Influencers Mostly Skip Disclosure
September 4, 2026 • Beata Twardowska
The challenge with enforcing disclosure rules starts with the definition.
Business
Hal Smith of H Street Digital says lowering customer acquisition cost on Meta and Google starts with the offer.
Marketing & Advertising
For ecommerce merchants, retail media is potentially a new revenue source from companies they know and work with.
New products and services this week support international shipping and payments, conversational ads, social commerce, dropshipping, reputation management, and more.
Content Marketing
Thanks to cheap, infinite copy from generative AI, the questions to answer have changed.
SEO
There's no substitute for direct relationships with shoppers.
Paid Post
Marketing & Advertising
When it works, retail media generates net revenue for retailer-publishers and profitable customers for advertisers.
Marketing & Advertising
Kenny Trusnik of Forest City Digital says start with extensive product data in a structured environment.
Inventory
Velocity can signal coming stockouts or, conversely, markdowns and phase-outs.
Google Ads
Google Ads video ad sequence campaigns show multiple clips in a specific order to individual viewers.
Platforms & Apps
New products and services for payments, agentic commerce, AI visibility, product customizers, omnichannel fulfillment, dropshipping, email marketing, and customer experiences.
SEO Tools
Yes, Google's Disavow tool remains useful for manual, link-related penalties.
The challenge with enforcing disclosure rules starts with the definition.
Content marketers in October can explore Winnie-the-Pooh, Halloween, AI vs. humans, company archives, and breaking news.
Hiding the full URL of listings is the search giant's latest attempt to block bot access.
Google's John Mueller confirms that Search Console lists AI Mode prompts as queries.
Will shoppers use AI mostly on external platforms, or on-site directly with merchants?
Today's cart abandonment automations can do more than remind shoppers what they left behind.
Per DHL, Nigeria exceeds the global average for expected ecommerce expansion.
Ecommerce SMBs can compete where delivery speed creates value, not where it merely adds cost.
This week's rollouts include tools for payments, shipping, affiliate marketing, CRMs, supply chain, merchant-of-record services, and more.
This week's installment includes products and services for popups, site builders, subscriber lists, drone deliveries, livestreaming, virtual try-ons, and more.
Supported by the government and private investors, Russian manufacturers are seeking foreign customers.
Steve Woda is founder of BuySafe, a firm that offers insurance for the safety and reliability of ecommerce transactions.