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Whether you're tracking our latest platform developments, diving into new feature releases, or exploring the strategic thinking that drives our industry, Ignite brings together everything that matters for your e-commerce success. 
David Halls - David Halls David Halls
8 min

Quick Commerce: What Rapid Grocery Delivery Means for Brands and the Digital Shelf

Rapid grocery delivery has become a permanent part of UK retail. Grocers treat it as a growth channel, and apps like Deliveroo and Uber Eats carry a rising share of grocery orders. For brands, though, one problem remains:...

Joe Gall - Joe Gall Joe Gall
7 min

The Buyer Who Doesn't Know Your Category: How Toy Brands Win the Gift Shopper on the Digital Shelf

Most categories are bought by people who know them. Toys are different. A large share of toy purchases are made by someone shopping for someone else: a grandparent, an aunt, a family friend, a parent working from a wish...

David Halls - David Halls David Halls
7 min

The Trial Window: How Grocery Brands Protect New Product Launches on the Digital Shelf

A new grocery product does not get long to prove itself. Between the listing going live and the next range review sits a fixed window. How fast the product sells in that window decides whether it stays, and products that...

Francis Nicholas - Francis Nicholas Francis Nicholas
6 min

The Twenty-Day Decision: How Consumer Electronics Brands Win Comparison Shoppers on the Digital Shelf

An electronics purchase takes time. Criteo (2018) puts the average gap between first product page view and purchase at around 20 days, and for the slowest quarter of buyers it stretches to 49. The shopper spends that time...

David Halls - David Halls David Halls
6 min

The Project Basket: How Home & DIY Brands Keep the Whole Job in Stock

Behind most Home & DIY purchases sits a project, and behind the project sits a list: the tiles, the adhesive, the grout, the trim, the tool that makes the rest usable. Every brand in the category knows this. Almost no...

Shazia Amin - Head of Insights Shazia Amin
6 min

Searching the Symptom: How Self-Care Brands Get Found Online

Plenty of self-care shoppers know exactly what they want and type the brand name. Those are the ones you have already won. The commercially interesting search is the other one, where somebody describes a problem and the...

Francis Nicholas - Francis Nicholas Francis Nicholas
7 min

Two Ingredient Lists, One Product: How Beauty Brands Keep Listings Accurate Across Europe

From 31 July 2026, a cosmetic product newly placed on the EU market has to name more than 80 fragrance allergens in its ingredient list rather than 26. Northern Ireland is in scope. Great Britain, for now, is not. Which...

Francis Nicholas - Francis Nicholas Francis Nicholas
2 min

AI in Digital Commerce: What DCG's Benchmark Reveals About Hype Versus Reality

Every brand manufacturer is talking about AI. Far fewer can point to measurable commercial value from it. That gap sits at the heart of the AI in Digital Commerce benchmark from Digital Commerce Global (DCG). In the session...

David Halls - David Halls David Halls
6 min

eRetailers are building their own AI assistants, and brands have to win inside them

The real shift in AI shopping is not that people use chatbots to research products. It's that retailers are building AI assistants inside their own shops, deciding what those assistants can see, and keeping rival AI out. For...