Amazon speaks: AI agents are about to kill your business

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Amazon speaks: AI agents are about to kill your business

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Date: April 30th, 2026 Summary: Kevin King breaks down the mega earnings showdown where Google, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft all reported within a 2-hour window with agentic commerce as the headline story, walks through Rufus's 8 brand new features and what they mean for sellers, recaps John Aspinall's BDSC demo on OpenAI Codex for Amazon listing images and A+ content, and shares Chris Gray's warning on the Marketing Misfits about Google's agentic AI shift steamrolling local businesses. Key Points Discussed: John Aspinall's BDSC demo: why he switched from Claude Code to OpenAI Codex for image-heavy workCodex tips: enable memories with screen context, use $ trigger for skills, stack Claude Code inside Codex, run on medium intelligence by defaultThe Mega Earnings Agentic E-com Showdown: Google up 7%, Meta down 7%, Amazon flat, Microsoft mutedGoogle's Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) winning the standards war over OpenAI's ACPMeta's Partnership Ads run rate doubling to $10B; Zuck's bet on "Personal Superintelligence" and AI that's good at shoppingAmazon's Rufus: 115% MAU growth, 400% year-over-year engagement growth, 20% conversion when shoppers interact with a Brand PromptRufus's 8 new features: Scheduled Actions (agentic), Persistent Account Memory, Personalized Deals, Custom Shopping Guides, Easy Reorder, Shop Direct, Compare with Similar, Personalized Product SummaryChris Gray on Marketing Misfits: Google Business Profile as new homepage, 24/7 hours hack, geo-targeted press releases, Apple Wallet push notifications via SendPushDaniks AI research: 57% of 118,000+ active sellers on Amazon Germany are from ChinaIdentity Hooks audit: rewriting bullets to map ASINs to shopper profiles, not just keywordsAmy Wees's Rufus + ChatGPT mindset-research loop Links Mentioned: Try BDSC for $9 and watch all the replaysOpenAI CodexAI Amazon PPC Challenge registration (Sophie Society)Marketing Misfits: Chris Gray on Why AI Agents Are About to Kill Your BusinessSubscribe to the Marketing Misfits newsletterSendPush.io (Apple Wallet push notifications)Retailgentic by Scot Wingo Hot Picks: Amazon Q1 2026 earnings beat Wall Street expectationsEmails show Amazon colluding to raise prices and remove buy boxeBay tests live streaming as a service to sellers Stump Bezos Answer: Rufus usage is up 400% year over year. Parting shot: "You can't control how you feel. But you can always choose how you act." — Mel Robbins, The 5 Second Rule Find us at BillionDollarSellers.com Follow me on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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