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Consumer & Category Trends

Insights

Discounts train shoppers

A promotion example shows why MMM must model price, not only media.

Marketplaces & Platform Power

News

Kaufland builds a European marketplace

Schwarz Group expands marketplace reach across Spain, Netherlands, and Europe's cross-border seller network.

Insights

Commerce Economics & Market Structure

Germany's Online Retail Gap

ECDB shows Germany's online share still trailing global, U.S., and UK benchmarks.

AI & Agentic Commerce

News

Alexa gets the ad shelf

Alexa for Shopping makes Amazon's assistant useful for customers and valuable for sponsored recommendations.

AI & Agentic Commerce

Insights

AI Deflation Has Rules

Prices fall fastest where supply scales, while institutions protect the scarce parts.

Marketplaces & Platform Power

News

Joybuy Opens The Seller Gate

JD.com is turning Joybuy into a European marketplace without abandoning control.

AI & Agentic Commerce

Insights

AI as a universal deflation machine

Prices fall fastest where supply scales, while institutions protect the scarce parts.

Google Turns World Cup Search Commercial

AI & Agentic Commerce

News

Google Turns World Cup Search Commercial

Search, Maps, Waze, tickets, and Gemini now sit around the same fan journey.

AI & Agentic Commerce

News

Search Gets Visual

Amazon is turning vague shopping intent into generated images before product listings appear.

News

OpenAI buys market optionality

Confidential IPO paperwork gives OpenAI flexibility as AI infrastructure costs keep rising.

Insights

Commerce Economics & Market Structure

UK Retailers Become CPG Labs

NIQ data shows private label now leads the UK's launch pipeline.

AI & Agentic Commerce

News

Amazon Makes Merch Promptable

Alexa for Shopping now turns customer prompts into custom products inside Amazon's retail flow.

Archive

Discounts train shoppers

Kaufland builds a European marketplace

Germany's Online Retail Gap

Alexa gets the ad shelf

AI Deflation Has Rules

Joybuy Opens The Seller Gate

AI as a universal deflation machine

Google Turns World Cup Search Commercial

Search Gets Visual

OpenAI buys market optionality

UK Retailers Become CPG Labs

Amazon Makes Merch Promptable

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Archive

Discounts train shoppers

Kaufland builds a European marketplace

Germany's Online Retail Gap

Alexa gets the ad shelf

AI Deflation Has Rules

Joybuy Opens The Seller Gate

AI as a universal deflation machine

Google Turns World Cup Search Commercial

Search Gets Visual

OpenAI buys market optionality

UK Retailers Become CPG Labs

Amazon Makes Merch Promptable

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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