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Meta Showed Up to Cannes With an AI That Learns Your Brand Voice, and a Robot That Sells in Your DMs

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Meta Showed Up to Cannes With an AI That Learns Your Brand Voice, and a Robot That Sells in Your DMs

Ivana Soldat

Cannes Lions has always been the place where advertising tells itself a flattering story. This year, Meta arrived with a ...

Amazon Buying ChatGPT Ads Reveals Insights on Its AI Strategy

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Amazon Buying ChatGPT Ads Reveals Insights on Its AI Strategy

Kale Havervold

To reach the growing number of shoppers that use ChatGPT to ask shopping questions and research products, Amazon has decided ...

The Biggest Opportunity in E-Commerce Right Now Isn't B2C

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The Biggest Opportunity in E-Commerce Right Now Isn’t B2C

Ivana Soldat

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

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Fix This Now or Watch Your Competitors Capture the AI Shopping Wave While You Block It

Ivana Soldat

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

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China’s State TV Did an Exposé on People Eating Their Durians and Then Photoshopping Them as Damaged for a Refund

Ivana Soldat

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

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Italy Adds €2 Fee on Top of EU Customs Charge – Total €7 Per Parcel

Ivana Soldat

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

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Italy Is Boiling and AliExpress Is Restocking Fans Every Single Day

Ivana Soldat

A pandemic clears out hand sanitizer. A war drives up generators. And a relentless early-summer heatwave, the kind that has ...

Etsy Launches New Promotion to Counter Amazon Prime Day

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Etsy Launches New Promotion to Counter Amazon Prime Day

Kale Havervold

Just ahead of Amazon’s Prime Day promotion, Etsy is aiming to gain exposure with a new campaign called “Shop Other ...

This Metric May Be the Best for Judging Marketing Effectiveness

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This Metric May Be the Best for Judging Marketing Effectiveness

Kale Havervold

If you’re driving yourself crazy trying to individually track every marketing metric and link every click to an ad, strategy, ...

Europe's Biggest Retailers Are Asking the EU to Please Not Call Their AI Sofa Photos "Deepfakes"

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Europe’s Biggest Retailers Are Asking the EU to Please Not Call Their AI Sofa Photos “Deepfakes”

Ivana Soldat

The European Union AI Act has a deepfake problem, and it has nothing to do with politicians’ faces or forged ...