According to SimilarWeb, Icecat is the global number one in the product information management & syndication (PIMS) market. SimilarWeb provides web analytics services for businesses based on reading DNS traffic and other web data sources. In the comparison we look at…
These Icecat Release Notes explain the support of anchors in Product Stories, the roll-out of Near Real-Time (nRT) XML, UX tweaks in Vendor Central, and a number of miscellaneous changes and fixes. The previous Icecat release notes can be found here.…
Carrefour introduces Tablet Assisted Sales based on Icecat LIVE in its Italian stores. Europe's biggest retailer, Carrefour, thus expands its use of Icecat’s catalog from feeding its e-commerce applications to feeding its in-store apps. Tablet Assisted Sales In Italy, Carrefour…
Hereby the highlights of the Icecat release notes of September 17, 2020. The near real-time (nRT) XML interface is now live for the first users. Further, the taxonomy report per category is now final. Another major highlight is that a…
What are my top five webshop platforms for connected e-commerce? In short, there are many options for webshops that can be connected to a supply chain. If you want to avoid developing connectors yourself, then it makes sense to look…
Iceshop launches a new add-on, an Icecat Shopify connector. This in addition to existing ones for Prestashop, Magento, and WooCommerce. These connectors not only link the most popular e-commerce platforms to PIM environments but also automate the import of Icecat product…
Currently, we manage multilingual product content in more than 60 locales. A locale is a language and country combination. Each attribute in Icecat's taxonomy is multilingual. Examples of attributes are category and spec names, and spec values. Furthermore, the taxonomy…
Just in time HP image syndication - overwrite images from the HP brand feed for Icecat quality product data-sheets (PDSs) and add these directly to our image syndication server system. As a result, our users are getting image information just…
Results of Icecat in the H1-2020 report. The revenues of Icecat N.V. (NPEX: ICECAT) have increased by 8.4% over the first six months of 2020 to 4.8 million euros compared to the same period last year. The gross profit increased…
Brand Rank page roll out In the previous version we introduced a sneak preview of the Brand Rank page. Now, we did a soft introduction throughout the Icecat website, and added some functionalities to the brand rank page. The graph…
Brand Rank page sneak preview We deployed the first version of the Brand Rank page: with a brand's global e-commerce rank score, a product data-sheet downloads graph per period, and general brand information. Soon, it will be made accessible via…
With 7,082 residents per square km, Hong Kong is ranked 4th among the most densely populated areas in the world. With that, comes an equal density in shops, and convenience stores just around every corner. Adding the fact that Hong…
JSON structure changes Our JSON structure is updated: in the past the same tag sometimes contained an object and sometimes an empty array when there are no data for an entity, but when there are data it’s represented by an…
Unbranded Video Preview We improved Video previews on Icecat LIVE by showing a video thumbnail, typically about the respective product, instead of the Icecat logo. Old situation: New situation: Advanced Reporting DELL Partner Code Support In the scope of supporting…
Most updates in this sprint are related to improving the Icecat Vendor Central (Editor PIM) and functionalities related to Product Stories, i.e., brand-specific mini-sites. Further, the Indian language Malayalam is added, catalog coverage performance is improved, and some issues related…
Nederlandse versie hieronder Amsterdam, April 30, 2020: During 2019, the annual revenues of Icecat increased by 9%. Most of the growth was organic. The net profit increased sharply by 56% to 1.4 million euro, mainly caused by the EBITDA increasing…
French below TopCoach, a soon to be launched French marketplace selling products from categories like Tech, Household Appliances, Pharmaceuticals, Luxury, and Fitness, engages its supplier brands to use Icecat Vendor Central for enriching its product data. The Icecat product information…
In the latest Icecat update a number of issues have been resolved regarding the management of Verticals, logging of editorial changes, reseller authorization management, reporting and Testseek purging. Exclude brand name from Short and Long Summary Descriptions We have expanded…
Upgrade of product search for editorial process automation We improved the editorial workflow in our Vendor Central PIM for content editors somewhat: The booking of products is skipped when an editor starts to describe and own a product that was previously…
The video games industry has always been an important player in the global e-commerce ecosystem. With global revenue of $120.1B* in 2019 and an increase estimated to $196.1B* by 2022. Large retail stores include them as they are appealing products…