The Mind-to-Market Future is Infinitely Shoppable

We peer into commerce’s self-driven future and see new frontiers arising for AV-centric city planning, (more) invasive advertisement integration, commerce-based search engines, and Meta mind control. PLUS: Phillip and Brian designate their week’s heroes and villains, and we get excited about the official Adobe x Future Commerce Shoptalk After Party!

Think It, And It Will Be Done

Key takeaways:

• [9:00] News from the week: Shopify earnings, Klaviyo, bird flu, and the latest from Future Commerce.
• [15:30] Autonomous Vehicles Will Redesign Commerce: AVs will create massive changes in urban planning, retail, and logistics.
• [19:00] Amazon’s Next Big Move: The company is now allowing advertisers to drive traffic off-site, signaling its ambition to become the next big search engine.
• [23:00] Ad Takeover: Everything – even your car’s infotainment screen – eventually becomes a surface for advertisement.
• [42:00] Klaviyo’s B2C Event: Klaviyo announces Built for B2C livestream event, happening Thursday 2/20.
• [49:30] Meta Brain: Meta releases research on mind reading via magnetic therapy and AI-assisted analysis.
• [1:05:00] Heroes and Villains: Phillip and Brian’s biggest winners and losers of the past week in commerce.
• “Amazon is about to become the biggest search engine for product discovery. Google should be worried.” — Phillip
• “The Gulf of Fortune, brought to you by Panda Doc.” – Brian
• “We’ve seen heart rates submitted as evidence, truth serums outlawed by the Geneva Convention. I have to believe that things like this are not Black Mirror, but actual legitimate real things that will be used in positive and negative ways. That to me seems scary.” – Phillip 
• “I think this is going to be a retooling of the way we think.” – Brian

In-Show Mentions:

• Join us at Rivea for the official Adobe x Future Commerce Shoptalk After Party
• Order LORE by Future Commerce on Metalabel
• Fortune: Some Jeep owners are being hit with pop-up ads inside their cars.
• The Age of Agglomeration: Our predictions report from January.
• Netflix Bites (Good luck finding the menu?)

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• Listen to our other episodes of Future Commerce

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