The Digital Commerce Daily | Stripe and Advent are jointly offering | Uber's Top Ad Exec Kristi Argyilan | Intentional spending keeps ecommerce volumes flat

The Digital Commerce Daily | Stripe and Advent are jointly offering | Uber's Top Ad Exec Kristi Argyilan | Intentional spending keeps ecommerce volumes flat

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 & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily | Beauty Pie replatforms to Shopify to | Tractor Supply partners with Instacart on | What will the Sky-ITV deal do

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 & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily | How PayPal Ads Proves Retail Media | Lidl leaks customer data from Dutch | This K-Beauty Brand Is Collapsing The

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 & Klara. New episode every weekday. Tags: ecommerce, digital commerce, retail media, Amazon, Walmart, platform strategy, D2C, omnichannel, performance marketing

The Digital Commerce Daily — July 13, 2026

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.

The Digital Commerce Daily — July 12, 2026

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.