Billion Dollar Sellers
Twice a week the Billion Dollar Seller Newsletter keeps Amazon, TikTok Shop and Shopify sellers up to date on the latest news and tactics to sty on the cutting edge of e-commerce selling. The ia the summarized podcast version of the newsletter that comes out every Monday and Thursday.
Episodes
Date: October 15th, 2026
Summary: Kevin King walks through Amazon's new Seller Assistant Workflows, which put an approval-based AI assistant inside Seller Central, and its back-office companion, Amazon Quick. He also covers Q52 Ads, a PPC engine built by a former Amazon Ads product leader, and Retailgentic's research on how Meta's Muse shopping agent picks products, before closing with BCG data showing AI chatbots now rival social ...
Date: October 12th, 2026
Summary: Kevin King breaks down the four AI agents everyone is talking about and how a seller can run them as a team, then looks at Amazon's new About You page and what its AI-built shopper profiles mean for your listings. He also covers an AI freight-quoting tool, a PPC Den episode on the billion-dollar telehealth brands leaving Amazon search wide open, and TikTok Shop's growth across Europe.
Key Points ...
Date: October 8th, 2026
Summary: Kevin King explains how to claim a short category URL on Amazon, like amazon.com/candles, before a competitor takes it, and walks through Dan Ashburn's seven-step playbook for getting ChatGPT and other AI engines to recommend your brand. He also breaks down how Stickerbox went from $3,000 a month on TikTok Shop to $50,000 in a single day, alongside new data on Alexa-driven shopping traffic and a too...
Date: October 5th, 2026
Summary: Kevin King breaks down Review Requests, a new Amazon ad type that pays to put one-tap review prompts in front of verified buyers, and explains why it can speed up bad news as easily as good. He also covers Amazon opening Ads Data Manager so sellers can target their own customer lists, five ranking mistakes that burn inventory, and Amazon retiring the Ads Console as Amazon Ads Agent starts setting bi...
Summary: Kevin King covers Alibaba's new expert-trained AI agents for ecommerce sellers, the biggest announcements from Amazon Accelerate 2026, a rule-based bidding setting that is lowering ACoS, and a 99% duty drawback refund hiding in sellers' shipping records.
Key Points Discussed:
- Accio Work: Alibaba's agentic AI tool built specifically for ecommerce sellers
- Why the "wrapper" around an AI model matters, and how expert SOP...
Date: September 24th, 2026
Summary: Kevin King explains how Amazon's brand-name stripping and new AI title rewrites can make your best keyword vanish from search, walks through Walmart's listing scorecard and launch playbook, covers Google's new AI performance report for merchants, and introduces a free tool that shows your Shopify listing the way an AI agent sees it.
Key Points Discussed:
- How Amazon removes less recognisable...
Date: September 21st, 2026 Summary: Kevin King breaks down why there's an 80% chance a split test beats your current main image, how to test angles before variations, four image fixes to make before Q4, why packaging photos keep winning the main slot, and ocean freight rates climbing toward $10,500 a container.
Key Points Discussed- The BDSC main image panel with Matt Kostan of ProductPinion, Kamal Singh of AMZ One Step, and ...
Date: September 17th, 2026
Summary: Kevin King walks through the five numbers that show whether a TikTok creator will actually sell your product, and how to recruit, brief, and keep the creators who deliver. He also covers a hidden AI video ad builder inside Amazon's ad console, Similarweb and Statista's State of Ecommerce 2026 report on how shoppers are stacking AI on top of search, and the three send windows that decide which Bl...
Date: September 14th, 2026
Summary: Kevin King walks through the ugly photo trick a Titan Network seller uses to open launches at 4.7 or 4.8 after every Vine unit is redeemed, and Anthony Cofrancesco's 15-minute method for letting Amazon tell you which image belongs in slot two. He also covers fresh Amazon PPC benchmarks, Marketplace Pulse data showing that traffic between TikTok Shop and Amazon runs almost entirely one way, and t...
Date: September 10th, 2026
Summary: Kevin King shares how Fernando Campos survived an Amazon account suspension that wiped out a $35M business and left him $6M in debt, then rebuilt to $50M a year, and why the strategies that win on Amazon fail on TikTok Shop. He also runs through the best side events at Amazon Accelerate, a free tool that makes the Category Listing Report usable, and Meta's new Muse shopping agent, which launched ...
Date: September 7th, 2026
Summary: Kevin King unpacks a wave of reviews disappearing from listings with no notification from Amazon, and the diagnostic steps sellers should take before writing an appeal. He maps September's crowded e-commerce conference calendar, including whether Amazon Accelerate is worth the trip, covers a tool that rebuilds one winning video ad into ten, and explains a 35% fulfillment discount on TikTok Shop or...
September 3rd, 2026
Summary: Kevin King explains why most of what TikTok Shop does for your brand never shows up as a TikTok Shop sale, and how to actually measure the halo effect on Amazon. He also covers Anthropic's launch of Claude for Commerce, fresh data showing AI shopping traffic converts far better than everything else, a new tool that checks whether your product is visible on Alexa, and the latest US trade numbers.
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Date: August 31st, 2026
Summary: Kevin King unpacks the Texas rule change that quietly made marketplace fees taxable for Texas-based sellers, what it costs, and the narrow window sellers have to push back on it. He also runs through the September e-commerce conference calendar, Amazon’s latest quarter, MCF with Prime taking the Prime badge off Amazon and onto your own site, and the market that has sprung up around buying tari...
Date: August 28th, 2026
Summary: Kevin King explains how Anthropic's new statistical watermark works, why it marks AI involvement rather than authorship, and what Amazon sellers should actually do about it. He also covers a price-history deadline that lands this Saturday and decides your Black Friday discount, Amazon opening its Sub Same Day network to seller bidding, and a look at where Amazon really earns its global GMV.
Key Poi...
Date: August 24th, 2026
Summary: With Market Masters 4 just wrapping in Austin, Kevin hands the episode over to a sample edition of Marketing Misfits, the newsletter he writes weekly with Norm Farrar. The theme is product sourcing: Kian Golzari's fifteen years of factory-floor experience, what AI actually changes about supplier research, and where tariffs are pushing manufacturing next. Along the way there is a customer avatar fram...
Date: August 20th, 2026
Summary: Kevin King explains why Amazon has started stripping product details out of its order emails and rationing review visibility, and what that data lockdown means for sellers who rely on scraping-based tools. He also covers how Alexa for Shopping has quietly rewritten the search bar, a study finding that half of all online stores can't be bought from by an AI agent, and a Marketing Misfits episode on m...
Date: August 17th, 2026
Summary: Kevin King covers Amazon's argument that the keyword search bar has hit the same ceiling the 1910 Sears catalog did, and its answer; conversational AI shipping to customers as Alexa for Shopping. He also digs into a study showing Google's AI Mode returns roughly 95% fewer products than standard Shopping, Helium 10's new Black Box Niche MCP, the five gates where every marketing email quietly dies, a...
Date: August 13th, 2026
Summary: On the newsletter's third birthday, Kevin King walks through John Aspinall's AI system that builds a full Amazon image stack in about 13 minutes, and a club panel on why AI hasn't replaced Amazon SEO but now sits on top of it. He also makes the case that Shopify is a payments company rather than a software company, covers an AI scam that stole close to a billion views from one brand, and calls out b...
Date: Monday 10th of August 2026
Summary: Kevin King unpacks Amazon's new default behaviour of AI-translating the text inside your listing images across 16 stores, and why there is now a version of your infographics that nobody on your team wrote or approved. He also covers Reddit turning thread comments into product pages brands can't edit, a natural deodorant brand that never existed but still landed on the AI shelf in 21 days, a...
Thursday, August 6th, 2026
Summary: Kevin King issues a time-sensitive Q4 shipping warning as three separate problems stack up on the transpacific at once, then makes the case that your email list is the only marketing asset nobody can take away from you. He also covers a federal appeals court ruling that cracked Amazon's walled garden open for AI shopping agents, Amazon's Q2 numbers on Alexa shopping, and a tool that finally lets ...
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