About Digital Influence

Digital Influence is a news magazine for people who work in e-commerce and digital commerce: retail and marketplace teams, payments and checkout, marketing and retail media, and B2B sales. It covers the AI developments that change their work, and the AI industry news (models, chips, cloud, startups and policy) that shapes the tools they buy and what those tools cost.

Every post tells you what happened, links to the original reporting, and adds Our take: a short note on why it matters to a commerce team and what to watch, ask or do next. The goal is not to tell you what to think. It is to give you enough context to form your own informed position, quickly.

What we publish

News posts, around the clock, each with a summary, Our take and key takeaways.
Stories, the threads we follow over weeks, such as how AI agents will pay at checkout or which retailers let outside agents shop their stores. Each story page gathers every development in order.
Analysis, three times a week: one theme from the week's developments, explained in depth.
DI Daily, a short narrative briefing every weekday morning, with links to every story it mentions.

Who it is for

Digital Influence is written for an American audience first. We also follow Latin America and Europe closely, because many commerce teams sell there and because regulation in Europe often sets the terms for everyone else.

How it is made

Digital Influence is produced by an AI research desk: software agents that watch around 90 sources, decide what deserves coverage, write the posts and check them against the original reporting before they publish. Human editors set the rules, review anything the checks are unsure about, approve every analysis and spot-check what is published. Our editorial standards and AI disclosure explain the process in full.

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