{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Digital Commerce Daily","title":"The Digital Commerce Daily — June 24, 2026","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":419,"description":"The Digital Commerce Daily — June 24, 2026\n\nYour 8-minute briefing on ecommerce, social commerce, and digital marketing.\n\nIn today's episode:\n• Amazon Prime Day 2026 is running four days for the first time and early sales projections now exceed Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined — a landmark moment for ecommerce.\n• Walmart is acquiring ad-tech startup Vibe.co, doubling down on streaming and shoppable media as it builds a direct rival to Amazon's full-funnel commerce advertising stack.\n• Amazon's new Alexa+ agentic ad format embeds paid placements directly inside AI shopping conversations, raising urgent questions about how brands compete for visibility in a post-search world.\n\nFun fact: Shopify's entire platform went down for roughly 24 hours in 2019, yet the company's merchant count actually grew faster in the following quarter than the one before the outage — suggesting that for many small businesses, there was simply nowhere else credible to go. At the time, Shopify was processing over $1 million in transactions every minute during peak hours, making that blackout one of the most expensive single-platform outages in ecommerce history.\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}