Shopify is making a bigger bet on advertising. The ecommerce giant is making its two-year-old ad product, Shop Campaigns, available to all of its merchants in the U.S. and Canada. Shopify might be an ecommerce behemoth, but it's still a smaller advertising player compared to Amazon. Ecommerce experts closely watch Shopify's advertising moves to gauge...

Interpublic Group is betting on commerce and retail media. The holding company has agreed to acquire retail analytics firm Intelligence Node. Exact terms were not disclosed, but the acquisition is valued at $100 million, which includes the price of the deal and the costs to scale Intelligence Node. Intelligence Node's 120 employees will become part...

With a shortened holiday season, retailers cranked out a slew of promotions over Thanksgiving weekend, leading consumers to spend heavily. Sales are expected to reach $41 billion during the five-day shopping period between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday, according to ecommerce data tracked by Adobe. Consumers spent $6.1 billion--a 8.8% year-over-year increase--on Thanksgiving this year, according...