We Traded Family Dinners for Haunted Houses: Halloween Spending Data Shows Shoppers Want to Escape
Halloween is now America’s second-largest consumer holiday, surpassing Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day in total spend, especially in categor...
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A retail-focused podcast looking at the future of digital commerce - Conversational Commerce, Augmented/Virtual Reality, Cognitive Commerce, Contextual Commerce, Voice Commerce and more.
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*TEASER* You Can See Everything, If You Speak Fielder
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s You Can See Everything is a documentary about Elizabeth Holmes that turns out to be about every documen...
Deloitte Predicts A $1.7 Trillion Holiday Season
Stretched wallets are still spending. Deloitte projects up to 4.8% growth in holiday spending this year, driven mostly by price of goods rat...
Aubrey Horowitz of Home Depot: "We Plan Halloween 3 Years in Advance"
Aubrey Horowitz, Merchant of Decorative Holiday at The Home Depot, is on the show to talk about the viral skeleton that set the Halloween de...
Former Commerce Secretary Gutierrez on Leadership, AI, and America’s Role In the World
Phillip and Brian sit down with Carlos Gutierrez, former U.S. Secretary of Commerce and former chairman and CEO of Kellogg, ahead of the rel...
Memorable Over Measurable: Retail’s Lost Wonders
Taste can’t be manufactured, so brands are hiring the people who have it. Writer and gr8 collab founder Emma Apple Chozick returns to talk w...
Rewind: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
Welcome to Future Commerce Rewind, where we revisit our deepest and most enduring conversations. This week, we're playing back our April 202...
Separating Real Signals from the Noise
Phillip and Alicia welcome Merciv co-founder and CEO Shaia Erlbaum to the show to talk about how brands can read signals in real time, and v...
Cartographies of Meaning
A replay from VISIONS Summit: NYC feat. Nikita Walia and Elliot Vredenburg of U.N.N.A.M.E.D. Studios. Nikita Walia and Elliot Vredenburg of...
*TEASER* The Oreogate Lady Is NOT Real!
Can anyone tell the staged from the real anymore? On today’s After Dark: We’re growing increasingly certain that everything is fake now. Ama...
Retail Media In Your Ears: Inside Dollar General's 21,000-Store Audio Network
The next big advertising opportunity is here. The audio systems in Dollar General’s 21,000 stores connect shoppers with advertisers and driv...
2026 Signals We’re Tracking: Commerce Evolves (Again), the Monoculture is Back, and Celebrity Prevails?
Phillip sits solo to unpack conflicting economic signals: Shopify's monster quarter against a Census report showing eCommerce eating share w...
Shopify Earnings Go Wild, and American Retail is OVER.
Phillip and Alicia open the back-to-school season with a modern dichotomy: NRF data shows shoppers playing chicken, while Shopify posts a qu...
Enter Through the Gift Shop: Inside MoMA's Retail Journey
MoMA welcomes three million people to its Midtown campus in a good year. But the beloved cultural institution now has the power to reach mul...
Commerce Media's Day Two: The Agentic Shelf and the Measurement Reckoning
Retail media is now a $100 billion industry. Collin Colburn, VP of Commerce and Retail Media at the IAB, says we’ve entered commerce media's...
*TEASER* The Dire State of Consumer Trust In 2026
It's a birthday After Dark! On this episode, Phillip and Brian work through the current state of consumer trust (it's not looking good). PLU...
Bedfellows: How Boll & Branch Keeps Humans and AI in the Same Sheets
Boll & Branch spent 12 years doing the unfashionable thing: perfecting the product first and figuring out distribution second. Chief Commerc...
VC Partner Predicts the Next Billion-Dollar Brand
Maveron partner Natalie Dillon joins Brian and Alicia to challenge the consumer-collapse narrative: sentiment sits at post-9/11 lows while s...
Content, Communities and the Future of Publishing
Ben Dietz convenes Casey Lewis (After School), Daisy Alioto (Dirt), and Erica Chen (Media Futures Group, WPP) on the collapse of the wall be...
The Future of the Funnel
The funnel most marketers grew up on – see the ad, click, browse, add to cart, buy – did not gradually erode. It came apart almost overnight...