Product Discovery

VerticalScope Turns 2 Billion Forum Posts Into AI Shopping Revenue
VerticalScope Turns 2 Billion Forum Posts Into AI Shopping Revenue
November 11, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

VerticalScope is using artificial intelligence (AI) to turn conversations across more than 1,200 online communities into shopping revenue, as declining search traffic puts pressure on...

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Revolve Lifts Revenue per Visit By 50% With AI-Personalized Landing Pages
Revolve Lifts Revenue per Visit By 50% With AI-Personalized Landing Pages
October 30, 2026  |  Retail

A shopper who clicked a Revolve ad used to land on the same brand or category page as everyone else, whatever the ad showed. The...

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Amazon Wins 59% of AI-Assisted Purchases as Checkout Becomes the Prize
Amazon Wins 59% of AI-Assisted Purchases as Checkout Becomes the Prize
October 30, 2026  |  eCommerce

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is doing something that years of retail competition struggled to accomplish. It is teaching consumers to start shopping somewhere other than...

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AI Opens a New Distribution Channel for Credit
AI Opens a New Distribution Channel for Credit
August 31, 2026  |  Credit Cards

Economic pressure is incentivizing consumers more reason to compare the cost of a purchase, the possibility of financing behind it and the alternatives before committing....

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Instacart’s AI Assistant Turns Chitchat Into Cha-Ching
Instacart’s AI Assistant Turns Chitchat Into Cha-Ching
August 24, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Instacart’s advertising business is already one of the largest in retail media. The company generated more than $1 billion in ads and other revenue in...

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Shopify’s AI Traffic Triples as Shoppers Skip the Search Bar
Shopify’s AI Traffic Triples as Shoppers Skip the Search Bar
August 05, 2026  |  Earnings

The agentic shopping shift is most visible at Shopify. Artificial intelligence (AI)-referred traffic to Shopify stores tripled year over year in the second quarter, and...

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The Review Economy Just Became the Recommendation Economy
The Review Economy Just Became the Recommendation Economy
July 20, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become the shopper’s de facto research assistant, reading Amazon and Google reviews, Reddit threads and YouTube videos before anyone opens a...

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83% of ChatGPT Ad Triggers Don’t Exist in Traditional Search
83% of ChatGPT Ad Triggers Don’t Exist in Traditional Search
June 18, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Move over, Google. Digital data research platform Similarweb found that 83% of the queries triggering ads inside OpenAI’s ChatGPT would never have activated a Google...

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Target Tests Shoppable TV to Pitch Summer Products
Target Tests Shoppable TV to Pitch Summer Products
June 12, 2026  |  Retail

Viewers of a new Bravo digital series will be able to discover and shop curated Target products while the series’ hosts discuss fashion, entertaining, travel, swim, beauty and summer trends. The series, “Shop What Happens,”...

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