, we sort hype from reality, breaking down which warnings are lazy...
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Ep 174 - Shopify Winter Editions: AI, Ambition, and a Whole Lot of “Not Live Yet”
In this episode of Ecommosaurus, the team breaks down Shopify’s Winter 2026 Editions, Renaissance, focusing on what actually helps merchants versus what just sounds good on a keynote slide. We dig into Sidekick and Pulse, Shopify’s expanding AI layer, covering personalized recommendations…
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Ep. 173 - From Shopify Crashes to TikTok Deals: December’s Wild Ecommerce Recap
December didn’t slow down—ecommerce went full chaos mode. In Episode 173 of Ecommosaurus, Tim, Amy, and Amber recap the biggest December stories impacting brands selling online. From Shopify going down on Cyber Monday to the reality behind AI’s holiday hype, we break down what actually…
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Ep. 172- Ad Spend: Choose Your Fighter (Nerding Out on Ad Buying) (repost)
In this reairing of Episode 153 — the most-listened-to Ecommosaurus episode of 2025 — Ted, Sonny, and Jaclyn dive deep into the ad buying world, putting today’s biggest channels head-to-head. Kicking things off with Steven Pope’s bold claim that “Sponsored Product is perhaps the single most...
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Ep 171 – Annual Festivus Episode: We Didn’t Even Try to Be Nice
It is time for Festivus, and the grievances are airing loudly. In this special holiday episode of Ecommosaurus, the team unloads on everything that made 2025 exhausting: AI slop everywhere, tariff chaos wrecking margins and forecasting, Amazon changing rules mid-game, listings stuck in moderation...
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Ep 170 - Swiftonomics, Skynet Sellers, and Social Shopping Takeover: 2026 Bold Predictions
The future of ecommerce is arriving fast, and it is stranger than fiction. Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce might just create a retail phenomenon. Amazon will automate sellers into oblivion. AI will help you shop but not buy for you. Social shopping and live shows will start replacing traditional...
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Ep 169 - Pantone Picked White, Shopify Went Dark, and Meta Wants Your DMs: November News Recap
November delivered an aesthetic called “Cloud Dancer” (aka white), but nothing else felt clean or serene. We saw infrastructure breakdowns during peak commerce, Amazon trialing pizza-speed delivery, TikTok Shop casually reaching eBay size, and Meta announcing it will use private AI conversations…
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Ep 168: The Tur-‘Key’ Takeaways From 2025's Ecommerce Feast
It’s Thanksgiving at the ecommerce table, and we’re dishing out the Tur-‘Key’ Takeaways from a year stuffed with surprises. Yes, tariffs were a drunk-uncle disaster and Amazon’s portals were canned-cranberry unprepared—but AI tools finally started tasting good, consumers stayed resilient, and…
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Ep 167 - Amazon unBoxed 2025: Hype, Hope, or Hot Air?
Amazon swears it is making advertising simpler. Then it drops a dozen new tools, new naming conventions, new metrics, and a “full funnel” push that conveniently sells more of its inventory. We sort through the chaos: What actually helps SMBs? What is meant for enterprise only? And what feels…
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Ep 166 - The Secret Menu at Amazon: Advanced Tools Every Brand Should Be Using
Everyone talks about FBA and Sponsored Products like they are the holy grail,but that is just the tip of the iceberg. We are spilling the tea on the stuff Amazon does not brag about, the programs that actually move the needle. Think Brand Registry (spoiler: it is way more than just IP…
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Ep 165 - BFCM Traffic Spike or Traffic Trap? SMBs, Let’s Talk.
Yes, BFCM traffic skyrockets. No, that does not mean you should throw your whole bank account at ads. This episode dives into the myth vs. reality of holiday visibility, when to push hard, when to coast the organic wave, and how to set limits before your spend snowballs into regret. We explain…
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Ep 164 - AWS Went Dark, TikTok Went Rogue, and Walmart Just Got Chatty: October News Recap
October was a rollercoaster in ecommerce land. AWS decided to take an unplanned nap, leaving websites (and sellers) staring at a spinning wheel of doom. TikTok keeps making advertisers do the robot dance with GMV Max, while Walmart got all futuristic by letting ChatGPT do the selling for them....
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Ecommosaurus is the podcast for ecommerce marketers of physical products brands.Ecommosaurus because it is big. Ecommerce as a channel is huge, it’s growing, and it’s eating physical brick-and-mortar retail.And Ecommosaurus because more than the other digital marketing disciplines, ecommerce for physical products brands requires using old school marketing and logistics skills that aren’t relevant to other digital marketing niches. Lead generation doesn’t require thinking about brand strategy. App marketing doesn’t require supply chain logistics or warehousing or fulfillment strategies.
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Ecommosaurus Podcast by 50 Pound Boson
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Ecommosaurus is the podcast for ecommerce marketers of physical products brands.Ecommosaurus because it is big. Ecommerce as a channel is huge, it’s growing, and it’s eating physical brick-and-mortar retail.And Ecommosaurus because more than the other digital marketing disciplines, ecommerce for...
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