The FTC proposed an order on October 19 requiring Publicis to run LiveRamp as a neutral platform for five years as part of its $2.2 billion purchase. If you run ads through an agency, upload customer emails to ad platforms, or pay any vendor that matches your buyers across channels, the company sitting between your […]

Arkose Labs reported on Oct. 20 that 97.7% of legitimate AI agent sessions it tracked carried no verified identity signature. If you run a high-ticket Shopify store, that number lands on your checkout. Your fraud filters and bot rules were built to sort humans from scripts, and a third group now sits between them: software […]

ChatGPT stopped adding utm_source=chatgpt.com to outbound links around October 8, hiding AI referrals in Direct traffic until tags returned by October 16. Ecommerce Paradise readers who track AI-search traffic in GA4 are holding weekly reports with a gap of roughly eight days in them. Adobe’s analysis of about 500 pages found ChatGPT visits down about […]

PYMNTS reported Oct. 20 that 93% of surveyed companies lack full control over customer payment credentials, which can make switching processors costly. If you run a high-ticket Shopify store, this lands on a decision you probably made once and never revisited: which processor holds your customers’ saved cards, and what it costs to leave. For […]

Capital One now offers new Venture X Business applicants up to 300,000 bonus miles plus a $1,000 travel credit, but only after $120,000 in spend. If you run a high-ticket dropshipping store, $120,000 in four months is not a fantasy number. Google Ads, Meta, supplier deposits and a Q4 inventory push can put $30,000 a […]

Greece opened applications on Oct. 14 for a €10,000 relocation grant that no longer requires a local job, according to Remote Work Europe. If you run a location-independent store, that sentence is bait. The grant is real money for moving to a border region, but what comes free with it is Greek tax residency, and […]

Salesforce agreed Oct. 20 to buy Braze for about $5.66 billion in cash, and Klaviyo stock rose as much as 13.5% that day. If your Shopify store runs on Klaviyo, Omnisend or any other email and SMS platform, this deal changes nothing in your account today. It still matters, because that platform holds your customer […]

PHP’s security team will release fixes for two critical vulnerabilities today at 14:00 UTC, according to an advisory it published on October 20. That matters to any Ecommerce Paradise reader whose store runs on WooCommerce, Magento or a custom PHP build, because PHP is the language running the server that takes your orders. Shopify merchants […]

Google appears to be testing a built-in A/B testing toggle inside Performance Max asset groups, according to Search Engine Land’s October 20 report. If you run Performance Max for a high-ticket Shopify store, the catch is the calendar. Google’s help documentation says a test locks the tested asset group and recommends running it at least […]