With digital grocery sales on the rise (predicted to account for 20% of all grocery sales by 2026), retailers need to ensure they are keeping up. Google and Meta both offer support for product feed/catalog driven ads that not only help dri…
Tempted by Shopify's apps for product feed syndication? Our observation as a data feed provider suggests that these options can sometimes lead to problems and suboptimal data outputs. If you're contemplating a switch to a Shopify direct ap…
Google is launching a new pilot program to create videos directly from your product images, descriptions, and logos included in your product data feed in Google Merchant Center. Google selects merchants for this pilot and sends them an ema…
Find the official Google full recap here or watch it for yourself on YouTube. Here's our quick take on the Shopping Ads/Product Feed announcements from Google Marketing Live this year: 3 New Shopping Ad Formats Introduced: Video Highli…
An image is worth a thousand words – but extracting those words can be a royal pain! How many times do clients have excellent product images but lackluster descriptions, or even missing color/material/pattern data? We're pleased to announc…
San Francisco, CA, November 28th, 2023: VersaFeed, a leading ad-tech provider for ecommerce retailers, today announces a new feature to its proprietary product data feed management platform: ChatGPT integration. The first product feed comp…
After much anticipation, Google is now offering beauty brands a way to interact virtually with their mobile shoppers via Free Listings and Shopping Ads. AR beauty features were introduced nearly three years ago; however, only recently has …
VersaFeed is taking custom label strategies to the next level by integrating with Google Merchant Center’s Market Insights retail data. Both the Price Competitiveness and Best Sellers reports are currently available within the Mercha…
We’ve aggregated the most common PLA badges and annotations for you in the graphic above to identify their official names and we’ve covered each in detail within one of our blog articles. As always, our blogs are intended to g…
Google makes it easy to take advantage of badges on Shopping ads and Free Listings promoting Local products. Consumers will see Local Shopping ads when the item they’re searching for is available nearby. Google lets you know it's a L…
With back-to-school (BTS) spending expected to reach a new high in 2023, advertisers need to ensure their online digital ad strategy is prepared to capture as many purchases as possible.Here are some specific tips for the feed driven produ…
Buy on Google will be sunsetting September 26, 2023.Here’s what you need to know:No action is needed.Listings on Search or Shopping will cease to show the Buy on Google option as of 9/26/23.You can terminate participation in this program s…
The Returns annotation has become a common Shopping Ad element this past year. Google first required the return policy to be set up in the Google Merchant Center to showcase on Shopping Ads but slowly started trying to estimate for brands …
Google can show star ratings annotations on Shopping Ads and Free Listings for products offered by eligible advertisers - officially referred to as Product Ratings. Both the product and advertiser must meet certain requirements to be eligi…
As Google continues to increase the visibility of product delivery options across Search and Shopping, here are a few ways to make sure your shipping options are highlighted accurately for potential customers: Free Shipping Annotation …
There are many ways Google highlights products when their prices change - specifically lower. The Sale badge and Special Offer annotation (aka Merchant Promotion) do a great job showcasing temporary price cuts on items. But there’s …
With inflation top-of-mind for both merchants and customers, maintaining a loyal base of customers is more crucial than ever in the ecommerce space. Loyalty, however, does not mean you still won’t have to fight to keep those customer…
Earning the Coveted Blue Checkmark While competition for PLA real estate continues to heat up, there are several small but significant additions that merchants can make to their Google Shopping program to help gain an edge on a crowded SE…
Google has been steering advertisers for years now towards the Merchant Hosted Local Storefront, even providing them with 2 options: Basic and Full. Here, we will be covering details around the rarely talked about Google Hosted Local Store…
With Google’s Local Promotions moving from beta to a full-fledged feature, merchants running Local Inventory Ads now have the option to display promotions that are redeemable either online, in store, or both. Local promotions may be…
Google gives manufacturers control of how their products are presented across Google through the Manufacturer Center. Product content can be pulled over from the Google Merchant Center or a feed can be uploaded directly to the Manufacturer…
