The Digital Commerce Daily

The Digital Commerce Daily — September 01, 2026

In this episode:

• The FTC is accusing Amazon of secretly rigging its own ad auctions to inflate prices — a lawsuit that could reshape how brands and agencies trust Amazon's $50 billion ads business.

• Amazon is mandating that all Pan-EU FBA sellers list on its Dutch marketplace — a quiet but significant policy shift that forces sellers to expand their European footprint whether they're ready or not.

• Bolt — once valued at $11 billion as the checkout platform that would dethrone Shopify — is now scrambling for survival with a pay-to-play bridge round, and the story of its collapse is a cautionary tale for the entire DTC checkout space.

Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 31, 2026

In this episode:

• Home Depot finally appointing a dedicated retail media leader signals that home improvement is the next frontier for sponsored placements and on-site ad revenue.

• Amika's CMO deliberately launched its new product exclusively on its DTC site first — a channel-sequencing strategy that's increasingly rare and worth studying.

• Ex-Meta engineers and executives are now leading ads product at OpenAI, TikTok, Amazon Ads, and Roku — and they're rebuilding the Meta playbook everywhere they land.

Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 30, 2026

In this episode:

• The Trade Desk just made programmatic buying significantly more autonomous with its biggest platform overhaul since Kokai launched in 2023 — and it matters for every DTC brand running upper-funnel campaigns outside walled gardens.

• Snapchat is making a direct pitch to performance advertisers and ecommerce brands at its 2026 summit, signalling it wants a seat at the table alongside Meta and TikTok Shop as a measurable commerce channel.

• New UK data shows gaming has quietly become one of the most effective product discovery channels for ecommerce brands, with highly engaged gamers converting in-game exposure into real purchase intent at scale.

Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 29, 2026

In this episode:

• A real DTC brand that left TikTok Shop and came back tells us more about the platform's pull on beauty sellers than any industry report can.

• One in three European small businesses on Temu say the platform has helped them sell internationally — a data point that reframes Temu from 'cheap Chinese imports threat' to 'cross-border launchpad' for local SMEs.

• Dentsu is restructuring its entire commerce and retail media practice under new leadership — a signal that agency holding groups are now treating retail media as a standalone discipline, not an add-on to shopper marketing.

Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 28, 2026

In this episode:

• Google is expanding Demand Gen into a full-funnel commerce engine — and the new AI video creation and messaging ad formats directly change how DTC brands build and deploy creative at scale.

• Simon Property Group — owner of 190+ malls — has launched a data-driven retail media network, marking the moment physical retail infrastructure formally enters the commerce media arms race.

• Kapten & Son's COO lays out a blunt counter-narrative to growth-at-all-costs DTC culture — and the operational lessons from scaling a German accessories brand profitably across European markets are directly applicable right now.

Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 27, 2026

In this episode:

• A $400 million privacy settlement is the largest ever against a social platform for children's data — and it has direct implications for TikTok Shop's ability to target younger audiences.

• Google AI Mode is generating ads directly from product feeds — not ad copy — which means ecommerce merchants who haven't optimised their Merchant Center attributes are already invisible.

• False payment declines are now costing ecommerce merchants more than global fraud itself — $265 billion lost by turning away legitimate customers at checkout.

Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 26, 2026

In this episode:

• Amazon has officially switched on drone delivery in the UK, marking the first international rollout of Prime Air outside the US.

• M&S is using Zalando as a pan-European distribution engine, reaching 22 markets in a single partnership move that reframes how British retailers can scale cross-border without building their own logistics.

• A Stockholm startup just raised €14.6 million to build a portable shopper identity layer for AI commerce — essentially a universal profile that travels with consumers across every retailer they visit.

Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 25, 2026

In this episode:

• ChatGPT's ad product just got serious — automated bidding and platform targeting turn it from an experiment into a genuine rival to Google and Meta for performance budgets.

• New data reveals Southern Europe has become Chinese ecommerce's strongest Western foothold, with AliExpress, Shein, and Temu outperforming their European averages — a market dynamic brands and platform sellers can no longer ignore.

• Meta is removing advertisers' ability to exclude specific placements — a quiet but significant power shift that forces brands to trust Meta's algorithm with decisions they previously controlled.

Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 24, 2026

In this episode:

• U.S. ecommerce has snapped back to double-digit growth in 2026 — and the question every brand needs to answer is whether this is a structural shift or a one-year blip.

• Citi's move into commerce media is the headline that most brands missed — a major bank entering the retail media space signals the channel is about to get a lot more crowded and a lot more complex.

• Caraway's influencer playbook turned a commoditised product category into a premium DTC success story — and the mechanics are directly replicable for brands fighting margin pressure in 2026.

Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 23, 2026

In this episode:

• Amazon is scaling Prime Air drone delivery across five new US metro areas, marking a significant infrastructure push that goes beyond its recent UK first.

• Yoto's $127M growth story is a masterclass in community-led DTC scaling — built on parent word-of-mouth rather than paid acquisition.

• YouTube has quietly redefined what counts as a 'view' to align with TV measurement — and it could reshape how ecommerce brands plan video budgets.

Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday.

Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing