DoorDash

Life doesn't wait for brands to catch up. From routines and celebrations to cravings and last-minute needs, consumer intent takes shape throughout everyday life. With unique cross-category insights across restaurants, grocery, retail, beauty, and more, DoorDash Ads helps brands show up with the timing, relevance, and scale to connect with consumers when it matters most. Our new DoorDash Ads campaign brings those insights to life, showing how brands can become part of consumers' daily lives in ways that create measurable business impact. Life Happens. We'll make sure you're there for it. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eSEfxsfT

How do you test an AI support chatbot before it reaches customers? Our engineering team built a one-click simulation and evaluation platform that generates realistic, multi-turn customer conversations, runs them against support chatbots, and evaluates outcomes before launch. With this platform, our teams can move from waiting on 1% live traffic to running hundreds of simulations in minutes—helping improve chatbot quality, reduce launch risk, and deliver a more consistent customer experience. https://lnkd.in/eY5p-4RX

The biggest opportunities in commerce media aren't found in impressions but in the moments that matter most to consumers! In this quick conversation, Toby Espinosa, our VP of Ads and Catalina Salazar, Head of Retail Media at Wolt Ads, share why understanding these consumer moments is becoming one of the biggest opportunities in commerce media and how DoorDash Ads is helping brands connect intent to action. Watch below! 

Recommendation systems rank items. But what if the store page itself — titles, sections, what each carousel contains — was generated for each customer? At DoorDash, we built a framework that uses LLMs offline to compose per-customer carousels, served online via vector and structured retrieval. No LLM in the request path. That means freshly merchandised pages, faster iteration, and store experiences built for the individual. https://lnkd.in/eizTQpPT

Consumers come to DoorDash ready to buy, and that's a fundamentally different opportunity for advertisers than most other platforms. Every order starts with an occasion — a Friday night, a birthday, a last-minute grocery run. We've built a platform around those moments, and now we can help businesses of every size reach consumers in them and measure what's working. Today we're announcing new tools built around three things advertisers actually care about: reaching the right people, knowing what's working, and growing efficiently. Spotlight Video brings immersive brand storytelling to the DoorDash homepage. Our expanded offsite capabilities through Symbiosys extend your reach beyond the app. A new LiveRamp partnership makes audience targeting sharper. And new AI-powered automation tools cut the manual work out of campaign management. More in our newsroom: https://lnkd.in/eYT2qmZs

DoorDash Labs is at CVPR 2026 this week in Denver. 🤖 We’re excited to meet researchers, engineers, and practitioners working at the forefront of computer vision, robotics, machine learning, and AI. Our team is here all week sharing how we’re building real-world AI systems at scale — from perception and autonomy to the production systems powering local commerce every day. Stop by Booth 813 to meet the team and get a closer look at Dot, our robotics platform designed to tackle real-world delivery challenges. We’d love to connect. See you out there. 👋 #CVPR #DoorDashLabs #ComputerVision #AI #MachineLearning #Robotics

We're excited to celebrate Vassili S. on being named a 2026 Retail Media Award Winner by Path to Purchase Institute! Vassili's leadership, vision, and passion for innovation have helped shape the future of commerce media, creating meaningful impact for brands, merchants, and consumers alike. His work continues to influence not only our business, but the broader retail media industry. Congratulations, Vassili, on this well-deserved recognition. And a big congratulations to all of this year's honorees. Read more about this year's winners here: https://lnkd.in/gBVaKNpC

Some of our most exciting conversations of the year are just around the corner! Join DoorDash Ads for four days of thought-provoking conversations at the intersection of commerce, culture, technology, and growth. We’re excited to share more about the leaders and brands joining us soon. Until then, take a look at what’s in session. https://lnkd.in/euE9MbG9 #CannesLions #DoorDashAds

At DoorDash, balancing Dasher supply and delivery quality is a complex, large-scale challenge. To tackle this, we built a joint optimization system powered by causal ML that simultaneously optimizes supply incentives and delivery batching — moving beyond correlation to true causal estimates of how each decision impacts cost and quality. https://lnkd.in/eiRKn9pT

We’re excited to announce a new partnership with Dollar Tree Stores to offer on-demand delivery from more than 9,000 stores across the U.S. Consumers can now shop more than 10,000 Dollar Tree products on DoorDash, making it easier to find affordable essentials, pantry staples, household items, party supplies, seasonal favorites, and more – on-demand. Together with Dollar Tree, we’re proud to make everyday shopping more affordable, accessible, and convenient for consumers nationwide. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/ePAPaVZK