The Digital Commerce Daily

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.

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

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 11, 2026

In this episode:

• eBay is making a direct move into live shopping to compete with Whatnot and TikTok Shop, signalling that the format is now mainstream enough to pull legacy marketplaces off the sidelines.

• One year in, German DIY giant Bauhaus has onboarded 100 marketplace sellers and added 100,000 SKUs online — a concrete proof point that bricks-and-mortar retail chains can successfully platformify their ecommerce operations.

• Publicis Groupe's $2.167 billion acquisition of LiveRamp ends the era of neutral data infrastructure in ad tech — and has direct implications for every DTC brand and retailer that relies on LiveRamp's identity graph for audience targeting.

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

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 10, 2026

In this episode:

• The US Postal Service is explicitly deprioritising parcel volume in favour of rate hikes, a direct cost threat to every DTC brand shipping domestically.

• Fresh EHI/ECDB data ranks Germany's 100 largest online shops by revenue, revealing which categories and marketplace models are actually winning the market in 2026.

• Disney is formalising fan-created TikTok content as an official marketing channel — a social commerce playbook move that signals where brand-platform partnerships are heading.

Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday.

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

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 09, 2026

In this episode:

• Ahold Delhaize is wiring CPG brand content directly into shoppable grocery carts via Pear Commerce — a new retail media integration model that closes the gap between brand discovery and purchase.

• German recommerce giant Momox is expanding into the Netherlands, signalling that the secondhand media marketplace model has room left to run in Western Europe.

• Google is quietly beta-testing Buyer Direct — a product that lets AI agents bypass traditional programmatic pipes and buy media directly through Google's ad server, which could redraw the entire performance advertising supply chain.

Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday.

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

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 08, 2026

In this episode:

• The Trade Desk posting just 3% revenue growth in Q2 — with shares falling 20% after hours — is a hard signal that programmatic spend is under real pressure from big-brand budget tightening.

• Zooplus is turning its pet supplies platform into a full third-party marketplace, rolling out across Germany and Europe after a France pilot — a significant shift in European vertical ecommerce strategy.

• Fresh survey data on what online shoppers are actually prioritising for the 2026 holiday season gives ecommerce brands a rare early-August read on where to focus their Q4 investment right now.

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

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 07, 2026

In this episode:

• OpenAI is bringing Google Shopping-style product carousels into ChatGPT just as the Q4 holiday season approaches, making it a direct new commerce surface brands must now plan for.

• Shopify's Q2 earnings call revealed the platform's specific bets on agentic AI, giving merchants the clearest picture yet of where their infrastructure is heading.

• Chinese live commerce operator Yowant is actively exporting its full operational model — not just the format — into the UK, US and European markets, representing a structural competitive threat to Western social commerce players.

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

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 06, 2026

In this episode:

• Microsoft Advertising is rolling out a suite of AI-native tools that directly challenge Google's Performance Max dominance among ecommerce advertisers.

• Ahold Delhaize's results show European ecommerce is now actively offsetting US margin pressure for one of the continent's largest grocery groups.

• European recommerce marketplace Refurbed is expanding beyond electronics into musical instruments, testing whether its sustainability-led model can scale into new categories.

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

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 05, 2026

In this episode:

• Walmart just paid $1.4 billion to own its own streaming ad inventory, directly challenging Amazon's closed-loop retail media empire.

• Argos — freshly spun out from Sainsbury's — is launching its own curated marketplace, signalling it intends to compete as an independent ecommerce player in the UK.

• Google paid search growth slowed materially in Q2 2026, raising urgent questions about where ecommerce performance budgets should be allocated in H2.

Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday.

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

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 04, 2026

In this episode:

• A critical security vulnerability in one of WooCommerce's most widely used plugins lets unauthenticated attackers seize full control of ecommerce stores — affecting potentially thousands of merchants right now.

• Snapchat is poaching senior TikTok talent to sharpen its pitch to performance advertisers — a signal that the battle for social commerce ad budgets is intensifying beyond just Meta and TikTok.

• New data on German online shoppers in 2026 shows that price is no longer the dominant purchase driver — loyalty, trust, and experience are now the battleground, reshaping how brands must compete in Europe's largest ecommerce market.

Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday.

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

The Digital Commerce Daily — August 03, 2026

In this episode:

• Amazon's Q2 ad revenue hit $19.8 billion as live sports emerges as a key driver of its closed-loop advertising flywheel — a distinct angle from the trailing 12-month figure already covered.

• Amazon is pumping €300 million into German logistics infrastructure just as the market rebounds — a supply-side bet on Europe's largest ecommerce economy.

• Lululemon is making AI a core operational pillar in 2026 — with active hiring and investment that signals a DTC brand treating AI as a commerce infrastructure play, not just a marketing garnish.

Hosted by Marco & Klara. New episode every weekday.

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