[New] Regional fraud trends highlight evolving global threat patterns North America experienced periodic spikes in ecommerce fraud activity during the year, although the overall attack rate remained steady at roughly 2.2%.
FinExtra
[New] Global fraud losses across payments, banking, and ecommerce will reach $362 billion between 2023 and 2027.
AI CERTs News
[New] Nearly half of US digital buyers (49.2%) will be ecommerce returners in 2026.
eMarketer
[New] Total US retail physical and ecommerce return volume will be $876.69 billion in 2026, a growth of 2.9%.
eMarketer
[New] As businesses adopt AI Agents and outcome-based workflows, texting will power every stage of the customer journey-becoming a core communication system by 2030.
Salesmsg
[New] The EU Council confirms a fixed €3 customs duty will apply, covering 93% of all ecommerce flows into the EU.
nshift
[New] Industry groups like the Ecommerce Innovation Alliance (EIA) call it a flawed bill that could spur litigation against legitimate businesses.
gryphon.ai
[New] In 2026, Affiliate Summit East is back in NYC and expected to attract 4,500+ advertisers, publishers, affiliates, ecommerce sellers, media buyers, networks, content publishers, and tech suppliers.
Sticky.io
[New] With Google Lens queries growing 30% annually, image SEO is a high-leverage opportunity that most sites leave entirely untapped - especially in eCommerce and editorial content categories.
Digital Applied
[New] The customer journey is condensing, meaning that marketers will need to move away from more traditional, linear paths to purchase in 2026 campaigns.
National University
[New] AI platform-driven retail ecommerce sales will grow 278.1% in 2026 to reach $20.57 billion.
eMarketer
[New] In the UK, pet food remains largely offline and grocery-led, with around 62% of dog food and 64% of cat food sales purchased via offline retail while ecommerce accounts for roughly a third and is expected to rise into the low to mid-40s percent range by the 2036.
Mansfield Advisors
[New] As ecommerce continues its rapid expansion-totaling more than $300 billion in U.S. sales in Q2 2025 alone-Rokt predicts that 2026 will mark a transformative shift toward relevance, consumer trust, and more intelligent use of the ecommerce Transaction Moment.
Yahoo Finance
[New] By 2026, enterprises will routinely leverage agentic AI, domain-trained models, and multimodal generative AI to create personalized customer interactions, optimize logistics and eCommerce workflows, and accelerate scientific and operational innovation.
Rapidops
[New] Adopting cutting-edge chatbot features in 2026 will be crucial for the eCommerce and SaaS industries to maintain a competitive edge.
VLink
[New] Key Stat: AI platform-driven ecommerce sales will surpass $144 billion by 2029, which will be 8.8% of total retail ecommerce sales.
eMarketer
[New] After leaning heavily into commerce, AI platforms such as ChatGPT, Google, and Perplexity will drive a growing share of ecommerce sales through 2029.
eMarketer
[New] Amazon continues to be a formidable omnichannel threat, though Kroger's recent eCommerce Strategic Review - which forecasted a $400 million profit improvement - suggests the grocery gap is closing in favor of the specialized operators.
The Chronicle-Journal
[New] U.S. consumers will make $20 billion in ecommerce sales through AI platforms in 2026, reaching $144 billion by 2029.
The BigCommerce Blog
[New] The cybersecurity landscape in 2026 is defined by AI-driven innovation, autonomous security operations, expanding attack surfaces, and increasingly sophisticated threat actors.
Seceon Inc
[New] The Five Eyes intelligence grouping (the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand) is warning governments and businesses to act now to shore up their cybersecurity, noting that frontier models are rapidly exceeding industry expectations.
Peterson Technology Partners
[New] Security is likely to extend beyond software vulnerabilities to include other concerns about model theft, adversarial misuse, and threats to supply chains, and will likely be shaped by the ongoing Pentagon work on AI cybersecurity mandated by last year's National Defense Authorization Act.
Fluet
Last updated: 12 July 2026
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