The Digital Commerce Daily

The Digital Commerce Daily — July 11, 2026 Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing. In today's episode: • Levi's Q2 results show a 19% ecommerce jump, making it one of the clearest live data points this week that legacy apparel brands can win by doubling down on DTC. • Shopify's EMEA MD reframes agentic commerce not as a threat to physical retail but as the conn...

The Digital Commerce Daily — July 10, 2026 Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing. In today's episode: • Marks & Spencer is using Amazon as an international expansion vehicle, and the Netherlands move signals a replicable cross-border playbook for European retailers. • Outdoor DTC brand Cotopaxi is deliberately adding marketplace channels on top of its dire...

The Digital Commerce Daily — July 09, 2026 Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing. In today's episode: • Adobe Advertising is launching a custom algorithms product that lets performance marketers move beyond black-box bidding — a direct challenge to Google and The Trade Desk's automation dominance. • Pact Coffee's DTC subscription model — built before subscript...

The Digital Commerce Daily — July 08, 2026 Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing. In today's episode: • Fresh IAB Europe data puts a €131bn number on the European digital ad market and names retail media and social video as the engines — giving ecommerce advertisers a concrete benchmark for where budgets are flowing. • Bol — the dominant marketplace in the Net...

The Digital Commerce Daily — July 07, 2026 Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing. In today's episode: • Milani Cosmetics hit 250% above its TikTok Shop sales target in the first two weeks of a product launch, making it one of the most concrete performance data points in beauty social commerce this year. • Unilever is entering TikTok Shop in the Benelux market,...

The Digital Commerce Daily — July 06, 2026 Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing. In today's episode: • Hostinger's new Quick Links tool turns a product photo directly into a checkout — signalling that the era of needing a full ecommerce site to sell online may be ending. • Germany's biggest retail and ecommerce conference drew 5,000 attendees this year, with...

The Digital Commerce Daily — July 05, 2026 Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing. In today's episode: • Google is giving Performance Max advertisers a long-demanded transparency tool that lets them see which channels are actually driving results — a direct response to years of marketer frustration with the black-box campaign type. • Sherwin-Williams embedding...

The Digital Commerce Daily — July 04, 2026 Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing. In today's episode: • TikTok Shop is forcing major food and beverage companies to rethink product innovation cycles in real time — not just their marketing. • Nectar360 becoming the first UK retail media network to earn IAB Europe certification signals that measurement standardis...

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 re...

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...

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 governmen...

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 Assista...

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...

The Digital Commerce Daily — June 28, 2026 Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing. In today's episode: • Shopify is quietly building an ads business on top of its merchant data — and the distinction between 'advertising' and 'ad tech' is where the real strategy lies. • Home Depot's Orange Apron Media is unifying on-site and off-site ad inventory — and bringing...

The Digital Commerce Daily — June 27, 2026 Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing. In today's episode: • Google is giving Standard Shopping campaigns a bidding upgrade that was previously only available in Performance Max — a meaningful shift in control for advertisers who deliberately avoided PMax. • Germany's financial regulator is now scrutinising Zalando's...

The Digital Commerce Daily — June 26, 2026 Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing. In today's episode: • New research puts a concrete £34.1bn price tag on the growing backlash against stricter online returns policies in the UK — a direct commercial threat to ecommerce conversion rates. • Europe's dominant secondhand fashion marketplace is making a stealth move...

The Digital Commerce Daily — June 25, 2026 Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing. In today's episode: • Day one of Amazon's expanded four-day Prime Day generated over $8 billion in US ecommerce sales — the biggest single day of online spending recorded this year. • Sainsbury's retail media platform Nectar360 Pollen is reporting that 25% of campaign-driven sale...

The Digital Commerce Daily — June 24, 2026 Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing. In today's episode: • Amazon Prime Day 2026 is running four days for the first time and early sales projections now exceed Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined — a landmark moment for ecommerce. • Walmart is acquiring ad-tech startup Vibe.co, doubling down on streaming and shop...

The Digital Commerce Daily — June 23, 2026 Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing. In today's episode: • Samsung and Amazon are turning the TV remote into a checkout device, making shoppable CTV a real commerce channel rather than an experimental one. • With UK ecommerce growth stalling at just 1%, new data points to Benelux as the most compelling expansion mar...

The Digital Commerce Daily — June 22, 2026 Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing. In today's episode: • StackAdapt is lowering the barrier to ChatGPT advertising just as rival Criteo makes the same move, signalling a land-grab moment for AI-native ad inventory that every performance marketer needs to watch. • Tesco's Q1 results show overall growth cooling unde...

The Digital Commerce Daily — June 21, 2026 Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing. In today's episode: • DHL Globalmail is cutting parcel delivery from the UK to EU consumers, creating an immediate cross-border fulfilment crisis for British online retailers. • New data shows Amazon leads European online electronics with over half of sales now digital — but a no...

The Digital Commerce Daily — June 20, 2026 Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing. In today's episode: • A new EU regulation effective today mandates a visible order cancellation feature on every online store's app and website — non-compliance is an immediate legal risk. • Mercari Japan is launching a dedicated US app to let American shoppers buy resale goods d...

The Digital Commerce Daily — June 19, 2026 Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing. In today's episode: • Shopify is repositioning itself as an AI-powered agency replacement for merchants, while simultaneously pushing ads into ChatGPT and Microsoft — a platform power grab that changes what it means to run a Shopify store. • Instacart is commercialising its AI sh...

The Digital Commerce Daily — June 18, 2026 Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing. In today's episode: • Meta is directly attacking TikTok Shop's live commerce dominance by rolling out native live shopping ads and frictionless virtual card checkout across its platforms. • Adobe's latest data shows AI-referred traffic to US ecommerce sites more than doubled year...

The Digital Commerce Daily — June 17, 2026 Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing. In today's episode: • Pentaleap and Zitcha are teaming up to close the organisational gap between retailers' ad teams and merchant teams — the structural fault line that has quietly held retail media back. • TikTok Shop is moving beyond its UK beachhead into broader European mark...