The Digital Commerce Daily

The Digital Commerce Daily — September 20, 2026 In this episode: • Meta is consolidating creator-brand partnerships into a single hub, making it easier for ecommerce advertisers to activate influencer-driven shopping campaigns at scale. • New data shows retailers are actively reallocating marketing budgets in response to AI platforms influencing purchase decisions — a structural shift in how ecommerce spend is planned. • eBay is making a serious push into live shopping in Germany, with its Head of eBay Live arguing that the auction-room energy of live commerce is exactly what the European market needs. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — September 19, 2026 In this episode: • JD.com's potential acquisition of MediaMarkt and Saturn's parent company would hand China's second-largest ecommerce giant a massive physical and digital retail foothold across Europe. • Dr. Squatch's decision to begin Black Friday and Cyber Monday planning in January — including Amazon Prime Day as a rehearsal — reveals how DTC health and beauty brands are fundamentally restructuring their annual marketing calendars around peak commerce moments. • IAB Europe is pushing to standardise how commerce media is measured beyond the digital shelf — opening in-store and travel media to the same rigour applied to online retail media networks. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — September 18, 2026 In this episode: • A single data point — 94% of luxury resale revenue on TikTok Shop coming from livestreams — reframes what live shopping is actually capable of selling. • Sam's Club is launching predictive purchase-intent targeting inside its retail media network — a direct challenge to Amazon's closed-loop ad advantage. • Google has stripped out product carousels from shopping-related search results across the EEA — a structural change that directly threatens organic and paid visibility for European ecommerce merchants. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — September 17, 2026 In this episode: • Crocs' CMO revealed the exact TikTok Shop playbook that made a legacy footwear brand one of the platform's top-performing sellers — and it's a replicable model for any DTC brand. • New data shows Amazon has closed the gap on Scandinavian fashion leader Boozt in Denmark, signalling the next front in Amazon's European marketplace expansion. • QVC veteran Kim Gravel is launching her own independent live shopping platform, betting that appointment-style live commerce can work outside the TikTok and Amazon ecosystem. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — September 16, 2026 In this episode: • Lowe's is formally merging marketing and digital commerce under one executive — a structural signal that the CMO role is being redefined around ecommerce ownership. • Meta's $17–18 billion settlement with US states sets new guardrails on teen-targeted advertising that every ecommerce brand running Meta campaigns needs to understand now. • Outdoor furniture brand Polywood has hit 75% of revenue through ecommerce — a DTC data point that reframes how seasonal and made-to-order brands should think about digital-first strategy heading into BFCM. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — September 15, 2026 In this episode: • OpenAI is launching a new ad unit that replaces the click-to-site model with a click-to-AI-conversation format — a fundamental shift in how brands intercept purchase intent. • Just days after its Hong Kong IPO, Shein is making its most aggressive U.S. logistics move yet — signalling it is building for the long term in America despite the tariff environment. • Allegro — Central Europe's dominant marketplace — is opening up its logistics, financial, and seller tools for use outside its own platform, a move that turns it from a marketplace into a commerce infrastructure provider. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — September 14, 2026 In this episode: • Concrete Google Ads data reveals how AI Mode is changing the way shoppers search — with longer, more conversational queries reshaping keyword strategy for ecommerce advertisers. • FedEx is launching dedicated digital tools to help ecommerce merchants navigate tariffs and customs in real time — a direct response to the cross-border complexity crushing DTC brands right now. • Circle's acquisition of B2B payments firm Tazapay signals stablecoin infrastructure is moving into mainstream ecommerce payment rails — a shift that could reshape how cross-border merchants settle transactions. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — September 13, 2026 In this episode: • Snapchat is making a direct pitch for holiday ad budgets with new conversion-speed commitments — a platform that rarely gets airtime in the social commerce conversation is now competing head-on with TikTok and Meta for performance dollars. • German price-comparison giant idealo is expanding its retail media proposition into Ireland and Switzerland, targeting shoppers at the precise moment they are evaluating competing products — a high-intent inventory that most retail media networks simply cannot replicate. • New data shows Amazon's EU user base actually shrank in the first half of 2026 — a rare sign of market saturation that has major implications for sellers and brands betting on European Amazon growth. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — September 12, 2026 In this episode: • YouTube Shopping has just launched its affiliate program in the Netherlands, partnering with Bol — making the Dutch market a live test case for social commerce at European scale. • Instacart is giving retailers their own branded AI shopping assistants — a direct move to compete with Walmart, Kroger, and Amazon on conversational commerce infrastructure. • New research reveals that 90% of returned ecommerce items lose value the moment they come back — a profitability crisis that is quietly eating DTC and marketplace margins heading into peak season. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — September 11, 2026 In this episode: • Primark — the last major holdout against ecommerce — has reversed course and is launching UK home delivery, reshaping the competitive landscape for fast-fashion online. • Amazon has struck a deal to place its DSP advertisers inside ChatGPT, making it the first major retail ad network to buy into the AI chatbot ad ecosystem at scale. • New data shows beauty is overtaking fashion as the dominant category in European ecommerce, with major implications for where brands and platforms invest next. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — September 10, 2026 In this episode: • New ECDB data confirms Bol is pulling further ahead of Amazon in the Dutch market — directly relevant context given Kaufland.nl just went live this week. • The FTC is accusing Amazon of deceptive ad auction practices — and the case is forcing ecommerce advertisers to confront how little they actually know about where their sponsored product budgets go. • Vinted is building out its own last-mile logistics infrastructure across Europe, and the Netherlands expansion signals the platform is moving well beyond peer-to-peer fashion into full-stack ecommerce. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — September 09, 2026 In this episode: • Lidl's sister chain Kaufland has launched a live Dutch marketplace with 9 million products, directly taking on Bol and Amazon in one of Europe's most competitive ecommerce markets. • Wolt's latest data reveals that non-food retail now accounts for more than a quarter of orders on its rapid-delivery platform across 30 European countries — a structural shift that redefines what quick commerce actually is. • As retail media networks multiply across Europe, a new analysis finds they are becoming indistinguishable from one another — creating a serious differentiation problem for both networks and the brands spending on them. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — September 08, 2026 In this episode: • TikTok Shop is quietly building a pan-European commerce infrastructure, letting sellers from eight EU countries now reach UK buyers and vice versa — a structural shift for cross-border ecommerce. • A Sistrix study reveals Germany's leading online retailers have lost nearly a fifth of their organic search visibility as Google AI Overviews reshape the DACH ecommerce search landscape. • New data shows the vast majority of influencer posts promoting products still lack proper disclosure — a compliance and brand risk that ecommerce teams running affiliate or creator programs can no longer ignore. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — September 07, 2026 In this episode: • A new analysis maps out which players — from Amazon to ChatGPT to on-site tools — are winning the battle to become shoppers' default AI buying interface. • David's Bridal's deployment of Forter's fraud-prevention platform delivers a near-perfect transaction approval rate — and reframes fraud tools as a revenue driver, not just a cost centre. • DTC pet tech brand Halo Collar is using incrementality testing and first-party data to bridge the gap between performance marketing and retail expansion — a playbook other scaling DTC brands can learn from. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — September 06, 2026 In this episode: • Amazon is quietly turning Alexa into a proactive AI shopping agent — and it signals a major shift in how consumers will discover and buy products. • Google escapes a forced breakup of its ad tech stack — a ruling with immediate consequences for every ecommerce advertiser buying programmatic display and Shopping inventory. • Clearco's revenue-based financing model is having a quiet renaissance as DTC brands get shut out of traditional funding — and it reveals how ecommerce capital is being restructured in 2026. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — September 05, 2026 In this episode: • Sephora is launching a dedicated 'Drop Shop' experience on TikTok Shop, turning product launches into monetised live commerce events — a major signal that prestige beauty is fully committing to social commerce. • OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT advertising globally and building a full ad stack — making it the most significant new entrant to the performance marketing landscape since TikTok. • Compare Group — one of Europe's largest price comparison operators — is launching in Spain, Portugal, Italy and Austria simultaneously, reshaping the price discovery landscape for ecommerce sellers across southern and central Europe. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — September 04, 2026 In this episode: • Ace Hardware's RedVest Media network is adding weather-triggered programmatic ads — a concrete signal that second-tier retail media networks are racing to out-innovate Amazon with contextual relevance. • Barilla's acquisition of DTC-native Goodles is the latest proof that legacy CPG giants are buying their way into direct commerce and Gen Z relevance rather than building it. • New data from Digital Commerce 360 maps which AI platforms are actually driving measurable referral traffic to online retailers — and the rankings are shifting fast enough to matter for every brand's acquisition strategy. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — September 03, 2026 In this episode: • Shein's stock market debut flopped on day one — shares fell 9% — and the reasons why matter deeply for every brand competing in fast fashion ecommerce. • European fashion industry groups are pushing to quadruple the new customs duty on ultra-low-cost parcels from Shein and Temu, arguing the current 3-euro charge doesn't come close to levelling the playing field. • Beauty Pie just replatformed to Shopify ahead of international expansion — and its move toward physical retail signals a broader strategic pivot for DTC subscription brands that built their entire model online. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — September 02, 2026 In this episode: • Kohl's is a live case study in how AI-powered on-site tools can grow digital revenue even when a retailer's total sales are falling — a tension every ecommerce operator needs to understand heading into BFCM. • A new survey of German retailers reveals a stark contradiction at the heart of European ecommerce: revenue expectations are rising but profit margins are shrinking, driven by shifting payment preferences and rising processing costs. • Snapchat is rolling out its simplified mobile measurement offering globally, making a direct play for ecommerce ad budgets by reducing the attribution complexity that has kept many performance marketers on the sidelines. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — September 01, 2026 In this episode: • The FTC is accusing Amazon of secretly rigging its own ad auctions to inflate prices — a lawsuit that could reshape how brands and agencies trust Amazon's $50 billion ads business. • Amazon is mandating that all Pan-EU FBA sellers list on its Dutch marketplace — a quiet but significant policy shift that forces sellers to expand their European footprint whether they're ready or not. • Bolt — once valued at $11 billion as the checkout platform that would dethrone Shopify — is now scrambling for survival with a pay-to-play bridge round, and the story of its collapse is a cautionary tale for the entire DTC checkout space. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 31, 2026 In this episode: • Home Depot finally appointing a dedicated retail media leader signals that home improvement is the next frontier for sponsored placements and on-site ad revenue. • Amika's CMO deliberately launched its new product exclusively on its DTC site first — a channel-sequencing strategy that's increasingly rare and worth studying. • Ex-Meta engineers and executives are now leading ads product at OpenAI, TikTok, Amazon Ads, and Roku — and they're rebuilding the Meta playbook everywhere they land. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 30, 2026 In this episode: • The Trade Desk just made programmatic buying significantly more autonomous with its biggest platform overhaul since Kokai launched in 2023 — and it matters for every DTC brand running upper-funnel campaigns outside walled gardens. • Snapchat is making a direct pitch to performance advertisers and ecommerce brands at its 2026 summit, signalling it wants a seat at the table alongside Meta and TikTok Shop as a measurable commerce channel. • New UK data shows gaming has quietly become one of the most effective product discovery channels for ecommerce brands, with highly engaged gamers converting in-game exposure into real purchase intent at scale. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 29, 2026 In this episode: • A real DTC brand that left TikTok Shop and came back tells us more about the platform's pull on beauty sellers than any industry report can. • One in three European small businesses on Temu say the platform has helped them sell internationally — a data point that reframes Temu from 'cheap Chinese imports threat' to 'cross-border launchpad' for local SMEs. • Dentsu is restructuring its entire commerce and retail media practice under new leadership — a signal that agency holding groups are now treating retail media as a standalone discipline, not an add-on to shopper marketing. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 28, 2026 In this episode: • Google is expanding Demand Gen into a full-funnel commerce engine — and the new AI video creation and messaging ad formats directly change how DTC brands build and deploy creative at scale. • Simon Property Group — owner of 190+ malls — has launched a data-driven retail media network, marking the moment physical retail infrastructure formally enters the commerce media arms race. • Kapten & Son's COO lays out a blunt counter-narrative to growth-at-all-costs DTC culture — and the operational lessons from scaling a German accessories brand profitably across European markets are directly applicable right now. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 27, 2026 In this episode: • A $400 million privacy settlement is the largest ever against a social platform for children's data — and it has direct implications for TikTok Shop's ability to target younger audiences. • Google AI Mode is generating ads directly from product feeds — not ad copy — which means ecommerce merchants who haven't optimised their Merchant Center attributes are already invisible. • False payment declines are now costing ecommerce merchants more than global fraud itself — $265 billion lost by turning away legitimate customers at checkout. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 26, 2026 In this episode: • Amazon has officially switched on drone delivery in the UK, marking the first international rollout of Prime Air outside the US. • M&S is using Zalando as a pan-European distribution engine, reaching 22 markets in a single partnership move that reframes how British retailers can scale cross-border without building their own logistics. • A Stockholm startup just raised €14.6 million to build a portable shopper identity layer for AI commerce — essentially a universal profile that travels with consumers across every retailer they visit. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 25, 2026 In this episode: • ChatGPT's ad product just got serious — automated bidding and platform targeting turn it from an experiment into a genuine rival to Google and Meta for performance budgets. • New data reveals Southern Europe has become Chinese ecommerce's strongest Western foothold, with AliExpress, Shein, and Temu outperforming their European averages — a market dynamic brands and platform sellers can no longer ignore. • Meta is removing advertisers' ability to exclude specific placements — a quiet but significant power shift that forces brands to trust Meta's algorithm with decisions they previously controlled. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 24, 2026 In this episode: • U.S. ecommerce has snapped back to double-digit growth in 2026 — and the question every brand needs to answer is whether this is a structural shift or a one-year blip. • Citi's move into commerce media is the headline that most brands missed — a major bank entering the retail media space signals the channel is about to get a lot more crowded and a lot more complex. • Caraway's influencer playbook turned a commoditised product category into a premium DTC success story — and the mechanics are directly replicable for brands fighting margin pressure in 2026. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 23, 2026 In this episode: • Amazon is scaling Prime Air drone delivery across five new US metro areas, marking a significant infrastructure push that goes beyond its recent UK first. • Yoto's $127M growth story is a masterclass in community-led DTC scaling — built on parent word-of-mouth rather than paid acquisition. • YouTube has quietly redefined what counts as a 'view' to align with TV measurement — and it could reshape how ecommerce brands plan video budgets. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 22, 2026 In this episode: • New data reveals Amazon is the most expensive marketplace for sellers in the Netherlands, with average commission fees approaching 20% — a critical number for any European seller evaluating their channel mix. • The global retail media market is crossing $200 billion this year, but a deceleration in growth — and rising concerns about ad experience quality — signals the channel may be approaching a structural inflection point. • OpenAI is rolling out its ChatGPT advertising pilot across 31 European markets, making AI-native ad inventory a live reality for performance marketers on the continent. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 21, 2026 In this episode: • Walmart's retail media arm is growing at nearly 40% year-on-year, reshaping the competitive landscape between the big three retail media networks. • Meta has given its AI assistant direct access to Ads Manager, meaning it can now read campaign data and recommend optimisations inside the platform itself. • China is actively instructing its companies not to cooperate with the EU's probe into JD.com's acquisition of MediaMarkt, turning a marketplace deal into a geopolitical standoff with major implications for European ecommerce. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 20, 2026 In this episode: • New data shows AI-referred shoppers spend 53% more per visit and convert 60% higher than other traffic sources — a concrete commercial case for brands rethinking their AI visibility strategy. • Non-alcoholic beer brand Bero is using Prime Day conversion data to build its Cyber 5 playbook — a rare look at how a DTC brand balances Amazon and owned-channel strategy heading into peak season. • The ANA is pushing new standardisation guidelines for retail media measurement — a direct response to advertiser frustration with incompatible metrics across networks like Amazon Ads, Walmart Connect, and Kroger Precision Marketing. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 19, 2026 In this episode: • TikTok is quietly building a payments layer inside its DMs that could turn social conversations directly into commerce transactions. • The ANA is formally warning brands that retail media networks are grading their own homework — and marketers are paying the price. • IKEA is launching a dedicated UK online secondhand marketplace for pre-loved furniture — a major move that blends circular economy strategy with a direct digital commerce play. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 18, 2026 In this episode: • Amazon is rolling out its Warehousing & Distribution bulk storage service across five European countries this week, a significant logistics infrastructure move for third-party sellers on the continent. • A performance agency is acquiring two specialist firms to build out dedicated Amazon and TikTok commerce capabilities, signalling where holding groups and independents see client spend heading. • Amazon has launched its first Prime Air drone delivery site outside the US in Darlington, UK — a milestone that marks the beginning of commercial drone fulfilment in European ecommerce. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 17, 2026 In this episode: • Fruugo's swing from loss to £1.4 million profit signals that cross-border marketplace models can work — and this one quietly connects millions of European shoppers to sellers across 50+ countries. • Traffic arriving from ChatGPT, Perplexity, and other LLMs is behaving differently to organic search visitors — and ecommerce brands are only just starting to measure it properly. • The EU's incoming PPWR packaging rules could impose disproportionate compliance costs on small ecommerce brands and cross-border sellers at exactly the wrong moment. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 16, 2026 In this episode: • A court has ruled Temu is not liable for Shein's copyright claims, a decision that reshapes the legal battleground between the two biggest ultra-fast fashion marketplaces competing for European shoppers. • Payment data shows European online purchases dropped nearly 38% during Wednesday's solar eclipse — a rare real-world event that produced a clean, measurable shock to ecommerce traffic patterns. • Google is removing language targeting from Search and Performance Max campaigns in September 2026, a structural change that will force cross-border ecommerce advertisers to rethink how they control audience reach in multilingual markets. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 15, 2026 In this episode: • AppLovin is making a serious push beyond mobile gaming into ecommerce advertising, and performance marketers need to understand whether this is a genuine third channel or just hype. • JD.com's first revenue drop in a decade — while it simultaneously prepares to acquire MediaMarkt across Europe — raises urgent questions about whether a weakening Chinese giant can successfully execute a major Western marketplace play. • Kroger has hired a new ecommerce chief with deep Walmart and Jet.com DNA — a signal that America's second-largest grocery chain is getting serious about competing in online grocery and retail media at a completely different level. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 14, 2026 In this episode: • Samsonite's near-$180M acquisition of Béis signals how legacy travel brands are buying their way into Gen Z's DTC-native, social-first commerce playbook. • Shopify's own data shows AI-driven referral traffic to its merchants nearly tripled in a year — but organic search is still the dominant channel, creating a critical 'both/and' strategic question for every ecommerce brand. • Pinterest poaching a CTV ad tech founder to run programmatic and affiliate signals a serious platform-level push to close the gap between visual discovery and shoppable, performance-driven commerce. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 13, 2026 In this episode: • Google is killing a key Smart Bidding behaviour in days, and performance marketers running Target CPA or Target ROAS campaigns need to act before August 17th. • Etsy's CEO has laid out a clear three-pillar AI strategy focused on personalisation and discovery — a sign that mid-tier marketplaces are betting on AI to close the gap with Amazon. • The narrative that Europe's new parcel tax has slashed Chinese cross-border shipments by a third is being challenged — and the real data tells a more complicated story for Temu and Shein. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 12, 2026 In this episode: • Live shopping platform Whatnot just doubled its valuation to $20 billion, signalling that Western live commerce is entering its own high-stakes scaling era. • Liquid I.V. is using Prime Day data as a testing ground to deliberately shift customers from Amazon to its own DTC channel — a playbook every CPG brand should study. • UK retail sales slowed sharply in July but ecommerce is actively cushioning the blow, making this the clearest live data point yet on digital commerce's role as a structural ballast for British retail. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 11, 2026 In this episode: • eBay is making a direct move into live shopping to compete with Whatnot and TikTok Shop, signalling that the format is now mainstream enough to pull legacy marketplaces off the sidelines. • One year in, German DIY giant Bauhaus has onboarded 100 marketplace sellers and added 100,000 SKUs online — a concrete proof point that bricks-and-mortar retail chains can successfully platformify their ecommerce operations. • Publicis Groupe's $2.167 billion acquisition of LiveRamp ends the era of neutral data infrastructure in ad tech — and has direct implications for every DTC brand and retailer that relies on LiveRamp's identity graph for audience targeting. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 10, 2026 In this episode: • The US Postal Service is explicitly deprioritising parcel volume in favour of rate hikes, a direct cost threat to every DTC brand shipping domestically. • Fresh EHI/ECDB data ranks Germany's 100 largest online shops by revenue, revealing which categories and marketplace models are actually winning the market in 2026. • Disney is formalising fan-created TikTok content as an official marketing channel — a social commerce playbook move that signals where brand-platform partnerships are heading. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 09, 2026 In this episode: • Ahold Delhaize is wiring CPG brand content directly into shoppable grocery carts via Pear Commerce — a new retail media integration model that closes the gap between brand discovery and purchase. • German recommerce giant Momox is expanding into the Netherlands, signalling that the secondhand media marketplace model has room left to run in Western Europe. • Google is quietly beta-testing Buyer Direct — a product that lets AI agents bypass traditional programmatic pipes and buy media directly through Google's ad server, which could redraw the entire performance advertising supply chain. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 08, 2026 In this episode: • The Trade Desk posting just 3% revenue growth in Q2 — with shares falling 20% after hours — is a hard signal that programmatic spend is under real pressure from big-brand budget tightening. • Zooplus is turning its pet supplies platform into a full third-party marketplace, rolling out across Germany and Europe after a France pilot — a significant shift in European vertical ecommerce strategy. • Fresh survey data on what online shoppers are actually prioritising for the 2026 holiday season gives ecommerce brands a rare early-August read on where to focus their Q4 investment right now. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 07, 2026 In this episode: • OpenAI is bringing Google Shopping-style product carousels into ChatGPT just as the Q4 holiday season approaches, making it a direct new commerce surface brands must now plan for. • Shopify's Q2 earnings call revealed the platform's specific bets on agentic AI, giving merchants the clearest picture yet of where their infrastructure is heading. • Chinese live commerce operator Yowant is actively exporting its full operational model — not just the format — into the UK, US and European markets, representing a structural competitive threat to Western social commerce players. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 06, 2026 In this episode: • Microsoft Advertising is rolling out a suite of AI-native tools that directly challenge Google's Performance Max dominance among ecommerce advertisers. • Ahold Delhaize's results show European ecommerce is now actively offsetting US margin pressure for one of the continent's largest grocery groups. • European recommerce marketplace Refurbed is expanding beyond electronics into musical instruments, testing whether its sustainability-led model can scale into new categories. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 05, 2026 In this episode: • Walmart just paid $1.4 billion to own its own streaming ad inventory, directly challenging Amazon's closed-loop retail media empire. • Argos — freshly spun out from Sainsbury's — is launching its own curated marketplace, signalling it intends to compete as an independent ecommerce player in the UK. • Google paid search growth slowed materially in Q2 2026, raising urgent questions about where ecommerce performance budgets should be allocated in H2. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 04, 2026 In this episode: • A critical security vulnerability in one of WooCommerce's most widely used plugins lets unauthenticated attackers seize full control of ecommerce stores — affecting potentially thousands of merchants right now. • Snapchat is poaching senior TikTok talent to sharpen its pitch to performance advertisers — a signal that the battle for social commerce ad budgets is intensifying beyond just Meta and TikTok. • New data on German online shoppers in 2026 shows that price is no longer the dominant purchase driver — loyalty, trust, and experience are now the battleground, reshaping how brands must compete in Europe's largest ecommerce market. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 03, 2026 In this episode: • Amazon's Q2 ad revenue hit $19.8 billion as live sports emerges as a key driver of its closed-loop advertising flywheel — a distinct angle from the trailing 12-month figure already covered. • Amazon is pumping €300 million into German logistics infrastructure just as the market rebounds — a supply-side bet on Europe's largest ecommerce economy. • Lululemon is making AI a core operational pillar in 2026 — with active hiring and investment that signals a DTC brand treating AI as a commerce infrastructure play, not just a marketing garnish. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 02, 2026 In this episode: • Meta's Q2 earnings show ad revenue surging but AI infrastructure costs are now growing faster than the top line — a direct signal for ecommerce brands budgeting Meta spend. • Sainsbury's is offloading Argos to a group of investors to refocus on grocery — a major structural shift for UK omnichannel retail that reshapes one of Britain's largest general merchandise ecommerce operations. • New research reveals that retail fulfilment infrastructure is failing to deliver on the promises AI-driven agentic commerce is making at checkout — exposing a critical gap between the front-end and the back-end of ecommerce. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing