Is Black Week Still Worth It? A number-crunching deep-dive #LTM135

Let's talk Marketplace · Dec 11, 2025 · 43m · transcript

Black Week 2025 was not what many expected - and the data behind it is unmistakable. Ingrid speaks with Benjamin Weyrich from the e-commerce agency Front Row about hard facts: why brands see almost no growth without deals, why profitability continues to decline, and why the first deal day has now become more important than Black Friday itself. Benjamin explains how brands can use Amazon Marketing Cloud to identify, for the first time, which products turn customers into fans - and which ones lose them for good. It also becomes clear that pushing clearance stock into deal events is the wrong…