Author: Russ Dieringer

Amazon 2Q26 Follow-Up: Prime Day Math, Margins in Context, and Grocery’s 180

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Amazon 2Q26 Results: Key Takeaways for Consumer Brands

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TL;DR: Amazon’s 2Q26 results beat the top of its own guidance, with estimated GMV growing +14.4%, but Prime Day’s move into June did most of the heavy lifting. Stripping out the event, we estimate GMV grew +8.7% and ads grew +20.3%, both faster than the respective markets, but decelerations from 1Q. We have lowered our […]

Take Control of Your Amazon Sponsored Ads | Webinar Recap

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TL;DR: Sponsored Products remain the core of Amazon advertising budgets, and most accounts leak spend through a lack of control. Jake Merrill and Sam Jennings of Odyssey eCommerce shared ten tactics for finding and fixing wasted spend across campaign setup, targeting, and optimization, each with a specific place to check in the ad console and […]

Winning Multi-Dimensional Amazon Product Launches in the AI Era | Webinar Recap

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TL;DR: Successfully launching a product means winning across inter-linked elements at once: keywords, personalized results, Alexa and Sparky, off-retailer agents, and paid media. Amanda Wolff of ProductWind shared the importance of understanding where a product fits in its category, writing for shoppers and AI simultaneously, using creators in efficient ways, and timing advertising onsite and […]

AI Content Creation: What 280 brands revealed

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Prime Day 2026 Recap and Self-Assessment

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TL;DR: We estimate sales grew 8.9-9.5% year-over-year, inline with Amazon’s underlying growth rate heading in. No demand surprises, no meaningful share leakage to competing events, and another quarter of CPG outrunning the company average. Of course, results varied by individual company based on the degree of their promotional breadth and depth, and how they leveraged […]

Agentic Commerce: Start with Organizational Questions

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TL;DR: Most brands are asking the wrong question about agentic commerce. Measurement gaps are real, but the bigger issue is organizational: 35% of enterprise brands have no one responsible for it. Leaders aren’t waiting for perfect data. They’ve named an owner and are actively testing. Pro Tip: Read the article first and then get tailored […]

Agentic Commerce: All Paths Lead to Ads

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