• The Digital Commerce Daily | Samsonite's $178.5M Béis Buy Is All | Shopify: AI referrals up 197%, but | Pinterest Names Jason Fairchild GM Of
    2026/08/14
    The Digital Commerce Daily — August 14, 2026 In this episode: • Samsonite's near-$180M acquisition of Béis signals how legacy travel brands are buying their way into Gen Z's DTC-native, social-first commerce playbook. • Shopify's own data shows AI-driven referral traffic to its merchants nearly tripled in a year — but organic search is still the dominant channel, creating a critical 'both/and' strategic question for every ecommerce brand. • Pinterest poaching a CTV ad tech founder to run programmatic and affiliate signals a serious platform-level push to close the gap between visual discovery and shoppable, performance-driven commerce. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing
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    6 分
  • The Digital Commerce Daily | Google Is Ending Target Overperformance – | 3 ways Etsy is investing in | Why 'a third fewer Chinese packages
    2026/08/13
    The Digital Commerce Daily — August 13, 2026 In this episode: • Google is killing a key Smart Bidding behaviour in days, and performance marketers running Target CPA or Target ROAS campaigns need to act before August 17th. • Etsy's CEO has laid out a clear three-pillar AI strategy focused on personalisation and discovery — a sign that mid-tier marketplaces are betting on AI to close the gap with Amazon. • The narrative that Europe's new parcel tax has slashed Chinese cross-border shipments by a third is being challenged — and the real data tells a more complicated story for Temu and Shein. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing
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    6 分
  • The Digital Commerce Daily | Whatnot Closes $545 Million Series G, | Liquid I.V. applies Prime Day insights | Online growth offsets weak store sales
    2026/08/12
    The Digital Commerce Daily — August 12, 2026 In this episode: • Live shopping platform Whatnot just doubled its valuation to $20 billion, signalling that Western live commerce is entering its own high-stakes scaling era. • Liquid I.V. is using Prime Day data as a testing ground to deliberately shift customers from Amazon to its own DTC channel — a playbook every CPG brand should study. • UK retail sales slowed sharply in July but ecommerce is actively cushioning the blow, making this the clearest live data point yet on digital commerce's role as a structural ballast for British retail. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing
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    7 分
  • The Digital Commerce Daily | Digest: Nielsen to Acquire DoubleVerify; eBay | Bauhaus: '100,000 new items thanks to | Ad Tech's Last Neutral Party Just
    2026/08/11
    The Digital Commerce Daily — August 11, 2026 In this episode: • eBay is making a direct move into live shopping to compete with Whatnot and TikTok Shop, signalling that the format is now mainstream enough to pull legacy marketplaces off the sidelines. • One year in, German DIY giant Bauhaus has onboarded 100 marketplace sellers and added 100,000 SKUs online — a concrete proof point that bricks-and-mortar retail chains can successfully platformify their ecommerce operations. • Publicis Groupe's $2.167 billion acquisition of LiveRamp ends the era of neutral data infrastructure in ad tech — and has direct implications for every DTC brand and retailer that relies on LiveRamp's identity graph for audience targeting. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing
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    7 分
  • The Digital Commerce Daily | USPS Prioritizes Revenue over Volume | Top 100 online shops by turnover | Disney's TikTok Partnership Turns Fan Creativity
    2026/08/10
    The Digital Commerce Daily — August 10, 2026 In this episode: • The US Postal Service is explicitly deprioritising parcel volume in favour of rate hikes, a direct cost threat to every DTC brand shipping domestically. • Fresh EHI/ECDB data ranks Germany's 100 largest online shops by revenue, revealing which categories and marketplace models are actually winning the market in 2026. • Disney is formalising fan-created TikTok content as an official marketing channel — a social commerce playbook move that signals where brand-platform partnerships are heading. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing
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    6 分
  • The Digital Commerce Daily | Ahold Delhaize USA adds Pear Commerce | Momox enters the Netherlands | The Opportunity and Threat Of Google
    2026/08/09
    The Digital Commerce Daily — August 09, 2026 In this episode: • Ahold Delhaize is wiring CPG brand content directly into shoppable grocery carts via Pear Commerce — a new retail media integration model that closes the gap between brand discovery and purchase. • German recommerce giant Momox is expanding into the Netherlands, signalling that the secondhand media marketplace model has room left to run in Western Europe. • Google is quietly beta-testing Buyer Direct — a product that lets AI agents bypass traditional programmatic pipes and buy media directly through Google's ad server, which could redraw the entire performance advertising supply chain. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing
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    7 分
  • The Digital Commerce Daily | The Trade Desk's Revenue Growth Stalls | Zooplus plans to roll out its | Ecommerce Trends: What online shoppers said
    2026/08/08
    The Digital Commerce Daily — August 08, 2026 In this episode: • The Trade Desk posting just 3% revenue growth in Q2 — with shares falling 20% after hours — is a hard signal that programmatic spend is under real pressure from big-brand budget tightening. • Zooplus is turning its pet supplies platform into a full third-party marketplace, rolling out across Germany and Europe after a France pilot — a significant shift in European vertical ecommerce strategy. • Fresh survey data on what online shoppers are actually prioritising for the 2026 holiday season gives ecommerce brands a rare early-August read on where to focus their Q4 investment right now. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing
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    7 分
  • The Digital Commerce Daily | OpenAI brings product carousels to ChatGPT | How Shopify is approaching agentic AI | Chinese live commerce goes global: Inside
    2026/08/07
    The Digital Commerce Daily — August 07, 2026 In this episode: • OpenAI is bringing Google Shopping-style product carousels into ChatGPT just as the Q4 holiday season approaches, making it a direct new commerce surface brands must now plan for. • Shopify's Q2 earnings call revealed the platform's specific bets on agentic AI, giving merchants the clearest picture yet of where their infrastructure is heading. • Chinese live commerce operator Yowant is actively exporting its full operational model — not just the format — into the UK, US and European markets, representing a structural competitive threat to Western social commerce players. Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing
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    6 分