Growing Ecommerce – The Retail Growth Podcast
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Episodes: 118
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Feed your growth mindset. Ecommerce is growing, and so are the challenges and opportunities for online retailers. In the Growing Ecommerce podcast, Mike Ryan and other smec experts are joined by industry leaders in ecommerce, digital marketing, and data science. By sharing business trends, practical solutions, and best practices, this podcast helps online retailers solve the challenges of tomorrow.
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Exact Match in Google AI Mode: What It Means for Your Ads
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Sep 29, 2026 |
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PMax Channel Controls: What the New Sliders Do to Your Budget
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Sep 22, 2026 |
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Amazon Faked a Bidder for 7 Years — What It Cost You
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Sep 15, 2026 |
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Everyone Raised Their tROAS 12% — Most of Them Shouldn't Have
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Sep 08, 2026 |
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ChatGPT Ads Hit Europe: Why Your First 3 Months Will Disappoint
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Sep 01, 2026 |
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We Were Wrong About Google - Here's What We're Correcting
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Aug 18, 2026 |
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1 in 4 of Your Exact-Match Impressions Now Come From AI Max
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Aug 11, 2026 |
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Meta's Ad Costs Are Rising: What It Means for Your Budget
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Aug 04, 2026 |
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Google’s CSS "20% Discount" Myth, Busted | Plus: The Hidden CPC Tax of PMax + Shopping
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Jul 28, 2026 |
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A German Court Just Made Google Liable for Its AI | Plus: Temu & Shein Fall Off a Cliff
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Jul 21, 2026 |
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AI Max vs DSA, PMax vs Shopping, tROAS vs Max Conv. Value | Google Ads World Cup
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Jul 14, 2026 |
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Google's Smart Bidding Change: Why Your ROAS Is About to Drop
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Jul 07, 2026 |
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Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) Explained: What Every Ecommerce Brand Must Know
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Jun 30, 2026 |
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Google Goes a Box Too Far — Plus Why OpenAI’s $100B Ad Dream Doesn’t Add Up
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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Google's AI Now Picks Which Product You Sell | Plus: ChatGPT Shopping Ads Arrive Too
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Jun 16, 2026 |
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The EU Is Breaking Temu & Shein — Plus Google's Hidden AI Metric
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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Meta Overtakes Google in Ad Spend & What It Means for Ecommerce │GML 2026 Recap
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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Google Just Added Text Ads to Shopping Campaigns — Is AI Max for Shopping a Win or a Trap?
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May 26, 2026 |
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Don't Buy ChatGPT Ads Until You Watch This (Plus: The Google Cloud vs AWS Cage-Match)
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May 19, 2026 |
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RIP DSA: What to expect from September's Sunset
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May 12, 2026 |
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How OpenAI Just Lost the Ecommerce War
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May 05, 2026 |
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Inside Google's UCP playbook — why OpenAI CAN'T catch up
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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OpenAI's "Delusional" $100B Ad Target | Plus: The Fall of Allbirds
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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The “Amazon Killer”? How JD's Joybuy Invades Europe | PLUS: Meta's Zero-Click Threat
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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OpenAI’s $25 BILLION Loss – is Agentic Shopping Dead?
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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How the Top 1% Retailers Run Google Ads in 2026
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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Temu Hits 71% Market Share – Should You Worry? Plus: Google's Coming for Your Landing Pages
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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Sam Altman SCREWS UP ChatGPT Shopping | Plus: Google Product Feed Deep Dive
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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The State of PPC 2026: Live from SMX Munich w/ Wijnard Meijer (TrueClicks) and Frederick Vallaeys (Optmyzr)
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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The end of Dynamic Search Ads is here! Insights from 200+ AI Max campaigns
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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The Expensive Problem with Google’s Search Partner Network (SPN): Insights from 1,500+ Campaigns
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Is ROAS Overrated? – Why the “Revenue Trap” Might Kill Your Google Ads Profit
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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PMax vs. Standard Shopping? – 3 Google Ads Myths Busted
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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Google’s UCP Explained: Will "Agentic Commerce" Replace Search in 2026?
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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Ecommerce Trends 2026: Google AI, Temu & CPC Forecast
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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Are Your Google Ads Lying to You? - Marginal ROAS Explained
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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Black Friday Bloodbath: ROAS Down 12%, Gross Margins Down 9% | Post-Mortem Data
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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Google is bidding on the WRONG products: The ‘Clicked vs. Bought’ dilemma explained
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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Google AI Max is A TRAP?! New Data on ROAS, Demand Gen & DSA Sunset
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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Google's $155 Billion Backlog: The Real Cost of Advertising
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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CPC Crisis: 30% Inflation is Here! What now?
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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Google & OpenAI are FORCING You to Pay: The AI Ad Overhaul
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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Zalando is Banning Shoppers: Are Returns Killing YOUR Profits?
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Google Email Leak Explained: What’s coming next to Google Ads?
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Google AI’s Secret Plan: The BIGGEST THREAT to Your Retail Business Yet?
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Google's A/I Max & The Temu Takeover: Navigating the E-commerce Future
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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AI's Reality Check: Financial Bubble or Foundation for the Future?
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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Google vs. Amazon vs. TikTok vs. Meta: Welcome to the AI Ad Wars
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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Is AI Shattering Google’s Fortress? Plus: Inside Amazon’s Risky Ads Test
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Google Marketing Live Recap: AI Overviews, PMax reporting, AI Max, and more
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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Big exits & bold bets: Temu stops ads in US while OpenAI enters ecommerce. Plus, debating the marketwide pivot to profit.
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May 08, 2025 |
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Will AI Break Google Search? Plus: Tariff Shocks & the Rise of Zero-Click
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May 01, 2025 |
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Instagram's Fake AI Influencers? Plus: A CSAM Scandal Rocks Google & Zuckerberg’s Moderation Cuts
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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2025 State of PMax Report, plus: Zuckerberg shrugs ads, Amazon shares its ad stack
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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New co-host, same chaos: Amazon Haul, Nike's DTC regrets, Perplexity AI Shopping, and more
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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2024 Year End Recap: Google’s Legal Challenges, Amazon vs. Temu, and Other Platform News
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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Q2 Highlights: Wins and losses for Netflix, Amazon, Pinterest, and Google
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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Tech's Impact on Health & Beauty with Rob Davis of THG
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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Google Marketing Live: Ads in an AI-First Search Experience
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May 28, 2024 |
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The State of MarTech with Daniel Smulevich
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May 14, 2024 |
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Behind Temu's Digital Advertising Landslide
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Google's MMM Answer to Meta's Robyn, plus a change in Temu's strategy
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Marketplaces: Navigating the Digital Storefront Landscape with Vinny O'Brien
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Temu & SHEIN: Dissecting China's Ecomm Conquest with Stefan Wenzel
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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The Future of Ecommerce Advertising in the Post-Cookie Era
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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Google Ads' New Frontiers: Performance Max, Demand Gen, and YouTube Shorts
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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The Future of Pay-Per-Click Advertising: A Conversation with Wijnand Meijer
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Product Segmentation for Ecommerce: Tackling Efficiency and Scale
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Google's Auction Games: Beneficial or Manipulative?
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Exploring Amazon's Edge, AI Influence in Ecommerce, and Ad Tech Future
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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The Impact of Google's Automation on Advertisers
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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Performance Max: Navigating the Labyrinth of Mystery Placements and Estimations
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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An In-depth Look at Digital Marketing with Stefan Bures from metoda
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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Exploring Feed-Based Advertising and AI in Product Management with adidas's Senior Product Manager, Onur Polat
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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Shedding Light on Marketing Mix Modeling: Lampenwelt's Data-Driven Strategies
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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Unveiling the Power of Generative AI in Ad Campaigns
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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Google Marketing Live: Exploring the Impact on Ecommerce
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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Power of AI in Ecommerce: Bing Search with Fabrice Canel
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May 16, 2023 |
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Google Ads and PMax: The Great Brand vs. Non-Brand Debate
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Increase Your Reach and Profitability with Microsoft Advertising
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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Forecasting for Ecommerce: Guide to profitability
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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AI in marketing: BING vs. Google (The War of Search Engines), prompt engineering, and what are we doing wrong?
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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Ecommerce in the UK: Performance Max, Microsoft Ads and Agency vs in-house.
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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2022 ecommerce retro: Consumer Confidence, Inflation and Google Ads funnel metrics.
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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Building brand on data: Amazon advertising for retailers.
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Advertising 60 million products: How to set and measure your paid advertising?
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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Google Analytics 4: challenges, opportunities, and how to collect your data?
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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COO: How to integrate marketing & operations for better Facebook campaigns
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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Black Friday: What is ahead for retailers?
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Marketing growth, experimentation, and modeling with Mike Taylor
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Modern marketer: How to stay ahead of changing Google Ads landscape?
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Search Engine Marketing: organic, paid, or all of the above?
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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How to measure ecommerce growth with Alex Greifeld?
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Customer Lifetime Value with data scientist Katherine Munro
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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Contemplating Google Ads and growth with Kirk Williams
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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Programmatic Advertising behind the scenes with Markus Harant
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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Google Advertising uncovered with Ginny Marvin
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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Social Commerce and sustainability: passing trends or opportunities?
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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A CEO's guide to Pricing Strategies that make a difference
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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Performance Max for Online Retailers
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Confessions of marketing VP - Scale now or measure forever
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May 19, 2022 |
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Ecommerce trend update: changing business models and client acquisition
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May 05, 2022 |
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DTC Operator: How to keep your competitors close but clients closer?
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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Performance Max: One Google Ad campaign to rule them all
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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How online retailers stay ahead of emerging economic challenges
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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NRF Special: Trends, challenges and future of ecommerce - Europe vs US based retailers.
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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ROAS Pathology and its top challenges
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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Panel: Grow or Die in ecommerce
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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A roundtable discussion of price and promotional strategy for Q4 2021
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Sep 26, 2021 |
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A masterclass in DTC ecommerce with the Miami HEAT
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Building teams and driving growth in different business contexts
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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A CMO’s guide to grabbing market share in a highly competitive vertical
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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How to succeed in modern digital advertising: Unlock growth potential by fully embracing automation
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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A serial startup CMO’s guide to channel mix, scale, and audience
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Jul 20, 2021 |
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Trailblazing new paths in paid search automation
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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Digital Marketing through the lense of a technical marketer
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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From digital transformation to exponential organization
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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Connecting the dots from online to offline
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May 11, 2021 |