Ecommosaurus Podcast

Shopify is back with its Fall 2026 Edition, themed Exponential, and the Ecommosaurus crew scrolls through it so you do not have to. They start with the important question of whether the web version was actually fun, then rank every Shopify Edition ever released to crown an MVP. From there, the crew sorts the real news from the AI buzzword filler across more than 200 updates. Merchants can now plug...

October was the month every big tech company wanted to put a tiny AI companion in your pocket, and the Ecommosaurus crew is here to ask whether anyone should trust that. Meta has Muse, OpenAI has Dots, and Amazon has Bee, which has no mascot and looks like a fitness tracker that listens to every conversation you have. Amazon also launched an About You page that reveals exactly what it thinks of yo...

It is time for the annual Ecommosaurus Halloween episode, and the crew is sharing the true ecommerce horror stories that still keep them up at night. There are algorithms that turn on you with no warning, mystery sellers who show up undercutting your price from nowhere, and the special terror of going viral when you are not ready for it. There is also a graveyard of inventory that could not be sav...

Nobody gets excited about packaging until a wave of one-star reviews comes in about a damaged product that was actually fine. The Ecommosaurus crew digs into why packaging is one of the most underestimated levers in ecommerce, touching conversion, reviews, returns, shipping costs, and storage fees all at once. They cover the most expensive packaging mistakes they have seen in the wild and from box...

Amazon made a lot of big promises about Seller Assistant at Accelerate. It would know your business, remember your goals, monitor your account, optimize your ads, and essentially run your store while you slept. The Ecommosaurus crew actually used it and is here to report back. The honest answer is somewhere between promising and deeply frustrating. Inventory forecasting works better than expected....

September was a full one. The Ecommosaurus crew runs through the month's biggest stories, starting with Temu's army of fake influencers, 73 of the top 100 being artificial humans, and the swift and quiet dismantling of that network once it got exposed. Meta launched Muse to much fanfare, Amazon blocked it almost immediately, and Meta executives acted shocked, which raises its own questions...

Amazon Accelerate delivered a lot of announcements and the Ecommosaurus crew is here to sort through what is genuinely exciting, what is probably overblown, and what deserves a raised eyebrow. The new Seller Assistant is promising to run your business. The new AI ads dashboard wants to manage your campaigns automatically. And Amazon is now offering to handle your Shopify, Walmart, TikTok Shop, and...

Running a business is hard, and most business owners are doing it while also doing ten other things at once. The Ecommosaurus crew is not here to shame anyone. They are here because they live inside ecommerce accounts full time, and there are patterns they see over and over again that nobody is talking about honestly enough. The gap between what an account can deliver and what a client expects is...

The Ecommosaurus crew goes spelunking through Amazon seller Reddit and finds exactly what you would expect: genuine frustration, cautionary tales, a few great questions, and at least one post about somebody's mom getting scammed out of thousands of dollars. The crew works through the threads, from whether FBA is still worth it in 2026 to the four mistakes killing people's ad spend. They al...

Amazon spent 25 years building a place people go to buy things. TikTok spent three years building a place people go to be entertained, and commerce followed anyway. The Ecommosaurus crew does a full deep dive into TikTok Shop, where it came from, how fast it is actually growing, and what SMBs need to honestly reckon with before jumping in. The opportunity is real but it is not what most people ass...

August was a month full of people and platforms getting caught doing things they should not have been doing, and the Ecommosaurus crew is here for all of it. AI-generated fake expense receipts are now showing up in over 70% of flagged fraud cases, Made in USA labels are being faked at scale while the platforms that can detect it look the other way, and Amazon got $600 million in tariff refunds tha...

The Ecommosaurus crew cracks open a six pack of ecom topics and gets into it. Some of it is the kind of thing Amazon would prefer you not notice until it is already affecting your numbers. Some of it is policy changes with bad timing that will hit sellers hardest right before Q4. Some of it is regulatory shifts that snuck up on entire product categories. And some of it is just Google quietly tilti...

Subscribe and save is everywhere now, from Amazon to TikTok, but does it actually work for your business or your wallet? This episode, Parker, Sonny, Amy, and Amber get real about their own subscription habits, from dog food to kitty litter, and dig into what makes a subscription model worth it versus what makes it a trap. The crew breaks down the math behind subscription savings (spoiler: it adds...

If you are waiting until fall to think about Black Friday, you are already behind. The Ecommosaurus crew breaks down everything sellers need to know about BFCM 2026 inventory planning, starting with the hard truth that FBA cutoff dates are closer than they feel and freight timelines are less forgiving than sellers remember. They walk through the key deadlines for Prime Big Deal Days and BFCM, when...

July had range. The Ecommosaurus crew runs through the month's biggest ecommerce stories, starting with Amazon crossing $200 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time while AWS and a $53 billion paper gain on the Anthropic investment stole the show. Then there is the eBay harassment scandal finally hitting dollar figures, a $56 million settlement involving live cockroaches and bloody pig...

You have about five seconds to convince a first-time visitor that your store is the real deal, and most of them are judging you on design before they read a single word. In this episode the Ecommosaurus crew looks at online trust from the customer's perspective, covering everything from visual red flags and social proof that actually converts to return policies, payment options, and whether th...

Fair warning: the Ecommosaurus crew was feeling a little Statler and Waldorf this episode, and honestly the topic earned it. Amazon is no longer just a keyword matching engine, and the way you optimize your listings needs to catch up. The crew breaks down what has actually changed now that Cosmos and Alexa for Shopping are driving discovery, and more importantly what you should be doing about it r...

The Ecommosaurus crew takes a trip down memory lane and looks at how much the ecommerce world has changed since they started working in it. Back in 2016, Facebook ads were absurdly cheap and hyper accurate, Amazon's ad system was an afterthought, and mobile checkout was so painful that cart abandonment was basically a given. A lot has changed since then. AI went from scripted chatbots to a dai...

Shopify dropped its Spring Editions in late June, which is a choice, and the theme is Everywhere, meaning Shopify wants your products discoverable and purchasable inside AI engines, social platforms, and anywhere else a consumer might encounter them. The Ecommosaurus crew digs into what that actually means for SMBs. If AI is describing and selling your product based on database fields, what happen...

June kept the crew busy. The Ecommosaurus team runs through the biggest ecommerce stories of the month, starting with Amazon shortening product titles from 200 characters down to 75 with a hard July 27 deadline, which is either fine or a complete disaster depending on how many SKUs you have. Prime Days kicked off earlier than ever and brought Walmart, Target, Kohl's, and Best Buy along for the...

Look, we love Amazon. We build businesses on Amazon. But sometimes Amazon makes it really, really hard to love Amazon. In this episode the Ecommosaurus crew sits down and does something therapeutic: they make a wishlist. A big one. And the theme that keeps coming up is that none of this stuff should be this hard. Why does ad data disappear after 60 days? Why does the shipment tracker show informat...

Sales, ROAS, and ad spend tell you what happened. The right performance metrics tell you why. In Episode 195, the Ecommosaurus team breaks down the non-dollar-sign metrics that reveal the true health of your ecommerce business, including sessions, conversion rates, CTR, buy box percentage, inventory availability, repeat customer rates, and more. Whether you sell on Amazon or Shopify, these metrics...

Google I/O 2026 was full of big swings, and the Ecommosaurus crew is here to separate the signal from the hype. The Universal Cart and Universal Commerce Protocol promise a world where consumers can discover, compare, and buy without ever leaving Google's ecosystem. On paper it sounds revolutionary. In practice, the crew debates whether this is a genuine era of agentic commerce or vaporware dr...

May 2026 was a lot, and the Ecommosaurus crew is here to make sense of it. Google made its most aggressive move into commerce yet with a Universal Cart, Universal Commerce Protocol, and a Gemini-powered shopping agent that has Amazon squarely in its crosshairs. Amazon fired back by retiring Rufus and unleashing Alexa for Shopping, an AI assistant that knows not just what you searched but everythin...

How important is SEO busy work when you've got a thousand-page site and limited time? Episode 193 breaks down what actually matters in 2026 ,why meta keywords are dead for Google but alive for Baidu and your product feeds, why meta descriptions are really ad copy, and a triage framework for prioritizing the pages that drive revenue. Plus the team debates whether top-of-funnel blog content stil...