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Recent Newsletters
#284 – Meta’s Predictions App, Amazon’s Black Market, & X Money’s Launch
Hi Shopifreaks Last year I launched a new project called 90 Second Pitches with the goal of introducing merchants to innovative e-commerce solutions that can help grow their businesses. You can subscribe to the channel on YouTube and LinkedIn. Since then I've had the...
#283 – Shopify Spring ’26 Edition, Faire vs Amazon Business, & Uber customer data
Hi Shopifreaks This is one of my biggest editions of the year, covering everything from Shopify's Spring '26 Edition to Faire's pivot to serve business-use customers. Let's keep this intro incredibly short today and dive right in... In this week's edition I cover:...
#282 – Anthropic’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week
Hi Shopifreaks Before we begin, I'd like to welcome Lebesgue to the Shopifreaks family as our newest official News Partner! 🎉 Lebesgue (pronounced "luh-beg," after the French mathematician Henri Lebesgue) pulls all of your marketing and store data from Shopify, Meta,...
#281 – Amazon Visual Search, Google Search Profiles, & Shopify doesn’t want AI regulation
Hi Shopifreaks I had an influx of new readers this week, so welcome everyone! Thanks for taking the time to reply to my welcome e-mail and introduce yourself. I read all your replies and greatly appreciate knowing who's on the other side of these e-mails, although...
#280 – Amazon’s Subscribe & Switch, Affiliate Hijacking, & WordPress loses market share
Hi Shopifreaks 🎉 Before we begin, I'm excited to present a new pitch from my video series 90 Second Pitches — a channel that helps you discover innovative e-commerce technology from the most promising startups. You can subscribe to the channel...
#279 – Universal Cart, New ChatGPT Ads, & Afterpay Arena
Hi Shopifreaks Ready to see what you missed last week at Google I/O? I've got you covered in this week's jam-packed edition -- one of my favorite editions so far this year. Plus, learn what OpenAI has on its roadmap for ChatGPT ads and why Delta's CEO went with Amazon...
#278 – Product feed ads, Rufus died, & OpenAI wants to sue Apple
Hi Shopifreaks Holy crap I've got a big issue for you today! There was so much e-commerce news this week that half of my feature stories are curations of multiple updates and announcements about a particular company or event. This is truly a jam-packed edition!...
#277 -WTO is deadlocked, Amazon opens its supply chain, & OpenAI launches an ads manager
Hi Shopifreaks I've got a BIG edition for you today with feature stories about Amazon's new Supply Chain Services, WTO deadlocks, ChatGPT ads managers, and more, so I'll keep this intro short. However, I did want to ask you a quick favor... Are you enjoying...
#276 – GameStop wants to buy eBay, Commerce pivots, & Shopify’s money transmitter license
Hi Shopifreaks Last week I had the pleasure of attending Commerce Live in Chicago and meeting several Commerce team members, including CEO Travis Hess, who was kind enough to do an AMA with me and answer reader-submitted questions. Watch the first video here and...
#275 – Blatant price fixing, BigCommerce transaction fees, & Streaming-as-a-Service
Hi Shopifreaks As you're reading this, I'm currently on a plane en route from Cuenca, Ecuador to Chicago, Illinois to attend Commerce Live, the annual BigCommerce event formerly known as BigSummit, to talk about the future of the industry with my fellow e-commerce...
#274 – X Money will destroy the world, UPS is RFID everywhere, & Amazon knew it was price-fixing
Hi Shopifreaks Help me out! Next week I'm interviewing Commerce CEO Travis Hess. What should I ask him? Hit reply and let me know what questions I should bring to the table about the future of BigCommerce, Feedonomics, and Makeswift. I'll curate the best questions and...
#273 – Rezolve’s hostile takeover, Shopify’s AI Toolkit, and PayPal’s big social commerce move
Hi Shopifreaks 🎉 Before we begin, I'm excited to present a new pitch from my video series 90 Second Pitches -- a channel that helps you discover innovative e-commerce technology from the most promising startups. You can subscribe to the channel on YouTube &...
#272 – Shopify B2B For All, Amazon Fuel Surcharges, & OpenAI’s Secret Coalition
Hi Shopifreaks The biggest news this week -- my daughter turned 3 years old on Sunday! Happy Birthday to Mia! How quickly time flies. It simultaneously feels like Mia just arrived, but also that she's been in our lives forever. She's growing into an amazing little...
#271 – 24/7 Amazon Delivery, Meta Tests AI Shopping, & Round Two For Shopify and ChatGPT
Hi Shopifreaks Lots of e-commerce news and big announcements from Shoptalk 2026 this week. The edition after Shoptalk each year is always a big one! The overall trend of this week's edition seems to be that Big Tech companies are learning from their past mistakes and...
#270 – Amazon vs USPS, Google updates UCP, & Walmart launches a ChatGPT app
Hi Shopifreaks Before we get started, I just wanted to say thank you for your readership. Many of you have been with me since the very beginning when I launched Shopifreaks in January 2021 -- which feels like a lifetime ago in the world of e-commerce! I'm sure it...
#269 – Amazon vs Perplexity, Trump’s $10B Commission, & Shop Direct’s Breakout
Hi Shopifreaks 🎉 Before we begin, I'm excited to present a new pitch from my video series 90 Second Pitches -- a channel that helps you discover innovative e-commerce technology from the most promising startups. You can subscribe to the channel on YouTube &...
#268 – Delayed Checkout, Meta AI Shopping, & Google’s patent to take your traffic
Hi Shopifreaks I've got a big edition today jam-packed with stories about AI commerce -- what it could've been, and what it actually is in 2026. Is agentic commerce a solution looking for a problem? Or was OpenAI simply too early with Instant Checkout? I'd love to...