Articles by: Ivana Soldat
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Ivana Soldat
Ivana writes about what’s actually happening in ecommerce right now, from major platform updates to the trends on how people shop online.
Focused on verified industry developments, she covers marketplace dynamics, DTC and omnichannel growth, conversion and performance strategies, retail media, and shifts in consumer behavior across leading ecommerce platforms and emerging commerce technologies.
Meta Showed Up to Cannes With an AI That Learns Your Brand Voice, and a Robot That Sells in Your DMs
Cannes Lions has always been the place where advertising tells itself a flattering story. This year, Meta arrived with a ...
We Asked Europeans What They Think About the EU’s New €3 Import Fee. Here’s What They Said.
Starting July 1, 2026, buying a $2 component from AliExpress just got a lot more complicated. The EU has introduced ...
The Biggest Opportunity in E-Commerce Right Now Isn’t B2C
Everyone in e-commerce is watching the wrong race. While the industry obsesses over which influencer platform is eating which demographic, ...
Fix This Now or Watch Your Competitors Capture the AI Shopping Wave While You Block It
There’s a question that sounds futuristic but is already quietly becoming operational: when an AI agent buys something on your ...
China’s State TV Did an Exposé on People Eating Their Durians and Then Photoshopping Them as Damaged for a Refund
Somewhere in Shandong province in April, a seller named Mr. Feng packed five pounds of tomatoes and shipped them for ...
Italy Adds €2 Fee on Top of EU Customs Charge – Total €7 Per Parcel
For years, the business model of platforms like Temu, Shein, and AliExpress was built on a very specific tax quirk: ...
Italy Is Boiling and AliExpress Is Restocking Fans Every Single Day
A pandemic clears out hand sanitizer. A war drives up generators. And a relentless early-summer heatwave, the kind that has ...
Europe’s Biggest Retailers Are Asking the EU to Please Not Call Their AI Sofa Photos “Deepfakes”
The European Union AI Act has a deepfake problem, and it has nothing to do with politicians’ faces or forged ...
India’s Quick Commerce Boom Just Quietly Ate the Grocery Run
There’s a very specific kind of denial that happens when a market disruption doesn’t look like a meteor, it looks ...
China’s Biggest Shopping Festival Just Replaced Its Discount Math With Robots
For years, surviving China’s 618 sale meant doing math homework. Cross-store discount stacking, deposit inflation schemes, the dreaded “spend 300 ...
