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.
YouTube Will Now Apply Disclosure Labels Without Asking. It Is Also Testing Whether It Can Replace Your Affiliate Merchant.
YouTube is retiring “Paid Product Placement” and replacing it with “Branded Content,” described as alignment with industry-standard language. Three new ...
eBay Disabled Private Messaging on Its Community Forum Because the Phishing Got Too Bad to Filter
The phishing attempts arriving through eBay Community direct messages are, by eBay’s own admission, “very difficult to identify as phishing ...
Amazon Gets 360,000 “Is This Message Real?” Calls Per Year. Now It Built a Bot to Answer Them.
360,000 times per year, an Amazon customer contacts customer service with the same question: “Is this message from Amazon real?” ...
Creators on YouTube Can Now Tag Amazon Products Directly in Videos
With a new partnership between Amazon and YouTube, creators on the video-sharing platform can now tag Amazon products right in ...
Ecommerce Leaders & Interviews
à la luck Founder Yifeng Tao on Jewelry, Attachment and the Things We Choose to Keep
For à la luck founder Yifeng Tao, the value of jewelry has little to do with how rare, expensive or ...
Ecommerce Leaders & Interviews
Inside Dr Ged’s: Building a Hot Sauce Brand With Heat, Humour and Personality
What started as a hobby in a Glasgow kitchen has grown into an independent hot sauce brand with distinctive artwork, ...
TikTok Wants to Run Your Shop for $10,000 Plus 20% of Revenue. Here Is What That Actually Costs.
TikTok Shop is generating real commercial outcomes for a meaningful range of sellers in 2026. We’ve covered the Poppy Rose ...
Amazon’s Second-Hand Sales Hit £1.7 Billion in Europe Last Year. Now It Is Moving Into Luxury Resale.
Amazon has been selling used and refurbished products since 2002, when third-party sellers first joined the platform. It added returned ...
Vinted Scammers Are Targeting New Sellers Within Minutes of Their First Listing. Here Is Exactly How It Works.
“Okay, so I understand how ridiculous this is going to sound or that I even fell for the scam in ...
The Scam on Vinted Exploits the Same Mechanic Every Marketplace Uses
The mechanics are straightforward enough that a Reddit comment explains it in one sentence: “They want you to wait the ...
