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Lazada Claims A Ten Percent Surge In Million Dollar Brands As Overall Market Share Slips To Nine Percent

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Lazada Claims A Ten Percent Surge In Million Dollar Brands As Overall Market Share Slips To Nine Percent

Ivana Soldat

Lazada recently announced that its 9.9 Mega Brands Sale drove a ten percent increase in brands generating at least one ...

Referral Revenue Now Drives Thirty Percent Of New DTC Volume

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Referral Revenue Now Drives Thirty Percent Of New DTC Volume As Paid CAC Remains Structurally Elevated

Ivana Soldat

For most of the last decade, the dominant direct-to-consumer growth model was straightforward, yet expensive. Brands acquired customers through Meta ...

A Fake Deodorant Brand Costing Eleven Dollars Easily Hijacked The AI Shelf

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A Fake Deodorant Brand Costing Eleven Dollars Easily Hijacked The AI Shelf

Ivana Soldat

Brands have spent the last decade optimizing for physical retail shelves and digital search engine results. Now they face a ...

Amazon Expands Multichannel Fulfillment To Lock Merchants Into Prime Delivery Off Platform

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Amazon Expands Multichannel Fulfillment To Lock Merchants Into Prime Delivery Off Platform

Ivana Soldat

Amazon is aggressively extending its logistics tentacles beyond its own marketplace. The company announced that new and existing Multichannel Fulfillment ...

Temu Outsources Compliance Education To Testing Giants As Global Regulatory Scrutiny Intensifies

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Temu Outsources Compliance Education To Testing Giants As Global Regulatory Scrutiny Intensifies

Ivana Soldat

Temu announced an expansion of its seller education programs in collaboration with eight global product testing and certification organizations. The ...

Some Shoppers Regret Trusting AI Shopping Recommendations

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Some Shoppers Regret Trusting AI Shopping Recommendations 

Kale Havervold

Shoppers have a complicated relationship with AI recommendations. While there’s no doubt it’s growing more popular to use them to ...

TikTok Shop Targets Heavy Item Margins With New Logistics Fees Up To 65,000 VND Per Package

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TikTok Shop Targets Heavy Item Margins With New Logistics Fees in Vietnam

Ivana Soldat

Social commerce platforms are systematically shifting the financial burden of logistical friction onto their merchant base. TikTok Shop announced a ...

Retail Media Networks Are Cannibalizing Google Search Budgets As DTC Brands Demand Closed Loop Attribution

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Retail Media Networks Are Cannibalizing Google Search Budgets As DTC Brands Demand Closed Loop Attribution

Ivana Soldat

For the better part of a decade, Google Search served as the unquestioned gravity well of direct-to-consumer paid media. That ...

TikTok Shop Sellers Report Tens Of Thousands In Frozen Payouts Amid Opaque Automated Enforcement

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TikTok Shop Sellers Report Tens Of Thousands In Frozen Payouts Amid Opaque Automated Enforcement

Ivana Soldat

A growing chorus of TikTok Shop merchants is raising alarms over sudden account restrictions and withheld commissions that leave their ...

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Amazon Pushes Seller Assistant Into Anthropic Claude As 90 Percent Of Sellers Adopt AI Tools

Ivana Soldat

Amazon revealed that 90 percent of its selling partners already use third-party AI tools to manage their operations, prompting the ...