{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Digital Commerce Daily","title":"The Digital Commerce Daily — May 19, 2026","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/6e8d5d52\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":438,"description":"The Digital Commerce Daily — May 19, 2026\n\nYour 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.\n\nIn today's episode:\n• Amazon has quietly slashed affiliate commissions by up to 50% while gutting reporting tools, forcing publishers to urgently rethink their commerce revenue models.\n• German marketplace giant Otto is piloting access for Polish sellers next month, signalling a deliberate cross-border expansion strategy inside the EU single market.\n• New benchmark data shows Google Ads CPCs continued climbing in 2025 but conversion rates also rose, forcing ecommerce advertisers to rethink whether rising costs are actually eroding returns.\n\nFun fact: Shopify merchants collectively sold more on Black Friday 2023 than the entire GDP of Iceland — hitting $9.3 billion in a single day. At its peak, that was $4.2 million in sales processed every minute across the platform.\n\nHosted by Marco and Klara.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/SivQuI9DtkOFmcJqbThFf84ROWQ9UToPgipsXpYRWQ0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80ZTE1/YWY2NTc1NzhhZmNh/ZTMzYTk3NzUyMzVk/ZTcyNi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}