Suresh Ganapathy, Senior Director of Product, Consumer Shopping: Live Google I/O Interview
Today we have a 'hot of the presses' pod recorded live yesterday at Google's annual Developer conference, Google I/O. We ask Suresh questions about Universal Cart, UCP, AP2 and more!
Today at Google I/O, in her part of the larger keynote, VP/GM of Ads and Commerce, Vidhya Srinivasan announced a raft of Agentic Commerce items with the anchor new feature being Universal Cart (covered by Retailgentic here and her blog post here and the keynote on YouTube here).
Google I/O Lots of Cool New Agentic Commerce Features…But We Have Big Questions!
After Vidhya’s keynote comments, I was left with these questions that I know merchants will have too:
Googlers talk about Universal Cart being available on surfaces like Gmail and YouTube - what’s that actually look like IRL? What are the use cases that merchants can think about and start experimenting with?
Universal Cart is coming this Summer - that’s typically June/July/August - that’s a long window in AI-time, early/mid/late Summer?
I haven’t heard Google, at least the Agentic Commerce team, talk about AG2 in a while, and suddenly it popped back up in the context of the new consumer agent called Gemini Spark. What’s that all about that.
Loyalty (via identity linking) was part of the UCP features announced back on March 19th (details here) but kind of missing here? Even though if you read Vidhya’s blog post very carefully it says that Universal Cart uses “loyalty information”, but it’s not like the Copilot UCP-based loyalty linkage we saw with Target back on April 22 (here if you missed it).
That’s a lot of questions - I only had 30mins with Suresh, so had to pick and choose, but we covered some good ground. The good news is I have two more interviews scheduled for Wed 20th at Google Marketing Live and will work them all in.
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