10 minutes
What is Agentic Commerce? How AI is Redefining the Shopper Journey
From the dawn of ecommerce, product discovery started with the search bar. That's not the case today. Today's AI shopping agents across retailers and even LLMs help us search for, compare, and in some cases, buy products. This is the new age of commerce.
8 minutes
ChatGPT Ads in 2026: Early Results, Best Practices, and How to Get Started
OpenAI launched ads in ChatGPT earlier this year, and the early campaigns are already teaching us things that don't match what we expected. This guide covers what ChatGPT Ads are, how they work, what the first wave of results is showing, and how to get started, with learnings from a webinar Pacvue hosted with OpenAI and Kepler.
7 minutes
AI for Advertising: How Modern Advertisers Can Leverage AI to Drive Growth
If you’re thinking about how to use AI in marketing, the gap between advertisers who use AI and those who don't is widening. AI-powered advertising teams are making better decisions, moving faster, and getting more out of ad budgets. This guide explains what they’re doing differently.
15 minutes
AI in Action: Real-Time Retail Signals and Smarter Campaign Performance for Peak Shopping Moments
Peak shopping events don’t reward preparation alone. They reward the ability to act on what’s happening right now. The brands that win aren’t necessarily the ones with the biggest budgets. They’re the ones whose AI layer sees a Buy Box shift, an inventory drain, or a conversion window opening, and responds before the opportunity closes or the damage accumulates. Intelligence, automation, and governed action working as one system: that’s what separates peak performance from peak spend.
15 minutes
The 2026 Commerce Outlook: How AI, DSP, and Commerce Platforms Drive Performance
Retailers are building full-funnel, AI-powered ecosystems designed to connect media, commerce, and measurement. The brands that win will not be the ones optimizing the fastest inside ad platforms. They will be the ones aligning media performance to business outcomes.
9 minutes
The Next Era of Retail Media Optimization: How AI Turns Retail Media into a Growth Engine
Retail media has reached an inflection point. What began as a way to control ad budgets has become one of the largest profit drivers in digital commerce. Yet many brands still treat retail media as a cost center rather than a growth engine. The truth is that efficiency alone no longer delivers competitive advantage. A […]
4 minutes
Amazon unBoxed 2025: What Amazon’s AI-Powered Future Means for Advertisers
Amazon’s annual unBoxed 2025 is bringing together thousands of advertisers, brands, and agencies to explore the future of retail media, innovation, and customer connection. The event is underscoring a clear message: commerce is evolving faster than ever, with data, measurement, and AI-driven optimization leading the way. From new agents to reports, this year’s announcements showcased […]
7 minutes
Sparky and Marty: The New Walmart AI Tools and What They Mean for Brands and Agencies
Walmart shoppers can now “Ask Sparky” to help them shop in a more efficient way. Sparky, Walmart’s new AI-powered super-agent (the smiley face icon in the app), supports the retailer’s goal to have ecommerce account for half its total sales in five years. Sparky’s purpose: grow digital sales by improving shopper experience and, in Walmart’s […]
11 minutes
How to Leverage AI in Your Retail Media Strategy: Rufus AI, Amazon AI-Powered Discovery, Ad Automation, and more
Amazon is changing the experience for online shoppers in a major way with the introduction of Rufus, Amazon AI-powered discovery, and other tech advancements. Prime Day 2025 will be a proving ground for some of these new shopping tools and for vendors testing their Amazon AI strategy. What are these tools and what do brands […]
4 minutes
Industry Leaders Demystify AI-Powered Search Over Breakfast
It’s no secret—AI is the latest technological gold rush. This year, Microsoft is investing $80 billion to build AI-enabled data centers for training AI models and deploying AI-powered and cloud-based applications. And they’re not alone. Heralded as the next industrial revolution, AI is already transforming the way business is conducted, including the way we search, shop, […]
3 minutes
January 31 Weekly Retail Roundup
Catch up on this week’s news, including: New AI solutions from Amazon and OpenAI, Microsoft shares its commitment to Commerce media, and Instacart tackling the Superbowl
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