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Google

Retail Media & Advertising

The Sale Belongs to the Wrong Channel

Matched surveys expose how social creates demand while Google captures the final click

Regulation, Policy & Risk

Global

News

Other Companies

Fraud Moves Beyond the Checkout

AI-scaled attacks push ecommerce risk into accounts, fulfillment, returns, and customer experience at once

Americas

Google

Retail Media & Advertising

News

Google Wants Gemini to Explain Your Ad Performance

Prompt-built dashboards turn reporting speed into a new layer of platform control

Americas

AI & Agentic Commerce

Insights

AI Commerce Is Catching Social Shopping

U.S. forecasts show assistant-led buying could turn social commerce into the slower channel

Americas

Amazon

AI & Agentic Commerce

Insights

Alexa Is Becoming Amazon's Traffic Controller

Assistant-originated PDP visits rose roughly sixfold—and product data now shapes the recommendation shelf

Agentic Commerce Has a Regional Scoreboard

Amazon

Walmart

AI & Agentic Commerce

Insights

Global

Agentic Commerce Has a Regional Scoreboard

Wayfair leads, APAC runs deepest, and margin remains the weak point

Shein

Logistics & Fulfillment

APAC

News

Shein Learns Supply Chains Do Not Travel

Vietnam's tariff hedge could not cheaply reproduce the speed and coordination of Shein's southern China supplier network

Marketplaces & Platform Power

Europe

Insights

Italy Rents The Checkout

Marketplaces generate 71.4% of ecommerce GMV

Marketplaces & Platform Power

Europe

Insights

Central Europe Goes Marketplace-First

Platforms now control 60% of regional ecommerce revenue

Europe

Insights

Commerce Economics & Market Structure

Europe’s Retail Growth Splits In Two

Spain leads while France and Italy force retailers to abandon one-size regional plans

Marketplaces & Platform Power

eBay

Global

News

eBay Turns Auctions Into a Channel

Live selling connects seller expertise, product discovery and payment inside one marketplace surface

Americas

Retail Media & Advertising

OpenAI

News

ChatGPT Builds a Paid Product Shelf

Product carousels turn retailer feeds into platform-controlled comparison inventory

Archive

The Sale Belongs to the Wrong Channel

Fraud Moves Beyond the Checkout

Google Wants Gemini to Explain Your Ad Performance

AI Commerce Is Catching Social Shopping

Alexa Is Becoming Amazon's Traffic Controller

Agentic Commerce Has a Regional Scoreboard

Shein Learns Supply Chains Do Not Travel

Italy Rents The Checkout

Central Europe Goes Marketplace-First

Europe’s Retail Growth Splits In Two

eBay Turns Auctions Into a Channel

ChatGPT Builds a Paid Product Shelf

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MarketMaze

Archive

The Sale Belongs to the Wrong Channel

Fraud Moves Beyond the Checkout

Google Wants Gemini to Explain Your Ad Performance

AI Commerce Is Catching Social Shopping

Alexa Is Becoming Amazon's Traffic Controller

Agentic Commerce Has a Regional Scoreboard

Shein Learns Supply Chains Do Not Travel

Italy Rents The Checkout

Central Europe Goes Marketplace-First

Europe’s Retail Growth Splits In Two

eBay Turns Auctions Into a Channel

ChatGPT Builds a Paid Product Shelf

Your smart, no-nonsense guide to the maze of e-commerce

Join 1,000+ other readers and get the week’s best ecommerce & marketplace insights.Always data-driven, always stunning in under five minutes.

MarketMaze

Join 1,000+ other readers and get the week’s best ecommerce & marketplace insights.
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