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The Ecommerce Playbook for Getting Mentioned by AI

Want your brand to show up in AI search results? This guide breaks down how to optimize your product pages, what else to improve across your website, and which platforms to focus on to earn those mentions.

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A PIM cost breakdown with line items and a total, next to a chart comparing year one and year three cost
Ecommerce
October 22, 2026

PIM Pricing: What Drives the Cost of a PIM

PIM pricing is hard to compare because vendors price on different units and much of the cost sits outside the licence. Here's what makes up the total cost, how AI is priced, and how to estimate a PIM's cost for your catalog.

An AI agent search with size and color filters matching a complete product listing and skipping one with empty fields
Ecommerce
October 20, 2026

Shopify Shop MCP: What Your Product Data Now Has to Carry

Shopify's Shop MCP lets any AI agent search Shopify Catalog, build a cart and check out. Here's what agents filter on, what Shopify fills in when your data is thin, and what to fix first.

A requirements checklist next to two vendor scorecards, with the stronger vendor highlighted
Ecommerce
October 16, 2026

How to choose PIM software: requirements checklist, RFP questions and a proof of concept

A PIM requirements checklist with what to ask vendors to show you, plus how to evaluate AI and run a proof of concept on your own products.

A product family card feeding a parent product, which branches into three color variants
Ecommerce
October 15, 2026

How to design a PIM data model: families, attributes, variants and inheritance

How to design a PIM data model, from families and attributes to variants and inheritance, with a template you can copy for your own catalog.

An AI assistant connected to a product card through the ACP, UCP, MCP and AP2 protocols
Ecommerce
October 14, 2026

ACP vs UCP vs MCP vs AP2: which agentic commerce protocol do you need?

ACP, UCP, MCP and AP2 explained in plain terms: what each one does, who's behind it, where it's used and the product data it needs from you.

Product data from an ERP, a spreadsheet and a store admin flowing into one AI PIM master record
Ecommerce
October 13, 2026

Do you need a PIM? The signs it's time, and what changes when you add one

The signs it's time for a PIM, whether your product data lives in spreadsheets, your ERP or your ecommerce platform, and what changes when you add one.

An AI assistant answering a shopper's question with a recommended product and its key attributes
Ecommerce
October 12, 2026

What product data do AI shopping agents need? Attributes, GTINs and feeds vs schema

Which product attributes ChatGPT and Google ask for, whether GTINs matter, and how your feed and on-site structured data work together.

Several identical product listings behind one listing that adds extra product details
Ecommerce
October 9, 2026

Duplicate product descriptions and SEO: what Google does with manufacturer copy

Google doesn't penalize stores for using manufacturer descriptions. Here's what it does instead, and which products need unique copy.

A cost chart where manual enrichment hours drop to a much smaller review cost with AI enrichment
Ecommerce
October 9, 2026

Product data enrichment cost and ROI: how to build the business case

How to work out what product data enrichment costs per SKU, count the cost of poor data and build an ROI case from your own numbers.

A product page with the listing on top and enhanced content modules below the fold
Ecommerce
October 8, 2026

What Is Enhanced Content in Ecommerce? A Guide for Retail Product Pages

Enhanced content adds brand modules and rich media below the fold on retailer product pages. See what each retailer calls it and how to build it at scale.

One platform holding an enriched product record next to two separate tools syncing data
Ecommerce
October 7, 2026

Product Data Enrichment vs PIM: What's the Difference, and Do You Need Both?

How a PIM and product data enrichment differ, and how to decide whether to run them in one platform or as separate tools.

A product record with most fields filled by AI and two flagged fields sent to a reviewer
Ecommerce
October 7, 2026

Manual vs Automated Product Data Enrichment: What to Automate and What Stays Human

A task-by-task guide to splitting product data enrichment between AI and your team, and how review works when your catalog runs to thousands of SKUs.

Diagram of a parent product branching into variant groups
Ecommerce
October 5, 2026

Do Product Variants Need Their Own Descriptions?

Learn when a product variant needs its own description and which attributes can inherit from the parent, with examples from Google and Amazon.

Supplier spreadsheets, PDFs and mismatched files flowing into one consistent product record
Ecommerce
October 2, 2026

Best PIM software for distributors in 2026

Compare the best PIM software for distributors in 2026 on supplier data, technical attributes, categorization and channel-ready product data.