- Shoppers Let AI Pick The Shoes But Not The Price Tag
Research Intelligencer, Robert Williams - Wednesday, March 18, 2026
About 38% of Americans say they have already completed a purchase direct ...
- Facebook Marketplace Sales Now Aided By Meta AI
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Thursday, March 12, 2026
Meta has announced that it will introduce new AI-powered features on Facebo ...
- YouTube Surpasses Combined Ad Buys Of Disney, Paramount, NBC, WBD
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Tuesday, March 10, 2026
YouTube now ranks as the world's largest video media company - beati ...
- ChatGPT More Likely To Criticize Brands Near Purchase
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, March 9, 2026
Google's AI Overviews and OpenAI's ChatGPT have very different ways to evaluat ...
- OpenAI Retreating From Agentic Commerce
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, March 5, 2026
OpenAI apparently no longer wants to handle commerce payments, cancellations, refunds a ...
- Meta Tests Shopping Recommendations In Chatbot Browser
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Wednesday, March 4, 2026
Meta is expanding ecommerce opportunities within its AI chatbot, testing new shoppi ...
- Instagram Faces Backlash Due To 'Shop The Look' Recommendations
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Monday, March 2, 2026
Creators are feeling deceived by Instagram's "Shop the Look" AI-powered shopping tes ...
- Deterministic Data A Major Factor In Infillion Acquisition Of Catalina
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, February 24, 2026
AI-operated buying will become the norm within the next five years, wi ...
- Reddit Tests 'Shoppable' Community Recommendations
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Thursday, February 19, 2026
Reddit is testing a new AI-powered search feature designed to showcase produc ...
- Albertsons To Test ChatGPT Ads
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, February 12, 2026
Albertsons Companies, the latest major brand to buy media on OpenAI ChatG ...
- Google Reinvents Ads, Drives Search Agentic
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, February 11, 2026
"We aren't just bringing ads to AI experiences in Search; we a ...
- Twitch Introduces Pause-Screen Ads
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Tuesday, February 10, 2026
Following the release of a live-shopping feature, Twitch announced a new ...
- TikTok Shop Launches Product Amplification Program
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Friday, February 6, 2026
TikTok is attempting to bring in more retailers with a new Sh ...
- AI For Legacy Media: The Good, The Bad, And The Emotional
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, February 9, 2026
AI could be used to identify viewers who are bored or disinterest ...
- Meta To Expand Consumer-Facing AI Products In 2026
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Thursday, January 29, 2026
The decision to develop and launch AI-powered shopping tools follows Meta's rece ...
- Yahoo Teams With Anthropic To Build AI Search Across Network
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Yahoo today launched its branded AI companion to guide users across i ...
- TikTok Shop Offers Merchants More AI-Powered Tools
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Monday, January 19, 2026
TikTok Shop is attempting to boost merchant sales with the introduction ...
- Google Moves Agentic Shopping Across Search, Gemini With Retailers
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Sunday, January 11, 2026
Open standards and tools announced this week will solve problems in real-ti ...
- Omnicom Shopper Marketing Agency TPN Folded Into Flywheel
MAD, Steve McClellan - Wednesday, January 7, 2026
With the move, Sarah Cunningham, formerly president of TPN, assumes the ro ...
- TikTok Shop Launches Digital Gift Cards During Holiday Season
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Tuesday, December 23, 2025
TikTok Shop is rolling out digital gift cards, aligning TikTok in dire ...
- Many Happy Returns: Refunds, Exchanges Declined Earlier In The Season
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, December 17, 2025
Adobe expects returns to rise by 25% to 35% from Dec. 26-De ...
- Cyber Week Reckoning: Sales Are Up - And AI Agent Use
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Friday, November 28, 2025
Salesforce projects Black Friday sales of $18 billion in the U.S. ...
- 'Tis The Season Of Intentional Holiday Shopping
Mediapsssst, Richard Whitman - Friday, November 21, 2025
82% of Americans are prioritizing low cost and high impact when ...
- Black Friday Haul: Salesforce Projects Strong Cyber Week Sales
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Thursday, November 20, 2025
Almost 20% of orders seen during the lead-up to Cyber Week we ...
- In-Store Media Drives Triple The Product Trial Impact Of Digital Ads
Research Intelligencer, Robert Williams - Wednesday, November 12, 2025
New research highlights $3-plus incremental ROAS and the rise of the "impul ...
- Pick Me! Brands Can No Longer 'Buy Their Way' Into Consumers' Hearts
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Brands are experiencing the largest transfer of marketing power in a generatio ...
- Google Advances Autonomous Agent Transactions
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, October 30, 2025
A real-time streaming architecture is being developed as the next step f ...
- Pinterest Intros AI-Powered Recommendations
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Pinterest is introducing new in-feed AI-powered product recommendations, in an effort ...
- Cyber Week Bait: Discounts, Free Shipping Expected To Boost Holiday Sales
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, October 22, 2025
The average person will spend $340 on Black Friday and $300 ...
- Language Alert: 'Snowman' Becomes 'Snowperson' On QVC
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Thursday, October 2, 2025
A tin filled with Russell Stover chocolates and shaped like a tradition ...