How SMBs Can Keep AI Website Agents Under Control
As AI agents move from building websites to helping operate them, small and midsize businesses need clear…
Hansø Expands Online Apex Pergola Catalog With 4 New Sizes and Accessories
Wilmington, DE — Online pergola brand Hansø has added four new sizes of its Apex louvered pergola…
Adeia’s AI Models How Makeup Holds Up Throughout the Day
Virtual try-on lets shoppers preview makeup before applying it. Now, Adeia is using AI to model how…
AI Recommendations Put Brand Loyalty to the Test: Adobe
Artificial intelligence can break or make customer loyalty to a brand, according to data published Monday by…
‘Marketplace sellers shift focus to profitability’
Sellers no longer primarily measure their success on marketplaces by sales volumes, but by the returns they…
Google, OpenAI, ChatGPT Dominate AI-Referred Web Traffic
AI tools are sending billions of visits to websites, but more than half of that traffic is…
Retailers Take the Wheel on Last-Mile Delivery
Online retailers are taking greater control of fulfillment and dispatch, viewing the last mile as a competitive…
Small Businesses Put AI to Work in Digital Marketing
Among U.S. small businesses, AI adoption has climbed from 26% in 2023 to 87% this year as…
WordPress PHP-Only Block Registration
You want to build a custom WordPress block. But you don’t want to learn React, manage a…
AI-Generated Receipts Hit 71% of Expense Fraud Flags
Generative AI is giving employees a new way to fabricate expense receipts, creating a growing fraud challenge…
Adobe Finds Most Retail Apps Are One and Done
Retail apps often have a short lifespan after customers download them, according to recent Adobe research. Nearly…
AI Fraud Is Making One-Time Identity Checks Less Reliable
AI is making identity fraud cheaper, faster, and easier to scale, putting pressure on e-commerce companies to…
Native AI Search Is Only Half the Battle for E-Commerce Brands
Shopify launched its AI-powered semantic search functionality in early 2024, giving Shopify Plus merchants more accurate and…
Deep Product Data Is the New SEO in the Age of AI Discovery
Small and midsize e-commerce brands face growing challenges as AI-driven discovery, social commerce, and conversational search change…
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…
Standalone CDPs Fade as Enterprise Suites Expand
The customer data platform (CDP) industry is entering a new phase as standalone CDPs give way to…
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 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…
How AI Agents Are Rewiring Market Power and Brand Visibility
Across retail, payments, and big tech, AI-enabled checkout, automated product comparison, and autonomous purchasing tools are becoming…
The Digital Shelf Begins Before the Search Bar
Retail marketers are rethinking what constitutes the digital shelf. Rather than beginning on retailer product pages or…
Platform-Switching Tax: The Hidden Cost Every Multi-Platform Seller Pays
You know the drill. You open Shopify in the morning. Switch to Amazon at lunch. Check Instagram’s…
Impulse Buying Taking Backseat to Deliberate Shopping: Report
Shoppers are showing less impulse and greater deliberation when making purchasing decisions these days, according to a…
Whatnot-Shopify Integration Tackles Live Commerce Inventory Challenges
Live shopping platform Whatnot integrates directly with Shopify to help sellers expand into new channels and manage…
What Happens When AI Becomes the Buyer?
AI agents are moving beyond assisting with purchases to making them, raising new questions about trust, marketing,…