Episodes 600
Avg. Duration 45m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.9 (83)
Since Feb 2018
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Future Commerce is the culture magazine for Commerce. Hosts Phillip Jackson and Brian Lange help brand and digital marketing leaders see around the next corner by exploring the intersection of Culture and Commerce. Trusted by the world's most recognizable brands to deliver the most insightful, entertaining, and informative weekly podcasts, Future Commerce is the leading new media brand for eCommerce merchants and retail operators. Each week, we explore the cultural implications of what it means to sell or buy products and how commerce and media impact the culture and the world around us, through unique insights and engaging interviews with a dash of futurism. Weekly essays, full transcripts, and quarterly market research reports are available at https://www.futurecommerce.com/plus

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The Machine Ate the Storefront, PayPal Mapped the Collapse

Jun 10, 2026 20m

Dr. Mark Grether, SVP and General Manager of PayPal Ads, joins Phillip from PayPal's Manhattan offices to argue that the merchant storefront is migrating off owned websites and into LLMs. This may…

Nearly 1B Strong: Snapchat Has Retail’s Most Overlooked Audience

Jun 03, 2026 42m

Snap Inc.'s Sid Malhotra makes the case that the platform most brands wrote off as "babies and teens" has quietly grown up. Now, commerce is migrating into these private, conversational spaces where…

After Dark: "You're Not A Visionary, You're A Vendor"

May 29, 2026 1h 6m Bonus

Get all After Dark releases by joining Future Commerce Plus: www.futurecommerce.com/plus.Future Commerce Plus members get 20% off STRATA: www.futurecommerce.com/strata. An AI agent burns $12 building…

LIVE @ Google Marketing Live: The Infrastructure Connecting Your Agent to 60 Billion Products

May 27, 2026 22m

Recorded live at Google Marketing Live 2026, Phillip and eCommerce reporter Nicole Silberstein sit down with Ashish Gupta, VP & GM of Merchant Shopping at Google, who is behind the foundational…

LIVE @ Google Marketing Live: How Google is Taking the 'Drudgery' Out of Shopping

May 22, 2026 14m

Recorded live at Google Marketing Live 2026, Phillip sits down with Nick Fox, SVP of Knowledge & Information at Google — the executive overseeing Search, Ads, Commerce, and geographic mapping…

LIVE @ Google I/O: Universal Cart, Agentic Payments, and the Protocols Powering the Agent-Mediated Economy

May 20, 2026 14m

At Google I/O 2026, Phillip sits down with Suresh Ganapathy, Senior Director of Product Management for Consumer Shopping at Google, to unpack the day's announcements: Universal Commerce Protocol's…

AP x Swatch x Mass Brand Psychosis

May 13, 2026 37m

The Swatch x AP "Royal Pop" arrived after a week of generative AI fan renders, watch-Twitter speculation, and a 24-hour emotional rollercoaster from disappointment to "actually, this might be…

The Internet’s Aperture Is Shrinking

May 06, 2026 51m

Matt Maher, founder of M7 Innovations and the thirty-fifth member of the MIT Media Lab Consortium, joins Phillip and Brian to interrogate what really happens when enterprises leap from "zero to one"…

POSSIBLE’S Potential: The Hallway Track Leads to the Beach

May 04, 2026 57m

The funnel’s compressing, content volume is exploding, and everything is quickly descending into AI slop. But the Miami heat and chilled coconut water hit just right, so everything is juuuust…

Paris Hilton's 11:11 Media is at the intersection of Celebrity, Social Commerce, and Culture

Apr 29, 2026 35m

What happens when a cultural figure with 20 years in the limelight decides to become a brand operator? Adam Domian, SVP & Head of Commerce and Audience at 11:11 Media, joins Phillip and Brian to…

AI Can Be Your Therapist, But Never Your Partner

Apr 24, 2026 46m

People will let AI be their therapist but not their partner, their assistant but not their manager. Gillian Katz of Hannah Grey VC joins Phillip and Brian to unpack the firm's newest Cultural…

We Already Lost the Power Race to China. Now What?

Apr 22, 2026 1h 7m

"There will be a lot fewer people employed doing existing work in not just insurance, but in all business." Phillip reports from the press pool at Semafor World Economy 2026, where 500 CEOs, a…

How Furniture.com Repaired Furniture Shopping For Everyone

Apr 17, 2026 38m

Furniture.com is a new kind of furniture marketplace: a single platform aggregating more than 3 million SKUs from 80+ retail partners, using standardized data and AI-powered personalization to…

Everything Is Trained On You: Inside the World Model Layer

Apr 15, 2026 56m

Evelyn Mora, founder and CEO of VLGE, joins Phillip and Brian to challenge how we think about AI training data, brand identity, and the coming era of individual-first commerce. We move from the…

The Blueprint for Independent Brands with eComFuel

Apr 08, 2026 42m

Andrew Youderian joins Phillip and Brian to break down the 2026 eCom Trends Report: a decade in the making, 300 brands surveyed, and a lot of conventional wisdom overturned. The data reveals a…

LIVE at Shoptalk Spring: Architecting a 360° Wedding Ecosystem with David's Bridal

Apr 03, 2026 23m

How does a 76-year-old legacy retailer reinvent itself as a tech-powered ecosystem? Lisa Horton, Chief Communications & Creative Officer at David’s Bridal, dishes on the company’s grand…

LIVE at Shoptalk Spring: Retail Media Confessions, Hype Cycles, and the Creator Reckoning

Apr 02, 2026 26m

Recorded live on the Shoptalk Spring show floor, Phillip and Alicia sit down with Leah Logan, VP of Retail Media Transformation for Inmar Intelligence, and Andrew Lipsman, Founder & Chief Analyst…

LIVE at Shoptalk Spring: Wing’s Heather Rivera on Five-Minute Futures

Apr 01, 2026 25m

Recorded live at Shoptalk, Phillip and Brian sit down with Heather Rivera, Chief Business Officer at Wing (an Alphabet company), to talk about how Wing has crafted our five-minute delivery future.…

*TEASER* Baptist Oreos, Anglican Biscotti

Mar 31, 2026 6m Bonus

Oreos are Baptist, Biscotti are Anglican, and we're losing our minds. Cookie theology, meme reality, mass hallucinations, the price of attention, and more on the full After Dark episode – accessible…

Shoptalk Spring Recap: STRATA, Snoop Dogg, & the Simulacra

Mar 30, 2026 40m

Recording LIVE from the show floor of Shoptalk Spring 2026, the Future Commerce team brings our hottest takes and deepest insights from this year’s event. PLUS: We celebrated the launch of our newest…

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