The Digital Commerce Daily — July 03, 2026

The Digital Commerce Daily — July 03, 2026

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.

The Digital Commerce Daily — July 02, 2026

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.

The Digital Commerce Daily — July 01, 2026

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.

The Digital Commerce Daily — June 30, 2026

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.

The Digital Commerce Daily — June 29, 2026

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.