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Ashish Gupta, VP/GM of Merchant Shopping at Google: UCP Deep Dive, Nerding out on Product Data Feeds, the importance of Product-Level Context PLUS Google's Vision for Agentic Commerce
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- Mar 19, 2026
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Summary
This episode explores the shift from traditional search and ecommerce flows into a new agentic commerce environment where shoppers are using AI surfaces to discover, compare, and increasingly delegate parts of the buying journey. Ashish explains what Google was seeing internally that led to the development of UCP, why the protocol was designed to be open and ecosystem-wide, and why the ambition goes far beyond checkout. He also shares how Google is thinking about discovery, conversational product data, merchant readiness, and the long-term role of AI across the shopping journey. For retailers, brands, marketplaces, and commerce tech teams, this conversation is a helpful window into what Google believes is changing now, and what foundations businesses should be investing in before the market fully shifts. Highlights How Google’s large-scale ad and data systems shaped his approach to commerce Why UCP emerged now, and the two major trends that inspired it Why Google believes agentic commerce needs an open, ecosystem-wide standard Why the future of UCP extends far beyond checkout How discovery is starting to take shape within the protocol Why richer, more conversational product data matters in AI shopping experiences What retailers need to do now to improve visibility on AI surfaces How Google is thinking about the relationship between agentic commerce and advertising Why agentic commerce is still early, but already moving from concept to reality Agentic commerce is still early, but this conversation makes one thing clear: the infrastructure decisions being made now will shape who gets discovered, considered, and chosen in the next era of shopping. Timestamps 2:32 — Welcome and introduction to Ashish Gupta 5:01 — Building Google’s data infrastructure and declarative queryi…