The Commerce Collective Podcast

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Oct 2026

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Whether you're on your first venture into the commerce world or you've been navigating the digital marketplace since 'shopping cart' meant a trip to the grocery store, this is the podcast for you. Every episode our Host Emma Irwin and her revolving panel of industry experts dive into the latest strategies, tools and insights to drive performance across the largest commerce platforms with content spanning the entire commerce ecosystem. Commerce is a rapidly evolving industry, and Flywheel's Commerce Collective podcast is here to provide the knowledge and resources needed to stay ahead of the curve. Subscribe now to elevate your commerce mastery, impress your peers, and have fun along the way.

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October 19, 202621 min

Why Monster Energy sees TikTok Shop as more than a sales channel

Gen Z doesn’t always start with a shopping list. Discovery can begin while scrolling, as creator content and culture shape what consumers want to learn about and try. In this episode, Ben Galvin, who leads U.S. omnichannel retail sales and eCommerce for Monster Energy, explains how the brand approaches TikTok Shop as a place for discovery and product research, as well as checkout. Ben shares how Monster is building Flirt and Storm on TikTok Shop, why product education and authentic creator content matter, and how social discovery can connect with in-store and online retail. The conversation explores a shift from capturing demand to creating it, while helping consumers find products wherever they choose to shop.

October 5, 202615 min

Amazon unBoxed 2026: How AI is changing the agency’s role in Amazon advertising

As Amazon's Ads Agent takes on more campaign planning and activation, where can agencies make the biggest difference? Live at Amazon unBoxed, Emma Irwin talks with Sarah Iooss of Amazon Ads about how agencies can bring strategic perspective, creative thinking, and cultural insight to AI-assisted advertising. They also discuss Amazon Marketing Cloud as the connective tissue between actions and outcomes, and why brands should approach Black Friday and Cyber Monday as full-funnel opportunities.

September 28, 202623 min

This Month Above the Fold: Shein’s survival, the holiday season ahead, and TikTok’s payments play

In this month’s episode, Emma and Danny Hoffman, VP, Commerce Strategy, unpack three stories shaping the next phase of commerce. Shein’s falling stock price raises questions about whether its ultra-low-cost business model is sustainable and whether American consumers are moving beyond ultra-cheap fast fashion. The holiday season is already taking shape, from Target’s Q2 momentum and Amazon’s October Prime Big Deal Days to Best Buy’s plans to create more engaging in-store experiences. Is there any risk in retailers pushing the holiday shopping season earlier and earlier? And TikTok may be exploring peer-to-peer payments through direct messages, raising a bigger question: is the platform building a new commerce layer, or aiming even bigger into financial services?

September 16, 202623 min

Winning the shelf means winning every shopping decision

Winning the shelf used to mean securing placement in store. Then it meant winning the endless digital shelf. Today, the shelf is much broader: it can be a store aisle, a search result, a product page, a sponsored placement, a streaming ad, or an AI-generated recommendation. In this episode, Emma talks with Flywheel experts Michael Rogosa and Ythan Pratt about what it takes for brands to win across the physical, digital, and emerging AI shelf. They discuss why in-store and online strategies need to be connected, how physical shelf strategy is being reshaped by retail media, why digital shelf fundamentals still matter, and what changes when AI starts narrowing product discovery into a much smaller set of recommendations.

August 17, 202615 min

Creative fragmentation is breaking the consumer journey

In the second episode of our Big Shift series, Emma sits down with Phil Camarota, Chief Creative Officer at Flywheel, to explore how fragmentation shows up in a brand’s creative experience. Phil explains why fragmentation is more than disconnected teams or KPIs. It can also break the brand story consumers experience across creators, retail media, ecommerce, stores, and the shelf. He breaks down why consistency does not mean repeating the same message everywhere, how physical and digital retail should play complementary roles, and why the store still matters as a place for reassurance, immersion, and relationship building. The conversation also covers creative commerce, AI’s impact on real-time commerce, what Total Commerce means in practice, and why brands should take a closer look at how their integrated agency teams are actually collaborating. This episode builds on ideas from The Big Shift: From managing to mastering fragmentation . Read the full whitepaper for the complete story.

August 3, 202626 min

This Month Above the Fold - Kroger and Uber’s power plays, TikTok’s AI problem and Carrefour’s health bet

In this month’s episode, Emma and Danny Hoffman, Senior Director of Global Retail Strategy, unpack three developments reshaping the consumer relationship. Kroger’s planned acquisition of Giant Eagle and Uber’s offer for Delivery Hero show how retailers and platforms are expanding across stores, loyalty, pharmacy, delivery, data and local commerce. TikTok Shop’s growing use of AI-assisted affiliate content raises questions about scale, creator control and consumer trust. They also explore Carrefour Belgium’s balanced nutrition strategy and what a retailer-led health push means for broader Europe. Emma and Danny discuss what it reveals about the relationship between retailers, government and brands, what it would take for a similar model to take hold in the U.S., and how brands can build affordable wellness and broader value into their portfolios as consumer expectations evolve.

July 22, 202619 min

Fragmented commerce is costing brands more than they think

Commerce is more connected than ever for consumers, but more fragmented than ever for the brands trying to reach them. In the first episode of our Big Shift series, Emma sits down with Mike Feldman, SVP of Commerce at Flywheel, to unpack one of the central themes from Flywheel’s latest whitepaper: fragmentation. Fragmentation is not just operationally frustrating, it is costing brands real growth. Mike breaks down how brands got here, why disconnected teams and KPIs create waste, where frequency management exposes the cost of fragmentation, and how better commerce data, clean rooms, and aligned planning can help brands move from managing complexity to mastering it. This episode covers some of the key ideas from The Big Shift: From managing to mastering fragmentation . Read the full whitepaper for the complete story, and stay tuned for next month’s episode with Phil Camarota covering the impact of fragmentation on your brand's creative efforts, and the importance of a Total Commerce approach.

July 6, 202635 min

This Month Above the Fold - Amazon takes the top Fortune 500 spot, Amazon's push for cleaner PDPs and the AI-ready shelf, & Walmart's full funnel bet

In this month’s episode, Emma and Danny Hoffman, Senior Director of Global Retail Strategy at Flywheel, break down three commerce shifts brands should be watching: what Amazon overtaking Walmart on the Fortune 500 signals about its push to become the everything company, how Amazon’s latest content updates are pushing brands toward cleaner, more AI-friendly PDPs and shopping experiences, and why Walmart’s Google, VIZIO, and Vibe.co moves point to a bigger full-funnel bet on connecting media, stores, data, and commerce outcomes. Learn more about Flywheel's new GEO Optimization service here.

June 29, 202623 min

What if measurement isn't broken, just incomplete? Featuring Jon Gibs of Walmart Connect

Jon Gibs, Group Director, Media Insights and Measurement, Walmart Connect joins the show to explore how full-funnel measurement is evolving from attribution to creative effectiveness, and what it takes to turn fragmented signals into a clearer picture of business impact. With a unique vantage point across the ecosystem, Walmart Connect helps marketers tie first-party shopping behavior with exposure across in-store, ecommerce, and VIZIO’s CTV ecosystem, and move beyond isolated metrics to understand how awareness, consideration, and conversion work together.

June 8, 202631 min

This Month Above the Fold - Alexa for Shopping, Prime Day in June, and the store's role in retail's data shifts

In this month’s episode, Emma and Danny Hoffman, Senior Director of Global Retail Strategy, break down three commerce shifts brands should be watching: How Amazon’s rebrand of Rufus to Alexa for Shopping is embedding conversational commerce directly into the shopping journey Why Prime Day moving to June changes the retail calendar How store remodels are turning physical retail into a more connected data and consumer experience. Watch or listen now to hear what these changes mean for brands trying to stay ahead of the next wave of commerce.

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