Episode Details

The Digital Commerce Daily — June 27, 2026 Your 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing. In today's episode: • Google is giving Standard Shopping campaigns a bidding upgrade that was previously only available in Performance Max — a meaningful shift in control for advertisers who deliberately avoided PMax. • Germany's financial regulator is now scrutinising Zalando's accounting practices after its About You takeover — adding regulatory risk to Europe's most dominant fashion marketplace at a pivotal growth moment. • A new cross-market report on Europe's five biggest ecommerce countries projects that AI is shifting from a discovery tool to an active purchasing agent — with online revenues forecast to keep climbing to 2029. Fun fact: Shopify's checkout is so heavily optimized that the company has publicly stated its single-page checkout outperforms competitors by converting at rates up to 36% higher — yet for years, Shopify merchants couldn't actually customize that checkout without being on Shopify Plus, which costs a minimum of $2,500 per month. Thousands of brands were essentially locked out of the highest-converting real estate on their own store. Hosted by Marco and Klara.