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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — September 13, 2026

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

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — September 13, 2026

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

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — September 13, 2026

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

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | YouTube debutes Shopping in the Netherlands | Instacart launches custom AI assistants for | Nine out of 10 returned items</title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — September 12, 2026

In this episode:
• YouTube Shopping has just launched its affiliate program in the Netherlands, partnering with Bol — making the Dutch market a live test case for social commerce at European scale.
• Instacart is giving retailers their own branded AI shopping assistants — a direct move to compete with Walmart, Kroger, and Amazon on conversational commerce infrastructure.
• New research reveals that 90% of returned ecommerce items lose value the moment they come back — a profitability crisis that is quietly eating DTC and marketplace margins heading into peak season.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — September 12, 2026

In this episode:
• YouTube Shopping has just launched its affiliate program in the Netherlands, partnering with Bol — making the Dutch market a live test case for social commerce at European scale.
• Instacart is giving retailers their own branded AI shopping assistants — a direct move to compete with Walmart, Kroger, and Amazon on conversational commerce infrastructure.
• New research reveals that 90% of returned ecommerce items lose value the moment they come back — a profitability crisis that is quietly eating DTC and marketplace margins heading into peak season.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — September 12, 2026

In this episode:
• YouTube Shopping has just launched its affiliate program in the Netherlands, partnering with Bol — making the Dutch market a live test case for social commerce at European scale.
• Instacart is giving retailers their own branded AI shopping assistants — a direct move to compete with Walmart, Kroger, and Amazon on conversational commerce infrastructure.
• New research reveals that 90% of returned ecommerce items lose value the moment they come back — a profitability crisis that is quietly eating DTC and marketplace margins heading into peak season.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Primark to launch online delivery in | Amazon Ads brings advertisers to ChatGPT, | [Analysis] Fashion makes way for beauty</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Primark to launch online delivery in | Amazon Ads brings advertisers to ChatGPT, | [Analysis] Fashion makes way for beauty</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — September 11, 2026

In this episode:
• Primark — the last major holdout against ecommerce — has reversed course and is launching UK home delivery, reshaping the competitive landscape for fast-fashion online.
• Amazon has struck a deal to place its DSP advertisers inside ChatGPT, making it the first major retail ad network to buy into the AI chatbot ad ecosystem at scale.
• New data shows beauty is overtaking fashion as the dominant category in European ecommerce, with major implications for where brands and platforms invest next.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — September 11, 2026

In this episode:
• Primark — the last major holdout against ecommerce — has reversed course and is launching UK home delivery, reshaping the competitive landscape for fast-fashion online.
• Amazon has struck a deal to place its DSP advertisers inside ChatGPT, making it the first major retail ad network to buy into the AI chatbot ad ecosystem at scale.
• New data shows beauty is overtaking fashion as the dominant category in European ecommerce, with major implications for where brands and platforms invest next.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — September 11, 2026

In this episode:
• Primark — the last major holdout against ecommerce — has reversed course and is launching UK home delivery, reshaping the competitive landscape for fast-fashion online.
• Amazon has struck a deal to place its DSP advertisers inside ChatGPT, making it the first major retail ad network to buy into the AI chatbot ad ecosystem at scale.
• New data shows beauty is overtaking fashion as the dominant category in European ecommerce, with major implications for where brands and platforms invest next.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | ECDB: Bol widens lead over Amazon.nl | 'Frogs in the boiling water': The | Vinted adds Budbee package lockers in</title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — September 10, 2026

In this episode:
• New ECDB data confirms Bol is pulling further ahead of Amazon in the Dutch market — directly relevant context given Kaufland.nl just went live this week.
• The FTC is accusing Amazon of deceptive ad auction practices — and the case is forcing ecommerce advertisers to confront how little they actually know about where their sponsored product budgets go.
• Vinted is building out its own last-mile logistics infrastructure across Europe, and the Netherlands expansion signals the platform is moving well beyond peer-to-peer fashion into full-stack ecommerce.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — September 10, 2026

In this episode:
• New ECDB data confirms Bol is pulling further ahead of Amazon in the Dutch market — directly relevant context given Kaufland.nl just went live this week.
• The FTC is accusing Amazon of deceptive ad auction practices — and the case is forcing ecommerce advertisers to confront how little they actually know about where their sponsored product budgets go.
• Vinted is building out its own last-mile logistics infrastructure across Europe, and the Netherlands expansion signals the platform is moving well beyond peer-to-peer fashion into full-stack ecommerce.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 02:07:50 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — September 10, 2026

In this episode:
• New ECDB data confirms Bol is pulling further ahead of Amazon in the Dutch market — directly relevant context given Kaufland.nl just went live this week.
• The FTC is accusing Amazon of deceptive ad auction practices — and the case is forcing ecommerce advertisers to confront how little they actually know about where their sponsored product budgets go.
• Vinted is building out its own last-mile logistics infrastructure across Europe, and the Netherlands expansion signals the platform is moving well beyond peer-to-peer fashion into full-stack ecommerce.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | How Kaufland is challenging Bol and | New data shows the rise of | Retail media has an identity crisis:</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | How Kaufland is challenging Bol and | New data shows the rise of | Retail media has an identity crisis:</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — September 09, 2026

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

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — September 09, 2026

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

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 02:08:36 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>383</itunes:duration>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — September 09, 2026

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

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | TikTok Shop opens cross-border sales between | AI Overviews visibility: Why top German | Influencers Mostly Skip Disclosure</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | TikTok Shop opens cross-border sales between | AI Overviews visibility: Why top German | Influencers Mostly Skip Disclosure</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — September 08, 2026

In this episode:
• TikTok Shop is quietly building a pan-European commerce infrastructure, letting sellers from eight EU countries now reach UK buyers and vice versa — a structural shift for cross-border ecommerce.
• A Sistrix study reveals Germany's leading online retailers have lost nearly a fifth of their organic search visibility as Google AI Overviews reshape the DACH ecommerce search landscape.
• New data shows the vast majority of influencer posts promoting products still lack proper disclosure — a compliance and brand risk that ecommerce teams running affiliate or creator programs can no longer ignore.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — September 08, 2026

In this episode:
• TikTok Shop is quietly building a pan-European commerce infrastructure, letting sellers from eight EU countries now reach UK buyers and vice versa — a structural shift for cross-border ecommerce.
• A Sistrix study reveals Germany's leading online retailers have lost nearly a fifth of their organic search visibility as Google AI Overviews reshape the DACH ecommerce search landscape.
• New data shows the vast majority of influencer posts promoting products still lack proper disclosure — a compliance and brand risk that ecommerce teams running affiliate or creator programs can no longer ignore.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 02:07:23 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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      <itunes:duration>394</itunes:duration>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — September 08, 2026

In this episode:
• TikTok Shop is quietly building a pan-European commerce infrastructure, letting sellers from eight EU countries now reach UK buyers and vice versa — a structural shift for cross-border ecommerce.
• A Sistrix study reveals Germany's leading online retailers have lost nearly a fifth of their organic search visibility as Google AI Overviews reshape the DACH ecommerce search landscape.
• New data shows the vast majority of influencer posts promoting products still lack proper disclosure — a compliance and brand risk that ecommerce teams running affiliate or creator programs can no longer ignore.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | The Race to Own AI Shopping | David's Bridal touts 99.78% approval rate | How Halo Collar Uses Data And</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | The Race to Own AI Shopping | David's Bridal touts 99.78% approval rate | How Halo Collar Uses Data And</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — September 07, 2026

In this episode:
• A new analysis maps out which players — from Amazon to ChatGPT to on-site tools — are winning the battle to become shoppers' default AI buying interface.
• David's Bridal's deployment of Forter's fraud-prevention platform delivers a near-perfect transaction approval rate — and reframes fraud tools as a revenue driver, not just a cost centre.
• DTC pet tech brand Halo Collar is using incrementality testing and first-party data to bridge the gap between performance marketing and retail expansion — a playbook other scaling DTC brands can learn from.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — September 07, 2026

In this episode:
• A new analysis maps out which players — from Amazon to ChatGPT to on-site tools — are winning the battle to become shoppers' default AI buying interface.
• David's Bridal's deployment of Forter's fraud-prevention platform delivers a near-perfect transaction approval rate — and reframes fraud tools as a revenue driver, not just a cost centre.
• DTC pet tech brand Halo Collar is using incrementality testing and first-party data to bridge the gap between performance marketing and retail expansion — a playbook other scaling DTC brands can learn from.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 02:07:47 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/f127c6ae/8b8b0650.mp3" length="11683047" type="audio/mpeg"/>
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      <itunes:duration>415</itunes:duration>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — September 07, 2026

In this episode:
• A new analysis maps out which players — from Amazon to ChatGPT to on-site tools — are winning the battle to become shoppers' default AI buying interface.
• David's Bridal's deployment of Forter's fraud-prevention platform delivers a near-perfect transaction approval rate — and reframes fraud tools as a revenue driver, not just a cost centre.
• DTC pet tech brand Halo Collar is using incrementality testing and first-party data to bridge the gap between performance marketing and retail expansion — a playbook other scaling DTC brands can learn from.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Amazon adds 'update me when' feature | Google Won't Have To Break Up | How The Fin Tech Clearco Finances</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Amazon adds 'update me when' feature | Google Won't Have To Break Up | How The Fin Tech Clearco Finances</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — September 06, 2026

In this episode:
• Amazon is quietly turning Alexa into a proactive AI shopping agent — and it signals a major shift in how consumers will discover and buy products.
• Google escapes a forced breakup of its ad tech stack — a ruling with immediate consequences for every ecommerce advertiser buying programmatic display and Shopping inventory.
• Clearco's revenue-based financing model is having a quiet renaissance as DTC brands get shut out of traditional funding — and it reveals how ecommerce capital is being restructured in 2026.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — September 06, 2026

In this episode:
• Amazon is quietly turning Alexa into a proactive AI shopping agent — and it signals a major shift in how consumers will discover and buy products.
• Google escapes a forced breakup of its ad tech stack — a ruling with immediate consequences for every ecommerce advertiser buying programmatic display and Shopping inventory.
• Clearco's revenue-based financing model is having a quiet renaissance as DTC brands get shut out of traditional funding — and it reveals how ecommerce capital is being restructured in 2026.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 02:08:22 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — September 06, 2026

In this episode:
• Amazon is quietly turning Alexa into a proactive AI shopping agent — and it signals a major shift in how consumers will discover and buy products.
• Google escapes a forced breakup of its ad tech stack — a ruling with immediate consequences for every ecommerce advertiser buying programmatic display and Shopping inventory.
• Clearco's revenue-based financing model is having a quiet renaissance as DTC brands get shut out of traditional funding — and it reveals how ecommerce capital is being restructured in 2026.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Sephora plans exclusive drops for TikTok | OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads globally and | Compare Group expands to 4 new</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Sephora plans exclusive drops for TikTok | OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads globally and | Compare Group expands to 4 new</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — September 05, 2026

In this episode:
• Sephora is launching a dedicated 'Drop Shop' experience on TikTok Shop, turning product launches into monetised live commerce events — a major signal that prestige beauty is fully committing to social commerce.
• OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT advertising globally and building a full ad stack — making it the most significant new entrant to the performance marketing landscape since TikTok.
• Compare Group — one of Europe's largest price comparison operators — is launching in Spain, Portugal, Italy and Austria simultaneously, reshaping the price discovery landscape for ecommerce sellers across southern and central Europe.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — September 05, 2026

In this episode:
• Sephora is launching a dedicated 'Drop Shop' experience on TikTok Shop, turning product launches into monetised live commerce events — a major signal that prestige beauty is fully committing to social commerce.
• OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT advertising globally and building a full ad stack — making it the most significant new entrant to the performance marketing landscape since TikTok.
• Compare Group — one of Europe's largest price comparison operators — is launching in Spain, Portugal, Italy and Austria simultaneously, reshaping the price discovery landscape for ecommerce sellers across southern and central Europe.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 02:08:27 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — September 05, 2026

In this episode:
• Sephora is launching a dedicated 'Drop Shop' experience on TikTok Shop, turning product launches into monetised live commerce events — a major signal that prestige beauty is fully committing to social commerce.
• OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT advertising globally and building a full ad stack — making it the most significant new entrant to the performance marketing landscape since TikTok.
• Compare Group — one of Europe's largest price comparison operators — is launching in Spain, Portugal, Italy and Austria simultaneously, reshaping the price discovery landscape for ecommerce sellers across southern and central Europe.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Ace Hardware adds weather-triggered programmatic ads | Pasta Powerhouse Barilla Helps Itself to | Ecommerce Trends: Which AI sources are</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Ace Hardware adds weather-triggered programmatic ads | Pasta Powerhouse Barilla Helps Itself to | Ecommerce Trends: Which AI sources are</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — September 04, 2026

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

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — September 04, 2026

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

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 02:09:08 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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      <itunes:duration>381</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — September 04, 2026

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

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Tariffs, TikTok Shop and transparency concerns | European textile sector wants Shein and | ANALYSIS As Beauty Pie eyes stores,</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Tariffs, TikTok Shop and transparency concerns | European textile sector wants Shein and | ANALYSIS As Beauty Pie eyes stores,</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — September 03, 2026

In this episode:
• Shein's stock market debut flopped on day one — shares fell 9% — and the reasons why matter deeply for every brand competing in fast fashion ecommerce.
• European fashion industry groups are pushing to quadruple the new customs duty on ultra-low-cost parcels from Shein and Temu, arguing the current 3-euro charge doesn't come close to levelling the playing field.
• Beauty Pie just replatformed to Shopify ahead of international expansion — and its move toward physical retail signals a broader strategic pivot for DTC subscription brands that built their entire model online.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — September 03, 2026

In this episode:
• Shein's stock market debut flopped on day one — shares fell 9% — and the reasons why matter deeply for every brand competing in fast fashion ecommerce.
• European fashion industry groups are pushing to quadruple the new customs duty on ultra-low-cost parcels from Shein and Temu, arguing the current 3-euro charge doesn't come close to levelling the playing field.
• Beauty Pie just replatformed to Shopify ahead of international expansion — and its move toward physical retail signals a broader strategic pivot for DTC subscription brands that built their entire model online.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 02:08:26 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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      <itunes:duration>407</itunes:duration>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — September 03, 2026

In this episode:
• Shein's stock market debut flopped on day one — shares fell 9% — and the reasons why matter deeply for every brand competing in fast fashion ecommerce.
• European fashion industry groups are pushing to quadruple the new customs duty on ultra-low-cost parcels from Shein and Temu, arguing the current 3-euro charge doesn't come close to levelling the playing field.
• Beauty Pie just replatformed to Shopify ahead of international expansion — and its move toward physical retail signals a broader strategic pivot for DTC subscription brands that built their entire model online.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Kohl's digital sales grow as AI | German retail payment trends 2026: What | Snapchat's bid to simplify mobile marketing</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Kohl's digital sales grow as AI | German retail payment trends 2026: What | Snapchat's bid to simplify mobile marketing</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — September 02, 2026

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

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — September 02, 2026

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

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 02:08:11 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/317be0c8/4ae5c75e.mp3" length="11354015" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>394</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — September 02, 2026

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

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | FTC Claims Amazon Pocketed Over $20 | Amazon expands listing requirements for Pan-EU | Ryan Breslow is raising up to</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | FTC Claims Amazon Pocketed Over $20 | Amazon expands listing requirements for Pan-EU | Ryan Breslow is raising up to</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — September 01, 2026

In this episode:
• The FTC is accusing Amazon of secretly rigging its own ad auctions to inflate prices — a lawsuit that could reshape how brands and agencies trust Amazon's $50 billion ads business.
• Amazon is mandating that all Pan-EU FBA sellers list on its Dutch marketplace — a quiet but significant policy shift that forces sellers to expand their European footprint whether they're ready or not.
• Bolt — once valued at $11 billion as the checkout platform that would dethrone Shopify — is now scrambling for survival with a pay-to-play bridge round, and the story of its collapse is a cautionary tale for the entire DTC checkout space.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — September 01, 2026

In this episode:
• The FTC is accusing Amazon of secretly rigging its own ad auctions to inflate prices — a lawsuit that could reshape how brands and agencies trust Amazon's $50 billion ads business.
• Amazon is mandating that all Pan-EU FBA sellers list on its Dutch marketplace — a quiet but significant policy shift that forces sellers to expand their European footprint whether they're ready or not.
• Bolt — once valued at $11 billion as the checkout platform that would dethrone Shopify — is now scrambling for survival with a pay-to-play bridge round, and the story of its collapse is a cautionary tale for the entire DTC checkout space.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 02:08:02 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/0a4e8ff3/89dde816.mp3" length="11295204" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>390</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — September 01, 2026

In this episode:
• The FTC is accusing Amazon of secretly rigging its own ad auctions to inflate prices — a lawsuit that could reshape how brands and agencies trust Amazon's $50 billion ads business.
• Amazon is mandating that all Pan-EU FBA sellers list on its Dutch marketplace — a quiet but significant policy shift that forces sellers to expand their European footprint whether they're ready or not.
• Bolt — once valued at $11 billion as the checkout platform that would dethrone Shopify — is now scrambling for survival with a pay-to-play bridge round, and the story of its collapse is a cautionary tale for the entire DTC checkout space.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Retail Roundup: Home Depot Finally Hires | How Amika's CMO Kept Product Launch | There's A Meta Diaspora Building The</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Retail Roundup: Home Depot Finally Hires | How Amika's CMO Kept Product Launch | There's A Meta Diaspora Building The</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 31, 2026

In this episode:
• Home Depot finally appointing a dedicated retail media leader signals that home improvement is the next frontier for sponsored placements and on-site ad revenue.
• Amika's CMO deliberately launched its new product exclusively on its DTC site first — a channel-sequencing strategy that's increasingly rare and worth studying.
• Ex-Meta engineers and executives are now leading ads product at OpenAI, TikTok, Amazon Ads, and Roku — and they're rebuilding the Meta playbook everywhere they land.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 31, 2026

In this episode:
• Home Depot finally appointing a dedicated retail media leader signals that home improvement is the next frontier for sponsored placements and on-site ad revenue.
• Amika's CMO deliberately launched its new product exclusively on its DTC site first — a channel-sequencing strategy that's increasingly rare and worth studying.
• Ex-Meta engineers and executives are now leading ads product at OpenAI, TikTok, Amazon Ads, and Roku — and they're rebuilding the Meta playbook everywhere they land.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 02:08:07 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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      <itunes:duration>392</itunes:duration>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 31, 2026

In this episode:
• Home Depot finally appointing a dedicated retail media leader signals that home improvement is the next frontier for sponsored placements and on-site ad revenue.
• Amika's CMO deliberately launched its new product exclusively on its DTC site first — a channel-sequencing strategy that's increasingly rare and worth studying.
• Ex-Meta engineers and executives are now leading ads product at OpenAI, TikTok, Amazon Ads, and Roku — and they're rebuilding the Meta playbook everywhere they land.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | The Trade Desk's Zuma Update Adds | Snapchat Performance Summit 2026 Puts Measurement, | Gamers are Turning In-Game Finds Into</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | The Trade Desk's Zuma Update Adds | Snapchat Performance Summit 2026 Puts Measurement, | Gamers are Turning In-Game Finds Into</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 30, 2026

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

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 30, 2026

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

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 02:09:06 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/0c20e9cb/eb294d67.mp3" length="11419741" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>398</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 30, 2026

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

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | BK Beauty Doubles Down on TikTok | 34% of SMEs on Temu have | Dentsu expands and consolidates its commerce</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | BK Beauty Doubles Down on TikTok | 34% of SMEs on Temu have | Dentsu expands and consolidates its commerce</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 29, 2026

In this episode:
• A real DTC brand that left TikTok Shop and came back tells us more about the platform's pull on beauty sellers than any industry report can.
• One in three European small businesses on Temu say the platform has helped them sell internationally — a data point that reframes Temu from 'cheap Chinese imports threat' to 'cross-border launchpad' for local SMEs.
• Dentsu is restructuring its entire commerce and retail media practice under new leadership — a signal that agency holding groups are now treating retail media as a standalone discipline, not an add-on to shopper marketing.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 29, 2026

In this episode:
• A real DTC brand that left TikTok Shop and came back tells us more about the platform's pull on beauty sellers than any industry report can.
• One in three European small businesses on Temu say the platform has helped them sell internationally — a data point that reframes Temu from 'cheap Chinese imports threat' to 'cross-border launchpad' for local SMEs.
• Dentsu is restructuring its entire commerce and retail media practice under new leadership — a signal that agency holding groups are now treating retail media as a standalone discipline, not an add-on to shopper marketing.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 02:09:30 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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      <itunes:duration>401</itunes:duration>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 29, 2026

In this episode:
• A real DTC brand that left TikTok Shop and came back tells us more about the platform's pull on beauty sellers than any industry report can.
• One in three European small businesses on Temu say the platform has helped them sell internationally — a data point that reframes Temu from 'cheap Chinese imports threat' to 'cross-border launchpad' for local SMEs.
• Dentsu is restructuring its entire commerce and retail media practice under new leadership — a signal that agency holding groups are now treating retail media as a standalone discipline, not an add-on to shopper marketing.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Google expands Demand Gen with messaging | The Largest Shopping Mall Operator Has | "Treat e-commerce less as a growth</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Google expands Demand Gen with messaging | The Largest Shopping Mall Operator Has | "Treat e-commerce less as a growth</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 28, 2026

In this episode:
• Google is expanding Demand Gen into a full-funnel commerce engine — and the new AI video creation and messaging ad formats directly change how DTC brands build and deploy creative at scale.
• Simon Property Group — owner of 190+ malls — has launched a data-driven retail media network, marking the moment physical retail infrastructure formally enters the commerce media arms race.
• Kapten &amp; Son's COO lays out a blunt counter-narrative to growth-at-all-costs DTC culture — and the operational lessons from scaling a German accessories brand profitably across European markets are directly applicable right now.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 28, 2026

In this episode:
• Google is expanding Demand Gen into a full-funnel commerce engine — and the new AI video creation and messaging ad formats directly change how DTC brands build and deploy creative at scale.
• Simon Property Group — owner of 190+ malls — has launched a data-driven retail media network, marking the moment physical retail infrastructure formally enters the commerce media arms race.
• Kapten &amp; Son's COO lays out a blunt counter-narrative to growth-at-all-costs DTC culture — and the operational lessons from scaling a German accessories brand profitably across European markets are directly applicable right now.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 02:09:30 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>396</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 28, 2026

In this episode:
• Google is expanding Demand Gen into a full-funnel commerce engine — and the new AI video creation and messaging ad formats directly change how DTC brands build and deploy creative at scale.
• Simon Property Group — owner of 190+ malls — has launched a data-driven retail media network, marking the moment physical retail infrastructure formally enters the commerce media arms race.
• Kapten &amp; Son's COO lays out a blunt counter-narrative to growth-at-all-costs DTC culture — and the operational lessons from scaling a German accessories brand profitably across European markets are directly applicable right now.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | TikTok Settles Children's Privacy Case for | How To Advertise In Google AI | The $265 billion mistake: How e-commerce</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | TikTok Settles Children's Privacy Case for | How To Advertise In Google AI | The $265 billion mistake: How e-commerce</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 27, 2026

In this episode:
• A $400 million privacy settlement is the largest ever against a social platform for children's data — and it has direct implications for TikTok Shop's ability to target younger audiences.
• Google AI Mode is generating ads directly from product feeds — not ad copy — which means ecommerce merchants who haven't optimised their Merchant Center attributes are already invisible.
• False payment declines are now costing ecommerce merchants more than global fraud itself — $265 billion lost by turning away legitimate customers at checkout.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 27, 2026

In this episode:
• A $400 million privacy settlement is the largest ever against a social platform for children's data — and it has direct implications for TikTok Shop's ability to target younger audiences.
• Google AI Mode is generating ads directly from product feeds — not ad copy — which means ecommerce merchants who haven't optimised their Merchant Center attributes are already invisible.
• False payment declines are now costing ecommerce merchants more than global fraud itself — $265 billion lost by turning away legitimate customers at checkout.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 02:09:16 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/fa166331/e4032403.mp3" length="11383225" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>396</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 27, 2026

In this episode:
• A $400 million privacy settlement is the largest ever against a social platform for children's data — and it has direct implications for TikTok Shop's ability to target younger audiences.
• Google AI Mode is generating ads directly from product feeds — not ad copy — which means ecommerce merchants who haven't optimised their Merchant Center attributes are already invisible.
• False payment declines are now costing ecommerce merchants more than global fraud itself — $265 billion lost by turning away legitimate customers at checkout.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Amazon Prime Air launches in the | Marks &amp; Spencer expands to 22 | Stockholm's eComID raises €14.6 million to</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Amazon Prime Air launches in the | Marks &amp; Spencer expands to 22 | Stockholm's eComID raises €14.6 million to</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 26, 2026

In this episode:
• Amazon has officially switched on drone delivery in the UK, marking the first international rollout of Prime Air outside the US.
• M&amp;S is using Zalando as a pan-European distribution engine, reaching 22 markets in a single partnership move that reframes how British retailers can scale cross-border without building their own logistics.
• A Stockholm startup just raised €14.6 million to build a portable shopper identity layer for AI commerce — essentially a universal profile that travels with consumers across every retailer they visit.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 26, 2026

In this episode:
• Amazon has officially switched on drone delivery in the UK, marking the first international rollout of Prime Air outside the US.
• M&amp;S is using Zalando as a pan-European distribution engine, reaching 22 markets in a single partnership move that reframes how British retailers can scale cross-border without building their own logistics.
• A Stockholm startup just raised €14.6 million to build a portable shopper identity layer for AI commerce — essentially a universal profile that travels with consumers across every retailer they visit.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 02:08:04 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/1f13e9f7/570f82b9.mp3" length="11341327" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>393</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 26, 2026

In this episode:
• Amazon has officially switched on drone delivery in the UK, marking the first international rollout of Prime Air outside the US.
• M&amp;S is using Zalando as a pan-European distribution engine, reaching 22 markets in a single partnership move that reframes how British retailers can scale cross-border without building their own logistics.
• A Stockholm startup just raised €14.6 million to build a portable shopper identity layer for AI commerce — essentially a universal profile that travels with consumers across every retailer they visit.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | ChatGPT Ads adds automated bidding, platform | Southern Europeans lead in Chinese platform | Meta Strips Advertisers of Placement Exclusion</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | ChatGPT Ads adds automated bidding, platform | Southern Europeans lead in Chinese platform | Meta Strips Advertisers of Placement Exclusion</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 25, 2026

In this episode:
• ChatGPT's ad product just got serious — automated bidding and platform targeting turn it from an experiment into a genuine rival to Google and Meta for performance budgets.
• New data reveals Southern Europe has become Chinese ecommerce's strongest Western foothold, with AliExpress, Shein, and Temu outperforming their European averages — a market dynamic brands and platform sellers can no longer ignore.
• Meta is removing advertisers' ability to exclude specific placements — a quiet but significant power shift that forces brands to trust Meta's algorithm with decisions they previously controlled.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 25, 2026

In this episode:
• ChatGPT's ad product just got serious — automated bidding and platform targeting turn it from an experiment into a genuine rival to Google and Meta for performance budgets.
• New data reveals Southern Europe has become Chinese ecommerce's strongest Western foothold, with AliExpress, Shein, and Temu outperforming their European averages — a market dynamic brands and platform sellers can no longer ignore.
• Meta is removing advertisers' ability to exclude specific placements — a quiet but significant power shift that forces brands to trust Meta's algorithm with decisions they previously controlled.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 02:07:52 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/88c57e9a/7d3a8e70.mp3" length="11281363" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>389</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 25, 2026

In this episode:
• ChatGPT's ad product just got serious — automated bidding and platform targeting turn it from an experiment into a genuine rival to Google and Meta for performance budgets.
• New data reveals Southern Europe has become Chinese ecommerce's strongest Western foothold, with AliExpress, Shein, and Temu outperforming their European averages — a market dynamic brands and platform sellers can no longer ignore.
• Meta is removing advertisers' ability to exclude specific placements — a quiet but significant power shift that forces brands to trust Meta's algorithm with decisions they previously controlled.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Double-Digit Ecommerce Growth Returns | Retail Roundup: 8 Commerce Moves From | How Caraway Used Influencer Marketing to</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Double-Digit Ecommerce Growth Returns | Retail Roundup: 8 Commerce Moves From | How Caraway Used Influencer Marketing to</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 24, 2026

In this episode:
• U.S. ecommerce has snapped back to double-digit growth in 2026 — and the question every brand needs to answer is whether this is a structural shift or a one-year blip.
• Citi's move into commerce media is the headline that most brands missed — a major bank entering the retail media space signals the channel is about to get a lot more crowded and a lot more complex.
• Caraway's influencer playbook turned a commoditised product category into a premium DTC success story — and the mechanics are directly replicable for brands fighting margin pressure in 2026.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 24, 2026

In this episode:
• U.S. ecommerce has snapped back to double-digit growth in 2026 — and the question every brand needs to answer is whether this is a structural shift or a one-year blip.
• Citi's move into commerce media is the headline that most brands missed — a major bank entering the retail media space signals the channel is about to get a lot more crowded and a lot more complex.
• Caraway's influencer playbook turned a commoditised product category into a premium DTC success story — and the mechanics are directly replicable for brands fighting margin pressure in 2026.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 02:07:59 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/4a66ea41/19521640.mp3" length="11087249" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>377</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 24, 2026

In this episode:
• U.S. ecommerce has snapped back to double-digit growth in 2026 — and the question every brand needs to answer is whether this is a structural shift or a one-year blip.
• Citi's move into commerce media is the headline that most brands missed — a major bank entering the retail media space signals the channel is about to get a lot more crowded and a lot more complex.
• Caraway's influencer playbook turned a commoditised product category into a premium DTC success story — and the mechanics are directly replicable for brands fighting margin pressure in 2026.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Amazon plans drone delivery expansion to | How Yoto Turned Parent Advocacy Into | Will YouTube's new definition of a</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Amazon plans drone delivery expansion to | How Yoto Turned Parent Advocacy Into | Will YouTube's new definition of a</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/8a9ba34c</link>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 23, 2026

In this episode:
• Amazon is scaling Prime Air drone delivery across five new US metro areas, marking a significant infrastructure push that goes beyond its recent UK first.
• Yoto's $127M growth story is a masterclass in community-led DTC scaling — built on parent word-of-mouth rather than paid acquisition.
• YouTube has quietly redefined what counts as a 'view' to align with TV measurement — and it could reshape how ecommerce brands plan video budgets.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 23, 2026

In this episode:
• Amazon is scaling Prime Air drone delivery across five new US metro areas, marking a significant infrastructure push that goes beyond its recent UK first.
• Yoto's $127M growth story is a masterclass in community-led DTC scaling — built on parent word-of-mouth rather than paid acquisition.
• YouTube has quietly redefined what counts as a 'view' to align with TV measurement — and it could reshape how ecommerce brands plan video budgets.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 02:08:52 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/8a9ba34c/e74edf9d.mp3" length="11432426" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>399</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 23, 2026

In this episode:
• Amazon is scaling Prime Air drone delivery across five new US metro areas, marking a significant infrastructure push that goes beyond its recent UK first.
• Yoto's $127M growth story is a masterclass in community-led DTC scaling — built on parent word-of-mouth rather than paid acquisition.
• YouTube has quietly redefined what counts as a 'view' to align with TV measurement — and it could reshape how ecommerce brands plan video budgets.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Dutch average Amazon commission fees nearly | Global retail ad market to hit | OpenAI Expands ChatGPT Ads Pilot to</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Dutch average Amazon commission fees nearly | Global retail ad market to hit | OpenAI Expands ChatGPT Ads Pilot to</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/6e3dc96f</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 22, 2026

In this episode:
• New data reveals Amazon is the most expensive marketplace for sellers in the Netherlands, with average commission fees approaching 20% — a critical number for any European seller evaluating their channel mix.
• The global retail media market is crossing $200 billion this year, but a deceleration in growth — and rising concerns about ad experience quality — signals the channel may be approaching a structural inflection point.
• OpenAI is rolling out its ChatGPT advertising pilot across 31 European markets, making AI-native ad inventory a live reality for performance marketers on the continent.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 22, 2026

In this episode:
• New data reveals Amazon is the most expensive marketplace for sellers in the Netherlands, with average commission fees approaching 20% — a critical number for any European seller evaluating their channel mix.
• The global retail media market is crossing $200 billion this year, but a deceleration in growth — and rising concerns about ad experience quality — signals the channel may be approaching a structural inflection point.
• OpenAI is rolling out its ChatGPT advertising pilot across 31 European markets, making AI-native ad inventory a live reality for performance marketers on the continent.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2026 02:09:16 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/6e3dc96f/293e1636.mp3" length="11151057" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>381</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 22, 2026

In this episode:
• New data reveals Amazon is the most expensive marketplace for sellers in the Netherlands, with average commission fees approaching 20% — a critical number for any European seller evaluating their channel mix.
• The global retail media market is crossing $200 billion this year, but a deceleration in growth — and rising concerns about ad experience quality — signals the channel may be approaching a structural inflection point.
• OpenAI is rolling out its ChatGPT advertising pilot across 31 European markets, making AI-native ad inventory a live reality for performance marketers on the continent.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Walmart Boosts Full-Year Guidance Following 38% | Meta AI can now analyze and | China aims to block European investigation</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Walmart Boosts Full-Year Guidance Following 38% | Meta AI can now analyze and | China aims to block European investigation</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/98fd83c0</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 21, 2026

In this episode:
• Walmart's retail media arm is growing at nearly 40% year-on-year, reshaping the competitive landscape between the big three retail media networks.
• Meta has given its AI assistant direct access to Ads Manager, meaning it can now read campaign data and recommend optimisations inside the platform itself.
• China is actively instructing its companies not to cooperate with the EU's probe into JD.com's acquisition of MediaMarkt, turning a marketplace deal into a geopolitical standoff with major implications for European ecommerce.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 21, 2026

In this episode:
• Walmart's retail media arm is growing at nearly 40% year-on-year, reshaping the competitive landscape between the big three retail media networks.
• Meta has given its AI assistant direct access to Ads Manager, meaning it can now read campaign data and recommend optimisations inside the platform itself.
• China is actively instructing its companies not to cooperate with the EU's probe into JD.com's acquisition of MediaMarkt, turning a marketplace deal into a geopolitical standoff with major implications for European ecommerce.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 02:08:41 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/98fd83c0/1ff6f2c1.mp3" length="11443957" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>400</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 21, 2026

In this episode:
• Walmart's retail media arm is growing at nearly 40% year-on-year, reshaping the competitive landscape between the big three retail media networks.
• Meta has given its AI assistant direct access to Ads Manager, meaning it can now read campaign data and recommend optimisations inside the platform itself.
• China is actively instructing its companies not to cooperate with the EU's probe into JD.com's acquisition of MediaMarkt, turning a marketplace deal into a geopolitical standoff with major implications for European ecommerce.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | AI Delivers High-Value Shoppers to Retailers, | Bero prepares for its third Cyber | ANA updates efforts to standardize retail</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | AI Delivers High-Value Shoppers to Retailers, | Bero prepares for its third Cyber | ANA updates efforts to standardize retail</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 20, 2026

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

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 20, 2026

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

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 02:07:51 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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      <itunes:duration>400</itunes:duration>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 20, 2026

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

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | TikTok explores peer-to-peer payments via DMs, | ANA cautions marketers against overreliance on | IKEA is launching its secondhand marketplace</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | TikTok explores peer-to-peer payments via DMs, | ANA cautions marketers against overreliance on | IKEA is launching its secondhand marketplace</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 19, 2026

In this episode:
• TikTok is quietly building a payments layer inside its DMs that could turn social conversations directly into commerce transactions.
• The ANA is formally warning brands that retail media networks are grading their own homework — and marketers are paying the price.
• IKEA is launching a dedicated UK online secondhand marketplace for pre-loved furniture — a major move that blends circular economy strategy with a direct digital commerce play.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 19, 2026

In this episode:
• TikTok is quietly building a payments layer inside its DMs that could turn social conversations directly into commerce transactions.
• The ANA is formally warning brands that retail media networks are grading their own homework — and marketers are paying the price.
• IKEA is launching a dedicated UK online secondhand marketplace for pre-loved furniture — a major move that blends circular economy strategy with a direct digital commerce play.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 02:08:07 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>387</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 19, 2026

In this episode:
• TikTok is quietly building a payments layer inside its DMs that could turn social conversations directly into commerce transactions.
• The ANA is formally warning brands that retail media networks are grading their own homework — and marketers are paying the price.
• IKEA is launching a dedicated UK online secondhand marketplace for pre-loved furniture — a major move that blends circular economy strategy with a direct digital commerce play.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Amazon launches bulk storage service in | Performance Agency Chief Media Acquires 2 | Amazon opens first drone delivery site</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Amazon launches bulk storage service in | Performance Agency Chief Media Acquires 2 | Amazon opens first drone delivery site</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/a4862685</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 18, 2026

In this episode:
• Amazon is rolling out its Warehousing &amp; Distribution bulk storage service across five European countries this week, a significant logistics infrastructure move for third-party sellers on the continent.
• A performance agency is acquiring two specialist firms to build out dedicated Amazon and TikTok commerce capabilities, signalling where holding groups and independents see client spend heading.
• Amazon has launched its first Prime Air drone delivery site outside the US in Darlington, UK — a milestone that marks the beginning of commercial drone fulfilment in European ecommerce.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 18, 2026

In this episode:
• Amazon is rolling out its Warehousing &amp; Distribution bulk storage service across five European countries this week, a significant logistics infrastructure move for third-party sellers on the continent.
• A performance agency is acquiring two specialist firms to build out dedicated Amazon and TikTok commerce capabilities, signalling where holding groups and independents see client spend heading.
• Amazon has launched its first Prime Air drone delivery site outside the US in Darlington, UK — a milestone that marks the beginning of commercial drone fulfilment in European ecommerce.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:07:42 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/a4862685/48a904cb.mp3" length="11333255" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>393</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 18, 2026

In this episode:
• Amazon is rolling out its Warehousing &amp; Distribution bulk storage service across five European countries this week, a significant logistics infrastructure move for third-party sellers on the continent.
• A performance agency is acquiring two specialist firms to build out dedicated Amazon and TikTok commerce capabilities, signalling where holding groups and independents see client spend heading.
• Amazon has launched its first Prime Air drone delivery site outside the US in Darlington, UK — a milestone that marks the beginning of commercial drone fulfilment in European ecommerce.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Fruugo returns to profit | LLM traffic converts differently — here's | Will new European packaging regulations drive</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Fruugo returns to profit | LLM traffic converts differently — here's | Will new European packaging regulations drive</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/0b79fea7</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 17, 2026

In this episode:
• Fruugo's swing from loss to £1.4 million profit signals that cross-border marketplace models can work — and this one quietly connects millions of European shoppers to sellers across 50+ countries.
• Traffic arriving from ChatGPT, Perplexity, and other LLMs is behaving differently to organic search visitors — and ecommerce brands are only just starting to measure it properly.
• The EU's incoming PPWR packaging rules could impose disproportionate compliance costs on small ecommerce brands and cross-border sellers at exactly the wrong moment.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 17, 2026

In this episode:
• Fruugo's swing from loss to £1.4 million profit signals that cross-border marketplace models can work — and this one quietly connects millions of European shoppers to sellers across 50+ countries.
• Traffic arriving from ChatGPT, Perplexity, and other LLMs is behaving differently to organic search visitors — and ecommerce brands are only just starting to measure it properly.
• The EU's incoming PPWR packaging rules could impose disproportionate compliance costs on small ecommerce brands and cross-border sellers at exactly the wrong moment.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 02:07:55 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/0b79fea7/8bc28d8b.mp3" length="11238312" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>387</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 17, 2026

In this episode:
• Fruugo's swing from loss to £1.4 million profit signals that cross-border marketplace models can work — and this one quietly connects millions of European shoppers to sellers across 50+ countries.
• Traffic arriving from ChatGPT, Perplexity, and other LLMs is behaving differently to organic search visitors — and ecommerce brands are only just starting to measure it properly.
• The EU's incoming PPWR packaging rules could impose disproportionate compliance costs on small ecommerce brands and cross-border sellers at exactly the wrong moment.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Shein loses copyright lawsuit against Temu | The hour people stopped buying: how | Google Is Removing Language Targeting From</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Shein loses copyright lawsuit against Temu | The hour people stopped buying: how | Google Is Removing Language Targeting From</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 16, 2026

In this episode:
• A court has ruled Temu is not liable for Shein's copyright claims, a decision that reshapes the legal battleground between the two biggest ultra-fast fashion marketplaces competing for European shoppers.
• Payment data shows European online purchases dropped nearly 38% during Wednesday's solar eclipse — a rare real-world event that produced a clean, measurable shock to ecommerce traffic patterns.
• Google is removing language targeting from Search and Performance Max campaigns in September 2026, a structural change that will force cross-border ecommerce advertisers to rethink how they control audience reach in multilingual markets.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 16, 2026

In this episode:
• A court has ruled Temu is not liable for Shein's copyright claims, a decision that reshapes the legal battleground between the two biggest ultra-fast fashion marketplaces competing for European shoppers.
• Payment data shows European online purchases dropped nearly 38% during Wednesday's solar eclipse — a rare real-world event that produced a clean, measurable shock to ecommerce traffic patterns.
• Google is removing language targeting from Search and Performance Max campaigns in September 2026, a structural change that will force cross-border ecommerce advertisers to rethink how they control audience reach in multilingual markets.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 02:08:25 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/cdbc1628/a07d0d1c.mp3" length="11256762" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>388</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 16, 2026

In this episode:
• A court has ruled Temu is not liable for Shein's copyright claims, a decision that reshapes the legal battleground between the two biggest ultra-fast fashion marketplaces competing for European shoppers.
• Payment data shows European online purchases dropped nearly 38% during Wednesday's solar eclipse — a rare real-world event that produced a clean, measurable shock to ecommerce traffic patterns.
• Google is removing language targeting from Search and Performance Max campaigns in September 2026, a structural change that will force cross-border ecommerce advertisers to rethink how they control audience reach in multilingual markets.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | AppLovin Wants To Persuade The World | JD.com reports first revenue decline in | Kroger names new head of ecommerce</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | AppLovin Wants To Persuade The World | JD.com reports first revenue decline in | Kroger names new head of ecommerce</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/7c58eeb5</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 15, 2026

In this episode:
• AppLovin is making a serious push beyond mobile gaming into ecommerce advertising, and performance marketers need to understand whether this is a genuine third channel or just hype.
• JD.com's first revenue drop in a decade — while it simultaneously prepares to acquire MediaMarkt across Europe — raises urgent questions about whether a weakening Chinese giant can successfully execute a major Western marketplace play.
• Kroger has hired a new ecommerce chief with deep Walmart and Jet.com DNA — a signal that America's second-largest grocery chain is getting serious about competing in online grocery and retail media at a completely different level.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 15, 2026

In this episode:
• AppLovin is making a serious push beyond mobile gaming into ecommerce advertising, and performance marketers need to understand whether this is a genuine third channel or just hype.
• JD.com's first revenue drop in a decade — while it simultaneously prepares to acquire MediaMarkt across Europe — raises urgent questions about whether a weakening Chinese giant can successfully execute a major Western marketplace play.
• Kroger has hired a new ecommerce chief with deep Walmart and Jet.com DNA — a signal that America's second-largest grocery chain is getting serious about competing in online grocery and retail media at a completely different level.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 02:09:00 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/7c58eeb5/f692914b.mp3" length="11227549" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>386</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 15, 2026

In this episode:
• AppLovin is making a serious push beyond mobile gaming into ecommerce advertising, and performance marketers need to understand whether this is a genuine third channel or just hype.
• JD.com's first revenue drop in a decade — while it simultaneously prepares to acquire MediaMarkt across Europe — raises urgent questions about whether a weakening Chinese giant can successfully execute a major Western marketplace play.
• Kroger has hired a new ecommerce chief with deep Walmart and Jet.com DNA — a signal that America's second-largest grocery chain is getting serious about competing in online grocery and retail media at a completely different level.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Samsonite's $178.5M Béis Buy Is All | Shopify: AI referrals up 197%, but | Pinterest Names Jason Fairchild GM Of</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Samsonite's $178.5M Béis Buy Is All | Shopify: AI referrals up 197%, but | Pinterest Names Jason Fairchild GM Of</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/2e3eec63</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 14, 2026

In this episode:
• Samsonite's near-$180M acquisition of Béis signals how legacy travel brands are buying their way into Gen Z's DTC-native, social-first commerce playbook.
• Shopify's own data shows AI-driven referral traffic to its merchants nearly tripled in a year — but organic search is still the dominant channel, creating a critical 'both/and' strategic question for every ecommerce brand.
• Pinterest poaching a CTV ad tech founder to run programmatic and affiliate signals a serious platform-level push to close the gap between visual discovery and shoppable, performance-driven commerce.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 14, 2026

In this episode:
• Samsonite's near-$180M acquisition of Béis signals how legacy travel brands are buying their way into Gen Z's DTC-native, social-first commerce playbook.
• Shopify's own data shows AI-driven referral traffic to its merchants nearly tripled in a year — but organic search is still the dominant channel, creating a critical 'both/and' strategic question for every ecommerce brand.
• Pinterest poaching a CTV ad tech founder to run programmatic and affiliate signals a serious platform-level push to close the gap between visual discovery and shoppable, performance-driven commerce.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 02:08:27 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/2e3eec63/ae8908eb.mp3" length="11234468" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>387</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 14, 2026

In this episode:
• Samsonite's near-$180M acquisition of Béis signals how legacy travel brands are buying their way into Gen Z's DTC-native, social-first commerce playbook.
• Shopify's own data shows AI-driven referral traffic to its merchants nearly tripled in a year — but organic search is still the dominant channel, creating a critical 'both/and' strategic question for every ecommerce brand.
• Pinterest poaching a CTV ad tech founder to run programmatic and affiliate signals a serious platform-level push to close the gap between visual discovery and shoppable, performance-driven commerce.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Google Is Ending Target Overperformance – | 3 ways Etsy is investing in | Why 'a third fewer Chinese packages</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Google Is Ending Target Overperformance – | 3 ways Etsy is investing in | Why 'a third fewer Chinese packages</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/c3f8044b</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 13, 2026

In this episode:
• Google is killing a key Smart Bidding behaviour in days, and performance marketers running Target CPA or Target ROAS campaigns need to act before August 17th.
• Etsy's CEO has laid out a clear three-pillar AI strategy focused on personalisation and discovery — a sign that mid-tier marketplaces are betting on AI to close the gap with Amazon.
• The narrative that Europe's new parcel tax has slashed Chinese cross-border shipments by a third is being challenged — and the real data tells a more complicated story for Temu and Shein.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 13, 2026

In this episode:
• Google is killing a key Smart Bidding behaviour in days, and performance marketers running Target CPA or Target ROAS campaigns need to act before August 17th.
• Etsy's CEO has laid out a clear three-pillar AI strategy focused on personalisation and discovery — a sign that mid-tier marketplaces are betting on AI to close the gap with Amazon.
• The narrative that Europe's new parcel tax has slashed Chinese cross-border shipments by a third is being challenged — and the real data tells a more complicated story for Temu and Shein.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 02:08:33 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/c3f8044b/be5637e8.mp3" length="11269832" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>389</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 13, 2026

In this episode:
• Google is killing a key Smart Bidding behaviour in days, and performance marketers running Target CPA or Target ROAS campaigns need to act before August 17th.
• Etsy's CEO has laid out a clear three-pillar AI strategy focused on personalisation and discovery — a sign that mid-tier marketplaces are betting on AI to close the gap with Amazon.
• The narrative that Europe's new parcel tax has slashed Chinese cross-border shipments by a third is being challenged — and the real data tells a more complicated story for Temu and Shein.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Whatnot Closes $545 Million Series G, | Liquid I.V. applies Prime Day insights | Online growth offsets weak store sales</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Whatnot Closes $545 Million Series G, | Liquid I.V. applies Prime Day insights | Online growth offsets weak store sales</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/36ce0d7d</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 12, 2026

In this episode:
• Live shopping platform Whatnot just doubled its valuation to $20 billion, signalling that Western live commerce is entering its own high-stakes scaling era.
• Liquid I.V. is using Prime Day data as a testing ground to deliberately shift customers from Amazon to its own DTC channel — a playbook every CPG brand should study.
• UK retail sales slowed sharply in July but ecommerce is actively cushioning the blow, making this the clearest live data point yet on digital commerce's role as a structural ballast for British retail.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 12, 2026

In this episode:
• Live shopping platform Whatnot just doubled its valuation to $20 billion, signalling that Western live commerce is entering its own high-stakes scaling era.
• Liquid I.V. is using Prime Day data as a testing ground to deliberately shift customers from Amazon to its own DTC channel — a playbook every CPG brand should study.
• UK retail sales slowed sharply in July but ecommerce is actively cushioning the blow, making this the clearest live data point yet on digital commerce's role as a structural ballast for British retail.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 02:07:34 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 12, 2026

In this episode:
• Live shopping platform Whatnot just doubled its valuation to $20 billion, signalling that Western live commerce is entering its own high-stakes scaling era.
• Liquid I.V. is using Prime Day data as a testing ground to deliberately shift customers from Amazon to its own DTC channel — a playbook every CPG brand should study.
• UK retail sales slowed sharply in July but ecommerce is actively cushioning the blow, making this the clearest live data point yet on digital commerce's role as a structural ballast for British retail.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Digest: Nielsen to Acquire DoubleVerify; eBay | Bauhaus: '100,000 new items thanks to | Ad Tech's Last Neutral Party Just</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Digest: Nielsen to Acquire DoubleVerify; eBay | Bauhaus: '100,000 new items thanks to | Ad Tech's Last Neutral Party Just</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 11, 2026

In this episode:
• eBay is making a direct move into live shopping to compete with Whatnot and TikTok Shop, signalling that the format is now mainstream enough to pull legacy marketplaces off the sidelines.
• One year in, German DIY giant Bauhaus has onboarded 100 marketplace sellers and added 100,000 SKUs online — a concrete proof point that bricks-and-mortar retail chains can successfully platformify their ecommerce operations.
• Publicis Groupe's $2.167 billion acquisition of LiveRamp ends the era of neutral data infrastructure in ad tech — and has direct implications for every DTC brand and retailer that relies on LiveRamp's identity graph for audience targeting.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 11, 2026

In this episode:
• eBay is making a direct move into live shopping to compete with Whatnot and TikTok Shop, signalling that the format is now mainstream enough to pull legacy marketplaces off the sidelines.
• One year in, German DIY giant Bauhaus has onboarded 100 marketplace sellers and added 100,000 SKUs online — a concrete proof point that bricks-and-mortar retail chains can successfully platformify their ecommerce operations.
• Publicis Groupe's $2.167 billion acquisition of LiveRamp ends the era of neutral data infrastructure in ad tech — and has direct implications for every DTC brand and retailer that relies on LiveRamp's identity graph for audience targeting.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 02:07:41 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>405</itunes:duration>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 11, 2026

In this episode:
• eBay is making a direct move into live shopping to compete with Whatnot and TikTok Shop, signalling that the format is now mainstream enough to pull legacy marketplaces off the sidelines.
• One year in, German DIY giant Bauhaus has onboarded 100 marketplace sellers and added 100,000 SKUs online — a concrete proof point that bricks-and-mortar retail chains can successfully platformify their ecommerce operations.
• Publicis Groupe's $2.167 billion acquisition of LiveRamp ends the era of neutral data infrastructure in ad tech — and has direct implications for every DTC brand and retailer that relies on LiveRamp's identity graph for audience targeting.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | USPS Prioritizes Revenue over Volume | Top 100 online shops by turnover | Disney's TikTok Partnership Turns Fan Creativity</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | USPS Prioritizes Revenue over Volume | Top 100 online shops by turnover | Disney's TikTok Partnership Turns Fan Creativity</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 10, 2026

In this episode:
• The US Postal Service is explicitly deprioritising parcel volume in favour of rate hikes, a direct cost threat to every DTC brand shipping domestically.
• Fresh EHI/ECDB data ranks Germany's 100 largest online shops by revenue, revealing which categories and marketplace models are actually winning the market in 2026.
• Disney is formalising fan-created TikTok content as an official marketing channel — a social commerce playbook move that signals where brand-platform partnerships are heading.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 10, 2026

In this episode:
• The US Postal Service is explicitly deprioritising parcel volume in favour of rate hikes, a direct cost threat to every DTC brand shipping domestically.
• Fresh EHI/ECDB data ranks Germany's 100 largest online shops by revenue, revealing which categories and marketplace models are actually winning the market in 2026.
• Disney is formalising fan-created TikTok content as an official marketing channel — a social commerce playbook move that signals where brand-platform partnerships are heading.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 02:07:24 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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      <itunes:duration>386</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 10, 2026

In this episode:
• The US Postal Service is explicitly deprioritising parcel volume in favour of rate hikes, a direct cost threat to every DTC brand shipping domestically.
• Fresh EHI/ECDB data ranks Germany's 100 largest online shops by revenue, revealing which categories and marketplace models are actually winning the market in 2026.
• Disney is formalising fan-created TikTok content as an official marketing channel — a social commerce playbook move that signals where brand-platform partnerships are heading.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Ahold Delhaize USA adds Pear Commerce | Momox enters the Netherlands | The Opportunity and Threat Of Google</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Ahold Delhaize USA adds Pear Commerce | Momox enters the Netherlands | The Opportunity and Threat Of Google</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 09, 2026

In this episode:
• Ahold Delhaize is wiring CPG brand content directly into shoppable grocery carts via Pear Commerce — a new retail media integration model that closes the gap between brand discovery and purchase.
• German recommerce giant Momox is expanding into the Netherlands, signalling that the secondhand media marketplace model has room left to run in Western Europe.
• Google is quietly beta-testing Buyer Direct — a product that lets AI agents bypass traditional programmatic pipes and buy media directly through Google's ad server, which could redraw the entire performance advertising supply chain.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 09, 2026

In this episode:
• Ahold Delhaize is wiring CPG brand content directly into shoppable grocery carts via Pear Commerce — a new retail media integration model that closes the gap between brand discovery and purchase.
• German recommerce giant Momox is expanding into the Netherlands, signalling that the secondhand media marketplace model has room left to run in Western Europe.
• Google is quietly beta-testing Buyer Direct — a product that lets AI agents bypass traditional programmatic pipes and buy media directly through Google's ad server, which could redraw the entire performance advertising supply chain.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:07:52 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/e795cc14/ebfcc201.mp3" length="11346708" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>394</itunes:duration>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 09, 2026

In this episode:
• Ahold Delhaize is wiring CPG brand content directly into shoppable grocery carts via Pear Commerce — a new retail media integration model that closes the gap between brand discovery and purchase.
• German recommerce giant Momox is expanding into the Netherlands, signalling that the secondhand media marketplace model has room left to run in Western Europe.
• Google is quietly beta-testing Buyer Direct — a product that lets AI agents bypass traditional programmatic pipes and buy media directly through Google's ad server, which could redraw the entire performance advertising supply chain.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | The Trade Desk's Revenue Growth Stalls | Zooplus plans to roll out its | Ecommerce Trends: What online shoppers said</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | The Trade Desk's Revenue Growth Stalls | Zooplus plans to roll out its | Ecommerce Trends: What online shoppers said</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 08, 2026

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

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 08, 2026

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

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 02:08:00 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/b269c618/91b5f0b9.mp3" length="11369771" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>395</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 08, 2026

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

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | OpenAI brings product carousels to ChatGPT | How Shopify is approaching agentic AI | Chinese live commerce goes global: Inside</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | OpenAI brings product carousels to ChatGPT | How Shopify is approaching agentic AI | Chinese live commerce goes global: Inside</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 07, 2026

In this episode:
• OpenAI is bringing Google Shopping-style product carousels into ChatGPT just as the Q4 holiday season approaches, making it a direct new commerce surface brands must now plan for.
• Shopify's Q2 earnings call revealed the platform's specific bets on agentic AI, giving merchants the clearest picture yet of where their infrastructure is heading.
• Chinese live commerce operator Yowant is actively exporting its full operational model — not just the format — into the UK, US and European markets, representing a structural competitive threat to Western social commerce players.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 07, 2026

In this episode:
• OpenAI is bringing Google Shopping-style product carousels into ChatGPT just as the Q4 holiday season approaches, making it a direct new commerce surface brands must now plan for.
• Shopify's Q2 earnings call revealed the platform's specific bets on agentic AI, giving merchants the clearest picture yet of where their infrastructure is heading.
• Chinese live commerce operator Yowant is actively exporting its full operational model — not just the format — into the UK, US and European markets, representing a structural competitive threat to Western social commerce players.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 02:08:21 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/2d902bec/201f567a.mp3" length="11118000" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>379</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 07, 2026

In this episode:
• OpenAI is bringing Google Shopping-style product carousels into ChatGPT just as the Q4 holiday season approaches, making it a direct new commerce surface brands must now plan for.
• Shopify's Q2 earnings call revealed the platform's specific bets on agentic AI, giving merchants the clearest picture yet of where their infrastructure is heading.
• Chinese live commerce operator Yowant is actively exporting its full operational model — not just the format — into the UK, US and European markets, representing a structural competitive threat to Western social commerce players.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Microsoft Advertising Adds AI Visibility Insights, | E-commerce and Europe keep Ahold Delhaize | Refurbed adds guitars to its product</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Microsoft Advertising Adds AI Visibility Insights, | E-commerce and Europe keep Ahold Delhaize | Refurbed adds guitars to its product</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 06, 2026

In this episode:
• Microsoft Advertising is rolling out a suite of AI-native tools that directly challenge Google's Performance Max dominance among ecommerce advertisers.
• Ahold Delhaize's results show European ecommerce is now actively offsetting US margin pressure for one of the continent's largest grocery groups.
• European recommerce marketplace Refurbed is expanding beyond electronics into musical instruments, testing whether its sustainability-led model can scale into new categories.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 06, 2026

In this episode:
• Microsoft Advertising is rolling out a suite of AI-native tools that directly challenge Google's Performance Max dominance among ecommerce advertisers.
• Ahold Delhaize's results show European ecommerce is now actively offsetting US margin pressure for one of the continent's largest grocery groups.
• European recommerce marketplace Refurbed is expanding beyond electronics into musical instruments, testing whether its sustainability-led model can scale into new categories.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 02:08:15 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/ff584bf6/45ed7bec.mp3" length="11382456" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>396</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 06, 2026

In this episode:
• Microsoft Advertising is rolling out a suite of AI-native tools that directly challenge Google's Performance Max dominance among ecommerce advertisers.
• Ahold Delhaize's results show European ecommerce is now actively offsetting US margin pressure for one of the continent's largest grocery groups.
• European recommerce marketplace Refurbed is expanding beyond electronics into musical instruments, testing whether its sustainability-led model can scale into new categories.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Walmart Closes Vibe.co Acquisition, Signaling a | Argos launches curated marketplace | Paid Search Absorbed Organic's Collapse –</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Walmart Closes Vibe.co Acquisition, Signaling a | Argos launches curated marketplace | Paid Search Absorbed Organic's Collapse –</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/3e33b239</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 05, 2026

In this episode:
• Walmart just paid $1.4 billion to own its own streaming ad inventory, directly challenging Amazon's closed-loop retail media empire.
• Argos — freshly spun out from Sainsbury's — is launching its own curated marketplace, signalling it intends to compete as an independent ecommerce player in the UK.
• Google paid search growth slowed materially in Q2 2026, raising urgent questions about where ecommerce performance budgets should be allocated in H2.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 05, 2026

In this episode:
• Walmart just paid $1.4 billion to own its own streaming ad inventory, directly challenging Amazon's closed-loop retail media empire.
• Argos — freshly spun out from Sainsbury's — is launching its own curated marketplace, signalling it intends to compete as an independent ecommerce player in the UK.
• Google paid search growth slowed materially in Q2 2026, raising urgent questions about where ecommerce performance budgets should be allocated in H2.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:07:02 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/3e33b239/45c5632b.mp3" length="11132991" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>380</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 05, 2026

In this episode:
• Walmart just paid $1.4 billion to own its own streaming ad inventory, directly challenging Amazon's closed-loop retail media empire.
• Argos — freshly spun out from Sainsbury's — is launching its own curated marketplace, signalling it intends to compete as an independent ecommerce player in the UK.
• Google paid search growth slowed materially in Q2 2026, raising urgent questions about where ecommerce performance budgets should be allocated in H2.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | WooCommerce Social Login WordPress Plugin Enables | Snap Hires TikTok's Former Marketing Leader | The Evolved German Online Shopper: Going</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | WooCommerce Social Login WordPress Plugin Enables | Snap Hires TikTok's Former Marketing Leader | The Evolved German Online Shopper: Going</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/cb19e681</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 04, 2026

In this episode:
• A critical security vulnerability in one of WooCommerce's most widely used plugins lets unauthenticated attackers seize full control of ecommerce stores — affecting potentially thousands of merchants right now.
• Snapchat is poaching senior TikTok talent to sharpen its pitch to performance advertisers — a signal that the battle for social commerce ad budgets is intensifying beyond just Meta and TikTok.
• New data on German online shoppers in 2026 shows that price is no longer the dominant purchase driver — loyalty, trust, and experience are now the battleground, reshaping how brands must compete in Europe's largest ecommerce market.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 04, 2026

In this episode:
• A critical security vulnerability in one of WooCommerce's most widely used plugins lets unauthenticated attackers seize full control of ecommerce stores — affecting potentially thousands of merchants right now.
• Snapchat is poaching senior TikTok talent to sharpen its pitch to performance advertisers — a signal that the battle for social commerce ad budgets is intensifying beyond just Meta and TikTok.
• New data on German online shoppers in 2026 shows that price is no longer the dominant purchase driver — loyalty, trust, and experience are now the battleground, reshaping how brands must compete in Europe's largest ecommerce market.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 02:07:43 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/cb19e681/2a1065e0.mp3" length="11094168" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>378</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 04, 2026

In this episode:
• A critical security vulnerability in one of WooCommerce's most widely used plugins lets unauthenticated attackers seize full control of ecommerce stores — affecting potentially thousands of merchants right now.
• Snapchat is poaching senior TikTok talent to sharpen its pitch to performance advertisers — a signal that the battle for social commerce ad budgets is intensifying beyond just Meta and TikTok.
• New data on German online shoppers in 2026 shows that price is no longer the dominant purchase driver — loyalty, trust, and experience are now the battleground, reshaping how brands must compete in Europe's largest ecommerce market.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Amazon's live sports land grab helps | Amazon invests over 300 million euros | Ecommerce Trends: How Lululemon is using</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Amazon's live sports land grab helps | Amazon invests over 300 million euros | Ecommerce Trends: How Lululemon is using</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 03, 2026

In this episode:
• Amazon's Q2 ad revenue hit $19.8 billion as live sports emerges as a key driver of its closed-loop advertising flywheel — a distinct angle from the trailing 12-month figure already covered.
• Amazon is pumping €300 million into German logistics infrastructure just as the market rebounds — a supply-side bet on Europe's largest ecommerce economy.
• Lululemon is making AI a core operational pillar in 2026 — with active hiring and investment that signals a DTC brand treating AI as a commerce infrastructure play, not just a marketing garnish.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 03, 2026

In this episode:
• Amazon's Q2 ad revenue hit $19.8 billion as live sports emerges as a key driver of its closed-loop advertising flywheel — a distinct angle from the trailing 12-month figure already covered.
• Amazon is pumping €300 million into German logistics infrastructure just as the market rebounds — a supply-side bet on Europe's largest ecommerce economy.
• Lululemon is making AI a core operational pillar in 2026 — with active hiring and investment that signals a DTC brand treating AI as a commerce infrastructure play, not just a marketing garnish.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 02:07:41 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 03, 2026

In this episode:
• Amazon's Q2 ad revenue hit $19.8 billion as live sports emerges as a key driver of its closed-loop advertising flywheel — a distinct angle from the trailing 12-month figure already covered.
• Amazon is pumping €300 million into German logistics infrastructure just as the market rebounds — a supply-side bet on Europe's largest ecommerce economy.
• Lululemon is making AI a core operational pillar in 2026 — with active hiring and investment that signals a DTC brand treating AI as a commerce infrastructure play, not just a marketing garnish.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Meta touts industry-leading ad revenue growth, | Sainsbury's sells its non-food subsidiary Argos | Fulfilment is struggling to keep up</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Meta touts industry-leading ad revenue growth, | Sainsbury's sells its non-food subsidiary Argos | Fulfilment is struggling to keep up</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 02, 2026

In this episode:
• Meta's Q2 earnings show ad revenue surging but AI infrastructure costs are now growing faster than the top line — a direct signal for ecommerce brands budgeting Meta spend.
• Sainsbury's is offloading Argos to a group of investors to refocus on grocery — a major structural shift for UK omnichannel retail that reshapes one of Britain's largest general merchandise ecommerce operations.
• New research reveals that retail fulfilment infrastructure is failing to deliver on the promises AI-driven agentic commerce is making at checkout — exposing a critical gap between the front-end and the back-end of ecommerce.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 02, 2026

In this episode:
• Meta's Q2 earnings show ad revenue surging but AI infrastructure costs are now growing faster than the top line — a direct signal for ecommerce brands budgeting Meta spend.
• Sainsbury's is offloading Argos to a group of investors to refocus on grocery — a major structural shift for UK omnichannel retail that reshapes one of Britain's largest general merchandise ecommerce operations.
• New research reveals that retail fulfilment infrastructure is failing to deliver on the promises AI-driven agentic commerce is making at checkout — exposing a critical gap between the front-end and the back-end of ecommerce.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 02:08:57 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>397</itunes:duration>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 02, 2026

In this episode:
• Meta's Q2 earnings show ad revenue surging but AI infrastructure costs are now growing faster than the top line — a direct signal for ecommerce brands budgeting Meta spend.
• Sainsbury's is offloading Argos to a group of investors to refocus on grocery — a major structural shift for UK omnichannel retail that reshapes one of Britain's largest general merchandise ecommerce operations.
• New research reveals that retail fulfilment infrastructure is failing to deliver on the promises AI-driven agentic commerce is making at checkout — exposing a critical gap between the front-end and the back-end of ecommerce.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Shop Campaigns Germany: Shopify brings pay-per-sale | German online retail rebounds as consumer | European Commission accuses Temu of obstruction</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Shop Campaigns Germany: Shopify brings pay-per-sale | German online retail rebounds as consumer | European Commission accuses Temu of obstruction</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 01, 2026

In this episode:
• Shopify has launched its pay-per-sale Shop Campaigns ad product in Germany, giving European merchants a zero-risk performance advertising model ahead of Black Friday.
• German online retail grew 4.3% in H1 2026, marking a genuine recovery for Europe's largest ecommerce market after two years of contraction.
• The European Commission has accused Temu of failing to cooperate during an unannounced inspection at its Dublin HQ, significantly escalating the EU's Digital Services Act crackdown on the platform.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 01, 2026

In this episode:
• Shopify has launched its pay-per-sale Shop Campaigns ad product in Germany, giving European merchants a zero-risk performance advertising model ahead of Black Friday.
• German online retail grew 4.3% in H1 2026, marking a genuine recovery for Europe's largest ecommerce market after two years of contraction.
• The European Commission has accused Temu of failing to cooperate during an unannounced inspection at its Dublin HQ, significantly escalating the EU's Digital Services Act crackdown on the platform.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 02:09:06 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>397</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — August 01, 2026

In this episode:
• Shopify has launched its pay-per-sale Shop Campaigns ad product in Germany, giving European merchants a zero-risk performance advertising model ahead of Black Friday.
• German online retail grew 4.3% in H1 2026, marking a genuine recovery for Europe's largest ecommerce market after two years of contraction.
• The European Commission has accused Temu of failing to cooperate during an unannounced inspection at its Dublin HQ, significantly escalating the EU's Digital Services Act crackdown on the platform.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Amazon's Ad Revenue Hits $76B Over | House Bill Reshapes Marketplace Policies | MediaMarkt parent company, Ceconomy, thrives on</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Amazon's Ad Revenue Hits $76B Over | House Bill Reshapes Marketplace Policies | MediaMarkt parent company, Ceconomy, thrives on</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 31, 2026

In this episode:
• Amazon's ad business has crossed $76 billion in trailing revenue and is already showing early commercial results from Sponsored AI Prompts — a format that could redefine how products get discovered on the platform.
• A new US House bill would force marketplaces to explain account suspensions and give sellers a formal appeals process — the most significant proposed seller protection legislation in years.
• Ceconomy — the European electronics retail giant behind MediaMarkt and Saturn — has grown profits by more than a fifth in nine months, with its online stores and retail media network driving a meaningful share of that growth.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 31, 2026

In this episode:
• Amazon's ad business has crossed $76 billion in trailing revenue and is already showing early commercial results from Sponsored AI Prompts — a format that could redefine how products get discovered on the platform.
• A new US House bill would force marketplaces to explain account suspensions and give sellers a formal appeals process — the most significant proposed seller protection legislation in years.
• Ceconomy — the European electronics retail giant behind MediaMarkt and Saturn — has grown profits by more than a fifth in nine months, with its online stores and retail media network driving a meaningful share of that growth.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 02:08:59 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/60fecb22/a0e3d35b.mp3" length="11317878" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>392</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 31, 2026

In this episode:
• Amazon's ad business has crossed $76 billion in trailing revenue and is already showing early commercial results from Sponsored AI Prompts — a format that could redefine how products get discovered on the platform.
• A new US House bill would force marketplaces to explain account suspensions and give sellers a formal appeals process — the most significant proposed seller protection legislation in years.
• Ceconomy — the European electronics retail giant behind MediaMarkt and Saturn — has grown profits by more than a fifth in nine months, with its online stores and retail media network driving a meaningful share of that growth.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Walmart and Amazon Are Battling for | UK adspend rose 9.3% in Q1 | Sainsbury's and Uber Eats deepen partnership</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Walmart and Amazon Are Battling for | UK adspend rose 9.3% in Q1 | Sainsbury's and Uber Eats deepen partnership</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 30, 2026

In this episode:
• Walmart is using Vibe.co and Vizio to chase Amazon's connected TV retail media playbook — and the battle for streaming ad budgets is now a commerce story.
• Fresh AA/Warc data shows UK adspend up 9.3% in Q1 2026, with social media growing 17.7% and retail media posting double-digit gains — hard numbers that reframe where digital commerce budgets are actually flowing.
• Sainsbury's is now letting UK shoppers earn Nectar loyalty points on Uber Eats rapid grocery orders — a move that ties its first-party data asset directly into quick commerce and raises the stakes for every rival grocery platform.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 30, 2026

In this episode:
• Walmart is using Vibe.co and Vizio to chase Amazon's connected TV retail media playbook — and the battle for streaming ad budgets is now a commerce story.
• Fresh AA/Warc data shows UK adspend up 9.3% in Q1 2026, with social media growing 17.7% and retail media posting double-digit gains — hard numbers that reframe where digital commerce budgets are actually flowing.
• Sainsbury's is now letting UK shoppers earn Nectar loyalty points on Uber Eats rapid grocery orders — a move that ties its first-party data asset directly into quick commerce and raises the stakes for every rival grocery platform.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 02:08:58 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/71ee4dbe/954b25c8.mp3" length="11222166" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>386</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 30, 2026

In this episode:
• Walmart is using Vibe.co and Vizio to chase Amazon's connected TV retail media playbook — and the battle for streaming ad budgets is now a commerce story.
• Fresh AA/Warc data shows UK adspend up 9.3% in Q1 2026, with social media growing 17.7% and retail media posting double-digit gains — hard numbers that reframe where digital commerce budgets are actually flowing.
• Sainsbury's is now letting UK shoppers earn Nectar loyalty points on Uber Eats rapid grocery orders — a move that ties its first-party data asset directly into quick commerce and raises the stakes for every rival grocery platform.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | DoorDash integration with Shopify to enable | Amazon Left US Google Shopping A | [Analysis] Chinese 'live commerce' is already</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | DoorDash integration with Shopify to enable | Amazon Left US Google Shopping A | [Analysis] Chinese 'live commerce' is already</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 29, 2026

In this episode:
• Shopify merchants in the US can now tap DoorDash's delivery network directly from their stores, blurring the line between ecommerce and on-demand logistics.
• A full year of auction data confirms Amazon's withdrawal from US Google Shopping has permanently reshaped the competitive landscape for every other retailer buying those placements.
• A new NielsenIQ report shows Chinese live commerce has reached the total revenue scale of all US ecommerce — a benchmark that reframes how seriously Western platforms need to take the format.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 29, 2026

In this episode:
• Shopify merchants in the US can now tap DoorDash's delivery network directly from their stores, blurring the line between ecommerce and on-demand logistics.
• A full year of auction data confirms Amazon's withdrawal from US Google Shopping has permanently reshaped the competitive landscape for every other retailer buying those placements.
• A new NielsenIQ report shows Chinese live commerce has reached the total revenue scale of all US ecommerce — a benchmark that reframes how seriously Western platforms need to take the format.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 02:08:15 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/8cf507cb/041c35a9.mp3" length="11210634" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>385</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 29, 2026

In this episode:
• Shopify merchants in the US can now tap DoorDash's delivery network directly from their stores, blurring the line between ecommerce and on-demand logistics.
• A full year of auction data confirms Amazon's withdrawal from US Google Shopping has permanently reshaped the competitive landscape for every other retailer buying those placements.
• A new NielsenIQ report shows Chinese live commerce has reached the total revenue scale of all US ecommerce — a benchmark that reframes how seriously Western platforms need to take the format.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | TikTok GO Wants Every Travel Video | Google Ads' Target-Based Bidding Update For | Dick's, LiveRamp, and Adobe Are Building</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | TikTok GO Wants Every Travel Video | Google Ads' Target-Based Bidding Update For | Dick's, LiveRamp, and Adobe Are Building</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/b1a7467f</link>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 28, 2026

In this episode:
• TikTok is pushing social commerce beyond physical goods into travel bookings, turning every destination video into a direct purchase moment.
• Google is forcing budget-limited Target CPA and Target ROAS campaigns to chase their stated targets from August 17 — ecommerce advertisers who haven't audited their targets face a nasty cost spike.
• Dick's Sporting Goods, LiveRamp, and Adobe have formed a partnership that tackles retail media's biggest unsolved problem — creative personalisation at scale without a bespoke production budget.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 28, 2026

In this episode:
• TikTok is pushing social commerce beyond physical goods into travel bookings, turning every destination video into a direct purchase moment.
• Google is forcing budget-limited Target CPA and Target ROAS campaigns to chase their stated targets from August 17 — ecommerce advertisers who haven't audited their targets face a nasty cost spike.
• Dick's Sporting Goods, LiveRamp, and Adobe have formed a partnership that tackles retail media's biggest unsolved problem — creative personalisation at scale without a bespoke production budget.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 02:08:22 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/b1a7467f/1a3cb17b.mp3" length="11313265" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>391</itunes:duration>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 28, 2026

In this episode:
• TikTok is pushing social commerce beyond physical goods into travel bookings, turning every destination video into a direct purchase moment.
• Google is forcing budget-limited Target CPA and Target ROAS campaigns to chase their stated targets from August 17 — ecommerce advertisers who haven't audited their targets face a nasty cost spike.
• Dick's Sporting Goods, LiveRamp, and Adobe have formed a partnership that tackles retail media's biggest unsolved problem — creative personalisation at scale without a bespoke production budget.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Shein rutscht vor geplantem Börsengang in | N.Y. Targets AI Models in Product | Retail Media Goes Wholesale</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Shein rutscht vor geplantem Börsengang in | N.Y. Targets AI Models in Product | Retail Media Goes Wholesale</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/04e13098</link>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 27, 2026

In this episode:
• Shein has slipped into losses ahead of its planned Hong Kong IPO, raising serious questions about the ultra-fast fashion model's long-term viability just as European regulators turn up the pressure.
• New York is moving to regulate AI-generated models in product advertising, which could force ecommerce brands to rethink how they produce and label product imagery at scale.
• Retail media is pushing beyond direct-to-consumer into wholesale channels, signalling a fundamental expansion of where retail media budgets can now flow.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 27, 2026

In this episode:
• Shein has slipped into losses ahead of its planned Hong Kong IPO, raising serious questions about the ultra-fast fashion model's long-term viability just as European regulators turn up the pressure.
• New York is moving to regulate AI-generated models in product advertising, which could force ecommerce brands to rethink how they produce and label product imagery at scale.
• Retail media is pushing beyond direct-to-consumer into wholesale channels, signalling a fundamental expansion of where retail media budgets can now flow.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 02:08:33 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/04e13098/ee5c0484.mp3" length="11493157" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>403</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 27, 2026

In this episode:
• Shein has slipped into losses ahead of its planned Hong Kong IPO, raising serious questions about the ultra-fast fashion model's long-term viability just as European regulators turn up the pressure.
• New York is moving to regulate AI-generated models in product advertising, which could force ecommerce brands to rethink how they produce and label product imagery at scale.
• Retail media is pushing beyond direct-to-consumer into wholesale channels, signalling a fundamental expansion of where retail media budgets can now flow.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Household income exclusions spotted in Performance | Alibaba adds more agentic AI to | Failed payments are becoming a hidden</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Household income exclusions spotted in Performance | Alibaba adds more agentic AI to | Failed payments are becoming a hidden</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/da43e7c3</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 26, 2026

In this episode:
• Advertisers have spotted a new audience control inside Performance Max that could meaningfully change how ecommerce brands target and exclude shoppers by income bracket.
• Alibaba is deploying agentic AI across its B2B marketplace to automate the sourcing workflow for ecommerce sellers — a move that could reshape how brands and retailers discover and procure inventory.
• Payment failure — not customer dissatisfaction — is silently killing subscription retention for ecommerce brands, and most operators don't have visibility into how often it's happening.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 26, 2026

In this episode:
• Advertisers have spotted a new audience control inside Performance Max that could meaningfully change how ecommerce brands target and exclude shoppers by income bracket.
• Alibaba is deploying agentic AI across its B2B marketplace to automate the sourcing workflow for ecommerce sellers — a move that could reshape how brands and retailers discover and procure inventory.
• Payment failure — not customer dissatisfaction — is silently killing subscription retention for ecommerce brands, and most operators don't have visibility into how often it's happening.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 02:09:06 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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      <itunes:duration>409</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 26, 2026

In this episode:
• Advertisers have spotted a new audience control inside Performance Max that could meaningfully change how ecommerce brands target and exclude shoppers by income bracket.
• Alibaba is deploying agentic AI across its B2B marketplace to automate the sourcing workflow for ecommerce sellers — a move that could reshape how brands and retailers discover and procure inventory.
• Payment failure — not customer dissatisfaction — is silently killing subscription retention for ecommerce brands, and most operators don't have visibility into how often it's happening.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | ChatGPT Ads adds conversion bidding, geo | Bero grows DTC ecommerce through omnichannel | China threatens with retaliation against France</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | ChatGPT Ads adds conversion bidding, geo | Bero grows DTC ecommerce through omnichannel | China threatens with retaliation against France</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 25, 2026

In this episode:
• ChatGPT is rapidly maturing as an ad platform with features that directly challenge Google and Meta for ecommerce performance budgets.
• Non-alcoholic beer brand Bero is proving that offline retail can be engineered to feed DTC ecommerce growth — not cannibalise it.
• China's threat of trade retaliation over France's anti-fast-fashion law puts Shein, Temu, and the entire cross-border ecommerce model under direct geopolitical pressure in Europe.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 25, 2026

In this episode:
• ChatGPT is rapidly maturing as an ad platform with features that directly challenge Google and Meta for ecommerce performance budgets.
• Non-alcoholic beer brand Bero is proving that offline retail can be engineered to feed DTC ecommerce growth — not cannibalise it.
• China's threat of trade retaliation over France's anti-fast-fashion law puts Shein, Temu, and the entire cross-border ecommerce model under direct geopolitical pressure in Europe.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 02:08:58 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/74577371/0af1113c.mp3" length="11355163" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>394</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 25, 2026

In this episode:
• ChatGPT is rapidly maturing as an ad platform with features that directly challenge Google and Meta for ecommerce performance budgets.
• Non-alcoholic beer brand Bero is proving that offline retail can be engineered to feed DTC ecommerce growth — not cannibalise it.
• China's threat of trade retaliation over France's anti-fast-fashion law puts Shein, Temu, and the entire cross-border ecommerce model under direct geopolitical pressure in Europe.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Shopify brings pay-on-conversion Shop Campaigns to | Notino reaches 1.76 billion euros in | EU outlines its objections to JD.com's</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Shopify brings pay-on-conversion Shop Campaigns to | Notino reaches 1.76 billion euros in | EU outlines its objections to JD.com's</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 24, 2026

In this episode:
• Shopify is expanding its performance-based advertising product to British retailers, letting them pay only when a customer actually converts — a meaningful shift in how UK ecommerce brands acquire customers.
• European beauty ecommerce platform Notino has posted 11.5% revenue growth to €1.76 billion, making it one of the continent's fastest-scaling pure-play online retailers in a category that Amazon and physical retailers are fighting hard for.
• The European Commission has formally outlined competition objections to JD.com's planned takeover of MediaMarkt owner Ceconomy, putting a major Chinese ecommerce player's European brick-and-click expansion strategy on the line.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 24, 2026

In this episode:
• Shopify is expanding its performance-based advertising product to British retailers, letting them pay only when a customer actually converts — a meaningful shift in how UK ecommerce brands acquire customers.
• European beauty ecommerce platform Notino has posted 11.5% revenue growth to €1.76 billion, making it one of the continent's fastest-scaling pure-play online retailers in a category that Amazon and physical retailers are fighting hard for.
• The European Commission has formally outlined competition objections to JD.com's planned takeover of MediaMarkt owner Ceconomy, putting a major Chinese ecommerce player's European brick-and-click expansion strategy on the line.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 02:08:20 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/b652c4dc/f4af970d.mp3" length="11084556" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>377</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 24, 2026

In this episode:
• Shopify is expanding its performance-based advertising product to British retailers, letting them pay only when a customer actually converts — a meaningful shift in how UK ecommerce brands acquire customers.
• European beauty ecommerce platform Notino has posted 11.5% revenue growth to €1.76 billion, making it one of the continent's fastest-scaling pure-play online retailers in a category that Amazon and physical retailers are fighting hard for.
• The European Commission has formally outlined competition objections to JD.com's planned takeover of MediaMarkt owner Ceconomy, putting a major Chinese ecommerce player's European brick-and-click expansion strategy on the line.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | EU forces Google to open Android | Zalando invests in AI robotics | China unhappy with European fine against</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | EU forces Google to open Android | Zalando invests in AI robotics | China unhappy with European fine against</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/92cfa4dd</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 23, 2026

In this episode:
• The European Commission's order forcing Google to share Android and Search data with rival AI assistants could fundamentally redraw the retail media landscape in Europe.
• Zalando's investment in German AI robotics firm Sereact signals that Europe's largest fashion marketplace is betting on automated fulfilment as its next competitive moat.
• China's government has formally pushed back against the EU's record DSA fine on AliExpress, turning a platform compliance story into a trade tension flashpoint with direct implications for cross-border ecommerce in Europe.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 23, 2026

In this episode:
• The European Commission's order forcing Google to share Android and Search data with rival AI assistants could fundamentally redraw the retail media landscape in Europe.
• Zalando's investment in German AI robotics firm Sereact signals that Europe's largest fashion marketplace is betting on automated fulfilment as its next competitive moat.
• China's government has formally pushed back against the EU's record DSA fine on AliExpress, turning a platform compliance story into a trade tension flashpoint with direct implications for cross-border ecommerce in Europe.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 02:08:14 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/92cfa4dd/d9f11537.mp3" length="11494694" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>403</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 23, 2026

In this episode:
• The European Commission's order forcing Google to share Android and Search data with rival AI assistants could fundamentally redraw the retail media landscape in Europe.
• Zalando's investment in German AI robotics firm Sereact signals that Europe's largest fashion marketplace is betting on automated fulfilment as its next competitive moat.
• China's government has formally pushed back against the EU's record DSA fine on AliExpress, turning a platform compliance story into a trade tension flashpoint with direct implications for cross-border ecommerce in Europe.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Sellers Are Fed Up With Amazon, | Allegro Group GMV increases 14% | TikTok psychology: Why social commerce feels</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Sellers Are Fed Up With Amazon, | Allegro Group GMV increases 14% | TikTok psychology: Why social commerce feels</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/40abec61</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 22, 2026

In this episode:
• Amazon's own Seller Growth Summit became the backdrop for a seller revolt, with the Million Dollar Sellers group publicly challenging the platform's fee structures and policies.
• Allegro's 13.7% GMV growth in Q2 makes it one of the fastest-growing large marketplaces in Europe, at a time when most Western platforms are reporting single-digit gains.
• New research from Savvy unpacks the psychological mechanics behind why Gen Z converts on TikTok Shop at rates that traditional ecommerce channels struggle to match.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 22, 2026

In this episode:
• Amazon's own Seller Growth Summit became the backdrop for a seller revolt, with the Million Dollar Sellers group publicly challenging the platform's fee structures and policies.
• Allegro's 13.7% GMV growth in Q2 makes it one of the fastest-growing large marketplaces in Europe, at a time when most Western platforms are reporting single-digit gains.
• New research from Savvy unpacks the psychological mechanics behind why Gen Z converts on TikTok Shop at rates that traditional ecommerce channels struggle to match.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 02:08:02 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/40abec61/206b7762.mp3" length="11168737" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>382</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 22, 2026

In this episode:
• Amazon's own Seller Growth Summit became the backdrop for a seller revolt, with the Million Dollar Sellers group publicly challenging the platform's fee structures and policies.
• Allegro's 13.7% GMV growth in Q2 makes it one of the fastest-growing large marketplaces in Europe, at a time when most Western platforms are reporting single-digit gains.
• New research from Savvy unpacks the psychological mechanics behind why Gen Z converts on TikTok Shop at rates that traditional ecommerce channels struggle to match.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Reformation launches IPO targeting up to | German ecommerce increases 4.3% in first | 'Bol and Amazon use misleading discounts'</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Reformation launches IPO targeting up to | German ecommerce increases 4.3% in first | 'Bol and Amazon use misleading discounts'</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/8b7c9702</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 21, 2026

In this episode:
• Reformation's IPO push is the most significant DTC brand public market test of 2026, signalling whether sustainable fashion can command a billion-dollar valuation.
• Germany's H1 2026 ecommerce data gives us the clearest read yet on whether Europe's largest market is returning to meaningful growth after two years of stagnation.
• The Dutch Consumer Association is taking direct legal action against both Bol and Amazon over fake discount practices, which could trigger platform-wide pricing rule changes across Europe.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 21, 2026

In this episode:
• Reformation's IPO push is the most significant DTC brand public market test of 2026, signalling whether sustainable fashion can command a billion-dollar valuation.
• Germany's H1 2026 ecommerce data gives us the clearest read yet on whether Europe's largest market is returning to meaningful growth after two years of stagnation.
• The Dutch Consumer Association is taking direct legal action against both Bol and Amazon over fake discount practices, which could trigger platform-wide pricing rule changes across Europe.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 02:07:36 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/8b7c9702/7ab4bb00.mp3" length="11160280" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>382</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 21, 2026

In this episode:
• Reformation's IPO push is the most significant DTC brand public market test of 2026, signalling whether sustainable fashion can command a billion-dollar valuation.
• Germany's H1 2026 ecommerce data gives us the clearest read yet on whether Europe's largest market is returning to meaningful growth after two years of stagnation.
• The Dutch Consumer Association is taking direct legal action against both Bol and Amazon over fake discount practices, which could trigger platform-wide pricing rule changes across Europe.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Google expands Performance Max product reporting | Mollie doubles down on Europe with | AI Makes Refund Evidence Easier to</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Google expands Performance Max product reporting | Mollie doubles down on Europe with | AI Makes Refund Evidence Easier to</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/7f15f745</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 20, 2026

In this episode:
• Google is giving ecommerce advertisers something they've been demanding for years: granular product-level reporting across every channel inside Performance Max.
• European payments fintech Mollie is deploying €350 million to deepen its grip on the SME ecommerce market across Europe, at exactly the moment the checkout layer is becoming a commerce platform battleground.
• AI is now enabling a new wave of ecommerce return fraud — fraudsters can generate convincing fake product damage images at scale, and most merchant returns policies aren't built to catch it.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 20, 2026

In this episode:
• Google is giving ecommerce advertisers something they've been demanding for years: granular product-level reporting across every channel inside Performance Max.
• European payments fintech Mollie is deploying €350 million to deepen its grip on the SME ecommerce market across Europe, at exactly the moment the checkout layer is becoming a commerce platform battleground.
• AI is now enabling a new wave of ecommerce return fraud — fraudsters can generate convincing fake product damage images at scale, and most merchant returns policies aren't built to catch it.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 02:07:44 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/7f15f745/47908011.mp3" length="11344016" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>393</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 20, 2026

In this episode:
• Google is giving ecommerce advertisers something they've been demanding for years: granular product-level reporting across every channel inside Performance Max.
• European payments fintech Mollie is deploying €350 million to deepen its grip on the SME ecommerce market across Europe, at exactly the moment the checkout layer is becoming a commerce platform battleground.
• AI is now enabling a new wave of ecommerce return fraud — fraudsters can generate convincing fake product damage images at scale, and most merchant returns policies aren't built to catch it.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | How ad platforms count and report | GameStop joins Uber Eats to offer | Liquid I.V. climbs higher on Amazon</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | How ad platforms count and report | GameStop joins Uber Eats to offer | Liquid I.V. climbs higher on Amazon</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/1220a11f</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 19, 2026

In this episode:
• A forensic breakdown of how Meta, Google, and other ad platforms each measure conversions differently — and why that gap is costing ecommerce advertisers real money.
• GameStop is now live on Uber Eats for on-demand delivery of consoles and games — a survival pivot that tells you everything about where distressed physical retailers are being forced to look for volume.
• Liquid I.V. hit No. 2 on Amazon's Prime Day best-sellers list for the fourth consecutive year — concrete proof that a Unilever-owned DTC brand can dominate marketplace commerce without losing its identity.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 19, 2026

In this episode:
• A forensic breakdown of how Meta, Google, and other ad platforms each measure conversions differently — and why that gap is costing ecommerce advertisers real money.
• GameStop is now live on Uber Eats for on-demand delivery of consoles and games — a survival pivot that tells you everything about where distressed physical retailers are being forced to look for volume.
• Liquid I.V. hit No. 2 on Amazon's Prime Day best-sellers list for the fourth consecutive year — concrete proof that a Unilever-owned DTC brand can dominate marketplace commerce without losing its identity.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 02:08:30 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/1220a11f/e488c2a9.mp3" length="11397829" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>397</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 19, 2026

In this episode:
• A forensic breakdown of how Meta, Google, and other ad platforms each measure conversions differently — and why that gap is costing ecommerce advertisers real money.
• GameStop is now live on Uber Eats for on-demand delivery of consoles and games — a survival pivot that tells you everything about where distressed physical retailers are being forced to look for volume.
• Liquid I.V. hit No. 2 on Amazon's Prime Day best-sellers list for the fourth consecutive year — concrete proof that a Unilever-owned DTC brand can dominate marketplace commerce without losing its identity.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Amazon Pharmacy taps eNavvi to embed | What Conversion Data From 10,000+ Creator | European ban on the destruction of</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Amazon Pharmacy taps eNavvi to embed | What Conversion Data From 10,000+ Creator | European ban on the destruction of</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/b73e604f</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 18, 2026

In this episode:
• Amazon is embedding its pharmacy directly into the point of prescription, turning healthcare providers into an upstream commerce channel.
• New data from over 10,000 creator storefronts exposes a structural conversion gap between influencer-driven traffic and the landing pages brands send them to.
• The EU's ban on destroying unsold fashion inventory kicks in this weekend, forcing large ecommerce and fashion brands to fundamentally rethink returns, overstock, and fulfilment strategies.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 18, 2026

In this episode:
• Amazon is embedding its pharmacy directly into the point of prescription, turning healthcare providers into an upstream commerce channel.
• New data from over 10,000 creator storefronts exposes a structural conversion gap between influencer-driven traffic and the landing pages brands send them to.
• The EU's ban on destroying unsold fashion inventory kicks in this weekend, forcing large ecommerce and fashion brands to fundamentally rethink returns, overstock, and fulfilment strategies.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 02:08:40 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/b73e604f/a4c63813.mp3" length="11362466" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>395</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 18, 2026

In this episode:
• Amazon is embedding its pharmacy directly into the point of prescription, turning healthcare providers into an upstream commerce channel.
• New data from over 10,000 creator storefronts exposes a structural conversion gap between influencer-driven traffic and the landing pages brands send them to.
• The EU's ban on destroying unsold fashion inventory kicks in this weekend, forcing large ecommerce and fashion brands to fundamentally rethink returns, overstock, and fulfilment strategies.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | PE's Ecommerce Spending Spree; TikTok Shop | European retail media increased 16.7% in | Uber acquires Delivery Hero for 13</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | PE's Ecommerce Spending Spree; TikTok Shop | European retail media increased 16.7% in | Uber acquires Delivery Hero for 13</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 17, 2026

In this episode:
• TikTok Shop is rolling out AI-generated shopping videos — and both brands and creators are pushing back hard.
• New data shows European retail media is outpacing overall digital ad growth by a factor of nearly two-to-one, cementing it as the continent's fastest-growing ad channel.
• Uber's €13 billion acquisition of Delivery Hero dramatically reshapes the European quick-commerce and delivery landscape — with major implications for brands advertising on delivery platforms.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 17, 2026

In this episode:
• TikTok Shop is rolling out AI-generated shopping videos — and both brands and creators are pushing back hard.
• New data shows European retail media is outpacing overall digital ad growth by a factor of nearly two-to-one, cementing it as the continent's fastest-growing ad channel.
• Uber's €13 billion acquisition of Delivery Hero dramatically reshapes the European quick-commerce and delivery landscape — with major implications for brands advertising on delivery platforms.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 02:08:04 +0200</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 17, 2026

In this episode:
• TikTok Shop is rolling out AI-generated shopping videos — and both brands and creators are pushing back hard.
• New data shows European retail media is outpacing overall digital ad growth by a factor of nearly two-to-one, cementing it as the continent's fastest-growing ad channel.
• Uber's €13 billion acquisition of Delivery Hero dramatically reshapes the European quick-commerce and delivery landscape — with major implications for brands advertising on delivery platforms.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Stripe and Advent are jointly offering | Uber's Top Ad Exec Kristi Argyilan | Intentional spending keeps ecommerce volumes flat</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Stripe and Advent are jointly offering | Uber's Top Ad Exec Kristi Argyilan | Intentional spending keeps ecommerce volumes flat</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 16, 2026

In this episode:
• A $53 billion bid to merge Stripe and PayPal would create the dominant payments infrastructure layer underneath virtually all of western ecommerce.
• Kristi Argyilan — the executive who literally built Target's Roundel retail media network — is now at The Trade Desk, signalling a serious push into retail media from the buy-side's most powerful independent DSP.
• UK ecommerce parcel volumes were flat in Q2 2026, but the data reveals a deliberate consumer shift toward high-value, considered purchases — with real implications for how brands should allocate ad spend by category.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 16, 2026

In this episode:
• A $53 billion bid to merge Stripe and PayPal would create the dominant payments infrastructure layer underneath virtually all of western ecommerce.
• Kristi Argyilan — the executive who literally built Target's Roundel retail media network — is now at The Trade Desk, signalling a serious push into retail media from the buy-side's most powerful independent DSP.
• UK ecommerce parcel volumes were flat in Q2 2026, but the data reveals a deliberate consumer shift toward high-value, considered purchases — with real implications for how brands should allocate ad spend by category.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:08:25 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 16, 2026

In this episode:
• A $53 billion bid to merge Stripe and PayPal would create the dominant payments infrastructure layer underneath virtually all of western ecommerce.
• Kristi Argyilan — the executive who literally built Target's Roundel retail media network — is now at The Trade Desk, signalling a serious push into retail media from the buy-side's most powerful independent DSP.
• UK ecommerce parcel volumes were flat in Q2 2026, but the data reveals a deliberate consumer shift toward high-value, considered purchases — with real implications for how brands should allocate ad spend by category.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Beauty Pie replatforms to Shopify to | Tractor Supply partners with Instacart on | What will the Sky-ITV deal do</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | Beauty Pie replatforms to Shopify to | Tractor Supply partners with Instacart on | What will the Sky-ITV deal do</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 15, 2026

In this episode:
• British subscription beauty brand Beauty Pie has migrated its entire ecommerce operation to Shopify as it gears up for its next growth phase — a real-world signal of how DTC brands are consolidating on fewer, more powerful platforms.
• Tractor Supply is joining the Instacart Marketplace to offer one-hour delivery across the US — a move that extends rapid delivery into a product category most people assumed would never need it.
• Sky's proposed acquisition of ITV's media business could reshape the UK retail media landscape by creating a dominant CTV advertising player that retailers and ecommerce brands would have no choice but to engage with.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 15, 2026

In this episode:
• British subscription beauty brand Beauty Pie has migrated its entire ecommerce operation to Shopify as it gears up for its next growth phase — a real-world signal of how DTC brands are consolidating on fewer, more powerful platforms.
• Tractor Supply is joining the Instacart Marketplace to offer one-hour delivery across the US — a move that extends rapid delivery into a product category most people assumed would never need it.
• Sky's proposed acquisition of ITV's media business could reshape the UK retail media landscape by creating a dominant CTV advertising player that retailers and ecommerce brands would have no choice but to engage with.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 02:07:55 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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      <itunes:duration>394</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 15, 2026

In this episode:
• British subscription beauty brand Beauty Pie has migrated its entire ecommerce operation to Shopify as it gears up for its next growth phase — a real-world signal of how DTC brands are consolidating on fewer, more powerful platforms.
• Tractor Supply is joining the Instacart Marketplace to offer one-hour delivery across the US — a move that extends rapid delivery into a product category most people assumed would never need it.
• Sky's proposed acquisition of ITV's media business could reshape the UK retail media landscape by creating a dominant CTV advertising player that retailers and ecommerce brands would have no choice but to engage with.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily | How PayPal Ads Proves Retail Media | Lidl leaks customer data from Dutch | This K-Beauty Brand Is Collapsing The</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily | How PayPal Ads Proves Retail Media | Lidl leaks customer data from Dutch | This K-Beauty Brand Is Collapsing The</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 14, 2026

In this episode:
• PayPal Ads is making a structural case that its cross-merchant transaction data gives it a retail media signal no single retailer can replicate.
• A data breach at Lidl's Benelux ecommerce operation is a sharp reminder that grocery retailers expanding online carry cybersecurity exposure that pure-play digital brands have long had to manage.
• A K-beauty brand is ditching the traditional awareness-to-conversion funnel in favour of a single-moment commerce strategy built for how US shoppers actually discover and buy beauty products today.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
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      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 14, 2026

In this episode:
• PayPal Ads is making a structural case that its cross-merchant transaction data gives it a retail media signal no single retailer can replicate.
• A data breach at Lidl's Benelux ecommerce operation is a sharp reminder that grocery retailers expanding online carry cybersecurity exposure that pure-play digital brands have long had to manage.
• A K-beauty brand is ditching the traditional awareness-to-conversion funnel in favour of a single-moment commerce strategy built for how US shoppers actually discover and buy beauty products today.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 02:07:35 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/654edb42/d6c7e97a.mp3" length="11339019" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>393</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 14, 2026

In this episode:
• PayPal Ads is making a structural case that its cross-merchant transaction data gives it a retail media signal no single retailer can replicate.
• A data breach at Lidl's Benelux ecommerce operation is a sharp reminder that grocery retailers expanding online carry cybersecurity exposure that pure-play digital brands have long had to manage.
• A K-beauty brand is ditching the traditional awareness-to-conversion funnel in favour of a single-moment commerce strategy built for how US shoppers actually discover and buy beauty products today.

Hosted by Marco &amp; Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — July 13, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — July 13, 2026</itunes:title>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 13, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Conagra Brands appointing WPP's Barrows as its dedicated commerce marketing agency signals that major CPG players are treating commerce as a distinct discipline requiring specialist infrastructure.
• New research shows advertisers are comfortable using AI in social and retail media but are pumping the brakes on AI for influencer and CTV — revealing a confidence gap that directly shapes where ecommerce budgets flow.
• A $100 million investment thesis built entirely around founder-led creator agencies is a direct bet that the creator economy's next phase is consolidation — and that social commerce will be the primary revenue engine justifying those valuations.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 13, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Conagra Brands appointing WPP's Barrows as its dedicated commerce marketing agency signals that major CPG players are treating commerce as a distinct discipline requiring specialist infrastructure.
• New research shows advertisers are comfortable using AI in social and retail media but are pumping the brakes on AI for influencer and CTV — revealing a confidence gap that directly shapes where ecommerce budgets flow.
• A $100 million investment thesis built entirely around founder-led creator agencies is a direct bet that the creator economy's next phase is consolidation — and that social commerce will be the primary revenue engine justifying those valuations.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 02:08:28 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/6b334ae8/021b3e6c.mp3" length="11424352" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>398</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 13, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Conagra Brands appointing WPP's Barrows as its dedicated commerce marketing agency signals that major CPG players are treating commerce as a distinct discipline requiring specialist infrastructure.
• New research shows advertisers are comfortable using AI in social and retail media but are pumping the brakes on AI for influencer and CTV — revealing a confidence gap that directly shapes where ecommerce budgets flow.
• A $100 million investment thesis built entirely around founder-led creator agencies is a direct bet that the creator economy's next phase is consolidation — and that social commerce will be the primary revenue engine justifying those valuations.

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 — July 12, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — July 12, 2026</itunes:title>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/1c947c1b</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 12, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Vinted is co-founding a cross-sector European Media Marketplace, signalling that resale platforms are now serious players in the continent's ad tech infrastructure.
• Chewy's $3.36 billion quarter shows how a pure-play ecommerce retailer is deploying AI not as a marketing buzzword but as a lever for operational margin and customer retention.
• Meta is now requiring more granular disclosure on AI-generated ad creative, a policy shift that directly affects ecommerce brands running Advantage+ and AI-automated campaigns at scale.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 12, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Vinted is co-founding a cross-sector European Media Marketplace, signalling that resale platforms are now serious players in the continent's ad tech infrastructure.
• Chewy's $3.36 billion quarter shows how a pure-play ecommerce retailer is deploying AI not as a marketing buzzword but as a lever for operational margin and customer retention.
• Meta is now requiring more granular disclosure on AI-generated ad creative, a policy shift that directly affects ecommerce brands running Advantage+ and AI-automated campaigns at scale.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 02:09:13 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/1c947c1b/a72c734e.mp3" length="11491235" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>403</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 12, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Vinted is co-founding a cross-sector European Media Marketplace, signalling that resale platforms are now serious players in the continent's ad tech infrastructure.
• Chewy's $3.36 billion quarter shows how a pure-play ecommerce retailer is deploying AI not as a marketing buzzword but as a lever for operational margin and customer retention.
• Meta is now requiring more granular disclosure on AI-generated ad creative, a policy shift that directly affects ecommerce brands running Advantage+ and AI-automated campaigns at scale.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — July 11, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — July 11, 2026</itunes:title>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 11, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Levi's Q2 results show a 19% ecommerce jump, making it one of the clearest live data points this week that legacy apparel brands can win by doubling down on DTC.
• Shopify's EMEA MD reframes agentic commerce not as a threat to physical retail but as the connective tissue between online and in-store — a meaningful strategic signal from the platform powering much of European ecommerce.
• A fintech-marketplace partnership in France is quietly solving one of the biggest friction points for third-party sellers — cash flow — and it signals that European marketplaces are competing on financial services, not just traffic.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 11, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Levi's Q2 results show a 19% ecommerce jump, making it one of the clearest live data points this week that legacy apparel brands can win by doubling down on DTC.
• Shopify's EMEA MD reframes agentic commerce not as a threat to physical retail but as the connective tissue between online and in-store — a meaningful strategic signal from the platform powering much of European ecommerce.
• A fintech-marketplace partnership in France is quietly solving one of the biggest friction points for third-party sellers — cash flow — and it signals that European marketplaces are competing on financial services, not just traffic.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 02:09:12 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/4ff91e6f/5c536786.mp3" length="11301733" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>391</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 11, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Levi's Q2 results show a 19% ecommerce jump, making it one of the clearest live data points this week that legacy apparel brands can win by doubling down on DTC.
• Shopify's EMEA MD reframes agentic commerce not as a threat to physical retail but as the connective tissue between online and in-store — a meaningful strategic signal from the platform powering much of European ecommerce.
• A fintech-marketplace partnership in France is quietly solving one of the biggest friction points for third-party sellers — cash flow — and it signals that European marketplaces are competing on financial services, not just traffic.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — July 10, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — July 10, 2026</itunes:title>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/2a940329</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 10, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Marks &amp; Spencer is using Amazon as an international expansion vehicle, and the Netherlands move signals a replicable cross-border playbook for European retailers.
• Outdoor DTC brand Cotopaxi is deliberately adding marketplace channels on top of its direct business — a sign that the 'DTC-only' era is definitively over even for values-led brands.
• Google's August 17 Smart Bidding changes to Target CPA and Target ROAS will directly affect how ecommerce advertisers manage budget-limited campaigns — and the clarification itself suggests advertisers pushed back hard.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 10, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Marks &amp; Spencer is using Amazon as an international expansion vehicle, and the Netherlands move signals a replicable cross-border playbook for European retailers.
• Outdoor DTC brand Cotopaxi is deliberately adding marketplace channels on top of its direct business — a sign that the 'DTC-only' era is definitively over even for values-led brands.
• Google's August 17 Smart Bidding changes to Target CPA and Target ROAS will directly affect how ecommerce advertisers manage budget-limited campaigns — and the clarification itself suggests advertisers pushed back hard.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 02:09:10 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/2a940329/c8e8a59a.mp3" length="11338634" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>393</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 10, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Marks &amp; Spencer is using Amazon as an international expansion vehicle, and the Netherlands move signals a replicable cross-border playbook for European retailers.
• Outdoor DTC brand Cotopaxi is deliberately adding marketplace channels on top of its direct business — a sign that the 'DTC-only' era is definitively over even for values-led brands.
• Google's August 17 Smart Bidding changes to Target CPA and Target ROAS will directly affect how ecommerce advertisers manage budget-limited campaigns — and the clarification itself suggests advertisers pushed back hard.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — July 09, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — July 09, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/ba7053c2</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 09, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Adobe Advertising is launching a custom algorithms product that lets performance marketers move beyond black-box bidding — a direct challenge to Google and The Trade Desk's automation dominance.
• Pact Coffee's DTC subscription model — built before subscriptions were mainstream — offers a live case study in how UK ecommerce brands retain customers when acquisition costs are spiralling.
• New UK data shows delivery friction is silently destroying ecommerce loyalty — 43% of shoppers are rearranging their lives for parcels, and retailers are paying for it in repeat purchase rates.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 09, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Adobe Advertising is launching a custom algorithms product that lets performance marketers move beyond black-box bidding — a direct challenge to Google and The Trade Desk's automation dominance.
• Pact Coffee's DTC subscription model — built before subscriptions were mainstream — offers a live case study in how UK ecommerce brands retain customers when acquisition costs are spiralling.
• New UK data shows delivery friction is silently destroying ecommerce loyalty — 43% of shoppers are rearranging their lives for parcels, and retailers are paying for it in repeat purchase rates.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 02:08:41 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/ba7053c2/c07f8efa.mp3" length="11352472" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>394</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 09, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Adobe Advertising is launching a custom algorithms product that lets performance marketers move beyond black-box bidding — a direct challenge to Google and The Trade Desk's automation dominance.
• Pact Coffee's DTC subscription model — built before subscriptions were mainstream — offers a live case study in how UK ecommerce brands retain customers when acquisition costs are spiralling.
• New UK data shows delivery friction is silently destroying ecommerce loyalty — 43% of shoppers are rearranging their lives for parcels, and retailers are paying for it in repeat purchase rates.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — July 08, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — July 08, 2026</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 08, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Fresh IAB Europe data puts a €131bn number on the European digital ad market and names retail media and social video as the engines — giving ecommerce advertisers a concrete benchmark for where budgets are flowing.
• Bol — the dominant marketplace in the Netherlands and Belgium — has secured a Dutch financial regulator licence to offer payment services, a move that deepens its grip on Benelux ecommerce and puts it on a direct collision course with Buy Now Pay Later players and Amazon's own financial stack.
• Walmart Connect and Magnite are making the retail media plus CTV convergence operational — not theoretical — and the implications for how ecommerce brands plan video spend are immediate.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 08, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Fresh IAB Europe data puts a €131bn number on the European digital ad market and names retail media and social video as the engines — giving ecommerce advertisers a concrete benchmark for where budgets are flowing.
• Bol — the dominant marketplace in the Netherlands and Belgium — has secured a Dutch financial regulator licence to offer payment services, a move that deepens its grip on Benelux ecommerce and puts it on a direct collision course with Buy Now Pay Later players and Amazon's own financial stack.
• Walmart Connect and Magnite are making the retail media plus CTV convergence operational — not theoretical — and the implications for how ecommerce brands plan video spend are immediate.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:08:08 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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      <itunes:duration>397</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 08, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Fresh IAB Europe data puts a €131bn number on the European digital ad market and names retail media and social video as the engines — giving ecommerce advertisers a concrete benchmark for where budgets are flowing.
• Bol — the dominant marketplace in the Netherlands and Belgium — has secured a Dutch financial regulator licence to offer payment services, a move that deepens its grip on Benelux ecommerce and puts it on a direct collision course with Buy Now Pay Later players and Amazon's own financial stack.
• Walmart Connect and Magnite are making the retail media plus CTV convergence operational — not theoretical — and the implications for how ecommerce brands plan video spend are immediate.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — July 07, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — July 07, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/f8ccbfb3</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 07, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Milani Cosmetics hit 250% above its TikTok Shop sales target in the first two weeks of a product launch, making it one of the most concrete performance data points in beauty social commerce this year.
• Unilever is entering TikTok Shop in the Benelux market, giving us a rare look at how a major FMCG giant is approaching social commerce in Europe with deliberately managed expectations.
• The 2026 Switzerland ecommerce ranking reveals which platforms are dominating one of Europe's highest-spending online markets and where the competitive gaps are opening up.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 07, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Milani Cosmetics hit 250% above its TikTok Shop sales target in the first two weeks of a product launch, making it one of the most concrete performance data points in beauty social commerce this year.
• Unilever is entering TikTok Shop in the Benelux market, giving us a rare look at how a major FMCG giant is approaching social commerce in Europe with deliberately managed expectations.
• The 2026 Switzerland ecommerce ranking reveals which platforms are dominating one of Europe's highest-spending online markets and where the competitive gaps are opening up.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 02:07:05 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/f8ccbfb3/3baf6f8d.mp3" length="11178731" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>383</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 07, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Milani Cosmetics hit 250% above its TikTok Shop sales target in the first two weeks of a product launch, making it one of the most concrete performance data points in beauty social commerce this year.
• Unilever is entering TikTok Shop in the Benelux market, giving us a rare look at how a major FMCG giant is approaching social commerce in Europe with deliberately managed expectations.
• The 2026 Switzerland ecommerce ranking reveals which platforms are dominating one of Europe's highest-spending online markets and where the competitive gaps are opening up.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — July 06, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — July 06, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/68fdfa8d</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 06, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Hostinger's new Quick Links tool turns a product photo directly into a checkout — signalling that the era of needing a full ecommerce site to sell online may be ending.
• Germany's biggest retail and ecommerce conference drew 5,000 attendees this year, with AI investment strategy and platform consolidation emerging as the defining tensions for European digital commerce leaders.
• Amazon is effectively shutting the door on Mechanical Turk — the human-labelling marketplace that underpinned a generation of AI training data — and the closure signals how completely AI automation has displaced the crowdsourced task economy it helped create.

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

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

In today's episode:
• Hostinger's new Quick Links tool turns a product photo directly into a checkout — signalling that the era of needing a full ecommerce site to sell online may be ending.
• Germany's biggest retail and ecommerce conference drew 5,000 attendees this year, with AI investment strategy and platform consolidation emerging as the defining tensions for European digital commerce leaders.
• Amazon is effectively shutting the door on Mechanical Turk — the human-labelling marketplace that underpinned a generation of AI training data — and the closure signals how completely AI automation has displaced the crowdsourced task economy it helped create.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 02:07:03 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/68fdfa8d/99ad7a12.mp3" length="11056881" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>375</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 06, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Hostinger's new Quick Links tool turns a product photo directly into a checkout — signalling that the era of needing a full ecommerce site to sell online may be ending.
• Germany's biggest retail and ecommerce conference drew 5,000 attendees this year, with AI investment strategy and platform consolidation emerging as the defining tensions for European digital commerce leaders.
• Amazon is effectively shutting the door on Mechanical Turk — the human-labelling marketplace that underpinned a generation of AI training data — and the closure signals how completely AI automation has displaced the crowdsourced task economy it helped create.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — July 05, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — July 05, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/529475cc</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 05, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Google is giving Performance Max advertisers a long-demanded transparency tool that lets them see which channels are actually driving results — a direct response to years of marketer frustration with the black-box campaign type.
• Sherwin-Williams embedding Square payments and invoicing into its B2B contractor ecosystem is a signal that traditional trade brands are finally treating digital commerce infrastructure as a competitive moat, not an afterthought.
• England's run to the World Cup Round of 16 is projected to inject £500 million into the UK economy, with ecommerce retailers in apparel, food and drink, and electronics already seeing demand spikes that reward those who planned their trading calendars around tournament progression.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 05, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Google is giving Performance Max advertisers a long-demanded transparency tool that lets them see which channels are actually driving results — a direct response to years of marketer frustration with the black-box campaign type.
• Sherwin-Williams embedding Square payments and invoicing into its B2B contractor ecosystem is a signal that traditional trade brands are finally treating digital commerce infrastructure as a competitive moat, not an afterthought.
• England's run to the World Cup Round of 16 is projected to inject £500 million into the UK economy, with ecommerce retailers in apparel, food and drink, and electronics already seeing demand spikes that reward those who planned their trading calendars around tournament progression.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 02:08:05 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/529475cc/10de9b03.mp3" length="11320953" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>392</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 05, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Google is giving Performance Max advertisers a long-demanded transparency tool that lets them see which channels are actually driving results — a direct response to years of marketer frustration with the black-box campaign type.
• Sherwin-Williams embedding Square payments and invoicing into its B2B contractor ecosystem is a signal that traditional trade brands are finally treating digital commerce infrastructure as a competitive moat, not an afterthought.
• England's run to the World Cup Round of 16 is projected to inject £500 million into the UK economy, with ecommerce retailers in apparel, food and drink, and electronics already seeing demand spikes that reward those who planned their trading calendars around tournament progression.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — July 04, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — July 04, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">b42bb70d-68f2-45b3-875a-41bd9bf8acdd</guid>
      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/6b02f1b9</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 04, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• TikTok Shop is forcing major food and beverage companies to rethink product innovation cycles in real time — not just their marketing.
• Nectar360 becoming the first UK retail media network to earn IAB Europe certification signals that measurement standardisation is finally arriving — and it will reshape how brands allocate retail media budgets.
• Amazon crossing one million cargo bike deliveries in Belgium is a concrete European logistics milestone that signals how the company is building last-mile infrastructure to outpace local rivals on speed and sustainability.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 04, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• TikTok Shop is forcing major food and beverage companies to rethink product innovation cycles in real time — not just their marketing.
• Nectar360 becoming the first UK retail media network to earn IAB Europe certification signals that measurement standardisation is finally arriving — and it will reshape how brands allocate retail media budgets.
• Amazon crossing one million cargo bike deliveries in Belgium is a concrete European logistics milestone that signals how the company is building last-mile infrastructure to outpace local rivals on speed and sustainability.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 02:08:27 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/6b02f1b9/6636f026.mp3" length="11679967" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>414</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 04, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• TikTok Shop is forcing major food and beverage companies to rethink product innovation cycles in real time — not just their marketing.
• Nectar360 becoming the first UK retail media network to earn IAB Europe certification signals that measurement standardisation is finally arriving — and it will reshape how brands allocate retail media budgets.
• Amazon crossing one million cargo bike deliveries in Belgium is a concrete European logistics milestone that signals how the company is building last-mile infrastructure to outpace local rivals on speed and sustainability.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — July 03, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — July 03, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">bf70f7ca-f78d-40e0-9a98-5e02caa8485d</guid>
      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/1955457f</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 03, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Amazon is raising the bar for self-fulfilling sellers in Germany, squeezing out merchants who can't meet tighter shipping standards — and it signals a broader marketplace quality push.
• Google Ads CPCs are up 15% year-on-year — a concrete data point that reframes every conversation about paid search ROI heading into H2.
• The EU's new €3-per-category parcel tax on non-EU packages only just took effect on July 1 — and Chinese platforms are already routing around it.

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

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

In today's episode:
• Amazon is raising the bar for self-fulfilling sellers in Germany, squeezing out merchants who can't meet tighter shipping standards — and it signals a broader marketplace quality push.
• Google Ads CPCs are up 15% year-on-year — a concrete data point that reframes every conversation about paid search ROI heading into H2.
• The EU's new €3-per-category parcel tax on non-EU packages only just took effect on July 1 — and Chinese platforms are already routing around it.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 02:08:45 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/1955457f/a184c635.mp3" length="11204869" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>385</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 03, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Amazon is raising the bar for self-fulfilling sellers in Germany, squeezing out merchants who can't meet tighter shipping standards — and it signals a broader marketplace quality push.
• Google Ads CPCs are up 15% year-on-year — a concrete data point that reframes every conversation about paid search ROI heading into H2.
• The EU's new €3-per-category parcel tax on non-EU packages only just took effect on July 1 — and Chinese platforms are already routing around it.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — July 02, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — July 02, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">4cb22db8-d379-4dca-99f0-e3b652ad132d</guid>
      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/54c7f3f5</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 02, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Real brand case studies reveal how TikTok Shop is becoming the primary cross-border expansion vehicle for DTC brands entering the UK, Europe, and Japan.
• Square integrating with ChatGPT and Claude means AI agents can now browse inventory, place orders, and process payments — bringing agentic commerce to millions of small and mid-sized merchants overnight.
• Shopee and Meta teaming up on Instagram Affiliates is a significant social commerce power move that brings Southeast Asia's dominant marketplace model directly into Western Instagram feeds.

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

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

In today's episode:
• Real brand case studies reveal how TikTok Shop is becoming the primary cross-border expansion vehicle for DTC brands entering the UK, Europe, and Japan.
• Square integrating with ChatGPT and Claude means AI agents can now browse inventory, place orders, and process payments — bringing agentic commerce to millions of small and mid-sized merchants overnight.
• Shopee and Meta teaming up on Instagram Affiliates is a significant social commerce power move that brings Southeast Asia's dominant marketplace model directly into Western Instagram feeds.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 02:08:36 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/54c7f3f5/c72462c3.mp3" length="11341709" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>393</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 02, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Real brand case studies reveal how TikTok Shop is becoming the primary cross-border expansion vehicle for DTC brands entering the UK, Europe, and Japan.
• Square integrating with ChatGPT and Claude means AI agents can now browse inventory, place orders, and process payments — bringing agentic commerce to millions of small and mid-sized merchants overnight.
• Shopee and Meta teaming up on Instagram Affiliates is a significant social commerce power move that brings Southeast Asia's dominant marketplace model directly into Western Instagram feeds.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — July 01, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — July 01, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">35d0eb66-76f3-48e7-a337-3683f45ecad8</guid>
      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/e296b057</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 01, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Microsoft Ads is rolling out new Performance Max experiment types, giving ecommerce advertisers a rare ability to scientifically test automated campaigns against their existing setups — a meaningful capability gap Google hasn't closed.
• The German government has cleared JD.com to acquire Ceconomy — owner of MediaMarkt and Saturn — handing China's second-largest ecommerce player a physical and digital retail footprint across Europe's biggest consumer electronics market.
• New PSE Consulting research reveals a split consumer behaviour emerging: shoppers are willing to let AI find the product, but they still default to Amazon, Zalando, or established marketplaces to actually hand over their money.

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

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

In today's episode:
• Microsoft Ads is rolling out new Performance Max experiment types, giving ecommerce advertisers a rare ability to scientifically test automated campaigns against their existing setups — a meaningful capability gap Google hasn't closed.
• The German government has cleared JD.com to acquire Ceconomy — owner of MediaMarkt and Saturn — handing China's second-largest ecommerce player a physical and digital retail footprint across Europe's biggest consumer electronics market.
• New PSE Consulting research reveals a split consumer behaviour emerging: shoppers are willing to let AI find the product, but they still default to Amazon, Zalando, or established marketplaces to actually hand over their money.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 02:08:15 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/e296b057/fc2b2d81.mp3" length="11487775" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>402</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — July 01, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Microsoft Ads is rolling out new Performance Max experiment types, giving ecommerce advertisers a rare ability to scientifically test automated campaigns against their existing setups — a meaningful capability gap Google hasn't closed.
• The German government has cleared JD.com to acquire Ceconomy — owner of MediaMarkt and Saturn — handing China's second-largest ecommerce player a physical and digital retail footprint across Europe's biggest consumer electronics market.
• New PSE Consulting research reveals a split consumer behaviour emerging: shoppers are willing to let AI find the product, but they still default to Amazon, Zalando, or established marketplaces to actually hand over their money.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 30, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 30, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">3e9de73e-8d23-43f3-a157-3fcff44aa668</guid>
      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/8c2adce1</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 30, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• John Lewis and Waitrose are building a fully independent on-site retail media stack with Kevel — a significant move that signals UK department store retail media is finally getting serious infrastructure.
• Amazon has rolled out its AI-powered Seller Assistant inside Seller Central in Germany, giving cross-border merchants a new tool to navigate one of Europe's most complex ecommerce markets.
• Newegg's launch of a conversational AI shopping assistant on its ecommerce site is a real-world test of whether AI-guided discovery can actually convert in a high-consideration, spec-heavy product category.

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

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

In today's episode:
• John Lewis and Waitrose are building a fully independent on-site retail media stack with Kevel — a significant move that signals UK department store retail media is finally getting serious infrastructure.
• Amazon has rolled out its AI-powered Seller Assistant inside Seller Central in Germany, giving cross-border merchants a new tool to navigate one of Europe's most complex ecommerce markets.
• Newegg's launch of a conversational AI shopping assistant on its ecommerce site is a real-world test of whether AI-guided discovery can actually convert in a high-consideration, spec-heavy product category.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 02:07:42 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/8c2adce1/19bcb95f.mp3" length="11280977" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>389</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 30, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• John Lewis and Waitrose are building a fully independent on-site retail media stack with Kevel — a significant move that signals UK department store retail media is finally getting serious infrastructure.
• Amazon has rolled out its AI-powered Seller Assistant inside Seller Central in Germany, giving cross-border merchants a new tool to navigate one of Europe's most complex ecommerce markets.
• Newegg's launch of a conversational AI shopping assistant on its ecommerce site is a real-world test of whether AI-guided discovery can actually convert in a high-consideration, spec-heavy product category.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 29, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 29, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">b2c7bef9-7caf-4572-a526-77d141290ff8</guid>
      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/dc4bae06</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 29, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• OpenAI's VP of monetisation has gone on record about building a $100bn ad platform — without being able to promise brand safety — and that tension is going to define where performance budgets flow next.
• Bofrost — Europe's largest home-delivered frozen food brand — is pivoting its entire model toward ecommerce, and its direct-to-door legacy gives it a structural head start most DTC brands would kill for.
• New data pinpoints exactly where international shopping intent breaks down into abandoned carts — and the barriers are operational, not motivational.

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

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

In today's episode:
• OpenAI's VP of monetisation has gone on record about building a $100bn ad platform — without being able to promise brand safety — and that tension is going to define where performance budgets flow next.
• Bofrost — Europe's largest home-delivered frozen food brand — is pivoting its entire model toward ecommerce, and its direct-to-door legacy gives it a structural head start most DTC brands would kill for.
• New data pinpoints exactly where international shopping intent breaks down into abandoned carts — and the barriers are operational, not motivational.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 02:08:17 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 29, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• OpenAI's VP of monetisation has gone on record about building a $100bn ad platform — without being able to promise brand safety — and that tension is going to define where performance budgets flow next.
• Bofrost — Europe's largest home-delivered frozen food brand — is pivoting its entire model toward ecommerce, and its direct-to-door legacy gives it a structural head start most DTC brands would kill for.
• New data pinpoints exactly where international shopping intent breaks down into abandoned carts — and the barriers are operational, not motivational.

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 28, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 28, 2026</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 28, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Shopify is quietly building an ads business on top of its merchant data — and the distinction between 'advertising' and 'ad tech' is where the real strategy lies.
• Home Depot's Orange Apron Media is unifying on-site and off-site ad inventory — and bringing in Reddit and Pinterest — marking a major maturation moment for non-endemic retail media.
• Local German platforms are gaining ground on Amazon, and new data shows that brands entering the DACH market purely through Amazon are leaving significant revenue on the table.

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, Shopify's infrastructure was processing $4.2 million in sales every minute.

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

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

In today's episode:
• Shopify is quietly building an ads business on top of its merchant data — and the distinction between 'advertising' and 'ad tech' is where the real strategy lies.
• Home Depot's Orange Apron Media is unifying on-site and off-site ad inventory — and bringing in Reddit and Pinterest — marking a major maturation moment for non-endemic retail media.
• Local German platforms are gaining ground on Amazon, and new data shows that brands entering the DACH market purely through Amazon are leaving significant revenue on the table.

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, Shopify's infrastructure was processing $4.2 million in sales every minute.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 02:08:19 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 28, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Shopify is quietly building an ads business on top of its merchant data — and the distinction between 'advertising' and 'ad tech' is where the real strategy lies.
• Home Depot's Orange Apron Media is unifying on-site and off-site ad inventory — and bringing in Reddit and Pinterest — marking a major maturation moment for non-endemic retail media.
• Local German platforms are gaining ground on Amazon, and new data shows that brands entering the DACH market purely through Amazon are leaving significant revenue on the table.

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, Shopify's infrastructure was processing $4.2 million in sales every minute.

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 27, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 27, 2026</itunes:title>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 27, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Google is giving Standard Shopping campaigns a bidding upgrade that was previously only available in Performance Max — a meaningful shift in control for advertisers who deliberately avoided PMax.
• Germany's financial regulator is now scrutinising Zalando's accounting practices after its About You takeover — adding regulatory risk to Europe's most dominant fashion marketplace at a pivotal growth moment.
• A new cross-market report on Europe's five biggest ecommerce countries projects that AI is shifting from a discovery tool to an active purchasing agent — with online revenues forecast to keep climbing to 2029.

Fun fact: Shopify's checkout is so heavily optimized that the company has publicly stated its single-page checkout outperforms competitors by converting at rates up to 36% higher — yet for years, Shopify merchants couldn't actually customize that checkout without being on Shopify Plus, which costs a minimum of $2,500 per month. Thousands of brands were essentially locked out of the highest-converting real estate on their own store.

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

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

In today's episode:
• Google is giving Standard Shopping campaigns a bidding upgrade that was previously only available in Performance Max — a meaningful shift in control for advertisers who deliberately avoided PMax.
• Germany's financial regulator is now scrutinising Zalando's accounting practices after its About You takeover — adding regulatory risk to Europe's most dominant fashion marketplace at a pivotal growth moment.
• A new cross-market report on Europe's five biggest ecommerce countries projects that AI is shifting from a discovery tool to an active purchasing agent — with online revenues forecast to keep climbing to 2029.

Fun fact: Shopify's checkout is so heavily optimized that the company has publicly stated its single-page checkout outperforms competitors by converting at rates up to 36% higher — yet for years, Shopify merchants couldn't actually customize that checkout without being on Shopify Plus, which costs a minimum of $2,500 per month. Thousands of brands were essentially locked out of the highest-converting real estate on their own store.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 02:08:37 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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      <itunes:duration>440</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 27, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Google is giving Standard Shopping campaigns a bidding upgrade that was previously only available in Performance Max — a meaningful shift in control for advertisers who deliberately avoided PMax.
• Germany's financial regulator is now scrutinising Zalando's accounting practices after its About You takeover — adding regulatory risk to Europe's most dominant fashion marketplace at a pivotal growth moment.
• A new cross-market report on Europe's five biggest ecommerce countries projects that AI is shifting from a discovery tool to an active purchasing agent — with online revenues forecast to keep climbing to 2029.

Fun fact: Shopify's checkout is so heavily optimized that the company has publicly stated its single-page checkout outperforms competitors by converting at rates up to 36% higher — yet for years, Shopify merchants couldn't actually customize that checkout without being on Shopify Plus, which costs a minimum of $2,500 per month. Thousands of brands were essentially locked out of the highest-converting real estate on their own store.

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 26, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 26, 2026</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 26, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• New research puts a concrete £34.1bn price tag on the growing backlash against stricter online returns policies in the UK — a direct commercial threat to ecommerce conversion rates.
• Europe's dominant secondhand fashion marketplace is making a stealth move into Australia, signalling Vinted's ambition to become a truly global recommerce platform beyond its EU heartland.
• The DACH region — Germany, Austria, Switzerland — is projecting 3–6% annual ecommerce growth, with Asian marketplace disruption emerging as the defining competitive threat for incumbent players.

Fun fact: Amazon's product search algorithm gives a significant ranking boost to listings that have answered customer questions in the Q&amp;A section — yet fewer than 15% of Amazon sellers actively monitor or respond to those questions, effectively handing free visibility to competitors who do. It's one of the most underleveraged ranking levers on the entire platform.

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

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

In today's episode:
• New research puts a concrete £34.1bn price tag on the growing backlash against stricter online returns policies in the UK — a direct commercial threat to ecommerce conversion rates.
• Europe's dominant secondhand fashion marketplace is making a stealth move into Australia, signalling Vinted's ambition to become a truly global recommerce platform beyond its EU heartland.
• The DACH region — Germany, Austria, Switzerland — is projecting 3–6% annual ecommerce growth, with Asian marketplace disruption emerging as the defining competitive threat for incumbent players.

Fun fact: Amazon's product search algorithm gives a significant ranking boost to listings that have answered customer questions in the Q&amp;A section — yet fewer than 15% of Amazon sellers actively monitor or respond to those questions, effectively handing free visibility to competitors who do. It's one of the most underleveraged ranking levers on the entire platform.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 02:09:34 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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      <itunes:duration>434</itunes:duration>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 26, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• New research puts a concrete £34.1bn price tag on the growing backlash against stricter online returns policies in the UK — a direct commercial threat to ecommerce conversion rates.
• Europe's dominant secondhand fashion marketplace is making a stealth move into Australia, signalling Vinted's ambition to become a truly global recommerce platform beyond its EU heartland.
• The DACH region — Germany, Austria, Switzerland — is projecting 3–6% annual ecommerce growth, with Asian marketplace disruption emerging as the defining competitive threat for incumbent players.

Fun fact: Amazon's product search algorithm gives a significant ranking boost to listings that have answered customer questions in the Q&amp;A section — yet fewer than 15% of Amazon sellers actively monitor or respond to those questions, effectively handing free visibility to competitors who do. It's one of the most underleveraged ranking levers on the entire 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 — June 25, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 25, 2026</itunes:title>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 25, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Day one of Amazon's expanded four-day Prime Day generated over $8 billion in US ecommerce sales — the biggest single day of online spending recorded this year.
• Sainsbury's retail media platform Nectar360 Pollen is reporting that 25% of campaign-driven sales now come from upper- and mid-funnel activity — the first hard evidence that UK retail media is moving beyond sponsored search.
• Salesforce has launched AI agents inside its Agentforce Commerce platform for B2B ecommerce, putting autonomous buying and selling automation into the hands of business customers for the first time.

Fun fact: Costco's ecommerce operation generates over $9 billion in annual online sales, yet the company spends virtually nothing on digital advertising — no paid search, no display, no social ads. Their entire online growth engine runs almost entirely on membership loyalty and word-of-mouth, making them one of the largest ecommerce players in North America with essentially a zero-dollar performance marketing budget.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 25, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Day one of Amazon's expanded four-day Prime Day generated over $8 billion in US ecommerce sales — the biggest single day of online spending recorded this year.
• Sainsbury's retail media platform Nectar360 Pollen is reporting that 25% of campaign-driven sales now come from upper- and mid-funnel activity — the first hard evidence that UK retail media is moving beyond sponsored search.
• Salesforce has launched AI agents inside its Agentforce Commerce platform for B2B ecommerce, putting autonomous buying and selling automation into the hands of business customers for the first time.

Fun fact: Costco's ecommerce operation generates over $9 billion in annual online sales, yet the company spends virtually nothing on digital advertising — no paid search, no display, no social ads. Their entire online growth engine runs almost entirely on membership loyalty and word-of-mouth, making them one of the largest ecommerce players in North America with essentially a zero-dollar performance marketing budget.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 02:09:13 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/69fd0f75/f66caf8c.mp3" length="11955186" type="audio/mpeg"/>
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      <itunes:duration>432</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 25, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Day one of Amazon's expanded four-day Prime Day generated over $8 billion in US ecommerce sales — the biggest single day of online spending recorded this year.
• Sainsbury's retail media platform Nectar360 Pollen is reporting that 25% of campaign-driven sales now come from upper- and mid-funnel activity — the first hard evidence that UK retail media is moving beyond sponsored search.
• Salesforce has launched AI agents inside its Agentforce Commerce platform for B2B ecommerce, putting autonomous buying and selling automation into the hands of business customers for the first time.

Fun fact: Costco's ecommerce operation generates over $9 billion in annual online sales, yet the company spends virtually nothing on digital advertising — no paid search, no display, no social ads. Their entire online growth engine runs almost entirely on membership loyalty and word-of-mouth, making them one of the largest ecommerce players in North America with essentially a zero-dollar performance marketing budget.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 24, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 24, 2026</itunes:title>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 24, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Amazon Prime Day 2026 is running four days for the first time and early sales projections now exceed Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined — a landmark moment for ecommerce.
• Walmart is acquiring ad-tech startup Vibe.co, doubling down on streaming and shoppable media as it builds a direct rival to Amazon's full-funnel commerce advertising stack.
• Amazon's new Alexa+ agentic ad format embeds paid placements directly inside AI shopping conversations, raising urgent questions about how brands compete for visibility in a post-search world.

Fun fact: Shopify's entire platform went down for roughly 24 hours in 2019, yet the company's merchant count actually grew faster in the following quarter than the one before the outage — suggesting that for many small businesses, there was simply nowhere else credible to go. At the time, Shopify was processing over $1 million in transactions every minute during peak hours, making that blackout one of the most expensive single-platform outages in ecommerce history.

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

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

In today's episode:
• Amazon Prime Day 2026 is running four days for the first time and early sales projections now exceed Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined — a landmark moment for ecommerce.
• Walmart is acquiring ad-tech startup Vibe.co, doubling down on streaming and shoppable media as it builds a direct rival to Amazon's full-funnel commerce advertising stack.
• Amazon's new Alexa+ agentic ad format embeds paid placements directly inside AI shopping conversations, raising urgent questions about how brands compete for visibility in a post-search world.

Fun fact: Shopify's entire platform went down for roughly 24 hours in 2019, yet the company's merchant count actually grew faster in the following quarter than the one before the outage — suggesting that for many small businesses, there was simply nowhere else credible to go. At the time, Shopify was processing over $1 million in transactions every minute during peak hours, making that blackout one of the most expensive single-platform outages in ecommerce history.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 02:08:37 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/cfc4e647/90299d5d.mp3" length="11755307" type="audio/mpeg"/>
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      <itunes:duration>419</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 24, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Amazon Prime Day 2026 is running four days for the first time and early sales projections now exceed Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined — a landmark moment for ecommerce.
• Walmart is acquiring ad-tech startup Vibe.co, doubling down on streaming and shoppable media as it builds a direct rival to Amazon's full-funnel commerce advertising stack.
• Amazon's new Alexa+ agentic ad format embeds paid placements directly inside AI shopping conversations, raising urgent questions about how brands compete for visibility in a post-search world.

Fun fact: Shopify's entire platform went down for roughly 24 hours in 2019, yet the company's merchant count actually grew faster in the following quarter than the one before the outage — suggesting that for many small businesses, there was simply nowhere else credible to go. At the time, Shopify was processing over $1 million in transactions every minute during peak hours, making that blackout one of the most expensive single-platform outages in ecommerce history.

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

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

In today's episode:
• Samsung and Amazon are turning the TV remote into a checkout device, making shoppable CTV a real commerce channel rather than an experimental one.
• With UK ecommerce growth stalling at just 1%, new data points to Benelux as the most compelling expansion market for British and European online retailers right now.
• AppsFlyer raising $1 billion at a $2.7 billion valuation signals that ad measurement and attribution is one of the hottest infrastructure bets in digital commerce right now.

Fun fact: The average Google Shopping ad click costs less than a first-class stamp, yet brands that invest in high-quality product feed optimization see conversion rates up to 3x higher than those running the same budget with a neglected feed — meaning the data you submit, not the bid you set, is often the actual product being sold. Most advertisers obsess over CPCs while their feed quietly determines whether they win or lose the auction before a single dollar is spent.

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

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

In today's episode:
• Samsung and Amazon are turning the TV remote into a checkout device, making shoppable CTV a real commerce channel rather than an experimental one.
• With UK ecommerce growth stalling at just 1%, new data points to Benelux as the most compelling expansion market for British and European online retailers right now.
• AppsFlyer raising $1 billion at a $2.7 billion valuation signals that ad measurement and attribution is one of the hottest infrastructure bets in digital commerce right now.

Fun fact: The average Google Shopping ad click costs less than a first-class stamp, yet brands that invest in high-quality product feed optimization see conversion rates up to 3x higher than those running the same budget with a neglected feed — meaning the data you submit, not the bid you set, is often the actual product being sold. Most advertisers obsess over CPCs while their feed quietly determines whether they win or lose the auction before a single dollar is spent.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 02:07:42 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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      <itunes:duration>427</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 23, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Samsung and Amazon are turning the TV remote into a checkout device, making shoppable CTV a real commerce channel rather than an experimental one.
• With UK ecommerce growth stalling at just 1%, new data points to Benelux as the most compelling expansion market for British and European online retailers right now.
• AppsFlyer raising $1 billion at a $2.7 billion valuation signals that ad measurement and attribution is one of the hottest infrastructure bets in digital commerce right now.

Fun fact: The average Google Shopping ad click costs less than a first-class stamp, yet brands that invest in high-quality product feed optimization see conversion rates up to 3x higher than those running the same budget with a neglected feed — meaning the data you submit, not the bid you set, is often the actual product being sold. Most advertisers obsess over CPCs while their feed quietly determines whether they win or lose the auction before a single dollar is spent.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 22, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 22, 2026</itunes:title>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/be0a7c63</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 22, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• StackAdapt is lowering the barrier to ChatGPT advertising just as rival Criteo makes the same move, signalling a land-grab moment for AI-native ad inventory that every performance marketer needs to watch.
• Tesco's Q1 results show overall growth cooling under weak consumer confidence, but its online grocery channel is holding firm — a split that matters for UK retail media and grocery ecommerce strategy.
• Albertsons is adding scripted content to its retail media network, pushing grocery retail media beyond sponsored listings into full-funnel brand entertainment — a format shift that could redefine what brands expect from a retailer partnership.

Fun fact: The average abandoned cart email generates roughly 5% conversion rate — but sending a sequence of three abandoned cart emails instead of just one lifts recovered revenue by over 69%, according to Omnisend data. Most brands still send only one.

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

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

In today's episode:
• StackAdapt is lowering the barrier to ChatGPT advertising just as rival Criteo makes the same move, signalling a land-grab moment for AI-native ad inventory that every performance marketer needs to watch.
• Tesco's Q1 results show overall growth cooling under weak consumer confidence, but its online grocery channel is holding firm — a split that matters for UK retail media and grocery ecommerce strategy.
• Albertsons is adding scripted content to its retail media network, pushing grocery retail media beyond sponsored listings into full-funnel brand entertainment — a format shift that could redefine what brands expect from a retailer partnership.

Fun fact: The average abandoned cart email generates roughly 5% conversion rate — but sending a sequence of three abandoned cart emails instead of just one lifts recovered revenue by over 69%, according to Omnisend data. Most brands still send only one.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 02:07:51 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/be0a7c63/b39ed312.mp3" length="11739162" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>418</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 22, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• StackAdapt is lowering the barrier to ChatGPT advertising just as rival Criteo makes the same move, signalling a land-grab moment for AI-native ad inventory that every performance marketer needs to watch.
• Tesco's Q1 results show overall growth cooling under weak consumer confidence, but its online grocery channel is holding firm — a split that matters for UK retail media and grocery ecommerce strategy.
• Albertsons is adding scripted content to its retail media network, pushing grocery retail media beyond sponsored listings into full-funnel brand entertainment — a format shift that could redefine what brands expect from a retailer partnership.

Fun fact: The average abandoned cart email generates roughly 5% conversion rate — but sending a sequence of three abandoned cart emails instead of just one lifts recovered revenue by over 69%, according to Omnisend data. Most brands still send only one.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 21, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 21, 2026</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 21, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• DHL Globalmail is cutting parcel delivery from the UK to EU consumers, creating an immediate cross-border fulfilment crisis for British online retailers.
• New data shows Amazon leads European online electronics with over half of sales now digital — but a non-European challenger is closing the gap in ways the market didn't expect.
• Wholesale marketplace Faire is expanding beyond retail buyers to let businesses purchase products for their own operational use, a significant platform pivot that widens its addressable market.

Fun fact: ASOS, one of the world's largest online fashion retailers, offers over 100 different payment methods globally — including installment plans, digital wallets, and regional bank transfers — because research showed that a mismatch between available payment options and local preferences was responsible for more lost revenue than any other checkout variable. In some markets, adding a single locally trusted payment method lifted conversion rates by double digits overnight.

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

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

In today's episode:
• DHL Globalmail is cutting parcel delivery from the UK to EU consumers, creating an immediate cross-border fulfilment crisis for British online retailers.
• New data shows Amazon leads European online electronics with over half of sales now digital — but a non-European challenger is closing the gap in ways the market didn't expect.
• Wholesale marketplace Faire is expanding beyond retail buyers to let businesses purchase products for their own operational use, a significant platform pivot that widens its addressable market.

Fun fact: ASOS, one of the world's largest online fashion retailers, offers over 100 different payment methods globally — including installment plans, digital wallets, and regional bank transfers — because research showed that a mismatch between available payment options and local preferences was responsible for more lost revenue than any other checkout variable. In some markets, adding a single locally trusted payment method lifted conversion rates by double digits overnight.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 02:08:35 +0200</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 21, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• DHL Globalmail is cutting parcel delivery from the UK to EU consumers, creating an immediate cross-border fulfilment crisis for British online retailers.
• New data shows Amazon leads European online electronics with over half of sales now digital — but a non-European challenger is closing the gap in ways the market didn't expect.
• Wholesale marketplace Faire is expanding beyond retail buyers to let businesses purchase products for their own operational use, a significant platform pivot that widens its addressable market.

Fun fact: ASOS, one of the world's largest online fashion retailers, offers over 100 different payment methods globally — including installment plans, digital wallets, and regional bank transfers — because research showed that a mismatch between available payment options and local preferences was responsible for more lost revenue than any other checkout variable. In some markets, adding a single locally trusted payment method lifted conversion rates by double digits overnight.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 20, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 20, 2026</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 20, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• A new EU regulation effective today mandates a visible order cancellation feature on every online store's app and website — non-compliance is an immediate legal risk.
• Mercari Japan is launching a dedicated US app to let American shoppers buy resale goods directly from Japanese sellers, positioning itself as a cross-border recommerce marketplace.
• Google is auto-enrolling eligible advertisers into new audience lists built from their own conversion data — a significant default-on change that ecommerce brands need to check their accounts for right now.

Fun fact: Meta's ad auction doesn't actually sell to the highest bidder — it uses a 'total value' score that factors in estimated engagement, meaning a $2 CPM bid can beat a $10 CPM bid if the algorithm thinks users will interact more with the cheaper ad. This is why two brands in the same niche with identical budgets can see wildly different reach, and most advertisers never realize the auction they think they're winning isn't the one that actually exists.

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

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

In today's episode:
• A new EU regulation effective today mandates a visible order cancellation feature on every online store's app and website — non-compliance is an immediate legal risk.
• Mercari Japan is launching a dedicated US app to let American shoppers buy resale goods directly from Japanese sellers, positioning itself as a cross-border recommerce marketplace.
• Google is auto-enrolling eligible advertisers into new audience lists built from their own conversion data — a significant default-on change that ecommerce brands need to check their accounts for right now.

Fun fact: Meta's ad auction doesn't actually sell to the highest bidder — it uses a 'total value' score that factors in estimated engagement, meaning a $2 CPM bid can beat a $10 CPM bid if the algorithm thinks users will interact more with the cheaper ad. This is why two brands in the same niche with identical budgets can see wildly different reach, and most advertisers never realize the auction they think they're winning isn't the one that actually exists.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 02:08:53 +0200</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 20, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• A new EU regulation effective today mandates a visible order cancellation feature on every online store's app and website — non-compliance is an immediate legal risk.
• Mercari Japan is launching a dedicated US app to let American shoppers buy resale goods directly from Japanese sellers, positioning itself as a cross-border recommerce marketplace.
• Google is auto-enrolling eligible advertisers into new audience lists built from their own conversion data — a significant default-on change that ecommerce brands need to check their accounts for right now.

Fun fact: Meta's ad auction doesn't actually sell to the highest bidder — it uses a 'total value' score that factors in estimated engagement, meaning a $2 CPM bid can beat a $10 CPM bid if the algorithm thinks users will interact more with the cheaper ad. This is why two brands in the same niche with identical budgets can see wildly different reach, and most advertisers never realize the auction they think they're winning isn't the one that actually exists.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 19, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 19, 2026</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 19, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Shopify is repositioning itself as an AI-powered agency replacement for merchants, while simultaneously pushing ads into ChatGPT and Microsoft — a platform power grab that changes what it means to run a Shopify store.
• Instacart is commercialising its AI shopping assistant with three new ad formats, and early data showing larger basket sizes makes this one of the most compelling retail media plays of the year.
• The founder of France's original homegrown marketplace wants to reclaim PriceMinister from Rakuten just as Rakuten retreats from Europe — a potential rebirth story for French ecommerce with serious implications for sellers on the platform.

Fun fact: Etsy, widely known as a handmade and vintage marketplace, now generates more than 40% of its gross merchandise sales from items that aren't handmade by the seller at all — including print-on-demand products and mass-produced goods. The platform's shift has been so significant that some of its earliest sellers have publicly protested, arguing the site has fundamentally abandoned its original identity.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 19, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Shopify is repositioning itself as an AI-powered agency replacement for merchants, while simultaneously pushing ads into ChatGPT and Microsoft — a platform power grab that changes what it means to run a Shopify store.
• Instacart is commercialising its AI shopping assistant with three new ad formats, and early data showing larger basket sizes makes this one of the most compelling retail media plays of the year.
• The founder of France's original homegrown marketplace wants to reclaim PriceMinister from Rakuten just as Rakuten retreats from Europe — a potential rebirth story for French ecommerce with serious implications for sellers on the platform.

Fun fact: Etsy, widely known as a handmade and vintage marketplace, now generates more than 40% of its gross merchandise sales from items that aren't handmade by the seller at all — including print-on-demand products and mass-produced goods. The platform's shift has been so significant that some of its earliest sellers have publicly protested, arguing the site has fundamentally abandoned its original identity.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 02:09:28 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 19, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Shopify is repositioning itself as an AI-powered agency replacement for merchants, while simultaneously pushing ads into ChatGPT and Microsoft — a platform power grab that changes what it means to run a Shopify store.
• Instacart is commercialising its AI shopping assistant with three new ad formats, and early data showing larger basket sizes makes this one of the most compelling retail media plays of the year.
• The founder of France's original homegrown marketplace wants to reclaim PriceMinister from Rakuten just as Rakuten retreats from Europe — a potential rebirth story for French ecommerce with serious implications for sellers on the platform.

Fun fact: Etsy, widely known as a handmade and vintage marketplace, now generates more than 40% of its gross merchandise sales from items that aren't handmade by the seller at all — including print-on-demand products and mass-produced goods. The platform's shift has been so significant that some of its earliest sellers have publicly protested, arguing the site has fundamentally abandoned its original identity.

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 18, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 18, 2026</itunes:title>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/1ff296d6</link>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 18, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Meta is directly attacking TikTok Shop's live commerce dominance by rolling out native live shopping ads and frictionless virtual card checkout across its platforms.
• Adobe's latest data shows AI-referred traffic to US ecommerce sites more than doubled year-over-year in May 2026, signalling a structural shift in how shoppers discover products.
• SMG has launched RMX by Plan-Apps, the UK's first retail media exchange, letting brands buy and measure across multiple retail media networks from a single platform for the first time.

Fun fact: Amazon's A9 search algorithm weighs purchase velocity so heavily that a product selling just 3-5 units per day consistently can outrank a competitor with thousands of reviews but slower recent sales. This is why some brands deliberately launch with steep discounts — not to drive revenue, but purely to train the algorithm with sales momentum before returning to normal pricing.

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

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

In today's episode:
• Meta is directly attacking TikTok Shop's live commerce dominance by rolling out native live shopping ads and frictionless virtual card checkout across its platforms.
• Adobe's latest data shows AI-referred traffic to US ecommerce sites more than doubled year-over-year in May 2026, signalling a structural shift in how shoppers discover products.
• SMG has launched RMX by Plan-Apps, the UK's first retail media exchange, letting brands buy and measure across multiple retail media networks from a single platform for the first time.

Fun fact: Amazon's A9 search algorithm weighs purchase velocity so heavily that a product selling just 3-5 units per day consistently can outrank a competitor with thousands of reviews but slower recent sales. This is why some brands deliberately launch with steep discounts — not to drive revenue, but purely to train the algorithm with sales momentum before returning to normal pricing.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:08:38 +0200</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 18, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Meta is directly attacking TikTok Shop's live commerce dominance by rolling out native live shopping ads and frictionless virtual card checkout across its platforms.
• Adobe's latest data shows AI-referred traffic to US ecommerce sites more than doubled year-over-year in May 2026, signalling a structural shift in how shoppers discover products.
• SMG has launched RMX by Plan-Apps, the UK's first retail media exchange, letting brands buy and measure across multiple retail media networks from a single platform for the first time.

Fun fact: Amazon's A9 search algorithm weighs purchase velocity so heavily that a product selling just 3-5 units per day consistently can outrank a competitor with thousands of reviews but slower recent sales. This is why some brands deliberately launch with steep discounts — not to drive revenue, but purely to train the algorithm with sales momentum before returning to normal pricing.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 17, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 17, 2026</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 17, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Pentaleap and Zitcha are teaming up to close the organisational gap between retailers' ad teams and merchant teams — the structural fault line that has quietly held retail media back.
• TikTok Shop is moving beyond its UK beachhead into broader European markets, and the creator-commerce infrastructure it's building is unlike anything the region has seen before.
• Amazon CPCs are climbing and sellers keep doubling down on ad spend to compensate — but the data suggests the real profitability lever is conversion rate and listing quality, not bid strategy.

Fun fact: Etsy generates more revenue per employee than Amazon — in 2023, Etsy's roughly 2,800 employees supported over $13 billion in gross merchandise sales, giving it one of the highest GMS-per-employee ratios of any marketplace on earth. That's a lean operation that most sprawling ecommerce giants can't touch.

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

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

In today's episode:
• Pentaleap and Zitcha are teaming up to close the organisational gap between retailers' ad teams and merchant teams — the structural fault line that has quietly held retail media back.
• TikTok Shop is moving beyond its UK beachhead into broader European markets, and the creator-commerce infrastructure it's building is unlike anything the region has seen before.
• Amazon CPCs are climbing and sellers keep doubling down on ad spend to compensate — but the data suggests the real profitability lever is conversion rate and listing quality, not bid strategy.

Fun fact: Etsy generates more revenue per employee than Amazon — in 2023, Etsy's roughly 2,800 employees supported over $13 billion in gross merchandise sales, giving it one of the highest GMS-per-employee ratios of any marketplace on earth. That's a lean operation that most sprawling ecommerce giants can't touch.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 02:08:19 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/5e51a65b/8492e4bc.mp3" length="11736087" type="audio/mpeg"/>
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      <itunes:duration>418</itunes:duration>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 17, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Pentaleap and Zitcha are teaming up to close the organisational gap between retailers' ad teams and merchant teams — the structural fault line that has quietly held retail media back.
• TikTok Shop is moving beyond its UK beachhead into broader European markets, and the creator-commerce infrastructure it's building is unlike anything the region has seen before.
• Amazon CPCs are climbing and sellers keep doubling down on ad spend to compensate — but the data suggests the real profitability lever is conversion rate and listing quality, not bid strategy.

Fun fact: Etsy generates more revenue per employee than Amazon — in 2023, Etsy's roughly 2,800 employees supported over $13 billion in gross merchandise sales, giving it one of the highest GMS-per-employee ratios of any marketplace on earth. That's a lean operation that most sprawling ecommerce giants can't touch.

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 16, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 16, 2026</itunes:title>
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      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 16, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• TikTok Shop's European expansion — plus the imminent arrival of Rednote — signals a structural shift in how European consumers discover and buy products, moving purchase intent away from search entirely.
• A trading card seller scaling physical infrastructure specifically to handle Temu volume is a concrete, ground-level data point on how Temu is reshaping third-party seller operations in the US.
• New data shows Turkey is the fastest-growing ecommerce market in Europe through 2029, with Bulgaria second — reframing where the real expansion opportunity in European digital commerce actually lies.

Fun fact: Costco's e-commerce business generates over $9 billion in annual sales, yet the company deliberately limits its online product catalog to fewer than 10,000 SKUs — a tiny fraction of what rivals like Walmart or Target offer digitally. The strategy is intentional: Costco's research found that overwhelming customers with too many online choices actually decreases conversion rates and erodes the sense of 'exclusive deal' that drives its entire brand psychology.

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

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

In today's episode:
• TikTok Shop's European expansion — plus the imminent arrival of Rednote — signals a structural shift in how European consumers discover and buy products, moving purchase intent away from search entirely.
• A trading card seller scaling physical infrastructure specifically to handle Temu volume is a concrete, ground-level data point on how Temu is reshaping third-party seller operations in the US.
• New data shows Turkey is the fastest-growing ecommerce market in Europe through 2029, with Bulgaria second — reframing where the real expansion opportunity in European digital commerce actually lies.

Fun fact: Costco's e-commerce business generates over $9 billion in annual sales, yet the company deliberately limits its online product catalog to fewer than 10,000 SKUs — a tiny fraction of what rivals like Walmart or Target offer digitally. The strategy is intentional: Costco's research found that overwhelming customers with too many online choices actually decreases conversion rates and erodes the sense of 'exclusive deal' that drives its entire brand psychology.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 02:08:12 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/9389c549/117bfaed.mp3" length="11759150" type="audio/mpeg"/>
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      <itunes:duration>419</itunes:duration>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 16, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• TikTok Shop's European expansion — plus the imminent arrival of Rednote — signals a structural shift in how European consumers discover and buy products, moving purchase intent away from search entirely.
• A trading card seller scaling physical infrastructure specifically to handle Temu volume is a concrete, ground-level data point on how Temu is reshaping third-party seller operations in the US.
• New data shows Turkey is the fastest-growing ecommerce market in Europe through 2029, with Bulgaria second — reframing where the real expansion opportunity in European digital commerce actually lies.

Fun fact: Costco's e-commerce business generates over $9 billion in annual sales, yet the company deliberately limits its online product catalog to fewer than 10,000 SKUs — a tiny fraction of what rivals like Walmart or Target offer digitally. The strategy is intentional: Costco's research found that overwhelming customers with too many online choices actually decreases conversion rates and erodes the sense of 'exclusive deal' that drives its entire brand psychology.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 15, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 15, 2026</itunes:title>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/9845487b</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 15, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Amazon Prime Day has forced every major retailer to reshape their promotional calendar, and with a four-day edition confirmed for late June, the competitive ripple effects are bigger than ever.
• The brand behind easyJet is launching easyCourier by rebranding a Cypriot logistics firm, injecting a recognisable consumer brand into Europe's increasingly contested last-mile delivery market.
• Retail media networks are using the 2026 World Cup's extended run of games as a live test of whether they can compete with traditional broadcasters for big-event brand budgets.

Fun fact: Shopify's checkout is so dominant that it now processes more transactions on Black Friday than the entire GDP of some small countries — in 2023, merchants on the platform hit a peak of $4.2 million in sales per minute. Yet Shopify itself owns zero inventory and employs no warehouse workers, making it one of the most capital-light commerce empires ever built.

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

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

In today's episode:
• Amazon Prime Day has forced every major retailer to reshape their promotional calendar, and with a four-day edition confirmed for late June, the competitive ripple effects are bigger than ever.
• The brand behind easyJet is launching easyCourier by rebranding a Cypriot logistics firm, injecting a recognisable consumer brand into Europe's increasingly contested last-mile delivery market.
• Retail media networks are using the 2026 World Cup's extended run of games as a live test of whether they can compete with traditional broadcasters for big-event brand budgets.

Fun fact: Shopify's checkout is so dominant that it now processes more transactions on Black Friday than the entire GDP of some small countries — in 2023, merchants on the platform hit a peak of $4.2 million in sales per minute. Yet Shopify itself owns zero inventory and employs no warehouse workers, making it one of the most capital-light commerce empires ever built.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 02:08:27 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/9845487b/47b1efb8.mp3" length="11922514" type="audio/mpeg"/>
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      <itunes:duration>429</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 15, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Amazon Prime Day has forced every major retailer to reshape their promotional calendar, and with a four-day edition confirmed for late June, the competitive ripple effects are bigger than ever.
• The brand behind easyJet is launching easyCourier by rebranding a Cypriot logistics firm, injecting a recognisable consumer brand into Europe's increasingly contested last-mile delivery market.
• Retail media networks are using the 2026 World Cup's extended run of games as a live test of whether they can compete with traditional broadcasters for big-event brand budgets.

Fun fact: Shopify's checkout is so dominant that it now processes more transactions on Black Friday than the entire GDP of some small countries — in 2023, merchants on the platform hit a peak of $4.2 million in sales per minute. Yet Shopify itself owns zero inventory and employs no warehouse workers, making it one of the most capital-light commerce empires ever built.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 14, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 14, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/c766dc3a</link>
      <description>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 14, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Toms Shoes is splitting its ecommerce architecture into two distinct layers — a signal that mid-market DTC brands are moving away from monolithic platforms toward composable commerce.
• New UK research shows consumer distrust is emerging as the single biggest brake on AI shopping agent adoption — a direct challenge for every ecommerce brand banking on agentic commerce as its next growth lever.
• Hard data from Digital Commerce 360's Top 1000 Report confirms that subscription models are delivering measurably higher conversion rates for online retailers — giving DTC and marketplace sellers a concrete commercial case for recurring revenue investment.

Fun fact: The average Google Shopping ad click costs less than $0.66, yet conversion rates on Google Shopping campaigns consistently outperform standard text search ads by nearly 30% — meaning the cheaper ad format is actually the more powerful one. Most advertisers still allocate the bulk of their search budgets to text ads out of habit, leaving significant revenue on the table.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 14, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Toms Shoes is splitting its ecommerce architecture into two distinct layers — a signal that mid-market DTC brands are moving away from monolithic platforms toward composable commerce.
• New UK research shows consumer distrust is emerging as the single biggest brake on AI shopping agent adoption — a direct challenge for every ecommerce brand banking on agentic commerce as its next growth lever.
• Hard data from Digital Commerce 360's Top 1000 Report confirms that subscription models are delivering measurably higher conversion rates for online retailers — giving DTC and marketplace sellers a concrete commercial case for recurring revenue investment.

Fun fact: The average Google Shopping ad click costs less than $0.66, yet conversion rates on Google Shopping campaigns consistently outperform standard text search ads by nearly 30% — meaning the cheaper ad format is actually the more powerful one. Most advertisers still allocate the bulk of their search budgets to text ads out of habit, leaving significant revenue on the table.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 02:08:52 +0200</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 14, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Toms Shoes is splitting its ecommerce architecture into two distinct layers — a signal that mid-market DTC brands are moving away from monolithic platforms toward composable commerce.
• New UK research shows consumer distrust is emerging as the single biggest brake on AI shopping agent adoption — a direct challenge for every ecommerce brand banking on agentic commerce as its next growth lever.
• Hard data from Digital Commerce 360's Top 1000 Report confirms that subscription models are delivering measurably higher conversion rates for online retailers — giving DTC and marketplace sellers a concrete commercial case for recurring revenue investment.

Fun fact: The average Google Shopping ad click costs less than $0.66, yet conversion rates on Google Shopping campaigns consistently outperform standard text search ads by nearly 30% — meaning the cheaper ad format is actually the more powerful one. Most advertisers still allocate the bulk of their search budgets to text ads out of habit, leaving significant revenue on the table.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 13, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 13, 2026</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 13, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Google and Walmart Connect have linked up so that brands buying YouTube ads can now see exactly how those campaigns drive actual Walmart sales — a closed-loop retail media first for the platform.
• Visa and OpenAI are building the payment rails for agentic commerce — meaning AI agents will soon be able to complete purchases autonomously on a shopper's behalf, reshaping the entire checkout funnel.
• European recommerce player Swappie has hit EBITDA profitability for the first time, proving that the circular electronics DTC model can actually make money at scale.

Fun fact: Roughly 70% of all online shopping carts are abandoned before checkout — but triggered cart abandonment emails, which typically arrive within an hour, recover an average of 5-11% of those lost sales and generate around $5.64 per email sent, making them among the highest-ROI messages in all of digital marketing. That single automated email consistently outperforms most paid acquisition channels on a per-dollar basis.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 13, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Google and Walmart Connect have linked up so that brands buying YouTube ads can now see exactly how those campaigns drive actual Walmart sales — a closed-loop retail media first for the platform.
• Visa and OpenAI are building the payment rails for agentic commerce — meaning AI agents will soon be able to complete purchases autonomously on a shopper's behalf, reshaping the entire checkout funnel.
• European recommerce player Swappie has hit EBITDA profitability for the first time, proving that the circular electronics DTC model can actually make money at scale.

Fun fact: Roughly 70% of all online shopping carts are abandoned before checkout — but triggered cart abandonment emails, which typically arrive within an hour, recover an average of 5-11% of those lost sales and generate around $5.64 per email sent, making them among the highest-ROI messages in all of digital marketing. That single automated email consistently outperforms most paid acquisition channels on a per-dollar basis.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:09:01 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 13, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Google and Walmart Connect have linked up so that brands buying YouTube ads can now see exactly how those campaigns drive actual Walmart sales — a closed-loop retail media first for the platform.
• Visa and OpenAI are building the payment rails for agentic commerce — meaning AI agents will soon be able to complete purchases autonomously on a shopper's behalf, reshaping the entire checkout funnel.
• European recommerce player Swappie has hit EBITDA profitability for the first time, proving that the circular electronics DTC model can actually make money at scale.

Fun fact: Roughly 70% of all online shopping carts are abandoned before checkout — but triggered cart abandonment emails, which typically arrive within an hour, recover an average of 5-11% of those lost sales and generate around $5.64 per email sent, making them among the highest-ROI messages in all of digital marketing. That single automated email consistently outperforms most paid acquisition channels on a per-dollar basis.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 12, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 12, 2026</itunes:title>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 12, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Pinterest is now letting creators link directly to Amazon Storefronts from Pins, turning the platform's browse-and-dream behaviour into a direct purchase path.
• Kaufland is expanding its online marketplace into Spain and the Netherlands by end of summer, making it one of the most aggressive European marketplace land-grabs of 2026.
• Amazon DSP has integrated Adelaide's attention measurement for pre-bid targeting, marking a significant step toward attention — not just clicks — becoming the currency of retail media buying.

Fun fact: Walmart's advertising business — Walmart Connect — grew faster than Meta's ad revenue in 2023, posting a 28% year-over-year increase while most traditional ad platforms stalled. Retail media networks run by brick-and-mortar giants are now collectively projected to outspend traditional TV advertising budgets by 2027.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
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      <content:encoded>
        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 12, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Pinterest is now letting creators link directly to Amazon Storefronts from Pins, turning the platform's browse-and-dream behaviour into a direct purchase path.
• Kaufland is expanding its online marketplace into Spain and the Netherlands by end of summer, making it one of the most aggressive European marketplace land-grabs of 2026.
• Amazon DSP has integrated Adelaide's attention measurement for pre-bid targeting, marking a significant step toward attention — not just clicks — becoming the currency of retail media buying.

Fun fact: Walmart's advertising business — Walmart Connect — grew faster than Meta's ad revenue in 2023, posting a 28% year-over-year increase while most traditional ad platforms stalled. Retail media networks run by brick-and-mortar giants are now collectively projected to outspend traditional TV advertising budgets by 2027.

Hosted by Marco and Klara.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:09:20 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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      <itunes:duration>428</itunes:duration>
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        <![CDATA[The Digital Commerce Daily — June 12, 2026

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

In today's episode:
• Pinterest is now letting creators link directly to Amazon Storefronts from Pins, turning the platform's browse-and-dream behaviour into a direct purchase path.
• Kaufland is expanding its online marketplace into Spain and the Netherlands by end of summer, making it one of the most aggressive European marketplace land-grabs of 2026.
• Amazon DSP has integrated Adelaide's attention measurement for pre-bid targeting, marking a significant step toward attention — not just clicks — becoming the currency of retail media buying.

Fun fact: Walmart's advertising business — Walmart Connect — grew faster than Meta's ad revenue in 2023, posting a 28% year-over-year increase while most traditional ad platforms stalled. Retail media networks run by brick-and-mortar giants are now collectively projected to outspend traditional TV advertising budgets by 2027.

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 11, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 11, 2026</itunes: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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      <content:encoded>
        <![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.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:09:32 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/cb481e25/38190957.mp3" length="11470094" type="audio/mpeg"/>
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      <itunes:duration>401</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![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.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 10, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 10, 2026</itunes:title>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/253e340e</link>
      <description>
        <![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.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![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.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:08:36 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/253e340e/cc6290f2.mp3" length="11799895" type="audio/mpeg"/>
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      <itunes:duration>422</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![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.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 09, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 09, 2026</itunes:title>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/ceb4b7c5</link>
      <description>
        <![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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      <content:encoded>
        <![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.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:08:16 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/ceb4b7c5/61424220.mp3" length="11932123" type="audio/mpeg"/>
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      <itunes:duration>430</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![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.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 08, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 08, 2026</itunes:title>
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      <description>
        <![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.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![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.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 02:07:59 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/a0419bed/24c4f4f5.mp3" length="11736856" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>418</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![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.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 07, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — June 07, 2026</itunes:title>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/8ecb12ee</link>
      <description>
        <![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.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![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.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 02:08:26 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/8ecb12ee/cca58050.mp3" length="11681889" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>414</itunes:duration>
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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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      <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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        <![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>
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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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    <item>
      <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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      <itunes:summary>
        <![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>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <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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      <description>
        <![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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      <content:encoded>
        <![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>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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      <itunes:duration>422</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![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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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/516b3650</link>
      <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>
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    <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.]]>
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      <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"/>
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      <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>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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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>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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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.]]>
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        <![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.]]>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 02:09:36 +0200</pubDate>
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        <![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.]]>
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      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 29, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 29, 2026</itunes:title>
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        <![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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        <![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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      <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 08:55:12 +0200</pubDate>
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        <![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.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
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    <item>
      <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.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 02:08:44 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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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.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
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      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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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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      <itunes:duration>437</itunes:duration>
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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.]]>
      </itunes:summary>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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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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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/85f6c725</link>
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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>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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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>
      <itunes:keywords></itunes:keywords>
      <itunes:explicit>No</itunes:explicit>
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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.]]>
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      <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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        <![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>
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      <itunes:duration>448</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![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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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/769e0bb9</link>
      <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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        <![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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      <pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 02:08:56 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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      <itunes:duration>423</itunes:duration>
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        <![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>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 22, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 22, 2026</itunes:title>
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        <![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>
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      <itunes:duration>431</itunes:duration>
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        <![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>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 21, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 21, 2026</itunes:title>
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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.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![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.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 02:09:13 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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      <itunes:duration>442</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![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>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 20, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 20, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/c9ff03d8</link>
      <description>
        <![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.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 02:08:14 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/c9ff03d8/1139b085.mp3" length="12230404" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>449</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:summary>
        <![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>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 19, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 19, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/6e8d5d52</link>
      <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>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 18, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 18, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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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>
    </item>
    <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>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 15, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 15, 2026</itunes:title>
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      <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.]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 10:23:05 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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      <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>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
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      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/2bcc28ec</link>
      <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.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 02:08:34 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/2bcc28ec/c89fc229.mp3" length="6970484" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <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>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">7551df4d-e0fa-4344-9946-1a35cf9bc5bd</guid>
      <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.]]>
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        <![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.]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 07:39:29 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
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      <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>
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    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 03, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — May 03, 2026</itunes:title>
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      <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>
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    <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>
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      <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>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">305101f5-1108-402b-8550-a9c6cbc79a7a</guid>
      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/57bf52d6</link>
      <description>
        <![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.]]>
      </description>
      <content:encoded>
        <![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.]]>
      </content:encoded>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 02:05:59 +0200</pubDate>
      <author>Marco &amp; Klara</author>
      <enclosure url="https://media.transistor.fm/57bf52d6/1369830d.mp3" length="7572045" type="audio/mpeg"/>
      <itunes:author>Marco &amp; Klara</itunes:author>
      <itunes:duration>473</itunes:duration>
      <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>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — April 30, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — April 30, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">1471b41e-c4c5-410d-bc84-785de26a1cfe</guid>
      <link>https://share.transistor.fm/s/42846cfd</link>
      <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>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Digital Commerce Daily — April 29, 2026</title>
      <itunes:title>The Digital Commerce Daily — April 29, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">0a3c84aa-faa6-4a49-b3f4-adc44a858200</guid>
      <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>
      <itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType>
      <guid isPermaLink="false">a0444bb0-2507-4a4f-8fda-460b7f1d00a8</guid>
      <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.]]>
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        <![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.]]>
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        <![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.]]>
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        <![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.]]>
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        <![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.]]>
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        <![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.]]>
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        <![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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        <![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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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:35:34 +0200</pubDate>
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        <![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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        <![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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        <![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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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:38:45 +0200</pubDate>
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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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