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      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 11, 2026</title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 11, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• OpenAI has plugged LiveRamp's Conversions API into ChatGPT ads, giving ecommerce advertisers the first real purchase attribution layer on the platform.
• Adidas is turning its own ecommerce infrastructure into a revenue-generating service for third parties, bundled with Salesforce AI agents — a genuine structural shift for a DTC brand.
• JD.com's European platform Joybuy is opening to third-party sellers, making its first move to become a full marketplace and directly challenging Amazon and Allegro for European seller traffic.

Fun fact: Pinterest drives a higher average order value than Facebook or Instagram for many retailers — shoppers arriving from Pinterest spend roughly 2x more per transaction, according to Shopify merchant data. This is largely because Pinterest users are actively planning future purchases rather than casually scrolling, making them far closer to buying intent than most social platforms suggest.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• OpenAI has plugged LiveRamp's Conversions API into ChatGPT ads, giving ecommerce advertisers the first real purchase attribution layer on the platform.
• Adidas is turning its own ecommerce infrastructure into a revenue-generating service for third parties, bundled with Salesforce AI agents — a genuine structural shift for a DTC brand.
• JD.com's European platform Joybuy is opening to third-party sellers, making its first move to become a full marketplace and directly challenging Amazon and Allegro for European seller traffic.

Fun fact: Pinterest drives a higher average order value than Facebook or Instagram for many retailers — shoppers arriving from Pinterest spend roughly 2x more per transaction, according to Shopify merchant data. This is largely because Pinterest users are actively planning future purchases rather than casually scrolling, making them far closer to buying intent than most social platforms suggest.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• OpenAI has plugged LiveRamp's Conversions API into ChatGPT ads, giving ecommerce advertisers the first real purchase attribution layer on the platform.
• Adidas is turning its own ecommerce infrastructure into a revenue-generating service for third parties, bundled with Salesforce AI agents — a genuine structural shift for a DTC brand.
• JD.com's European platform Joybuy is opening to third-party sellers, making its first move to become a full marketplace and directly challenging Amazon and Allegro for European seller traffic.

Fun fact: Pinterest drives a higher average order value than Facebook or Instagram for many retailers — shoppers arriving from Pinterest spend roughly 2x more per transaction, according to Shopify merchant data. This is largely because Pinterest users are actively planning future purchases rather than casually scrolling, making them far closer to buying intent than most social platforms suggest.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 10, 2026</title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 10, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• Knix is signalling a serious DTC growth push into the U.S. market by importing Nike and Urban Outfitters brand-building firepower at the CMO level.
• Gopuff is turning its first-party purchase data into a composable CDP-powered retail media network, positioning itself as a serious challenger to the big-box retail media players.
• Shein is planting a logistics flag inside the EU with a Dublin distribution centre, a move that directly addresses its post-de-minimis vulnerability and signals it intends to compete on European ground rules.

Fun fact: The first-ever banner ad, run by AT&amp;T on HotWired.com in 1994, had a click-through rate of 44% — compared to the industry average today of roughly 0.1%. That single ad, which asked 'Have you ever clicked your mouse right HERE?' essentially launched the entire digital advertising industry, and it's never been close to that effective since.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• Knix is signalling a serious DTC growth push into the U.S. market by importing Nike and Urban Outfitters brand-building firepower at the CMO level.
• Gopuff is turning its first-party purchase data into a composable CDP-powered retail media network, positioning itself as a serious challenger to the big-box retail media players.
• Shein is planting a logistics flag inside the EU with a Dublin distribution centre, a move that directly addresses its post-de-minimis vulnerability and signals it intends to compete on European ground rules.

Fun fact: The first-ever banner ad, run by AT&amp;T on HotWired.com in 1994, had a click-through rate of 44% — compared to the industry average today of roughly 0.1%. That single ad, which asked 'Have you ever clicked your mouse right HERE?' essentially launched the entire digital advertising industry, and it's never been close to that effective since.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• Knix is signalling a serious DTC growth push into the U.S. market by importing Nike and Urban Outfitters brand-building firepower at the CMO level.
• Gopuff is turning its first-party purchase data into a composable CDP-powered retail media network, positioning itself as a serious challenger to the big-box retail media players.
• Shein is planting a logistics flag inside the EU with a Dublin distribution centre, a move that directly addresses its post-de-minimis vulnerability and signals it intends to compete on European ground rules.

Fun fact: The first-ever banner ad, run by AT&amp;T on HotWired.com in 1994, had a click-through rate of 44% — compared to the industry average today of roughly 0.1%. That single ad, which asked 'Have you ever clicked your mouse right HERE?' essentially launched the entire digital advertising industry, and it's never been close to that effective since.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 09, 2026</title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 09, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• TikTok Shop has crossed a threshold — it's now being briefed alongside Amazon and Walmart in media planning, but no one has agreed on who in the agency actually owns it.
• Amazon is embedding product customisation directly into Alexa's shopping flow, turning a voice assistant into a configure-and-buy tool for merch — a move that raises the stakes for every brand selling on Amazon.
• Central European ecommerce is forecast to grow 8% this year — nearly double Germany's 4.3% — making it the clearest expansion opportunity for brands that have already saturated Western Europe.

Fun fact: Amazon's fulfillment network now moves packages so efficiently that its internal shipping arm, Amazon Logistics, already delivers more parcels annually in the U.S. than FedEx — despite FedEx having built its infrastructure over five decades. Amazon essentially became the country's third-largest carrier in under ten years.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 09, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• TikTok Shop has crossed a threshold — it's now being briefed alongside Amazon and Walmart in media planning, but no one has agreed on who in the agency actually owns it.
• Amazon is embedding product customisation directly into Alexa's shopping flow, turning a voice assistant into a configure-and-buy tool for merch — a move that raises the stakes for every brand selling on Amazon.
• Central European ecommerce is forecast to grow 8% this year — nearly double Germany's 4.3% — making it the clearest expansion opportunity for brands that have already saturated Western Europe.

Fun fact: Amazon's fulfillment network now moves packages so efficiently that its internal shipping arm, Amazon Logistics, already delivers more parcels annually in the U.S. than FedEx — despite FedEx having built its infrastructure over five decades. Amazon essentially became the country's third-largest carrier in under ten years.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:08:16 +0200</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 09, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• TikTok Shop has crossed a threshold — it's now being briefed alongside Amazon and Walmart in media planning, but no one has agreed on who in the agency actually owns it.
• Amazon is embedding product customisation directly into Alexa's shopping flow, turning a voice assistant into a configure-and-buy tool for merch — a move that raises the stakes for every brand selling on Amazon.
• Central European ecommerce is forecast to grow 8% this year — nearly double Germany's 4.3% — making it the clearest expansion opportunity for brands that have already saturated Western Europe.

Fun fact: Amazon's fulfillment network now moves packages so efficiently that its internal shipping arm, Amazon Logistics, already delivers more parcels annually in the U.S. than FedEx — despite FedEx having built its infrastructure over five decades. Amazon essentially became the country's third-largest carrier in under ten years.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 08, 2026</title>
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        <![CDATA[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.]]>
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        <![CDATA[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.]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 02:07:59 +0200</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[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.]]>
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      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 07, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 07, 2026</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 07, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• Ulta Beauty is posting double-digit ecommerce growth while its AI assistant starts delivering measurable results — a rare concrete data point on AI-driven commerce at scale.
• Walmart+ is crossing the US border for the first time, taking its Amazon Prime rival directly into Canadian ecommerce territory and raising the stakes for every marketplace player in the market.
• Amazon is committing €10 billion to European logistics infrastructure — a move that will reshape delivery speed expectations and competitive pressure for every local ecommerce player on the continent.

Fun fact: Shopify's payment processing arm, Shopify Payments, now handles more transaction volume annually than American Express does globally. The platform quietly became a financial infrastructure giant while most people still think of it primarily as a website builder.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 07, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• Ulta Beauty is posting double-digit ecommerce growth while its AI assistant starts delivering measurable results — a rare concrete data point on AI-driven commerce at scale.
• Walmart+ is crossing the US border for the first time, taking its Amazon Prime rival directly into Canadian ecommerce territory and raising the stakes for every marketplace player in the market.
• Amazon is committing €10 billion to European logistics infrastructure — a move that will reshape delivery speed expectations and competitive pressure for every local ecommerce player on the continent.

Fun fact: Shopify's payment processing arm, Shopify Payments, now handles more transaction volume annually than American Express does globally. The platform quietly became a financial infrastructure giant while most people still think of it primarily as a website builder.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 02:08:26 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 07, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• Ulta Beauty is posting double-digit ecommerce growth while its AI assistant starts delivering measurable results — a rare concrete data point on AI-driven commerce at scale.
• Walmart+ is crossing the US border for the first time, taking its Amazon Prime rival directly into Canadian ecommerce territory and raising the stakes for every marketplace player in the market.
• Amazon is committing €10 billion to European logistics infrastructure — a move that will reshape delivery speed expectations and competitive pressure for every local ecommerce player on the continent.

Fun fact: Shopify's payment processing arm, Shopify Payments, now handles more transaction volume annually than American Express does globally. The platform quietly became a financial infrastructure giant while most people still think of it primarily as a website builder.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 06, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 06, 2026</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 06, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• A consolidation wave is sweeping marketplace specialist agencies as Podean, Harvest Group, and EVOQ Group race to own the Amazon and Walmart commerce talent stack.
• DoorDash is making a serious play to become a retail media network by integrating LiveRamp's identity infrastructure and launching premium ad formats that close the loop between delivery data and advertiser audiences.
• Belgium's online market hit 18.3 billion euros in 2025 — up 5.4% year-on-year — making it one of the more underrated entry points for brands expanding across the Benelux.

Fun fact: Amazon's marketplace now has more than 9.7 million registered sellers worldwide, yet roughly 74% of all sales revenue on the platform flows to just 1% of those sellers. That means nearly 9.6 million sellers are effectively competing for the leftover quarter of the pie.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 06, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• A consolidation wave is sweeping marketplace specialist agencies as Podean, Harvest Group, and EVOQ Group race to own the Amazon and Walmart commerce talent stack.
• DoorDash is making a serious play to become a retail media network by integrating LiveRamp's identity infrastructure and launching premium ad formats that close the loop between delivery data and advertiser audiences.
• Belgium's online market hit 18.3 billion euros in 2025 — up 5.4% year-on-year — making it one of the more underrated entry points for brands expanding across the Benelux.

Fun fact: Amazon's marketplace now has more than 9.7 million registered sellers worldwide, yet roughly 74% of all sales revenue on the platform flows to just 1% of those sellers. That means nearly 9.6 million sellers are effectively competing for the leftover quarter of the pie.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 02:08:50 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 06, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• A consolidation wave is sweeping marketplace specialist agencies as Podean, Harvest Group, and EVOQ Group race to own the Amazon and Walmart commerce talent stack.
• DoorDash is making a serious play to become a retail media network by integrating LiveRamp's identity infrastructure and launching premium ad formats that close the loop between delivery data and advertiser audiences.
• Belgium's online market hit 18.3 billion euros in 2025 — up 5.4% year-on-year — making it one of the more underrated entry points for brands expanding across the Benelux.

Fun fact: Amazon's marketplace now has more than 9.7 million registered sellers worldwide, yet roughly 74% of all sales revenue on the platform flows to just 1% of those sellers. That means nearly 9.6 million sellers are effectively competing for the leftover quarter of the pie.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 05, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 05, 2026</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 05, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• Criteo is slashing the entry cost for ChatGPT ads from $50k to $10k and dangling media-match deals — a sign that the battle for retail ad dollars inside AI interfaces is heating up fast.
• Reddit is rolling out its Shopify integration worldwide, giving merchants streamlined account linking, automated product catalogue syncing, and unified data tracking — turning Reddit into a more viable social commerce channel for Shopify sellers.
• Germany's retail federation is forecasting 4.3% nominal ecommerce revenue growth this year, cementing online as the only reliable growth channel in Europe's largest retail market even as physical retail flatlines.

Fun fact: Amazon's search engine is now the starting point for more than 56% of all U.S. product searches — surpassing Google — meaning most shoppers never visit a brand's website at all before making a purchase decision. Brands that win on Amazon's internal search algorithm effectively own the customer relationship before Google even enters the picture.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 05, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• Criteo is slashing the entry cost for ChatGPT ads from $50k to $10k and dangling media-match deals — a sign that the battle for retail ad dollars inside AI interfaces is heating up fast.
• Reddit is rolling out its Shopify integration worldwide, giving merchants streamlined account linking, automated product catalogue syncing, and unified data tracking — turning Reddit into a more viable social commerce channel for Shopify sellers.
• Germany's retail federation is forecasting 4.3% nominal ecommerce revenue growth this year, cementing online as the only reliable growth channel in Europe's largest retail market even as physical retail flatlines.

Fun fact: Amazon's search engine is now the starting point for more than 56% of all U.S. product searches — surpassing Google — meaning most shoppers never visit a brand's website at all before making a purchase decision. Brands that win on Amazon's internal search algorithm effectively own the customer relationship before Google even enters the picture.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:08:46 +0200</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 05, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• Criteo is slashing the entry cost for ChatGPT ads from $50k to $10k and dangling media-match deals — a sign that the battle for retail ad dollars inside AI interfaces is heating up fast.
• Reddit is rolling out its Shopify integration worldwide, giving merchants streamlined account linking, automated product catalogue syncing, and unified data tracking — turning Reddit into a more viable social commerce channel for Shopify sellers.
• Germany's retail federation is forecasting 4.3% nominal ecommerce revenue growth this year, cementing online as the only reliable growth channel in Europe's largest retail market even as physical retail flatlines.

Fun fact: Amazon's search engine is now the starting point for more than 56% of all U.S. product searches — surpassing Google — meaning most shoppers never visit a brand's website at all before making a purchase decision. Brands that win on Amazon's internal search algorithm effectively own the customer relationship before Google even enters the picture.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
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      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 04, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 04, 2026</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 04, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• A live Shopify outage taking down storefronts, checkouts, and admin access is breaking news with immediate revenue impact for hundreds of thousands of merchants.
• Amazon is opening up the AI shopping agent technology behind its own storefront to third-party retailers via AWS — a move that could reshape how agentic commerce gets built across the industry.
• Outdoor DTC brand Cotopaxi is restructuring its product data architecture specifically to get picked up by AI shopping agents — a concrete, first-mover example of how digitally native brands are preparing for agentic commerce.

Fun fact: The entire checkout flow on Amazon takes an average of 3 minutes to complete for a new customer — but Bolt, a one-click checkout platform, found that reducing checkout to under 60 seconds increases conversion rates by up to 50%. Friction at the final step of a purchase is so costly that some estimates suggest abandoned carts represent over $4 trillion in lost revenue globally each year.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 04, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• A live Shopify outage taking down storefronts, checkouts, and admin access is breaking news with immediate revenue impact for hundreds of thousands of merchants.
• Amazon is opening up the AI shopping agent technology behind its own storefront to third-party retailers via AWS — a move that could reshape how agentic commerce gets built across the industry.
• Outdoor DTC brand Cotopaxi is restructuring its product data architecture specifically to get picked up by AI shopping agents — a concrete, first-mover example of how digitally native brands are preparing for agentic commerce.

Fun fact: The entire checkout flow on Amazon takes an average of 3 minutes to complete for a new customer — but Bolt, a one-click checkout platform, found that reducing checkout to under 60 seconds increases conversion rates by up to 50%. Friction at the final step of a purchase is so costly that some estimates suggest abandoned carts represent over $4 trillion in lost revenue globally each year.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 02:08:20 +0200</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>422</itunes:duration>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 04, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• A live Shopify outage taking down storefronts, checkouts, and admin access is breaking news with immediate revenue impact for hundreds of thousands of merchants.
• Amazon is opening up the AI shopping agent technology behind its own storefront to third-party retailers via AWS — a move that could reshape how agentic commerce gets built across the industry.
• Outdoor DTC brand Cotopaxi is restructuring its product data architecture specifically to get picked up by AI shopping agents — a concrete, first-mover example of how digitally native brands are preparing for agentic commerce.

Fun fact: The entire checkout flow on Amazon takes an average of 3 minutes to complete for a new customer — but Bolt, a one-click checkout platform, found that reducing checkout to under 60 seconds increases conversion rates by up to 50%. Friction at the final step of a purchase is so costly that some estimates suggest abandoned carts represent over $4 trillion in lost revenue globally each year.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 03, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 03, 2026</itunes:title>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 03, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• Macro pressure at the pump is quietly redirecting consumer wallets toward Amazon, with real implications for ecommerce market share and competitor platforms.
• From 19 June 2026, a new EU rule forces online retailers to make contract withdrawal as simple as the original purchase — a hard deadline that most cross-border ecommerce operators are underprepared for.
• The 2026 FIFA World Cup is shaping up as the biggest stress test yet for retail media networks — separating platforms with real shoppable infrastructure from those selling glorified display inventory.

Fun fact: Amazon's 'Order with 1-Click' patent, which it held exclusively for nearly 20 years, was so valuable that Apple paid to license it for the iTunes Store rather than force customers through a multi-step checkout — and when the patent finally expired in 2017, conversion rate optimization across the entire e-commerce industry shifted almost overnight as competitors rushed to copy the feature freely. The single friction point of one extra checkout step had been legally protected as a competitive moat for two decades.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 03, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• Macro pressure at the pump is quietly redirecting consumer wallets toward Amazon, with real implications for ecommerce market share and competitor platforms.
• From 19 June 2026, a new EU rule forces online retailers to make contract withdrawal as simple as the original purchase — a hard deadline that most cross-border ecommerce operators are underprepared for.
• The 2026 FIFA World Cup is shaping up as the biggest stress test yet for retail media networks — separating platforms with real shoppable infrastructure from those selling glorified display inventory.

Fun fact: Amazon's 'Order with 1-Click' patent, which it held exclusively for nearly 20 years, was so valuable that Apple paid to license it for the iTunes Store rather than force customers through a multi-step checkout — and when the patent finally expired in 2017, conversion rate optimization across the entire e-commerce industry shifted almost overnight as competitors rushed to copy the feature freely. The single friction point of one extra checkout step had been legally protected as a competitive moat for two decades.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 02:08:36 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/516b3650/3e78af40.mp3" length="11669589" type="audio/mpeg"/>
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      <itunes:duration>414</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 03, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• Macro pressure at the pump is quietly redirecting consumer wallets toward Amazon, with real implications for ecommerce market share and competitor platforms.
• From 19 June 2026, a new EU rule forces online retailers to make contract withdrawal as simple as the original purchase — a hard deadline that most cross-border ecommerce operators are underprepared for.
• The 2026 FIFA World Cup is shaping up as the biggest stress test yet for retail media networks — separating platforms with real shoppable infrastructure from those selling glorified display inventory.

Fun fact: Amazon's 'Order with 1-Click' patent, which it held exclusively for nearly 20 years, was so valuable that Apple paid to license it for the iTunes Store rather than force customers through a multi-step checkout — and when the patent finally expired in 2017, conversion rate optimization across the entire e-commerce industry shifted almost overnight as competitors rushed to copy the feature freely. The single friction point of one extra checkout step had been legally protected as a competitive moat for two decades.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 02, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 02, 2026</itunes:title>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/ce40ae22</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 02, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• Ocado is overhauling Asda's entire online grocery operation in a deal that could redraw the UK's ecommerce grocery map.
• A new startup is trying to build a single personalised discovery feed across thousands of retailers — essentially a social feed for shopping without the social network.
• A new representative study shows AR virtual try-on is accelerating in Europe while social commerce adoption has plateaued — a direct challenge to TikTok Shop's expansion ambitions.

Fun fact: Amazon's 'Subscribe &amp; Save' program, which lets shoppers lock in discounts for recurring deliveries, now accounts for roughly 35% of all consumable product sales on the platform — meaning more than a third of everyday essentials are essentially pre-sold before the month even begins. For sellers in categories like supplements, pet food, and household supplies, the subscription base has become a more reliable revenue signal than any ad campaign.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 02, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• Ocado is overhauling Asda's entire online grocery operation in a deal that could redraw the UK's ecommerce grocery map.
• A new startup is trying to build a single personalised discovery feed across thousands of retailers — essentially a social feed for shopping without the social network.
• A new representative study shows AR virtual try-on is accelerating in Europe while social commerce adoption has plateaued — a direct challenge to TikTok Shop's expansion ambitions.

Fun fact: Amazon's 'Subscribe &amp; Save' program, which lets shoppers lock in discounts for recurring deliveries, now accounts for roughly 35% of all consumable product sales on the platform — meaning more than a third of everyday essentials are essentially pre-sold before the month even begins. For sellers in categories like supplements, pet food, and household supplies, the subscription base has become a more reliable revenue signal than any ad campaign.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 02:08:09 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/ce40ae22/d0f20bdb.mp3" length="11682274" type="audio/mpeg"/>
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      <itunes:duration>414</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 02, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• Ocado is overhauling Asda's entire online grocery operation in a deal that could redraw the UK's ecommerce grocery map.
• A new startup is trying to build a single personalised discovery feed across thousands of retailers — essentially a social feed for shopping without the social network.
• A new representative study shows AR virtual try-on is accelerating in Europe while social commerce adoption has plateaued — a direct challenge to TikTok Shop's expansion ambitions.

Fun fact: Amazon's 'Subscribe &amp; Save' program, which lets shoppers lock in discounts for recurring deliveries, now accounts for roughly 35% of all consumable product sales on the platform — meaning more than a third of everyday essentials are essentially pre-sold before the month even begins. For sellers in categories like supplements, pet food, and household supplies, the subscription base has become a more reliable revenue signal than any ad campaign.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 01, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 01, 2026</itunes:title>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/bee1758e</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 01, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• AI shopping interfaces are becoming the new product discovery layer, and brands that don't optimise for them risk losing visibility the same way they once lost it to bad shelf placement.
• Linqia is trying to transform influencer comment sections from brand sentiment signals into shoppable, trackable conversion touchpoints — which would fundamentally change how social commerce ROI is measured.
• European venture capital is starting to take creator-led commerce seriously as a funding category, signalling that the influencer-to-ecommerce pipeline is maturing from a marketing tactic into an investable business model.

Fun fact: Amazon's recommendation engine — the 'customers who bought this also bought' feature — is responsible for an estimated 35% of the company's total revenue, making it one of the most quietly profitable pieces of software ever built. That single algorithm generates more money annually than most Fortune 500 companies bring in altogether.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 01, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• AI shopping interfaces are becoming the new product discovery layer, and brands that don't optimise for them risk losing visibility the same way they once lost it to bad shelf placement.
• Linqia is trying to transform influencer comment sections from brand sentiment signals into shoppable, trackable conversion touchpoints — which would fundamentally change how social commerce ROI is measured.
• European venture capital is starting to take creator-led commerce seriously as a funding category, signalling that the influencer-to-ecommerce pipeline is maturing from a marketing tactic into an investable business model.

Fun fact: Amazon's recommendation engine — the 'customers who bought this also bought' feature — is responsible for an estimated 35% of the company's total revenue, making it one of the most quietly profitable pieces of software ever built. That single algorithm generates more money annually than most Fortune 500 companies bring in altogether.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:08:54 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/bee1758e/5c43846b.mp3" length="11826033" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>423</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 01, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• AI shopping interfaces are becoming the new product discovery layer, and brands that don't optimise for them risk losing visibility the same way they once lost it to bad shelf placement.
• Linqia is trying to transform influencer comment sections from brand sentiment signals into shoppable, trackable conversion touchpoints — which would fundamentally change how social commerce ROI is measured.
• European venture capital is starting to take creator-led commerce seriously as a funding category, signalling that the influencer-to-ecommerce pipeline is maturing from a marketing tactic into an investable business model.

Fun fact: Amazon's recommendation engine — the 'customers who bought this also bought' feature — is responsible for an estimated 35% of the company's total revenue, making it one of the most quietly profitable pieces of software ever built. That single algorithm generates more money annually than most Fortune 500 companies bring in altogether.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 31, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 31, 2026</itunes:title>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/4bac32fd</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 31, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• Amazon Publisher Services is giving publishers diagnostic tools to identify exactly which bid-request signals actually drive advertiser demand — a move that reshapes how ecommerce ad inventory gets valued.
• Measurement platform Measured has launched an AI chat interface that lets performance marketers ask natural-language questions directly of their incrementality data — potentially democratising a discipline that has historically required data science resource.
• Germany's Otto Group is reporting new financial results while doubling down on AI-powered operations and international marketplace expansion — signalling that Europe's second-largest ecommerce group is using AI investment as a structural competitive moat.

Fun fact: Amazon's 'Buy Box' — the default purchase button on a product listing — is won by third-party sellers, not Amazon itself, roughly 82% of the time, meaning most clicks on Amazon's signature orange button are actually sending money to independent merchants. Yet most shoppers assume they're buying directly from Amazon.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 31, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• Amazon Publisher Services is giving publishers diagnostic tools to identify exactly which bid-request signals actually drive advertiser demand — a move that reshapes how ecommerce ad inventory gets valued.
• Measurement platform Measured has launched an AI chat interface that lets performance marketers ask natural-language questions directly of their incrementality data — potentially democratising a discipline that has historically required data science resource.
• Germany's Otto Group is reporting new financial results while doubling down on AI-powered operations and international marketplace expansion — signalling that Europe's second-largest ecommerce group is using AI investment as a structural competitive moat.

Fun fact: Amazon's 'Buy Box' — the default purchase button on a product listing — is won by third-party sellers, not Amazon itself, roughly 82% of the time, meaning most clicks on Amazon's signature orange button are actually sending money to independent merchants. Yet most shoppers assume they're buying directly from Amazon.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 02:09:40 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/4bac32fd/209a1697.mp3" length="11992855" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>434</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 31, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• Amazon Publisher Services is giving publishers diagnostic tools to identify exactly which bid-request signals actually drive advertiser demand — a move that reshapes how ecommerce ad inventory gets valued.
• Measurement platform Measured has launched an AI chat interface that lets performance marketers ask natural-language questions directly of their incrementality data — potentially democratising a discipline that has historically required data science resource.
• Germany's Otto Group is reporting new financial results while doubling down on AI-powered operations and international marketplace expansion — signalling that Europe's second-largest ecommerce group is using AI investment as a structural competitive moat.

Fun fact: Amazon's 'Buy Box' — the default purchase button on a product listing — is won by third-party sellers, not Amazon itself, roughly 82% of the time, meaning most clicks on Amazon's signature orange button are actually sending money to independent merchants. Yet most shoppers assume they're buying directly from Amazon.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 30, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 30, 2026</itunes:title>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/dbb1a4e6</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 30, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• American Eagle is cutting brand spend and doubling down on performance marketing mid-sales slump — a real-time case study in how fashion retailers are reprioritising digital commerce ROI under pressure.
• DHL and USPS are joining forces on last-mile delivery in the US, reshaping the logistics options available to ecommerce merchants and potentially pressuring UPS and FedEx on cost.
• Eric Steckling is running two bootstrapped DTC brands — beard trimmers under Brio and oral care under Ollie — from a single operator seat, offering a rare inside look at lean multi-brand ecommerce in 2026.

Fun fact: Amazon's product listing images alone can account for a 30% swing in conversion rate — meaning a brand selling the exact same product at the exact same price can nearly double its sales just by upgrading its photos, with no changes to copy, price, or advertising spend. It's arguably the highest-ROI single action available on the platform, yet most third-party sellers still use manufacturer-supplied images.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 30, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• American Eagle is cutting brand spend and doubling down on performance marketing mid-sales slump — a real-time case study in how fashion retailers are reprioritising digital commerce ROI under pressure.
• DHL and USPS are joining forces on last-mile delivery in the US, reshaping the logistics options available to ecommerce merchants and potentially pressuring UPS and FedEx on cost.
• Eric Steckling is running two bootstrapped DTC brands — beard trimmers under Brio and oral care under Ollie — from a single operator seat, offering a rare inside look at lean multi-brand ecommerce in 2026.

Fun fact: Amazon's product listing images alone can account for a 30% swing in conversion rate — meaning a brand selling the exact same product at the exact same price can nearly double its sales just by upgrading its photos, with no changes to copy, price, or advertising spend. It's arguably the highest-ROI single action available on the platform, yet most third-party sellers still use manufacturer-supplied images.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 02:09:36 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/dbb1a4e6/a3d269e5.mp3" length="11866777" type="audio/mpeg"/>
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      <itunes:duration>426</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 30, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• American Eagle is cutting brand spend and doubling down on performance marketing mid-sales slump — a real-time case study in how fashion retailers are reprioritising digital commerce ROI under pressure.
• DHL and USPS are joining forces on last-mile delivery in the US, reshaping the logistics options available to ecommerce merchants and potentially pressuring UPS and FedEx on cost.
• Eric Steckling is running two bootstrapped DTC brands — beard trimmers under Brio and oral care under Ollie — from a single operator seat, offering a rare inside look at lean multi-brand ecommerce in 2026.

Fun fact: Amazon's product listing images alone can account for a 30% swing in conversion rate — meaning a brand selling the exact same product at the exact same price can nearly double its sales just by upgrading its photos, with no changes to copy, price, or advertising spend. It's arguably the highest-ROI single action available on the platform, yet most third-party sellers still use manufacturer-supplied images.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 29, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 29, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/dc6e40c0</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 29, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• Walmart Connect opening its retail media inventory to a second DSP signals a structural shift in how brands can access Walmart's shopper data outside the walled garden.
• As tariff relief starts to materialise, the retailers best positioned to pass savings on to shoppers are those who absorbed costs on the balance sheet rather than pushing them to the price tag — and that list is shorter than you'd think.
• New data showing one in five Spanish ecommerce sellers are already on TikTok Shop — before the platform even launches in Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland and Austria on June 15 — reveals just how fast social commerce penetration is accelerating across Europe.

Fun fact: Shopify's checkout is so dominant that it now processes more transactions on Black Friday than the entire country of Germany conducts in a typical month of retail e-commerce. What makes it stranger: Shopify doesn't own a single product — it's pure infrastructure, yet it briefly surpassed Royal Bank of Canada to become the most valuable company on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 29, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• Walmart Connect opening its retail media inventory to a second DSP signals a structural shift in how brands can access Walmart's shopper data outside the walled garden.
• As tariff relief starts to materialise, the retailers best positioned to pass savings on to shoppers are those who absorbed costs on the balance sheet rather than pushing them to the price tag — and that list is shorter than you'd think.
• New data showing one in five Spanish ecommerce sellers are already on TikTok Shop — before the platform even launches in Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland and Austria on June 15 — reveals just how fast social commerce penetration is accelerating across Europe.

Fun fact: Shopify's checkout is so dominant that it now processes more transactions on Black Friday than the entire country of Germany conducts in a typical month of retail e-commerce. What makes it stranger: Shopify doesn't own a single product — it's pure infrastructure, yet it briefly surpassed Royal Bank of Canada to become the most valuable company on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 08:55:12 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/dc6e40c0/8384d5c3.mp3" length="11884459" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>427</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 29, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• Walmart Connect opening its retail media inventory to a second DSP signals a structural shift in how brands can access Walmart's shopper data outside the walled garden.
• As tariff relief starts to materialise, the retailers best positioned to pass savings on to shoppers are those who absorbed costs on the balance sheet rather than pushing them to the price tag — and that list is shorter than you'd think.
• New data showing one in five Spanish ecommerce sellers are already on TikTok Shop — before the platform even launches in Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland and Austria on June 15 — reveals just how fast social commerce penetration is accelerating across Europe.

Fun fact: Shopify's checkout is so dominant that it now processes more transactions on Black Friday than the entire country of Germany conducts in a typical month of retail e-commerce. What makes it stranger: Shopify doesn't own a single product — it's pure infrastructure, yet it briefly surpassed Royal Bank of Canada to become the most valuable company on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 28, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 28, 2026</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 28, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• Owlet deliberately reduced paid search spend and held sales steady — a rare real-world test of whether DTC brands are over-indexed on bottom-funnel search.
• Alibaba is plugging its AI creative platform directly into Google's ad infrastructure — giving ecommerce sellers a new automated pipeline from product image to live Google display ad.
• Liquid I.V. is using Amazon's in-house creative studio to rethink how a scaled DTC-turned-omnichannel brand builds ad formats designed natively for the world's largest product search engine.

Fun fact: Shopify merchants collectively sell more on Black Friday than the entire GDP of Iceland — in a single day. In 2023, Shopify stores peaked at $4.2 million in sales per minute during the Black Friday rush, surpassing the previous record by over 20%.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 28, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• Owlet deliberately reduced paid search spend and held sales steady — a rare real-world test of whether DTC brands are over-indexed on bottom-funnel search.
• Alibaba is plugging its AI creative platform directly into Google's ad infrastructure — giving ecommerce sellers a new automated pipeline from product image to live Google display ad.
• Liquid I.V. is using Amazon's in-house creative studio to rethink how a scaled DTC-turned-omnichannel brand builds ad formats designed natively for the world's largest product search engine.

Fun fact: Shopify merchants collectively sell more on Black Friday than the entire GDP of Iceland — in a single day. In 2023, Shopify stores peaked at $4.2 million in sales per minute during the Black Friday rush, surpassing the previous record by over 20%.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 02:08:44 +0200</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 28, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• Owlet deliberately reduced paid search spend and held sales steady — a rare real-world test of whether DTC brands are over-indexed on bottom-funnel search.
• Alibaba is plugging its AI creative platform directly into Google's ad infrastructure — giving ecommerce sellers a new automated pipeline from product image to live Google display ad.
• Liquid I.V. is using Amazon's in-house creative studio to rethink how a scaled DTC-turned-omnichannel brand builds ad formats designed natively for the world's largest product search engine.

Fun fact: Shopify merchants collectively sell more on Black Friday than the entire GDP of Iceland — in a single day. In 2023, Shopify stores peaked at $4.2 million in sales per minute during the Black Friday rush, surpassing the previous record by over 20%.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 27, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 27, 2026</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 27, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• A traditional UK footwear retailer launching on TikTok Shop signals that the platform is now mainstream enough to attract legacy high-street brands, not just DTC natives.
• China's second-largest ecommerce giant is reportedly willing to pay £2 billion-plus for the Very Group, which would hand it a major UK marketplace and credit-led shopping platform overnight.
• OpenAI is moving beyond visual ad upgrades into performance-style conversion ads — meaning ChatGPT is now actively building the infrastructure to take budget directly from Google Shopping and Meta.

Fun fact: The average abandoned cart email generates roughly 5% click-to-purchase rates, but Klaviyo's internal data found that sending the second follow-up email — not the first — drives nearly 60% of total recovered revenue from those sequences. Most brands either never send a second email or wait too long, leaving the majority of recoverable sales on the table.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 27, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• A traditional UK footwear retailer launching on TikTok Shop signals that the platform is now mainstream enough to attract legacy high-street brands, not just DTC natives.
• China's second-largest ecommerce giant is reportedly willing to pay £2 billion-plus for the Very Group, which would hand it a major UK marketplace and credit-led shopping platform overnight.
• OpenAI is moving beyond visual ad upgrades into performance-style conversion ads — meaning ChatGPT is now actively building the infrastructure to take budget directly from Google Shopping and Meta.

Fun fact: The average abandoned cart email generates roughly 5% click-to-purchase rates, but Klaviyo's internal data found that sending the second follow-up email — not the first — drives nearly 60% of total recovered revenue from those sequences. Most brands either never send a second email or wait too long, leaving the majority of recoverable sales on the table.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 02:07:41 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 27, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• A traditional UK footwear retailer launching on TikTok Shop signals that the platform is now mainstream enough to attract legacy high-street brands, not just DTC natives.
• China's second-largest ecommerce giant is reportedly willing to pay £2 billion-plus for the Very Group, which would hand it a major UK marketplace and credit-led shopping platform overnight.
• OpenAI is moving beyond visual ad upgrades into performance-style conversion ads — meaning ChatGPT is now actively building the infrastructure to take budget directly from Google Shopping and Meta.

Fun fact: The average abandoned cart email generates roughly 5% click-to-purchase rates, but Klaviyo's internal data found that sending the second follow-up email — not the first — drives nearly 60% of total recovered revenue from those sequences. Most brands either never send a second email or wait too long, leaving the majority of recoverable sales on the table.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 26, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 26, 2026</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 26, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• Shein's acquisition of Everlane signals that Chinese ecommerce giants are pivoting from pure price competition to brand legitimacy in Western markets.
• London-based Fresha has hit unicorn status with a €68.9M KKR round, making it one of the UK's most significant marketplace exits in beauty and wellness commerce.
• Rising fuel surcharges are forcing ecommerce brands to rethink carrier strategy and shipping economics at exactly the wrong moment — when tariff costs are already squeezing margins.

Fun fact: The average B2B ecommerce order takes 2.2 years to fully close when you factor in contract renewals and upsells — yet most B2B platforms still measure conversion the same way B2C does, at the moment of first purchase. Salesforce found that companies treating B2B ecommerce like a long-term relationship rather than a transaction see 30% higher lifetime revenue per account.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 26, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• Shein's acquisition of Everlane signals that Chinese ecommerce giants are pivoting from pure price competition to brand legitimacy in Western markets.
• London-based Fresha has hit unicorn status with a €68.9M KKR round, making it one of the UK's most significant marketplace exits in beauty and wellness commerce.
• Rising fuel surcharges are forcing ecommerce brands to rethink carrier strategy and shipping economics at exactly the wrong moment — when tariff costs are already squeezing margins.

Fun fact: The average B2B ecommerce order takes 2.2 years to fully close when you factor in contract renewals and upsells — yet most B2B platforms still measure conversion the same way B2C does, at the moment of first purchase. Salesforce found that companies treating B2B ecommerce like a long-term relationship rather than a transaction see 30% higher lifetime revenue per account.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 02:06:57 +0200</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>450</itunes:duration>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 26, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• Shein's acquisition of Everlane signals that Chinese ecommerce giants are pivoting from pure price competition to brand legitimacy in Western markets.
• London-based Fresha has hit unicorn status with a €68.9M KKR round, making it one of the UK's most significant marketplace exits in beauty and wellness commerce.
• Rising fuel surcharges are forcing ecommerce brands to rethink carrier strategy and shipping economics at exactly the wrong moment — when tariff costs are already squeezing margins.

Fun fact: The average B2B ecommerce order takes 2.2 years to fully close when you factor in contract renewals and upsells — yet most B2B platforms still measure conversion the same way B2C does, at the moment of first purchase. Salesforce found that companies treating B2B ecommerce like a long-term relationship rather than a transaction see 30% higher lifetime revenue per account.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 25, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 25, 2026</itunes:title>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[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.]]>
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      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[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.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 02:07:51 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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      <itunes:duration>424</itunes:duration>
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        <![CDATA[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.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 24, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 24, 2026</itunes:title>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 24, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• A PE-backed UK logistics provider snapping up a Dutch fulfilment specialist signals that cross-border ecommerce infrastructure in Europe is consolidating fast.
• Digital Commerce 360's 2026 data reveals which retail model has pulled decisively ahead in online sales growth — and the answer has direct implications for where brands and platforms should be placing their bets.
• Sovendus acquiring Berlin-based 35up is a quiet but significant consolidation move in European post-purchase monetisation — a channel that's gaining urgency as customer acquisition costs stay elevated.

Fun fact: Amazon's recommendation engine — the 'Customers who bought this also bought' feature — is responsible for an estimated 35% of the company's total revenue, meaning more than a third of everything Amazon sells is driven not by search or ads, but by algorithmic nudges between purchases. That single feature generates more revenue annually than the entire GDP of many small countries.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 24, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• A PE-backed UK logistics provider snapping up a Dutch fulfilment specialist signals that cross-border ecommerce infrastructure in Europe is consolidating fast.
• Digital Commerce 360's 2026 data reveals which retail model has pulled decisively ahead in online sales growth — and the answer has direct implications for where brands and platforms should be placing their bets.
• Sovendus acquiring Berlin-based 35up is a quiet but significant consolidation move in European post-purchase monetisation — a channel that's gaining urgency as customer acquisition costs stay elevated.

Fun fact: Amazon's recommendation engine — the 'Customers who bought this also bought' feature — is responsible for an estimated 35% of the company's total revenue, meaning more than a third of everything Amazon sells is driven not by search or ads, but by algorithmic nudges between purchases. That single feature generates more revenue annually than the entire GDP of many small countries.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 02:08:48 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/ad568227/8930d56c.mp3" length="12223870" type="audio/mpeg"/>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 24, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• A PE-backed UK logistics provider snapping up a Dutch fulfilment specialist signals that cross-border ecommerce infrastructure in Europe is consolidating fast.
• Digital Commerce 360's 2026 data reveals which retail model has pulled decisively ahead in online sales growth — and the answer has direct implications for where brands and platforms should be placing their bets.
• Sovendus acquiring Berlin-based 35up is a quiet but significant consolidation move in European post-purchase monetisation — a channel that's gaining urgency as customer acquisition costs stay elevated.

Fun fact: Amazon's recommendation engine — the 'Customers who bought this also bought' feature — is responsible for an estimated 35% of the company's total revenue, meaning more than a third of everything Amazon sells is driven not by search or ads, but by algorithmic nudges between purchases. That single feature generates more revenue annually than the entire GDP of many small countries.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 23, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 23, 2026</itunes:title>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 23, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• TikTok Shop is releasing its first major small business performance data, showing 66% sales growth in 2025 — a number that reframes the platform as a serious revenue channel, not just a discovery tool.
• OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT's ad formats to give brands visual customisation options — a meaningful step that turns ChatGPT from an experimental ad surface into a real performance channel.
• e.l.f. Beauty closed fiscal 2026 with another quarter of double-digit growth driven by ecommerce and its fast-growing Röti brand — but is now weighing price cuts, revealing the pressure even high-performing DTC brands face in the current consumer environment.

Fun fact: Amazon's search algorithm gives a measurable ranking boost to listings that receive their first sale within 24 hours of going live — meaning brands often run steep launch discounts not to make money, but purely to trigger that initial velocity signal and unlock organic visibility. That brief window of artificial demand can determine whether a product surfaces on page one or disappears entirely.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 23, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• TikTok Shop is releasing its first major small business performance data, showing 66% sales growth in 2025 — a number that reframes the platform as a serious revenue channel, not just a discovery tool.
• OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT's ad formats to give brands visual customisation options — a meaningful step that turns ChatGPT from an experimental ad surface into a real performance channel.
• e.l.f. Beauty closed fiscal 2026 with another quarter of double-digit growth driven by ecommerce and its fast-growing Röti brand — but is now weighing price cuts, revealing the pressure even high-performing DTC brands face in the current consumer environment.

Fun fact: Amazon's search algorithm gives a measurable ranking boost to listings that receive their first sale within 24 hours of going live — meaning brands often run steep launch discounts not to make money, but purely to trigger that initial velocity signal and unlock organic visibility. That brief window of artificial demand can determine whether a product surfaces on page one or disappears entirely.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 02:08:56 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/769e0bb9/7f5bfe61.mp3" length="11816038" type="audio/mpeg"/>
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      <itunes:duration>423</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 23, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• TikTok Shop is releasing its first major small business performance data, showing 66% sales growth in 2025 — a number that reframes the platform as a serious revenue channel, not just a discovery tool.
• OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT's ad formats to give brands visual customisation options — a meaningful step that turns ChatGPT from an experimental ad surface into a real performance channel.
• e.l.f. Beauty closed fiscal 2026 with another quarter of double-digit growth driven by ecommerce and its fast-growing Röti brand — but is now weighing price cuts, revealing the pressure even high-performing DTC brands face in the current consumer environment.

Fun fact: Amazon's search algorithm gives a measurable ranking boost to listings that receive their first sale within 24 hours of going live — meaning brands often run steep launch discounts not to make money, but purely to trigger that initial velocity signal and unlock organic visibility. That brief window of artificial demand can determine whether a product surfaces on page one or disappears entirely.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 22, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 22, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/6f20d5ee</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 22, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• UK retail media spend is rising but measurement chaos and internal turf wars are preventing brands from unlocking its full upper-funnel potential.
• German premium fashion retailer Breuninger is pushing into three new European markets, signalling that mid-to-luxury ecommerce expansion in Europe is back on the agenda.
• Just Eat Takeaway is the first European platform to enable food ordering directly through WhatsApp, turning Meta's messaging app into a live commerce channel in two key markets.

Fun fact: Amazon's search bar processes more product searches than Google does — and roughly 56% of U.S. consumers now start their product search directly on Amazon rather than a search engine. That means Google, despite owning the broader internet search market, has effectively lost the product discovery battle to a retailer.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 22, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• UK retail media spend is rising but measurement chaos and internal turf wars are preventing brands from unlocking its full upper-funnel potential.
• German premium fashion retailer Breuninger is pushing into three new European markets, signalling that mid-to-luxury ecommerce expansion in Europe is back on the agenda.
• Just Eat Takeaway is the first European platform to enable food ordering directly through WhatsApp, turning Meta's messaging app into a live commerce channel in two key markets.

Fun fact: Amazon's search bar processes more product searches than Google does — and roughly 56% of U.S. consumers now start their product search directly on Amazon rather than a search engine. That means Google, despite owning the broader internet search market, has effectively lost the product discovery battle to a retailer.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 02:08:57 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/6f20d5ee/88355827.mp3" length="11954801" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>431</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 22, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• UK retail media spend is rising but measurement chaos and internal turf wars are preventing brands from unlocking its full upper-funnel potential.
• German premium fashion retailer Breuninger is pushing into three new European markets, signalling that mid-to-luxury ecommerce expansion in Europe is back on the agenda.
• Just Eat Takeaway is the first European platform to enable food ordering directly through WhatsApp, turning Meta's messaging app into a live commerce channel in two key markets.

Fun fact: Amazon's search bar processes more product searches than Google does — and roughly 56% of U.S. consumers now start their product search directly on Amazon rather than a search engine. That means Google, despite owning the broader internet search market, has effectively lost the product discovery battle to a retailer.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 21, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 21, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/5a3928db</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 21, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• ASOS has become the first UK retailer to make its products discoverable and shoppable directly inside ChatGPT via video — a signal that conversational AI is becoming a live commerce channel, not just a search alternative.
• Google has launched a native checkout layer — the Universal Cart — that lets shoppers buy from any merchant without leaving Google properties, making it a direct structural challenge to Amazon's closed commerce ecosystem.
• Klarna has launched a dedicated AI shopping and search app inside ChatGPT, turning the payments provider into a product discovery engine and signalling that fintech players are now competing directly with Google and Amazon for the top of the purchase funnel.

Fun fact: Amazon's checkout flow deliberately omits a traditional shopping cart review page for one-click purchases — a design choice that was so controversial internally it required Jeff Bezos's personal sign-off, yet it now accounts for a disproportionate share of impulse buys, with some merchants reporting that removing friction at that single step lifted conversion rates by over 30%. The patent Amazon held on one-click purchasing was so valuable that Apple licensed it just to sell iTunes songs.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 21, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• ASOS has become the first UK retailer to make its products discoverable and shoppable directly inside ChatGPT via video — a signal that conversational AI is becoming a live commerce channel, not just a search alternative.
• Google has launched a native checkout layer — the Universal Cart — that lets shoppers buy from any merchant without leaving Google properties, making it a direct structural challenge to Amazon's closed commerce ecosystem.
• Klarna has launched a dedicated AI shopping and search app inside ChatGPT, turning the payments provider into a product discovery engine and signalling that fintech players are now competing directly with Google and Amazon for the top of the purchase funnel.

Fun fact: Amazon's checkout flow deliberately omits a traditional shopping cart review page for one-click purchases — a design choice that was so controversial internally it required Jeff Bezos's personal sign-off, yet it now accounts for a disproportionate share of impulse buys, with some merchants reporting that removing friction at that single step lifted conversion rates by over 30%. The patent Amazon held on one-click purchasing was so valuable that Apple licensed it just to sell iTunes songs.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 02:09:13 +0200</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 21, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• ASOS has become the first UK retailer to make its products discoverable and shoppable directly inside ChatGPT via video — a signal that conversational AI is becoming a live commerce channel, not just a search alternative.
• Google has launched a native checkout layer — the Universal Cart — that lets shoppers buy from any merchant without leaving Google properties, making it a direct structural challenge to Amazon's closed commerce ecosystem.
• Klarna has launched a dedicated AI shopping and search app inside ChatGPT, turning the payments provider into a product discovery engine and signalling that fintech players are now competing directly with Google and Amazon for the top of the purchase funnel.

Fun fact: Amazon's checkout flow deliberately omits a traditional shopping cart review page for one-click purchases — a design choice that was so controversial internally it required Jeff Bezos's personal sign-off, yet it now accounts for a disproportionate share of impulse buys, with some merchants reporting that removing friction at that single step lifted conversion rates by over 30%. The patent Amazon held on one-click purchasing was so valuable that Apple licensed it just to sell iTunes songs.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 20, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 20, 2026</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 20, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• Germany's Wolt Ads is opening its in-app retail media inventory to programmatic buyers via Koddi, marking a significant step in European commerce media infrastructure.
• The EU's revised General Product Safety Regulation now applies to all merchants selling into Europe — including US-based sellers — creating urgent compliance obligations for cross-border ecommerce.
• German DTC brand Sallys Shop used community-led language and AI-powered personalised search to achieve a 70% lift in conversions — a concrete playbook for content-to-commerce in Europe.

Fun fact: Amazon's affiliate program, Associates, pays out commissions as low as 1% on video games and consoles — but influencers promoting the exact same products through Amazon's separate influencer storefront can earn up to 10x more per sale through bonus structures. Thousands of creators have been unknowingly leaving money on the table by using the wrong link type for years.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 20, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• Germany's Wolt Ads is opening its in-app retail media inventory to programmatic buyers via Koddi, marking a significant step in European commerce media infrastructure.
• The EU's revised General Product Safety Regulation now applies to all merchants selling into Europe — including US-based sellers — creating urgent compliance obligations for cross-border ecommerce.
• German DTC brand Sallys Shop used community-led language and AI-powered personalised search to achieve a 70% lift in conversions — a concrete playbook for content-to-commerce in Europe.

Fun fact: Amazon's affiliate program, Associates, pays out commissions as low as 1% on video games and consoles — but influencers promoting the exact same products through Amazon's separate influencer storefront can earn up to 10x more per sale through bonus structures. Thousands of creators have been unknowingly leaving money on the table by using the wrong link type for years.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 02:08:14 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 20, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• Germany's Wolt Ads is opening its in-app retail media inventory to programmatic buyers via Koddi, marking a significant step in European commerce media infrastructure.
• The EU's revised General Product Safety Regulation now applies to all merchants selling into Europe — including US-based sellers — creating urgent compliance obligations for cross-border ecommerce.
• German DTC brand Sallys Shop used community-led language and AI-powered personalised search to achieve a 70% lift in conversions — a concrete playbook for content-to-commerce in Europe.

Fun fact: Amazon's affiliate program, Associates, pays out commissions as low as 1% on video games and consoles — but influencers promoting the exact same products through Amazon's separate influencer storefront can earn up to 10x more per sale through bonus structures. Thousands of creators have been unknowingly leaving money on the table by using the wrong link type for years.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 19, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 19, 2026</itunes:title>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 19, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• Amazon has quietly slashed affiliate commissions by up to 50% while gutting reporting tools, forcing publishers to urgently rethink their commerce revenue models.
• German marketplace giant Otto is piloting access for Polish sellers next month, signalling a deliberate cross-border expansion strategy inside the EU single market.
• New benchmark data shows Google Ads CPCs continued climbing in 2025 but conversion rates also rose, forcing ecommerce advertisers to rethink whether rising costs are actually eroding returns.

Fun fact: Shopify merchants collectively sold more on Black Friday 2023 than the entire GDP of Iceland — hitting $9.3 billion in a single day. At its peak, that was $4.2 million in sales processed every minute across the platform.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 19, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• Amazon has quietly slashed affiliate commissions by up to 50% while gutting reporting tools, forcing publishers to urgently rethink their commerce revenue models.
• German marketplace giant Otto is piloting access for Polish sellers next month, signalling a deliberate cross-border expansion strategy inside the EU single market.
• New benchmark data shows Google Ads CPCs continued climbing in 2025 but conversion rates also rose, forcing ecommerce advertisers to rethink whether rising costs are actually eroding returns.

Fun fact: Shopify merchants collectively sold more on Black Friday 2023 than the entire GDP of Iceland — hitting $9.3 billion in a single day. At its peak, that was $4.2 million in sales processed every minute across the platform.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 02:08:10 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/6e8d5d52/38b48209.mp3" length="12057816" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>438</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 19, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• Amazon has quietly slashed affiliate commissions by up to 50% while gutting reporting tools, forcing publishers to urgently rethink their commerce revenue models.
• German marketplace giant Otto is piloting access for Polish sellers next month, signalling a deliberate cross-border expansion strategy inside the EU single market.
• New benchmark data shows Google Ads CPCs continued climbing in 2025 but conversion rates also rose, forcing ecommerce advertisers to rethink whether rising costs are actually eroding returns.

Fun fact: Shopify merchants collectively sold more on Black Friday 2023 than the entire GDP of Iceland — hitting $9.3 billion in a single day. At its peak, that was $4.2 million in sales processed every minute across the platform.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 18, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 18, 2026</itunes:title>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/674a3a8d</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 18, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• A $2.2 billion deal that puts the world's largest ad holding company in control of the data clean room infrastructure that ecommerce advertisers depend on for attribution and audience matching.
• Anthropic's Project Deal experiment showed AI agents autonomously buying and selling in a controlled marketplace — and it's the clearest preview yet of what ecommerce infrastructure needs to look like when the shopper is a machine.
• Edible Brands has cracked measurable AOV growth in a high-frequency gifting category by expanding delivery options and bundling — a concrete DTC case study at a time when acquisition costs leave brands no choice but to squeeze more from every order.

Fun fact: Amazon's Prime Day actually drives more sales for Walmart and Target than a typical day — because the flood of comparison shoppers who start on Amazon frequently end up converting elsewhere after seeing the deals aren't as steep as expected. In 2023, Walmart reported its biggest online sales day of the year coincided directly with Prime Day.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 18, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• A $2.2 billion deal that puts the world's largest ad holding company in control of the data clean room infrastructure that ecommerce advertisers depend on for attribution and audience matching.
• Anthropic's Project Deal experiment showed AI agents autonomously buying and selling in a controlled marketplace — and it's the clearest preview yet of what ecommerce infrastructure needs to look like when the shopper is a machine.
• Edible Brands has cracked measurable AOV growth in a high-frequency gifting category by expanding delivery options and bundling — a concrete DTC case study at a time when acquisition costs leave brands no choice but to squeeze more from every order.

Fun fact: Amazon's Prime Day actually drives more sales for Walmart and Target than a typical day — because the flood of comparison shoppers who start on Amazon frequently end up converting elsewhere after seeing the deals aren't as steep as expected. In 2023, Walmart reported its biggest online sales day of the year coincided directly with Prime Day.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 02:08:02 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/674a3a8d/26594973.mp3" length="12266536" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>451</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 18, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• A $2.2 billion deal that puts the world's largest ad holding company in control of the data clean room infrastructure that ecommerce advertisers depend on for attribution and audience matching.
• Anthropic's Project Deal experiment showed AI agents autonomously buying and selling in a controlled marketplace — and it's the clearest preview yet of what ecommerce infrastructure needs to look like when the shopper is a machine.
• Edible Brands has cracked measurable AOV growth in a high-frequency gifting category by expanding delivery options and bundling — a concrete DTC case study at a time when acquisition costs leave brands no choice but to squeeze more from every order.

Fun fact: Amazon's Prime Day actually drives more sales for Walmart and Target than a typical day — because the flood of comparison shoppers who start on Amazon frequently end up converting elsewhere after seeing the deals aren't as steep as expected. In 2023, Walmart reported its biggest online sales day of the year coincided directly with Prime Day.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 17, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 17, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/76d32abb</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 17, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• A $30M Series A into an AI-powered social marketing OS signals that brands are willing to pay serious money to centralise and automate their social commerce operations.
• Meta projecting $240 billion in ad revenue for 2026 is a landmark number that redraws the map for every performance marketer allocating budget this year.
• Vessi's director of D2C reveals how the footwear brand is using data to make faster operational bets and lift conversion — a practical DTC growth playbook in a high-CAC environment.

Fun fact: Amazon's 'Buy Box' — the default purchase button on a product page — is won by third-party sellers, not Amazon itself, roughly 82% of the time, yet most shoppers assume they're buying directly from Amazon. This means billions of dollars in annual sales flow through independent merchants while Amazon collects a fulfillment and referral fee without ever touching the inventory.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 17, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• A $30M Series A into an AI-powered social marketing OS signals that brands are willing to pay serious money to centralise and automate their social commerce operations.
• Meta projecting $240 billion in ad revenue for 2026 is a landmark number that redraws the map for every performance marketer allocating budget this year.
• Vessi's director of D2C reveals how the footwear brand is using data to make faster operational bets and lift conversion — a practical DTC growth playbook in a high-CAC environment.

Fun fact: Amazon's 'Buy Box' — the default purchase button on a product page — is won by third-party sellers, not Amazon itself, roughly 82% of the time, yet most shoppers assume they're buying directly from Amazon. This means billions of dollars in annual sales flow through independent merchants while Amazon collects a fulfillment and referral fee without ever touching the inventory.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 11:29:24 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/76d32abb/17b0c6c1.mp3" length="11896374" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>428</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 17, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• A $30M Series A into an AI-powered social marketing OS signals that brands are willing to pay serious money to centralise and automate their social commerce operations.
• Meta projecting $240 billion in ad revenue for 2026 is a landmark number that redraws the map for every performance marketer allocating budget this year.
• Vessi's director of D2C reveals how the footwear brand is using data to make faster operational bets and lift conversion — a practical DTC growth playbook in a high-CAC environment.

Fun fact: Amazon's 'Buy Box' — the default purchase button on a product page — is won by third-party sellers, not Amazon itself, roughly 82% of the time, yet most shoppers assume they're buying directly from Amazon. This means billions of dollars in annual sales flow through independent merchants while Amazon collects a fulfillment and referral fee without ever touching the inventory.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 16, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 16, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/0f3557a7</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 16, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• Google is forcing ecommerce advertisers to change how they feed offline sales data into their campaigns — a quiet but operationally significant infrastructure shift.
• Marks &amp; Spencer is acquiring an ASOS distribution centre for €77.5 million — a direct signal that M&amp;S is betting hard on ecommerce fulfilment capacity as ASOS continues its retreat.
• JD.com's net profit dropped more than 50% despite strong revenue growth — because it's deliberately burning cash on expansion bets that could reshape how global ecommerce competition plays out.

Fun fact: Amazon's Prime Day generates so much demand that competing retailers like Target and Walmart have learned to run their own simultaneous sales events — and some studies show those rivals actually see higher-than-normal conversion rates during Prime Day because deal-hungry shoppers comparison shop across multiple tabs before buying. In other words, Amazon essentially trained consumers to spend more broadly, not just on Amazon.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 16, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• Google is forcing ecommerce advertisers to change how they feed offline sales data into their campaigns — a quiet but operationally significant infrastructure shift.
• Marks &amp; Spencer is acquiring an ASOS distribution centre for €77.5 million — a direct signal that M&amp;S is betting hard on ecommerce fulfilment capacity as ASOS continues its retreat.
• JD.com's net profit dropped more than 50% despite strong revenue growth — because it's deliberately burning cash on expansion bets that could reshape how global ecommerce competition plays out.

Fun fact: Amazon's Prime Day generates so much demand that competing retailers like Target and Walmart have learned to run their own simultaneous sales events — and some studies show those rivals actually see higher-than-normal conversion rates during Prime Day because deal-hungry shoppers comparison shop across multiple tabs before buying. In other words, Amazon essentially trained consumers to spend more broadly, not just on Amazon.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 02:08:36 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/0f3557a7/81a91184.mp3" length="11985936" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>433</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 16, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• Google is forcing ecommerce advertisers to change how they feed offline sales data into their campaigns — a quiet but operationally significant infrastructure shift.
• Marks &amp; Spencer is acquiring an ASOS distribution centre for €77.5 million — a direct signal that M&amp;S is betting hard on ecommerce fulfilment capacity as ASOS continues its retreat.
• JD.com's net profit dropped more than 50% despite strong revenue growth — because it's deliberately burning cash on expansion bets that could reshape how global ecommerce competition plays out.

Fun fact: Amazon's Prime Day generates so much demand that competing retailers like Target and Walmart have learned to run their own simultaneous sales events — and some studies show those rivals actually see higher-than-normal conversion rates during Prime Day because deal-hungry shoppers comparison shop across multiple tabs before buying. In other words, Amazon essentially trained consumers to spend more broadly, not just on Amazon.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 15, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 15, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/f10ce1b5</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 15, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• Google is embedding an AI-powered advisor directly inside Merchant Center, which could fundamentally change how sellers optimise their product listings and Shopping campaigns.
• Albertsons is integrating lifetime value into its retail media analytics stack, signalling a maturity shift in how grocery retailers measure and sell advertising.
• Ecommerce has crossed the 25% share of global retail for the first time, but the headline masks a striking divergence between categories that are thriving and those that are stalling online.

Fun fact: Amazon's Prime Day generates so much simultaneous demand that the event has repeatedly caused measurable slowdowns on competitor websites — not through any attack, but simply because millions of shoppers open multiple tabs to price-compare in real time, overwhelming servers at retailers like Target and Walmart. In 2021, Target's website crashed within hours of Amazon's sale launching, even though Target was running its own competing sale called 'Deal Days' at the same exact time.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 15, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• Google is embedding an AI-powered advisor directly inside Merchant Center, which could fundamentally change how sellers optimise their product listings and Shopping campaigns.
• Albertsons is integrating lifetime value into its retail media analytics stack, signalling a maturity shift in how grocery retailers measure and sell advertising.
• Ecommerce has crossed the 25% share of global retail for the first time, but the headline masks a striking divergence between categories that are thriving and those that are stalling online.

Fun fact: Amazon's Prime Day generates so much simultaneous demand that the event has repeatedly caused measurable slowdowns on competitor websites — not through any attack, but simply because millions of shoppers open multiple tabs to price-compare in real time, overwhelming servers at retailers like Target and Walmart. In 2021, Target's website crashed within hours of Amazon's sale launching, even though Target was running its own competing sale called 'Deal Days' at the same exact time.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 10:23:05 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/f10ce1b5/845ba8b2.mp3" length="11754921" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>419</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 15, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.

In today's episode:
• Google is embedding an AI-powered advisor directly inside Merchant Center, which could fundamentally change how sellers optimise their product listings and Shopping campaigns.
• Albertsons is integrating lifetime value into its retail media analytics stack, signalling a maturity shift in how grocery retailers measure and sell advertising.
• Ecommerce has crossed the 25% share of global retail for the first time, but the headline masks a striking divergence between categories that are thriving and those that are stalling online.

Fun fact: Amazon's Prime Day generates so much simultaneous demand that the event has repeatedly caused measurable slowdowns on competitor websites — not through any attack, but simply because millions of shoppers open multiple tabs to price-compare in real time, overwhelming servers at retailers like Target and Walmart. In 2021, Target's website crashed within hours of Amazon's sale launching, even though Target was running its own competing sale called 'Deal Days' at the same exact time.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 14, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 14, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/c3ee4492</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 14, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Amazon's recommendation engine — the 'customers who bought this also bought' feature — is responsible for an estimated 35% of the company's total revenue, meaning more than a third of everything Amazon sells is driven not by search or ads, but by an algorithm nudging you toward one more item. It's arguably the most profitable piece of software in retail history.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 14, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Amazon's recommendation engine — the 'customers who bought this also bought' feature — is responsible for an estimated 35% of the company's total revenue, meaning more than a third of everything Amazon sells is driven not by search or ads, but by an algorithm nudging you toward one more item. It's arguably the most profitable piece of software in retail history.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 02:09:23 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/c3ee4492/c6d2ac98.mp3" length="6832874" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>427</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 14, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Amazon's recommendation engine — the 'customers who bought this also bought' feature — is responsible for an estimated 35% of the company's total revenue, meaning more than a third of everything Amazon sells is driven not by search or ads, but by an algorithm nudging you toward one more item. It's arguably the most profitable piece of software in retail history.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 13, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 13, 2026</itunes:title>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 13, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Shopify's checkout system is so brand-agnostic that it processes transactions for direct competitors simultaneously—including processing sales for over 47,000 coffee brands that compete with each other for the same customers. The platform literally helps thousands of businesses fight for market share while treating each one identically in its algorithm.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 13, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Shopify's checkout system is so brand-agnostic that it processes transactions for direct competitors simultaneously—including processing sales for over 47,000 coffee brands that compete with each other for the same customers. The platform literally helps thousands of businesses fight for market share while treating each one identically in its algorithm.]]>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 02:08:34 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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      <itunes:duration>436</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 13, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Shopify's checkout system is so brand-agnostic that it processes transactions for direct competitors simultaneously—including processing sales for over 47,000 coffee brands that compete with each other for the same customers. The platform literally helps thousands of businesses fight for market share while treating each one identically in its algorithm.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 12, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 12, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/00e7b251</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 12, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Shopify processes more payment volume during Black Friday Cyber Monday than American Express processes globally on an average day. In 2023, Shopify merchants generated $9.3 billion in sales during the five-day period—while Amex's typical daily volume hovers around $8 billion.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 12, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Shopify processes more payment volume during Black Friday Cyber Monday than American Express processes globally on an average day. In 2023, Shopify merchants generated $9.3 billion in sales during the five-day period—while Amex's typical daily volume hovers around $8 billion.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 02:08:33 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/00e7b251/72cd9271.mp3" length="7337186" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>459</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 12, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Shopify processes more payment volume during Black Friday Cyber Monday than American Express processes globally on an average day. In 2023, Shopify merchants generated $9.3 billion in sales during the five-day period—while Amex's typical daily volume hovers around $8 billion.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 11, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 11, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">9320fca7-dfce-49e3-af8b-a2ca50b6d3c2</guid>
      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/3b41beb7</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 11, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Amazon's product URLs can be up to 1,000 characters long, but deleting everything after the tenth character—the product ID—still works perfectly. This means roughly 98% of every Amazon link ever shared is completely unnecessary data that does nothing except track where the link came from.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 11, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Amazon's product URLs can be up to 1,000 characters long, but deleting everything after the tenth character—the product ID—still works perfectly. This means roughly 98% of every Amazon link ever shared is completely unnecessary data that does nothing except track where the link came from.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 02:08:39 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/3b41beb7/b90f84f1.mp3" length="7116165" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>445</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 11, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Amazon's product URLs can be up to 1,000 characters long, but deleting everything after the tenth character—the product ID—still works perfectly. This means roughly 98% of every Amazon link ever shared is completely unnecessary data that does nothing except track where the link came from.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 10, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 10, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">8ed3bac6-b586-4d32-aa2c-f74cf21f1f10</guid>
      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/2fd1ade9</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 10, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Shopify's shipping algorithm processes over 1.7 million package weight calculations per minute during peak hours, but here's the twist: merchants who round up product weights to the nearest pound actually save more money than those who enter precise weights, because carriers penalize partial-pound shipments with dimensional weight pricing that often exceeds the actual weight cost.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 10, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Shopify's shipping algorithm processes over 1.7 million package weight calculations per minute during peak hours, but here's the twist: merchants who round up product weights to the nearest pound actually save more money than those who enter precise weights, because carriers penalize partial-pound shipments with dimensional weight pricing that often exceeds the actual weight cost.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 02:09:40 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/2fd1ade9/908c3375.mp3" length="7387925" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>462</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 10, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Shopify's shipping algorithm processes over 1.7 million package weight calculations per minute during peak hours, but here's the twist: merchants who round up product weights to the nearest pound actually save more money than those who enter precise weights, because carriers penalize partial-pound shipments with dimensional weight pricing that often exceeds the actual weight cost.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 09, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 09, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">810ad9a0-adbe-4cc1-9d9a-495bc89d42cf</guid>
      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/49c40e34</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 09, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Shopify's checkout code is so performance-optimized that it measures load time in milliseconds per semicolon. The company once discovered that removing a single unnecessary character from their JavaScript reduced global bandwidth consumption by 1.7 terabytes per day.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 09, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Shopify's checkout code is so performance-optimized that it measures load time in milliseconds per semicolon. The company once discovered that removing a single unnecessary character from their JavaScript reduced global bandwidth consumption by 1.7 terabytes per day.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 02:09:57 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/49c40e34/48e1c922.mp3" length="7458267" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>466</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 09, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Shopify's checkout code is so performance-optimized that it measures load time in milliseconds per semicolon. The company once discovered that removing a single unnecessary character from their JavaScript reduced global bandwidth consumption by 1.7 terabytes per day.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 08, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 08, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">505f73ae-87dc-4a9c-839c-156e7a519ef3</guid>
      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/b754d000</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 08, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Shopify's server infrastructure processes more checkout transactions during a 60-second peak on Black Friday than the entire population of Los Angeles could complete if every person bought something simultaneously. In 2023, Shopify merchants hit a record 4.2 million requests per minute at their busiest moment.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 08, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Shopify's server infrastructure processes more checkout transactions during a 60-second peak on Black Friday than the entire population of Los Angeles could complete if every person bought something simultaneously. In 2023, Shopify merchants hit a record 4.2 million requests per minute at their busiest moment.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 02:09:58 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/b754d000/1ac5df29.mp3" length="7123084" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>445</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 08, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Shopify's server infrastructure processes more checkout transactions during a 60-second peak on Black Friday than the entire population of Los Angeles could complete if every person bought something simultaneously. In 2023, Shopify merchants hit a record 4.2 million requests per minute at their busiest moment.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 07, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 07, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">bf56cc9e-719f-4371-95e1-57fc1a5370b0</guid>
      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/3b5178e2</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 07, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Shopify merchants who enable Apple Pay see 2.5x higher conversion rates on mobile devices, but less than 15% of stores actually turn it on. The reason? Most merchants don't realize it's a simple toggle in their payment settings, not a separate payment processor contract.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 07, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Shopify merchants who enable Apple Pay see 2.5x higher conversion rates on mobile devices, but less than 15% of stores actually turn it on. The reason? Most merchants don't realize it's a simple toggle in their payment settings, not a separate payment processor contract.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 02:09:08 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/3b5178e2/41405e22.mp3" length="7218412" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>451</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 07, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Shopify merchants who enable Apple Pay see 2.5x higher conversion rates on mobile devices, but less than 15% of stores actually turn it on. The reason? Most merchants don't realize it's a simple toggle in their payment settings, not a separate payment processor contract.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 06, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 06, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">32da2dfd-8ec2-4a06-bcc1-2b8534c9a14e</guid>
      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/7d0bb31d</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 06, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Shopify's checkout system processes more payment volume during Black Friday weekend than American Express processes globally on an average day. In 2023, Shopify merchants hit peak sales of $4.2 million per minute, making it temporarily larger than most payment processors on Earth.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 06, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Shopify's checkout system processes more payment volume during Black Friday weekend than American Express processes globally on an average day. In 2023, Shopify merchants hit peak sales of $4.2 million per minute, making it temporarily larger than most payment processors on Earth.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 02:08:30 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/7d0bb31d/3efebe34.mp3" length="7482868" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>468</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 06, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Shopify's checkout system processes more payment volume during Black Friday weekend than American Express processes globally on an average day. In 2023, Shopify merchants hit peak sales of $4.2 million per minute, making it temporarily larger than most payment processors on Earth.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 05, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 05, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">bc889046-3a8c-477a-96f3-8db9184c3e78</guid>
      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/13cd764f</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 05, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Amazon's search bar doesn't actually search all products on the site. The algorithm deliberately excludes roughly 40% of listings from search results based on quality signals, meaning nearly half of Amazon's catalog is essentially invisible to shoppers no matter what keywords they type in.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 05, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Amazon's search bar doesn't actually search all products on the site. The algorithm deliberately excludes roughly 40% of listings from search results based on quality signals, meaning nearly half of Amazon's catalog is essentially invisible to shoppers no matter what keywords they type in.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 02:08:09 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/13cd764f/56ff8e78.mp3" length="6895529" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>431</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 05, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Amazon's search bar doesn't actually search all products on the site. The algorithm deliberately excludes roughly 40% of listings from search results based on quality signals, meaning nearly half of Amazon's catalog is essentially invisible to shoppers no matter what keywords they type in.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 04, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 04, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">d29e5fe3-656a-4203-b01f-f49f585cea26</guid>
      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/abd90bac</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 04, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Amazon's 'Subscribe &amp; Save' program accidentally created a black market for discontinued products. Subscribers who locked in products before discontinuation have reportedly sold their subscription slots for hundreds of dollars, with some rare items like specific baby formula brands trading subscription access like concert tickets.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 04, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Amazon's 'Subscribe &amp; Save' program accidentally created a black market for discontinued products. Subscribers who locked in products before discontinuation have reportedly sold their subscription slots for hundreds of dollars, with some rare items like specific baby formula brands trading subscription access like concert tickets.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 07:39:29 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/abd90bac/605c5de5.mp3" length="7176514" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>448</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 04, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Amazon's 'Subscribe &amp; Save' program accidentally created a black market for discontinued products. Subscribers who locked in products before discontinuation have reportedly sold their subscription slots for hundreds of dollars, with some rare items like specific baby formula brands trading subscription access like concert tickets.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 03, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 03, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">6562db7d-11ba-489f-a53e-90de297e7e42</guid>
      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/7ca7cd87</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 03, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Amazon's "Frequently Bought Together" recommendation feature generates more revenue per customer than its entire display advertising business. This single algorithmic module, which cost virtually nothing to add to product pages, accounts for an estimated 35% of the company's total ecommerce sales.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 03, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Amazon's "Frequently Bought Together" recommendation feature generates more revenue per customer than its entire display advertising business. This single algorithmic module, which cost virtually nothing to add to product pages, accounts for an estimated 35% of the company's total ecommerce sales.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 02:05:31 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/7ca7cd87/962f657d.mp3" length="7267228" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>454</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 03, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Amazon's "Frequently Bought Together" recommendation feature generates more revenue per customer than its entire display advertising business. This single algorithmic module, which cost virtually nothing to add to product pages, accounts for an estimated 35% of the company's total ecommerce sales.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 02, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 02, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">11cbf80d-5940-466c-9c66-718393909109</guid>
      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/dfcd2234</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 02, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Amazon's 'Customers who bought this also bought' feature generates 35% of the company's total sales, making it more valuable than many Fortune 500 companies' entire revenue streams. This single recommendation algorithm produces roughly $160 billion in annual sales.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 02, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Amazon's 'Customers who bought this also bought' feature generates 35% of the company's total sales, making it more valuable than many Fortune 500 companies' entire revenue streams. This single recommendation algorithm produces roughly $160 billion in annual sales.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 02:06:19 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/dfcd2234/4ca53e5d.mp3" length="7240321" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>452</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 02, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Amazon's 'Customers who bought this also bought' feature generates 35% of the company's total sales, making it more valuable than many Fortune 500 companies' entire revenue streams. This single recommendation algorithm produces roughly $160 billion in annual sales.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 01, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 01, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 01, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Wayfair's augmented reality feature reduces furniture return rates by 40%, but the company discovered customers who use AR actually spend 11% less per order because they're more confident buying smaller, less expensive items they know will fit. The technology that was supposed to boost revenue is actually lowering average order values.]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 01, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Wayfair's augmented reality feature reduces furniture return rates by 40%, but the company discovered customers who use AR actually spend 11% less per order because they're more confident buying smaller, less expensive items they know will fit. The technology that was supposed to boost revenue is actually lowering average order values.]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 02:05:59 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — May 01, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Wayfair's augmented reality feature reduces furniture return rates by 40%, but the company discovered customers who use AR actually spend 11% less per order because they're more confident buying smaller, less expensive items they know will fit. The technology that was supposed to boost revenue is actually lowering average order values.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — April 30, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — April 30, 2026</itunes:title>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — April 30, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Wayfair's average customer spends 28 minutes building a cart before purchasing furniture online—but 63% of buyers who use the platform's augmented reality room visualizer make a decision in under 8 minutes. AR visualization doesn't just improve conversion rates, it nearly quadruples purchase speed.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — April 30, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Wayfair's average customer spends 28 minutes building a cart before purchasing furniture online—but 63% of buyers who use the platform's augmented reality room visualizer make a decision in under 8 minutes. AR visualization doesn't just improve conversion rates, it nearly quadruples purchase speed.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 02:05:53 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/42846cfd/0006c668.mp3" length="7436359" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>465</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — April 30, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Wayfair's average customer spends 28 minutes building a cart before purchasing furniture online—but 63% of buyers who use the platform's augmented reality room visualizer make a decision in under 8 minutes. AR visualization doesn't just improve conversion rates, it nearly quadruples purchase speed.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — April 29, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — April 29, 2026</itunes:title>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/dd552527</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — April 29, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Etsy sellers who respond to customer messages within one hour have a 40% higher conversion rate than those who respond within 24 hours. But here's the twist: responding within 5 minutes instead of one hour only improves conversion by an additional 3%, revealing a massive diminishing return that most sellers chase anyway.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — April 29, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Etsy sellers who respond to customer messages within one hour have a 40% higher conversion rate than those who respond within 24 hours. But here's the twist: responding within 5 minutes instead of one hour only improves conversion by an additional 3%, revealing a massive diminishing return that most sellers chase anyway.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 02:05:34 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/dd552527/5865997e.mp3" length="7485176" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>468</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — April 29, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Etsy sellers who respond to customer messages within one hour have a 40% higher conversion rate than those who respond within 24 hours. But here's the twist: responding within 5 minutes instead of one hour only improves conversion by an additional 3%, revealing a massive diminishing return that most sellers chase anyway.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — April 28, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — April 28, 2026</itunes:title>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/3b1429ee</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — April 28, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Shopify's highest-grossing merchant store isn't a flashy DTC brand—it's Kylie Cosmetics, which processed over $420 million in sales through the platform in its first 18 months. The store famously sold out its entire $630,000 inventory in less than 10 minutes during its 2016 launch.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — April 28, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Shopify's highest-grossing merchant store isn't a flashy DTC brand—it's Kylie Cosmetics, which processed over $420 million in sales through the platform in its first 18 months. The store famously sold out its entire $630,000 inventory in less than 10 minutes during its 2016 launch.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:05:10 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/3b1429ee/66041bc8.mp3" length="7547446" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>472</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — April 28, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Shopify's highest-grossing merchant store isn't a flashy DTC brand—it's Kylie Cosmetics, which processed over $420 million in sales through the platform in its first 18 months. The store famously sold out its entire $630,000 inventory in less than 10 minutes during its 2016 launch.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — April 27, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — April 27, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">915ca929-a6b2-4e53-ba0d-0b0a7faf1213</guid>
      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/c97cfda6</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — April 27, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Wayfair's average customer spends 22 minutes choosing a single product online, but conversion rates drop by 50% after minute 8. The company now uses AI to predict when shoppers are about to abandon and triggers different interventions based on how long they've been browsing.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — April 27, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Wayfair's average customer spends 22 minutes choosing a single product online, but conversion rates drop by 50% after minute 8. The company now uses AI to predict when shoppers are about to abandon and triggers different interventions based on how long they've been browsing.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 02:04:58 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/c97cfda6/bd45ea5a.mp3" length="7303362" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>456</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — April 27, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Wayfair's average customer spends 22 minutes choosing a single product online, but conversion rates drop by 50% after minute 8. The company now uses AI to predict when shoppers are about to abandon and triggers different interventions based on how long they've been browsing.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — April 26, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — April 26, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">e47c2ad2-5685-42b2-a954-5fb449cb6b3e</guid>
      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/68e8c253</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — April 26, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Etsy sellers who respond to customer messages within one hour see a 40% higher conversion rate than those who wait 24 hours. Yet the platform found that 63% of shop owners take longer than a day to reply, essentially leaving money on the table through delayed communication.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — April 26, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Etsy sellers who respond to customer messages within one hour see a 40% higher conversion rate than those who wait 24 hours. Yet the platform found that 63% of shop owners take longer than a day to reply, essentially leaving money on the table through delayed communication.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 15:46:27 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/68e8c253/41a2ffb9.mp3" length="7442125" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>465</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — April 26, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Etsy sellers who respond to customer messages within one hour see a 40% higher conversion rate than those who wait 24 hours. Yet the platform found that 63% of shop owners take longer than a day to reply, essentially leaving money on the table through delayed communication.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — April 25, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — April 25, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">ab7f7e61-6c09-4243-a623-50ff8724ceb0</guid>
      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/f9fef04d</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — April 25, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Shopify's highest-grossing merchant isn't a fashion brand or electronics store—it's Kylie Cosmetics, which generated over $600 million in its first 18 months on the platform using just seven employees. The company achieved this by selling out inventory in under 60 seconds during launches, proving that artificial scarcity beats massive team size.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — April 25, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Shopify's highest-grossing merchant isn't a fashion brand or electronics store—it's Kylie Cosmetics, which generated over $600 million in its first 18 months on the platform using just seven employees. The company achieved this by selling out inventory in under 60 seconds during launches, proving that artificial scarcity beats massive team size.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 02:05:31 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/f9fef04d/772ec7fe.mp3" length="7358329" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>460</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — April 25, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Shopify's highest-grossing merchant isn't a fashion brand or electronics store—it's Kylie Cosmetics, which generated over $600 million in its first 18 months on the platform using just seven employees. The company achieved this by selling out inventory in under 60 seconds during launches, proving that artificial scarcity beats massive team size.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — April 24, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — April 24, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">abfed16a-c075-4185-ad0a-a2e66c681075</guid>
      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/209ec489</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — April 24, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Shopify merchants who offer a 'Buy Now, Pay Later' option see 28% higher average order values, but most of that increase comes from customers who would have purchased anyway—not new customers. The payment flexibility doesn't expand the buyer pool nearly as much as it encourages existing shoppers to upgrade their carts.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — April 24, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Shopify merchants who offer a 'Buy Now, Pay Later' option see 28% higher average order values, but most of that increase comes from customers who would have purchased anyway—not new customers. The payment flexibility doesn't expand the buyer pool nearly as much as it encourages existing shoppers to upgrade their carts.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:35:38 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/209ec489/060aa4af.mp3" length="7430978" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>464</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — April 24, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Shopify merchants who offer a 'Buy Now, Pay Later' option see 28% higher average order values, but most of that increase comes from customers who would have purchased anyway—not new customers. The payment flexibility doesn't expand the buyer pool nearly as much as it encourages existing shoppers to upgrade their carts.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — April 23, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — April 23, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">68f00018-2c79-48ab-b48e-60eed86b25cf</guid>
      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/03a549f2</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — April 23, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Amazon's product search algorithm doesn't actually prioritize the best-selling items—it prioritizes products most likely to be purchased AND not returned. This means a product with 100 sales and 5% returns will rank higher than one with 500 sales and 20% returns, even though the latter sells 5x more.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — April 23, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Amazon's product search algorithm doesn't actually prioritize the best-selling items—it prioritizes products most likely to be purchased AND not returned. This means a product with 100 sales and 5% returns will rank higher than one with 500 sales and 20% returns, even though the latter sells 5x more.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:59:58 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/03a549f2/d8675e9a.mp3" length="7009693" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>438</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — April 23, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Amazon's product search algorithm doesn't actually prioritize the best-selling items—it prioritizes products most likely to be purchased AND not returned. This means a product with 100 sales and 5% returns will rank higher than one with 500 sales and 20% returns, even though the latter sells 5x more.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — April 22, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — April 22, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">1261b33e-84da-4a09-811b-952d3f5d56fa</guid>
      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/ebb1c2dc</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — April 22, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Amazon's first-ever purchase in 1995 was a book called 'Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies' by Douglas Hofstadter, bought by a computer scientist named John Wainwright. The book cost $27.95, and Wainwright had no idea he was making history—he just wanted to test if the new website actually worked.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — April 22, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Amazon's first-ever purchase in 1995 was a book called 'Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies' by Douglas Hofstadter, bought by a computer scientist named John Wainwright. The book cost $27.95, and Wainwright had no idea he was making history—he just wanted to test if the new website actually worked.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 07:03:52 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/ebb1c2dc/bb12f675.mp3" length="7057741" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>441</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — April 22, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Amazon's first-ever purchase in 1995 was a book called 'Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies' by Douglas Hofstadter, bought by a computer scientist named John Wainwright. The book cost $27.95, and Wainwright had no idea he was making history—he just wanted to test if the new website actually worked.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — April 21, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — April 21, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">2fe91f08-b890-443f-bc53-24834d349998</guid>
      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/14950f76</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — April 21, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Shopify's checkout system processes over $5 billion in sales during peak Black Friday hours, but the company's own 'Buy Button' feature was originally built in just 8 days by a team of three engineers. That scrappy feature now powers embedded commerce for over 100,000 merchants across blogs, Instagram, and Pinterest.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — April 21, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Shopify's checkout system processes over $5 billion in sales during peak Black Friday hours, but the company's own 'Buy Button' feature was originally built in just 8 days by a team of three engineers. That scrappy feature now powers embedded commerce for over 100,000 merchants across blogs, Instagram, and Pinterest.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:46:36 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/14950f76/c2e26734.mp3" length="7003158" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>438</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — April 21, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Shopify's checkout system processes over $5 billion in sales during peak Black Friday hours, but the company's own 'Buy Button' feature was originally built in just 8 days by a team of three engineers. That scrappy feature now powers embedded commerce for over 100,000 merchants across blogs, Instagram, and Pinterest.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — April 20, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — April 20, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">1fbc57bb-8a39-467f-beb9-2feb640e748d</guid>
      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/4b57cb50</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — April 20, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Amazon's first-ever online purchase in 1995 was a book called 'Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies' by Douglas Hofstadter, ordered by a computer engineer named John Wainwright. He had no idea he was making history—he just wanted to test if the checkout process actually worked.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — April 20, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Amazon's first-ever online purchase in 1995 was a book called 'Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies' by Douglas Hofstadter, ordered by a computer engineer named John Wainwright. He had no idea he was making history—he just wanted to test if the checkout process actually worked.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:35:34 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/4b57cb50/b7d4876e.mp3" length="7478257" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>467</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — April 20, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: Amazon's first-ever online purchase in 1995 was a book called 'Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies' by Douglas Hofstadter, ordered by a computer engineer named John Wainwright. He had no idea he was making history—he just wanted to test if the checkout process actually worked.]]>
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Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: In 2019, a single typo cost Amazon approximately $30 million in lost revenue. When the word 'Christmas' was misspelled as 'Christmsa' across thousands of product listings during the holiday season, those items became essentially unsearchable, highlighting how critical clean data is even for companies with Amazon's resources.]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — April 19, 2026

Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: In 2019, a single typo cost Amazon approximately $30 million in lost revenue. When the word 'Christmas' was misspelled as 'Christmsa' across thousands of product listings during the holiday season, those items became essentially unsearchable, highlighting how critical clean data is even for companies with Amazon's resources.]]>
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Your 8-minute briefing on the platforms, players, and profits driving digital commerce today.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.

Today's fun fact: In 2019, a single typo cost Amazon approximately $30 million in lost revenue. When the word 'Christmas' was misspelled as 'Christmsa' across thousands of product listings during the holiday season, those items became essentially unsearchable, highlighting how critical clean data is even for companies with Amazon's resources.]]>
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