eBay who?

#ecommerce hashtag#vspotmidweekedition A worrying trend is emerging across the world of ecommerce. Retail sensibilities are taking a strangle hold with over 43% of conference photos now including blazers or sports jackets. Middle aged men are clearing having multiple crises.

Similarly it seems that all podcasts have been “riversided” yes, we know it looks nice, but does it. We challenge the status quo and look forward to more neon and less plants in the near future.

And with Chrismtas just around the corner we are reviewing all of the brilliant Christmas ads which prove, if nothing else we don’t give a shit about marketing or put any effort in the rest of the year around.

And in a V spot expose follow up we can reveal again, in the last 24 hours OpenAI have not partnered with anyone new in the last 24 hours.

Finally, did you know TikTok Shop is now the size of eBay , great headline creation here if nothing else. So while politicians are still arguing about banning TikTok, the app’s quietly eating eBay’s lunch. From July to September, TikTok Shop pushed $19 billion in global sales , and $4.5 billion of that came from the U.S. That’s a 125% jump in one quarter. eBay who?

Just think, It took eBay thirty years to hit those numbers. TikTok did it in two. And all it took was people buying vacuums after watching strangers clean their sofas in real time.

Still riding with Omnisend the only platform officially Vinny-Proof. $68 back for every $1 spent, zero buzzwords, and absolutely no time for my meeting before Black Friday. Priorities, baby.