Season 5, Episode 8: The state of eCommerce in 2025 (with Rishabh Jain)

My guest on this episode of the podcast is Rishabh Jain, the CEO and co-founder of FERMÀT Commerce, an eCommerce advertising optimization platform. This is Rishabh's third appearance on the podcast (see one and two).

I invited Rishabh back to the podcast to provide a broad overview of the state of eCommerce advertising at the outset of 2025. Among other things, we discuss:

• Rishabh's outlook on eCommerce this year;
• Meta's opportunities with Advantage+ Shopping Campaigns (ASC);
• Whether Meta is purposefully slow-rolling the introduction of generative AI tools for ad creative;
• Whether generative AI for ad creative will be captured entirely by the big platforms by necessity;
• TikTok shop;
• How Shopify's advertising products might evolve over the next 3-5 years;
• The rise of incrementality among eCommerce merchants;
• Rishabh's spiciest AppLovin take.

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