The Wire
Amazon and ecommerce news as it is found, with the time each story was discovered. Scored for relevance, deduplicated across outlets. Checked hourly. Last updated October 10, 2026.
Latest stories
- — How Amazon Fall Prime Day went for sellers — Modern Retail (2 outlets) · Macro & retail
“According to Adobe Analytics tracking, U.S. retailers drove $9.86 billion in online sales from October 6 to 7, representing 8.5% growth year over year.” — Modern Retail
- — Amazon Fiasco — r/FulfillmentByAmazon · Marketplace policy
“Amazon to down a listing saying it wasn't organic.</p> <p>We provided letters along with our USDA…” — r/FulfillmentByAmazon
- — FSSAI issues notices to Dr Reddy’s, Nestle Health Science, Amazon, Flipkart for misleading claims — Asia Insurance Post · Marketplace policy
“FSSAI said that the notices have been issued to Dr Reddy’s, Nestle Health Science, Tirupati Wellness Pvt Ltd, Flipkart India, Amazon Seller Services and Netmeds Healthcare regarding non-compliant advertising and claims for product ‘CELEVIDA GLP+’ on e-commerce platforms.” — Asia Insurance Post
- — Amazon launches 2 new China-to-US air freight options — Supply Chain Dive · Logistics & FBA
- — New Ecommerce Tools: October 7, 2026 — Practical Ecommerce · AI & tools
“ShipStation , a shipping and logistics platform for small and mid-sized businesses, has launched Ship with Walmart , giving Walmart Marketplace sellers direct access to negotiated rates within the ShipStation platform for U.S. domestic shipments.” — Practical Ecommerce
- — ‘Defensible to the CFO’: Prime Day catalyzes Amazon video and DSP spend growth — Digiday · Advertising
“According to five media buyers who spoke to Digiday, client spending on Amazon Ads prior to Prime Day is up 15-40%, compared with last year, and expected to grow by as much as a third by the end of 2026.” — Digiday
- — Amazon Brings 15-Second Autoplay Video Ads to Alexa+ Echo Shows — TechRepublic · Advertising
“Amazon Ads said on Sept. 30 that videos lasting 15 seconds or less can now start in full-screen mode on supported devices, with the sound muted.” — TechRepublic
- — Amazon DSP puts AI agents at the centre of buying, creative and targeting: Ankur Rathi — Exchange4Media · Advertising
“Speaking at the e4m Real Time Programmatic Advertising Conference 2026, Ankur Rathi, Head, Amazon DSP, Amazon Ads, said AI tools aim to solve problems marketers have battled for years: wastage, efficiency, creative and measurement, now compounded by brand safety, security, and choice.” — Exchange4Media
- — Amazon, Crocs Sue Sellers Over Alleged Classic Clog Dupes — Law360 · Marketplace policy
- — Amazon's AWS Rate Hike Wins Wall Street Backing as Seller Tools Get an AI Boost — AD HOC NEWS · AI & tools
“At its Accelerate conference on September 30, the company unveiled new capabilities for its Seller Assistant and advertising controls, aimed at helping independent vendors run campaigns more efficiently and manage inventory without delays.” — AD HOC NEWS
- — Amazon’s October Prime Day Is the Big Holiday Test for Brands — ADWEEK · Macro & retail
“Prime Big Deal Days—which some may call “October Prime Day”—runs Oct. 6-7. Amazon said some deals will offer discounts of 55% or more, with most products at the lowest prices of the year so far.” — ADWEEK
- — October is the last month to fix the economics of Black Friday returns — ChannelX · Marketplace policy
“The €3 customs charge has already changed the economics of low-value ecommerce shipments, Product Identifiers become mandatory on the 1st of November, and the orders placed during peak will begin returning after Christmas.” — ChannelX
- — Amazon unBoxed 2026: How Amazon is Automating Programmatic Advertising with AI - portada-online.com — portada-online.com · Advertising
“At Amazon unBoxed 2026, Amazon Ads Agent and DVA+ simplify programmatic ads across streaming, video, display, and audio using AI.” — portada-online.com
- — Is SodaTide Legit? Company Answers the Most-Searched Questions About Its Reviews, Testing and Unauthorized Sellers After Identifying 612 Unauthorized Listings — The Des Moines Register · Marketplace policy
- — Big-Box Briefing: What to watch for as Amazon, Target and Walmart host their fall sales — Modern Retail · Macro & retail
“Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days will take place on October 6-7; Walmart’s Fall Deals Sale will run from October 5-11; and Target Circle will host a sale for members of its free Target Circle loyalty program on October 6-7.” — Modern Retail
- — AI Threatens Amazon Advertising Engine Before E-Commerce Impact — RS Web Solutions · AI & tools
“In 2025, the company reported a staggering $69 billion in advertising revenue, reflecting a 22% increase year-over-year, as per its Q4 2025 earnings report.” — RS Web Solutions
- — Amazon and Walmart Want Merchants’ Software Budgets — PYMNTS.com · AI & tools
“Amazon’s upgraded Seller Assistant can continuously monitor a merchant’s business and recommend or execute actions within seller-defined limits. Its new Multichannel Selling tool brings orders, inventory and catalogs from Walmart, eBay, TikTok Shop and Shopify into Seller Central.” — PYMNTS.com
- — Amazon unifies its advertising platform and expands Ads Agent to manage campaigns using artificial intelligence — Marketing4eCommerce · Advertising
“Amazon has unified DSP and Sponsored Ads into Ads Agent and has introduced DVA+, with new AI capabilities to create and optimize campaigns.” — Marketing4eCommerce
- — Amazon Accelerate 2026: New Tools Give Small Sellers More Capacity, Simplicity, and Global Reach — Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council · AI & tools
“This year’s event was held in Seattle from September 22-24, and several significant announcements related to AI agents , multichannel-commerce connectivity , and global selling .” — Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council
- — New Amazon Review acceleration ads — r/FulfillmentByAmazon · Advertising
- — Amazon's Seller Assistant gains 24/7 pricing and restocking workflows — PPC Land · AI & tools
“Sellers signing up by December 31 get a Quick Plus year worth up to $720, as a Claude plugin opens in US beta.” — PPC Land
- — Amazon Business Sets 90% Business-Hour Delivery Requirement for Sellers — Distribution Strategy Group · Marketplace policy
“Sellers in Amazon’s U.S. store must maintain a Business Hour Delivery Rate of at least 90% for qualifying seller-fulfilled shipments to Amazon Business customers, according to Amazon.” — Distribution Strategy Group
- — Why WD-40 Skipped a Traditional Shoot for AI-Generated Product Campaign — LBB - LBB — LBB - Little Black Book · AI & tools
“The resulting assets ran across Sponsored Brands and Amazon DSP, with Amazon reporting a 50% increase in average daily sales following their introduction.” — LBB - Little Black Book
- — New Ecommerce Tools: September 30, 2026 — Search Engine Roundtable, Practical Ecommerce (2 outlets) · AI & tools
“Amazon launches multichannel selling tools in Seller Central.” — Search Engine Roundtable
- — Amazon Ads Opens Expert AI Tools to Third-Party Agents for Complex Campaign Work — konsulteer.com · Advertising
- — At its flagship unBoxed conference, Amazon Ads collapses buying silos as AI takes a bigger role in media decisions — Modern Retail · Advertising
“The company has renamed its unified platform Amazon Ads Agent, with further product launches unveiled today (Sept. 29), including Full-Funnel Campaigns, which combines sponsored ads, display, video and streaming TV within a single campaign.” — Modern Retail
- — Amazon Ads puts 4-step DVA+ campaign builder in US closed beta — PPC Land · Advertising
“Amazon Ads today set out DVA+, a campaign flow inside Amazon Ads Agent that builds Display, Video and Audio campaigns in four steps, and said the product is in extended closed beta in the United States.” — PPC Land
- — Amazon Lets Brands Shape Alexa for Shopping Answers — WeRSM · Advertising
“Amazon’s new conversational ad formats let brands influence how Alexa for Shopping explains products and guides customers toward purchase.” — WeRSM
- — Amazon's test-once pilot cuts seller compliance costs by up to 60% — PPC Land · Marketplace policy
“If you sell toys, one round of testing can now count towards several countries' rules, and by the end of 2026 one shipment into Amazon's warehouses is meant to reach buyers in eight countries.” — PPC Land
- — Advertisers Can Directly Influence Amazon’s Alexa Responses — ADWEEK · Advertising
“At Amazon’s annual UnBoxed advertising event held in San Francisco, the e-commerce giant unveiled Branded Conversations, an ad format that appears when consumers tap on prompts surfaced within Alexa for Shopping. Brands can influence the experience people have when they click on the prompt.” — ADWEEK
- — Amazon Ads And The Amazon DSP Get An Agentic Rebrand — adexchanger.com · Advertising
“Amazon Ads has overhauled its DSP and the sponsored product and search-based ad console for on-platform ads, the company announced at its unBoxed event in San Francisco on Tuesday.” — adexchanger.com
- — Shoppers will spend more and buy less this holiday season — MarTech · Macro & retail
“Adobe expects U.S. online holiday sales to reach $275.1 billion in November and December, up 6.7% from last year.” — MarTech
- — Amazon Lets Merchants Put Prime Delivery on Their Own Sites — subscriptioninsider.com · Logistics & FBA
“Merchants using Amazon Multichannel Fulfillment, or MCF, can now offer eligible Prime members fast, free delivery on their own websites while keeping their existing checkout, payment processing, returns policies and customer service.” — subscriptioninsider.com
- — Amazon FBA From Canada: What Canadian Sellers Now Pay to Ship Into US Warehouses — Lakeland Currents · Marketplace policy
“Canadian FBA sellers now face a 50% Section 338 duty on covered goods, tighter importer of record rules, and full entry on every shipment.” — Lakeland Currents
- — Amazon Opens Seller Central To eBay, Shopify, TikTok & Walmart — Value Added Resource · Competitors
“Amazon is opening Seller Central to competing marketplaces and ecommerce platforms, allowing sellers to connect eBay, Shopify, TikTok and Walmart accounts and manage more of their multichannel business without leaving Amazon.” — Value Added Resource
- — Amazon offers one inbound shipment to reach eight countries — FreightWaves · Logistics & FBA
“Amazon said Thursday that sellers will be able to ship one manufacturing run to a single Amazon-operated facility near their factory and reach customers in eight countries from that inbound shipment.” — FreightWaves
- — Amazon sellers watch as inventory vanishes into pending-order purgatory — The Register · Marketplace policy
“Reports began appearing on September 20. Within days, some sellers – often individuals or small businesses – said their entire stock of certain high-value products had become trapped in pending orders that were not clearing.” — The Register
- — New Amazon Multichannel Selling Tools for eBay, Shopify, TikTok, and Walmart — ChannelX · AI & tools
“Amazon announced during its annual Accelerate seller conference that they are launching Multichannel Selling Tools, a new experience in Seller Central that gives sellers a single home base for managing listings, orders, and profitability across all their other channels.” — ChannelX
- — Mapped out how many days Express Payout cuts from sale to bank — r/FulfillmentByAmazon · Marketplace policy
“Then you request the payout (or wait for your next scheduled one). • Before: ACH took 3-5 business days, so the money landed around the 11th to 13th, later if a weekend got in the way. • Now: within 24 hours, weekends included, so the 9th. You save 3-5 days per payout, which helps.” — r/FulfillmentByAmazon
- — Amazon is getting rid of the summaries for disbursements? — r/FulfillmentByAmazon · Marketplace policy
“<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Unless I am mistaken there is no way to get the Summaries for the 2 week disbursements in the new seller central.” — r/FulfillmentByAmazon
- — Amazon Opens Seller Data to Claude Days After Blocking Meta’s Muse — Benzinga · AI & tools
“Amazon announced Wednesday that U.S. sellers can connect their accounts directly to Claude through its new Selling Partner plugin.” — Benzinga
- — Amazon Wants to Run Merchants’ Businesses Beyond Amazon — PYMNTS.com · AI & tools
“The company on Thursday (Sept. 24) announced it was opening Seller Central to orders and listings from Walmart, eBay, Shopify and TikTok.” — PYMNTS.com
- — Talk to My Agent: What Smarter AI Means for Amazon Sellers, Daydream Shoppers, and JD Sports — WWD · AI & tools
“Amazon has released three new updates to its AI assistant for third-party sellers on the platform, promising independent businesses ran by small teams a better chance at competing with larger companies.” — WWD
- — Amazon Opens Seller Central to Rival Marketplaces — Marketplace Pulse (2 outlets) · Competitors
“Amazon announced during its annual Accelerate seller conference that sellers will be able to manage their eBay, Shopify, TikTok Shop, and Walmart businesses from inside Seller Central.” — Marketplace Pulse
- — Amazon Brings Walmart Orders Into Seller Central — PYMNTS.com (2 outlets) · Competitors
“Amazon announced Thursday morning (Sept. 24) that it will let marketplace sellers manage orders and shipment tracking from eBay, Shopify, TikTok and Walmart inside Seller Central , extending its seller dashboard to the other places merchants do business.” — PYMNTS.com
- — Amazon: AI supply chain agents among seller upgrades — Supply Chain Dive (3 outlets) · AI & tools
- — Amazon’s new plugin lets sellers manage their entire e-commerce business with AI — SiliconANGLE (2 outlets) · AI & tools
“According to Amazon, sellers can now do things like check their inventory levels, adjust product prices and update listings using Anthropic PBC’s Claude or the company’s own assistant, Amazon Quick.” — SiliconANGLE
- — Amazon Marketing Cloud’s 5-Year Dataset: 6 Use Cases Worth Building Now — Search Engine Journal · Advertising
“In June 2026, this dataset was made free through the end of 2026 (as of the time of this article).” — Search Engine Journal
- — Amazon introduces an AI integrated with Claude to advise its third-party sellers — ww.fashionnetwork.com · AI & tools
- — Amazon opens its seller tools to outside AI agents, starting with Anthropic’s Claude — GeekWire (2 outlets) · AI & tools
- — Amazon Expands Seller Assistant Into Agentic AI Tool for U.S. Sellers — tokenpost.com · AI & tools
“Amazon has expanded Seller Assistant into an agentic AI system for U.S. marketplace sellers, adding inventory, compliance and shipment-planning functions that can act with permission while keeping merchants in control.” — tokenpost.com
- — Amazon’s Seller AI Graduates From Chatbot to Operating System — PYMNTS.com (2 outlets) · AI & tools
“Mary Beth Westmoreland , vice president, Worldwide Selling Partner Experience, at Amazon, told PYMNTS in an exclusive conversation Wednesday (Sept. 23) that the company is expanding its Seller Assistant from a conversational tool into something closer to an operating layer for third-party merchants.” — PYMNTS.com
- — Amazon rolls out new agentic AI for third-party sellers — TradingView, Reuters (3 outlets) · AI & tools
“By Greg BensingerAmazon NASDAQ:AMZN on Wednesday introduced a new agentic artificial intelligence service for third-party sellers on its main e-commerce site, expanding automation features for easier listing and inventory management.” — TradingView
- — Retail media’s missing link: Why better product data is becoming essential to conversion — InternetRetailing · Retail media
“Its State of Product Experience 2026 – UK Edition finds that 43% of British consumers have recently abandoned a potential purchase because the available product information was insufficient.” — InternetRetailing
- — Amazon forces $1M insurance on safety-category sellers regardless of sales — PPC Land (2 outlets) · Marketplace policy
- — FedEx preps 5.9% rate hike, surcharge increases for 2027 — Supply Chain Dive · Logistics & FBA
- — Amazon stock falls 1.8% after FTC ad lawsuit — scanx.trade · Advertising
“Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) shares declined 1.80% to $255.09 on Tuesday, extending losses after the Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit alleging the company manipulated advertising auctions.” — scanx.trade
- — Anyone else getting billed on dimensional weight instead of actual weight after the 2026 size tier changes? — r/FulfillmentByAmazon · Logistics & FBA
“The same product sat just inside a cheaper band in 2025, and after the January 2026 changes it moved up. My fee per unit went up by about 40 percent on a…” — r/FulfillmentByAmazon
- — Anyone else's Amazon partnered carrier quote jumping from $50 to $390 for the exact same shipment? — r/FulfillmentByAmazon · Logistics & FBA
“This week I recreated the shipment to add one more carton, and the quote came back at $390.” — r/FulfillmentByAmazon
- — FedEx levies fees on US imports from Canada, Europe and others — Supply Chain Dive · Logistics & FBA
“The demand surcharges, which also include higher fees for China-to-U.S. volume, will take effect as parcel shippers gear up for peak season.” — Supply Chain Dive
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