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Shopify is slowly but surely making its way into the ads business.

An earlier step in that journey was the hiring Samir Pradhan as VP of product for merchant marketing in November 2025.

There is no product called “Merchant Marketing,” as Pradhan told AdExchanger. But merchant marketing is the way the company thinks about its nascent media and data business, which serves, optimizes and attributes campaigns on behalf of Shopify site owners.