Billion Dollar Sellers

Date: January 8th, 2026 Summary: Kevin King discusses the top e-commerce trends for 2026 from the Publicis Commerce predictions report, covering agentic commerce, social commerce evolution, and the retail media reckoning, plus insights on live commerce growth and how AI agents could handle 25% of e-commerce by 2030. Key Points Discussed: Three major 2026 e-commerce trends from Publicis Commerce Ag...

Date: Monday 5th of January 2026 Summary: Kevin King discusses the "5th Quarter" - why January is e-commerce's hidden peak season due to the reverse logistics surge, Walmart's aggressive push to close the Amazon online sales gap, several new Amazon features sellers should know about, and the BDSN software tool of the day. Key Points Discussed: The 5th Quarter: January as e-commerce's hidden peak s...

Date: Thursday January 1st 2026 Summary: Kevin King looks back at the 7 most clicked links from the Billion Dollar Sellers Newsletter in 2025, covering Amazon Vine review tactics, AI image creation SOPs, profitability calculators, and more. Key points discussed: Amazon's crackdown on Vine review manipulation tactics 22 SOPs for creating product images with AI Inside look at how the Amazon Vine pro...

Date: Monday, December 29th, 2025 Summary: Kevin King discusses Claude's time-saving Chrome extension, marketplace statistics, Makenna Riley's journey to making her first million at age 17, TikTok Shop growth tactics, Genstore AI platform, Holiday 2025 AI-powered shopping trends, and Amazon's new AI-powered ad instructions. Key Points Discussed: BDSS 13 live online event "The Billion Dollar Ascent...

Date: Thursday, December 25th, 2025 Summary: Kevin King presents a special holiday edition featuring key e-commerce statistics and data from 2025, covering global e-commerce trends, Amazon and US market insights, AI's impact on shopping, and social commerce developments. Key Points Discussed: BDSS-13-Virtual event announcement (January 20-22, 2026) featuring 20 AI-focused speakers Computing power...

Monday, December 22nd, 2025 Summary: Kevin King discusses the lessons from iRobot's bankruptcy and what Amazon sellers can learn about building sustainable businesses, AI's impact on Amazon product discovery including the potential Amazon-OpenAI partnership and Rufus optimization strategies, and a new financing option for Amazon sellers through Slope. Key Points Discussed: iRobot's rise and fall:...

Date: Thursday, December 18th, 2025 Summary: Kevin King covers AEO (AI Engine Optimization) action plans for Amazon sellers, the Sarah TV advertising case study, canonical URL issues affecting Amazon listings, and software tool Swapt for QR code marketing. Key points discussed: BDSS-13: The Billion Dollar Ascent event (January 20-22, 2025 - online only) AEO for Amazon sellers part 2: action plan f...

Date: December 15th, 2025 Summary: Kevin King discusses AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) for Amazon sellers, the real metric you should use instead of profit margins, a 4-step main image playbook, and tools for course creation and micro-influencer marketing. Key points discussed: BDSS 13 virtual event announcement (January 20-22, 2025) with 20 AI-focused speakers AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) a...

Date: Thursday, December 11th, 2025 Summary: Kevin King shares a free AI prompt that transforms product photos into Christmas versions in under a minute, discusses the power of newsletters for monetization, covers Amazon's rebuilt Alexa+ with agentic capabilities, introduces an AI visibility reporting tool, and breaks down Black Friday/Cyber Monday results across Amazon, Walmart, and overall US sp...

Date: December 8th, 2025 Summary: Kevin King discusses how AI shopping assistants are rewriting Chinese e-commerce, the rise of Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), Chinese sellers fleeing Amazon due to tax crackdowns, ChatGPT becoming the second largest product discovery platform, and marks the end of an era with the final AM/PM Podcast hosted by Kevin. Key Points Discussed: AI shopping assistan...

Date: December 4th, 2025 Summary: Kevin King welcomes Izabella Ritz into the Billion Dollar Dream 100, shares insights from the BDSC mastermind call on secondary images and A+ content for better conversion, discusses Black Friday visibility trends on Google Shopping, and highlights Mexico's booming e-commerce market. Key Points Discussed: Billion Dollar Dream-100 member announcement: Izabella Ritz...

Date: December 1st, 2025 Summary: Kevin King discusses Amazon's new prompt ads, the AI shopping revolution over Black Friday weekend, Rufus usage surge data, Walmart's ChatGPT checkout launch, and the price history feature that's changing how shoppers evaluate deals. Key Points Discussed: Amazon's new "prompt ads" that are already live in your Sponsored Products and Sponsored Brands campaigns Five...

Date: November 27th, 2025 Summary: Kevin King discusses how AI video ads are outperforming traditional UGC content, shares a framework for creating converting AI videos using Google's Veo, covers Dan Kurtz's Snippet Swiper system for Google AI rankings, and highlights the Market Masters 3 replay bundle available for Black Friday. Key points discussed: AI video ads achieving 53% lower cost per purc...

Date: Monday, November 24th, 2025 Summary: Kevin King discusses Amazon's Rufus AI revolution, how to optimize for AI-driven search, sponsored prompts in Rufus, the Amy Wees Rufus optimization method, and Amazon's strategic positioning against ChatGPT and other AI shopping tools. Key points discussed: Amazon's Rufus AI assistant and "Researched-by-AI" sections in search results How external authori...

Date: November 20th, 2025 Summary: Kevin King discusses AI shopping agents from Amazon and Google, the struggle facing Amazon agencies in 2026, growth through consolidation and M&A, and tools showcased at Market Masters 3. Key Points Discussed: Amazon and Google's new AI shopping agents that complete purchases autonomously How Rufus auto-buy feature monitors prices and executes transactions Go...

Date: Monday, November 17th, 2025 Summary: Kevin King shares best tactics from recent newsletters while hosting Market Masters in Austin, covering Govee's $250M Amazon success story, AI-powered SEO strategies with schema markup, competitive intelligence with Competely.ai, micro-influencer marketing through Stack Influence, creating high-converting comparison charts, and linguistic optimization to...

Date: November 13th, 2025 Summary: Kevin King discusses how third-party sources drive 85% of brand discovery in AI search, the legal battle between Amazon and Perplexity over AI shopping control, Amazon Rufus hitting $10 billion in sales, optimizing text overlays for higher engagement, and Amazon's AI revolution in advertising announced at unBoxed. Key points discussed: Third-party sources drive 8...

Date: Monday, November 10th, 2025 Summary: Kevin King shares best tactics from recent issues while co-hosting the Marketing Misfits Cigar Weekend in Tampa. Topics include TikTok-first product research, hidden PPC settings that waste budget, eye contact strategies for better ad conversions, and how to fight coordinated review attacks. Key Points Discussed: The decline of traditional product researc...

Date: November 6th, 2025 Summary: Kevin King discusses mobile-ready hero images for Black Friday/Cyber Monday, the 4 Ws Framework for thumbnail optimization, how to pass visual clarity tests, and strategies to avoid losing 20-29% of potential sales to better-optimized competitors. Key Points Discussed: Mobile commerce accounts for 66% of all global e-commerce sales The 4 Ws Framework: Who (brand),...

Date: Monday November 3rd, 2025 Summary: Kevin King examines Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's disconnect from the current state of agentic commerce, explores global Amazon marketplace opportunities, discusses AI's influence on holiday shopping, and shares strategies for scaling with micro-influencers and Custom Analytics. Key Points Discussed: What percentage of holiday purchases will be influenced by AI a...

Date: October 30th, 2025 Summary: Kevin King discusses why your product content is failing the bot test, how AI search engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity are changing e-commerce, flat fee creator partnerships that drive ROI, and the massive voice search opportunity that 99.7% of sellers are missing. Key Points Discussed: Why products are invisible to ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI search engines How...

Date: Monday, October 27th, 2025 Summary: Kevin King explores how Claude Skills revolutionizes Amazon selling by automating workflows, discusses Danny McMillan's dashboard generator, shares Q4 PPC targeting strategies, and examines why live shopping may define eCommerce's future over AI. Key Points Discussed: How Claude Skills works and why it beats traditional AI prompting Danny McMillan's automa...

Date: Thursday, October 23rd, 2025 Summary: Kevin King discusses the ChatGPT commerce revolution, Walmart's 500 million SKU integration, Amazon Marketing Cloud becoming available to all sellers, Amazon's price history test feature, fulfillment automation plans, and UK alcohol sales data. Key Points Discussed: ChatGPT becoming the #2 e-commerce platform with 52.2 million daily product-intent prompt...

Date: October 20th, 2025 Summary: Kevin King explores the incredible success story of Ivan Tsvilik, who grew True Sea Moss from $10K to $200M in 5 years. Learn his strategies for small category selection, multi-channel brand building, TikTok marketing tactics, and why branded traffic creates an unbeatable Amazon advantage. Key Points Discussed: Ivan Tsvilik's journey: $10K immigrant to $200M brand...

Date: Thursday, October 16th, 2025 Summary: Kevin King explores how AI can simulate customer behavior for product testing, discusses the Walmart-OpenAI partnership's impact on e-commerce, and provides Part 2 of optimizing for Amazon's Rufus AI assistant. Key Points Discussed: How AI Large Language Models can predict customer behavior with 90% accuracy Using AI to test products, pricing, and demogr...