Another set of results from last year and again there seems to be plenty of growth IF you have the right product selling through the right mix of channels.

As always, the sands are shifting and as Google declines we are fascinated by the rise of retail media. 

After a summer (and early Autumn!) break we're back with more good news from the front-line of ecommerce. It's the high point of activity for the retail year and as Patrick says in our fun and possibly self-indulgent podcast …

Lots more company reports out this week with some great results both in the UK and around the world. The reopening of the Chinese economy has been driving strong demand…

Lots of good news this week as Q1 reports come in and the general macro-economic picture starts to look rosier. This morning there is news in that Sainsbury's has started to cut prices…

It is difficult to see how well or badly things are going at the moment. Many companies are reporting a rise in turnover but drop in profits. There definitely seems to be a shaking out of bad business models…

As we all try to get our heads around the implications of GPT/LLMs it looks like there are two things that can be stated with confidence and we are going to allow ourselves the naughty treat of making a prediction…

It is nice to see His Majesty's Government being effective after all these years of chaos; the solution to Silicon Valley Bank's collapse has been swift, elegant and doesn't involve tax payers' money…

It is a bit quiet on the news front this week but work is definitely picking up here at Tame Towers. There seems to be plenty of movement in the jobs market and some encouraging signs…

Predictions about Christmas spending were wrong according to the ONS. Rail strikes, postal strikes and consumer's resolve to tighten their belts hardly affected sales (but read to the end of the article below to see if this...

ChatGPT musings... Is this the end of search as we know it? There are so many opinions about ChatGPT that it is difficult to know where to start. From a digital marketing POV, one thing seems (?)...

Meta, Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet have been making swinging cuts in their staff this year. A couple of points here - firstly, this follow periods where they had been hiring like crazy so this is probably...

As the metropolitan elite fly their PJs into Davos to turn oxygen into CO2 whilst they discuss climate change, it is now widely reported in the press that the prediction of a massive worldwide recession may have been...

At times like these, it does seem as though just the top and the bottom are doing well. But if Tescos can do well...could it be because they have the lowest petrol prices?? There is...

Almost all the economic base costs seem to be heading in the right direction at the moment and certainly we have been pleasantly surprised by the amount of work we have on at the moment;...

Welcome to this week’s ecommerce & digital news. OK - so I got it wrong last week about China easing its Covid restrictions... Meanwhile coffee is coming down in price and it looks like Black...

Happy Black Friday fortnight! Five global macro-economic factors that should make us feel better 1) China easing zero-covid policy 2) German hard data better than feared 3) Energy prices falling 4) Fed pivot? 5) Global shipping...

US Inflation came in lower than expected last week - will this feed into better news on interest rates? Probably not immediately but at least the ecommerce news is moving in the right direction. Despite...

Now for some non-inflation news...Gas continues to fall in price meanwhile over on Twitter, despite the headlines, staple food items such as rice and corn are now at a lower price than this time last year and...