About product information management and syndication

The Icecat Brand Top 1000 is an annual poll based on 6.7 billion product data-sheet (PDS) downloads during 2018 generated by 15,254 user platforms representing 80.188 registered ecommerce partners from 199 countries or territories. The PDS downloads concerned the products of 23,317 different brands. Only the 1000 brands with most PDS downloads during 2018 are included in this year's Icecat Brand Top 1000. HP Consolidates, DELL marches on The biggest changes in the top 10 e-channel brands during 2018 are that HP is consolidating its lead over other brands, and that Lenovo and DELL are moving gradually up. DELL has…

Per the 22nd of January 2019, Icecat will start supporting multiple UNSPSC (United Nations Standard Products and Services Code) versions for categorization from then on. Not just one - eclectically composed - UNSPSC category tree. To support the multiple UNSPSC versioning, we are changing the structure of CategoryList and category_tree_reports. Below, you can find the old and the new structure of these files. CategoryList DTD schema XSD schema The category_tree_reports will have two new columns: - UNSPSC code  - Version