
Growing Ecommerce – The Retail Growth Podcast
Feed your growth mindset. Ecommerce is growing, and so are the challenges and opportunities for online retailers. In the Growing Ecommerce podcast, Mike Ryan and other smec experts are joined by industry leaders in ecommerce, digital marketing, and data science. By sharing business trends, practical solutions, and best practices, this podcast helps online retailers solve the challenges of tomorrow.
Podcasting since 2021 • 69 episodes
Growing Ecommerce – The Retail Growth Podcast
Latest Episodes
Google Marketing Live Recap: AI Overviews, PMax reporting, AI Max, and more
Google is positioning AI at the center of its advertising ecosystem with substantial changes to search, shopping, and campaign management. The new "PowerPack" approach combines Performance Max, Demand Gen, and AI Max for search campaigns, thoug...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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45:36

Big exits & bold bets: Temu stops ads in US while OpenAI enters ecommerce. Plus, debating the marketwide pivot to profit.
We broke the news: Temu hit the brakes – hard. In this episode, Mike and Chris dig intoWhy Temu suddenly killed all ads in the US, and what happened nextSigns that Temu's ad spend shifted to EuropeOpenAI’s move int...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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35:17

Will AI Break Google Search? Plus: Tariff Shocks & the Rise of Zero-Click
Google’s turning into an answer engine—so why does it feel like the internet’s disappearing beneath it? In this episode of Growing Ecommerce, Mike and Chris tackle the search shake-up and what it means for everyone from advertisers ...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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44:01

Instagram's Fake AI Influencers? Plus: A CSAM Scandal Rocks Google & Zuckerberg’s Moderation Cuts
Who’s real anymore? In this episode of Growing Ecommerce, Mike and Chris break down the chaos unfolding across the digital advertising world:• Instagram is testing AI-generated user profiles — Are we entering a world of fake ...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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36:08

2025 State of PMax Report, plus: Zuckerberg shrugs ads, Amazon shares its ad stack
Digital ads in 2025 are anything but boring. In this episode, Mike and Chris unpack:Mark Zuckerberg’s eyebrow-raising claim that ads aren’t important (despite 98% of Meta’s revenue coming from ads)Amazon’s move to sell its ...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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36:25
