Friday, November 13, 2026
News For Internet Marketers
Analysis. Visa's Agentic Commerce Benchmark, released November 5, 2026, tested 22 AI models from 12 labs on 15 shopping tasks. Runs passed 57.2% of the time, all three attempts passed 34.2%, and 54% of failed runs still ended in a purchase decision.
Google said on November 4, 2026 that telemedicine advertisers accredited through NABP's Healthcare Merchant Accreditation Program will be able to apply for Google Ads certification in the US, Canada and the UK once a November policy update is published. As of November 13 the live policy still names only LegitScript.
Since November 2, 2026, third-party sellers with supplements and other products in Amazon's enhanced safety categories must carry $1 million in commercial liability insurance whatever their monthly sales, and Mainland China sellers must buy new policies through the Amazon Insurance Accelerator.
FDA's October 30, 2026 warning letter to RonanRx says a video calling its compounded semaglutide and tirzepatide "American made" and "farm-to-table drugs" was misleading because FDA lists no U.S. maker of the active ingredients. It also cites implied FDA approval and RonanRx-branded labels.
HHS's October 28, 2026 interim enforcement discretion policy lets 503A pharmacies and physicians compound BPC-157, TB-500, Epitalon, KPV, MOTS-c and Semax under ten conditions, without adding them to the bulks list. Research-use-only sellers are left out, and comments close November 13.
FDA authorized 24 Velo nicotine pouches from Modoral Brands on October 30, 2026: eight 4 mg Velo Mini Pouch and Mini Pouch 2 flavors, each in three child-resistant containers, bringing the authorized pouch list to 67.
Utah HB 447 allows online, phone and mail-order sales of cigars and pipe tobacco from January 1, 2027 for sellers that use an independent third-party age verification system, require a 21-or-older adult signature, hold a Tax Commission license and bond, and collect a new remote tobacco tax.
Wordfence and CVE records published in early November 2026 describe order-pay data leaks in FunnelKit Stripe and Paystack, a critical file-upload flaw in payever through 4.8.0, and unverified paid notices in Paymentfor before 1.0.6.
In mid-October 2026, injected JavaScript in Hulk Product Options, Selleasy and Swym Wishlist Plus cancelled some Checkout clicks, sent shoppers to lookalike card pages, then forwarded them to the real Shopify checkout so the order still completed.
WooCommerce 11.2.2 is a November 4, 2026 security release that stops Store API checkout with a 500 error if an extension callback cannot save the order, and it hardens cart quantities, REST key authentication, payments profile decoding and two admin connection endpoints.
