Agentic commerce has moved from buzzword to balance sheet, and the numbers prove it. AI-driven commerce is projected to grow from under $50 billion this year to nearly $300 billion by 2030, rising from roughly 3% to 15% of total US e-commerce sales.
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Walmart's Medicare Advantage tie-up with health insurer Scan tests whether trusted retailers can influence health choices without directly providing care.
Google owns six of the 15 most-visited US smartphone apps, led by YouTube at 176.7 million unique visitors and 75% reach, according to July data from Comscore.
AI is rewriting the shopping journey, and marketers have to follow it. That means watching how brands show up in large language models (LLMs), and how they engage customers arriving through AI-driven searches. This is the “intelligence revolution.” “The intelligence age is gaining steam,” said Stephanie Paterik, vice president of insights at EMARKETER, in her keynote presentation at this week's Future of Digital Summit. “One billion weekly ChatGPT users worldwide is a number that OpenAI hit just this month. Sixty-nine percent of CEOs around the world tell us that AI is changing their business, not just how they send an email or craft, you know, a report, but how they are fundamentally operating.”
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Lower CPCs and solid CVRs make the platform a cost-efficient complement to Google search.
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For the modern B2B marketer, the AI revolution can often feel less like a streamlined future and more like a high-stakes construction experiment. While the market is teeming with tech companies offering task-oriented "marketing agents" designed to automate isolated workflows, specialist marketing solutions providers say the industry is solving the wrong problem. Sandeep Menon, co-founder and CEO of agentic marketing platform Auxia and former vice president of marketing for payments at Google, argues that large brands' core challenge isn't automation, since they already have plenty of that. What's missing, he says, is context and intelligence.
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