Snapchat is adding food and wine labels to its visual search lineup. The app’s in-app camera can now scan packaged food and wine labels to surface nutritional info and tasting notes. Snapchat has been slowly [...]

ClipDrop, a new app that lets your phone’s camera quickly grab objects from your environment and place them into desktop apps, is now available to try. It’s a neat twist on AR, that makes the physical [...]

On Google Shopping in the U.S you can now view various price and purchasing options from a range of stores, with both online and local options listed for easy comparison. You’ll also see curbside and [...]

You can turn on price tracking from Shopping product pages to receive alerts for price drops on any products you’re considering. Just make sure you’re signed into your Google account and you’ll receive notifications through [...]

To help retailers maximize exposure of their deals—doorbusters or evergreen—promotions will be available to all U.S. retailers and will be significantly easier to use for the holidays. You can expect faster average approval times and [...]

Along with the announcement that you can now list your products on Google for free around the world. Gogole also made a few other announcements Retailers can also opt-in to free local listings in the Merchant Center, enabling [...]

Within the next month, you can expect auction insights, like impression and outranking share, to show how you’re performing in specific product categories compared to others. This can be found in the Google Ads Report Editor for [...]

AppSheet is Google Cloud’s no-code development platform, designed to let anyone create a powerful app without having to write a single line of code. Instead of learning code or finding someone to create the app [...]

Along with changing the API requirement for package tracking documentation to state that they only accept POST requests, it also appears they dropped support for XML API calls.

Facebook is bringing a bunch of eCommerce feature to WhatsApp Business. In-chat Shopping: a new way for businesses in turn to use WhatsApp both to link through to those Facebook-native catalogs, as well as other [...]

If you want to improve your reach on Linkedin you might want to go through these slides that try to figure out how Linkedin’s algorithm works.

Pinterest has announced that they are committed to ensuring that 50% of the managed creators they are working with come from underrepresented groups.   In the coming weeks, they will introducing a new way for retailers [...]

Facebook is testing a feature that connects users with their neighbors in community networks — similar to Nextdoor, the hyperlocal social network valued in the billions. “Neighborhood,” which is being trialled in Calgary, Canada, will [...]

A study published Thursday by the Center for Media Engagement (CME) at the University of Texas, Austin, looked at what comments sections mean to news sites. It found that, for the most part, the comments became less [...]

2020 has been the year of live shopping for US tech companies. Amazon launched Amazon Live for influencers in July, and Instagram and Facebook launched live shopping features in August. Google’s R&D division, Area 21, also launched Shoploop, which isn’t [...]

The home improvement retailer added augmented reality capabilities to its app and mobile web before the pandemic. The feature helps lift engagement and conversion as consumers spend more time shopping on their phones. Consumers who [...]

Facebook has announced some new ad tools to help retailers make the most of the season, and finish out 2020 in the strongest possible way. The main update is the ability to create Instagram ads with product [...]

This looks like a cool feature to have especially for social media managers. NOTE: The feature was likely discovered by reverse-engineering the app to find hidden features and security vulnerabilities, so while it’s possible this [...]

Here is a new feature that is on Google Shopping in the U.S. Starting today, you can quickly see whether the price offered for an item is high, low or typical, compared to other prices [...]