by Brian Roizen | Aug 26, 2019 | Channel Updates & Ecommerce Trends
The Content API for Shopping is making a major switch. Starting September 1st, Google will sunset XML, and no longer support requests or respond to XML payloads. Why the Change? According to Google, most of the API requests use JSON, so they are making this change and...
by Brian Roizen | Aug 22, 2019 | Channel Updates & Ecommerce Trends
Starting September 17, Google Ads will remove the Accelerated Delivery option for Search campaigns, Shopping campaigns, and shared budgets. Campaigns that were using the accelerated option will be switched over to Standard Delivery. If by October 1st, your campaigns...
by Brian Roizen | Aug 22, 2019 | Channel Updates & Ecommerce Trends
Why is it important to use correct unique product identifiers (UPIs)? If you use the wrong UPIs, you could receive a disapproval from Google Merchant Center and jeopardize your Shopping Ads. Therefore, it’s crucial that you label your product with the correct UPI so...
by Brian Roizen | Jul 29, 2019 | Channel Updates & Ecommerce Trends
Resolved Ebay’s SFTP server domain, mip.ebay.com, which services their Merchant Integration Platform (MIP), has been experiencing significant stability issues all day today. The service disruptions are impeding sellers from being able to update product...
by Brian Roizen | Jul 24, 2019 | Channel Updates & Ecommerce Trends
Google has just silently updated their Google Shopping Category Taxonomy for the first time since February of 2015! There are now 155 more categories in the taxonomy that you can use for the google_product_type attribute (see below for the new list of categories)...
by Brian Roizen | Jun 20, 2019 | Channel Updates & Ecommerce Trends
Selects Feedonomics as Feed Management Provider Pinterest’s shopping experience is about to become even more robust as the visual discovery engine expands its newly rebranded Partners program (formerly known as Marketing Partners). Background It’s been well...