Rakuten France is closing
Online marketplace Rakuten France has announced that it closing at the end of the year. The platform…
A One-Two Punch Drives Ecommerce Growth
Sean Stone advises ecommerce merchants to adopt a one-two punch for growth. Punch one is developing a…
AI Makes Refund Evidence Easier to Fake
Fraudsters can now use generative AI to create fake photographs of product damage, false shipping records, and…
pointer-events
The pointer-events property controls whether an element can become the target of pointer events like clicks, hover…
An AI’s answer is only as up-to-date as the documentation it uses
Earlier this year, a merchant taking in-person payments asked our AI support assistant how to quickly accept…
What’s !important #15: Boundary-aware CSS, Time-based CSS, Full-bleed CSS, and More
Similar to last time, What’s !important #15 is pretty stacked — read all about boundary-aware CSS, making…
New Ecommerce Tools: July 15, 2026
This week’s installment of new services for merchants includes updates on product videos, shipping, recommerce, social marketing,…
Meet your customers where they’re already deciding with Reddit Ads for WooCommerce
When a shopper goes online and researches “the best noise-canceling headphones under $200,” they’re often forgoing sponsored…
European retail media increased 16.7% in 2025
The European spending on digital advertisements has increased 10.5 percent last year, compared to 2024. The total…
Why Google’s Universal Cart Means Brands Must Sell to AI, Not Humans
Google made one of its biggest moves yet in agentic commerce in May when it introduced Universal…
MediaMarktSaturn wants to double marketplace GMV by 2029
Last week, Ceconomy shared its strategy for MediaMarkt and Saturn (also called MediaMarktSaturn) for the coming years….
New GA4 Channel Tracks AI Traffic
Google Analytics 4 launched its “AI Assistant” channel in May. I’ve since accumulated data before covering the…
Nail Profit before Site Extras, Owner Says
Paolo Vidali has a suggestion for merchants looking to add advanced features to their ecommerce sites: Be…
AI Marketing Looks Familiar
AI’s emergence has created ecommerce marketing opportunities, yet the fundamental tactics remain. Consider four traditional promotion channels:…
Standalone CDPs Fade as Enterprise Suites Expand
The customer data platform (CDP) industry is entering a new phase as standalone CDPs give way to…
Storfund partners with Castorama
Ecommerce financer Storfund has announced a partnership with Castorama France. As a result, sellers on the French…
Galaxus now biggest online store in Switzerland
Swiss online store Galaxus reached a revenue of 2.5 billion euros (2.3 Swiss francs) by the end…
4 Homegrown Brands Winning India
I addressed last month the opportunity for foreign brands to sell in India. The country’s population is…
Get Ready For the Powerful CSS border-shape Property!
So, we recently got the new shape() function (now Baseline!) as well as the corner-shape property. What…
Satisfaction German online sellers is declining
In 2025, 60 percent of German retailers who participated in a study said that they were dissatisfied…
Poor Ad Recall Threatens Brand Discovery, Visibility in AI Era
Consumers quickly forget advertising, making it harder for brands to win both human attention and AI-powered discovery,…
AI Visibility Scores Are Useless
AI visibility-tracking tools such as Profound and Peec AI monitor specific prompts and report a business’s visibility…
AI Can Grow SMB Revenue — If It Moves Beyond the Back Office
Misconceptions about artificial intelligence (AI) are preventing small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) from realizing AI’s full revenue…
Hostinger Reframes Site-Free Ecommerce
Lithuania-based hosting firm Hostinger has launched an ecommerce tool that can turn any product photo into a…