The Order : Weekly Aggregator Roundup - Retail media & VC bets

Chart of the Week

The team at Retail Media Works put together a helpful guide on the emergence of the retail media category in "How Brands Can Capture the Opportunity from Retail Media". Slides here.

Advertising Market US [Retail Media Works via Insider Principal]

New funding this week: $ - M

Funding Craze 💰

• 2022 VC Spotlight: "12 of the VC firms most active in funding e-commerce startups told us what they're looking for in an investment — and shared the biggest bets they're making for the future" [Business Insider]

Movers & Shakers 🤝

• APAC: IPO delayed - "Notice of delay in listing procedures" [Anymind]

Strategy 📈

• 2023 Planning? A good time to reflect on the flaws of the FBA aggregator model. Ex Amazonian & ex Unybrands CTOs provides you with a good starter on this: Part 1 | Part 2 (with more to come)

• Amazon Fee Update: "Amazon Shifts Some Return-Shipping Costs to Sellers" [eCommerce Bytes]

• Amazon tactics: "A 26-year-old who makes up to $107,000 in revenue a month selling on Amazon shares the top 5 tips that help rank his products on the first page" [Business Insider]

• Expect Buy Box updates: "Amazon Agrees to Change Some Business Practices in E.U. Settlement" [NY Times]

• Amazon's Air Cargo Move: "Winging It: Inside Amazon’s Quest to Seize the Skies" [Wired]

• "Amazon Attempts Social Commerce" [Marketplace Pulse]

• "Shopify’s $118 Billion Rout Slows Canada’s Stellar Stock-Market Run" [Bloomberg]

• eCom sales keep growing: "How Walmart is pursuing omnichannel profitability" [Grocery Dive]

• "BigCommerce Laying Off 13% of Staff, Focusing on Larger Customers" [The Information]

• "Quiet Light Founder on State of Ecommerce M&A" [Practical Ecommerce]

• "Senate passes bill to ban TikTok on government devices" [Axios]

• "Allbirds: New Direct-to-Consumer Playbook" [Business of Fashion]

• "Pandemic e-commerce boom here to stay" [Axios]

• "Returning packages is getting way less annoying as Amazon, UPS, and FedEx embrace 'no-box, no-label' returns" [Business Insider]

Events 🎤

• eCom Camp, Jan 8-10, Orlando, FL

• Prosper Show, Mar 13-15, Las Vegas, NV

ChatGPT's Weekly eCom news 🤖

The engine refused to write about the news this week. New forms of labor are requiring new forms of management. I'll hopefully succeed next week 😆

Let's make this week count,

Christian