Ecommosaurus Podcast · 2026-06-01 · 50 min
May 2026 was a lot, and the Ecommosaurus crew is here to make sense of it. Google made its most aggressive move into commerce yet with a Universal Cart, Universal Commerce Protocol, and a Gemini-powered shopping agent that has Amazon squarely in its crosshairs. Amazon fired back by retiring Rufus and unleashing Alexa for Shopping, an AI assistant that knows not just what you searched but everything you have ever bought, browsed, or lingered on. Meanwhile GameStop tried to buy eBay for $55 billion, got rejected, and Ryan Cohen responded by listing his own socks on the platform. The crew also covers ChatGPT rolling out deals and cashback offers, OpenAI opening its ad platform to everyone, Amazon quietly slashing affiliate commissions, tokenmaxxing at Amazon HQ, a Disney exec who named his AI chatbot and loves him like a son, and the return of Vine under a new name by the same guy who killed it the first time. May was unhinged. This episode covers all of it. This podcast is sponsored by 50-Pound Boson, an ecommerce marketing agency that aims to help small to medium - sized brand owners grow their ecommerce sales channels.
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