by Brian Roizen | Oct 5, 2017 | Channel Updates & Ecommerce Trends
On September 19, 2017, Apple released iOS 11 and with it, Safari’s new Intelligent Tracking Prevention that identifies the sites that users interact with the most, and limits cookies and other website data on all other domains. To help capture some of the... 
by Brian Roizen | Aug 28, 2017 | Channel Updates & Ecommerce Trends
Facebook has just launched Dynamic Ads for Real Estate. Many real estate companies have been asking for this for 2 years since they launched the similar advertising tool for eCommerce with Facebook Dynamic Product Ads. Image source: Facebook The new ads... 
by Brian Roizen | Aug 12, 2017 | Channel Updates & Ecommerce Trends
Starting at 9 PM PST on August 11th, we noticed that all Google Shopping FTPs and SFTPs went down. It appears the issue is on Google’s end as you can’t even manually connect via FTP. In the meantime, new feeds cannot be uploaded to Google via FTP or SFTP.... 
by Brian Roizen | Jun 16, 2017 | Channel Updates & Ecommerce Trends
Amazon today announced that they would be buying the grocery store chain Whole Foods for a sum of $13.7 billion. Amazon has already been testing its own physical grocery retail store with Amazon Go, and this move potentially accelerates the effort to expand into fresh... 
by Brian Roizen | May 10, 2017 | Channel Updates & Ecommerce Trends
Starting yesterday May 9th, 2017 Google Merchant Center started reporting errors with their image crawlers. In some cases we are seeing that 36% of products are disapproved for “Unexpected image processing error.” Another large account has over 150,000... 
by Brian Roizen | May 9, 2017 | Channel Updates & Ecommerce Trends
Starting July 11, 2017, Sears will start requiring UPCs or GTINs for most products.This is following Google Shopping, which made GTINs a requirement on May 16th, 2016.UPCs will be a required field for items listed in a set of categories. Exceptions to this requirement...