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Jun 26 2024

Feed Driven Product Ads for Grocery

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…

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Nov 15 2024

Regional Availability & Pricing (RAAP): What, Why, and When

It's a great question, because some of the RAAP functionality is indeed already baked into normal Google Merchant Center (GMC), and there's even some overlap with Local Inventory Ads (LIA). Let's dive into RAAP and see if we can figure thi…

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Nov 04 2024

VersaFeed Enterprise Integration Options

VersaFeed specializes in seamless integrations for enterprise clients with complex e-commerce operations. Here’s what our onboarding and engineering teams deliver:Tailored Solutions: We work with your development or IT team to identify the…

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Oct 23 2024

Expanding RAAP: How to Bring Regional Style Ads to Channels Without Native Support

Creative Solutions for Running Location-Based Ads (e.g., “RAAP”) on Platforms Like TikTok, Pinterest, Snap, and OthersWhile platforms like Google and Meta provide native solutions for running targeted local ads through Regional Availabilit…

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Oct 23 2024

Understanding Google’s Product Listing Ads: Classic (PLA), Local (LIA), and Regional (RAAP)

How to Leverage Classic PLAs, Local Inventory Ads, and Regional Availability and Pricing to Maximize Your Reach on Google ShoppingClients use VersaFeed to publish their product data on Google through one of three primary methods, each with…

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Oct 18 2024

Launching Google Local Inventory Ads for Grocery

An essential part of launching Google Local Inventory Ads (LIA) for grocery retailers is ensuring that your landing pages meet Google's specific requirements. Whether you choose a Google-hosted option or manage your own store-specific prod…

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Oct 02 2024

Google Local Merchant Promotions for Grocery: Stand Out in Local Shopping Ads

When customers search for grocery products on Google, they see local shopping ad results, annotated to show availability at nearby stores. This makes it easy for them to compare prices across all visible shopping ads in the carousel. While…

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Sep 24 2024

Is the Shopify Native Channel Sync Right for You?

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…

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Sep 16 2024

Google Tests AI Videos from Merchant Images: What You Need to Know

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…

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May 28 2024

What You Need to Know for Shopping Ads from GML '24

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…

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Apr 16 2024

Why Advertisers Should Leverage Google's Loyalty Program

In the competitive digital advertising arena, capturing and retaining customer interest is paramount. Google’s loyalty program not only strengthens customer retention but also significantly enhances exposure across Google’s vast ecosystems…

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Jan 23 2024

AI Language Translations for Product Feeds

Translating product titles into relevant languages for targeted locations and users is a Google Best Practice and is likely to yield a stronger CTR.Google allows separate feeds to be uploaded for different languages, but keep in mind, your…

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Jan 08 2024

Scientific A/B Testing for Products Feeds and PLAs

How often do A/B tests run only to yield inconclusive data? Especially in the data feed and PLA world, the problem is prevalent. VersaFeed's new Dynamic Experiment solution solves this problem once and for all.Our dynamic system will rotat…

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Nov 29 2023

VersaFeed Unveils New AI Tool to Save Clients Hundreds of Hours

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…

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Nov 08 2023

Beauty Virtual Try-On Experience for Google PLAs

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 …

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Oct 16 2023

Price Competitiveness & Best Seller Integration Strategies

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…

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Oct 05 2023

Using ChatGPT to Enhance Google & Social Feeds

With ChatGPT becoming ubiquitous across the digital landscape, VersaFeed researched the most effective ways to integrate this tech into paid media data feeds. Our early testing indicates that product titles, categories, and descriptions ca…

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Aug 08 2023

Shopping Ads Badges and Annotations Guide

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…

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Aug 02 2023

Local Inventory Ads Badge + Annotations

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…

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Jul 20 2023

Shopping Feed Tips for a Smooth BTS Season

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…

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Jun 30 2023

Buy on Google Ending

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…

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