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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.

Recommerce

News

eBay Depop Deal Hits UK Test

The CMA has opened phase 1. Recommerce is now marketplace power with better clothes.

TikTok Shop bans AI voices from live shopping promotions

Social Commerce & Creator Economy

News

TikTok Shop bans AI voices from live shopping promotions

AI can help production, but TikTok wants real humans selling in live commerce.

Retail Media & Advertising

Insights

TikTok Shop Owns Discovery

Product discovery is shifting from search boxes into entertainment feeds with checkout attached.

Social Commerce & Creator Economy

Insights

TikTok Shop Owns Discovery

Product discovery is shifting from search boxes into entertainment feeds with checkout attached.

Social Commerce & Creator Economy

Insights

TikTok Beauty’s Southeast Asia Engine

Why TikTok Shop’s beauty model penetrated Southeast Asia before Western markets caught up.

Recommerce

News

eBay Germany Rewrites Recommerce Fees

New goods get tougher economics while used and refurbished items get a cleaner lane.

Archive

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

eBay Depop Deal Hits UK Test

TikTok Shop bans AI voices from live shopping promotions

TikTok Shop Owns Discovery

TikTok Shop Owns Discovery

TikTok Beauty’s Southeast Asia Engine

eBay Germany Rewrites Recommerce Fees

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MarketMaze

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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

eBay Depop Deal Hits UK Test

TikTok Shop bans AI voices from live shopping promotions

TikTok Shop Owns Discovery

TikTok Shop Owns Discovery

TikTok Beauty’s Southeast Asia Engine

eBay Germany Rewrites Recommerce Fees

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