As the first quarter has come to an end, Icecat marks a growth with their product catalog Icecat.biz, Iceclog, registrations and on social media channels Facebook and LinkedIn, despite the corona crisis. As consumers today are making informed purchase decisions,…
Cedemo's platform manages Amazon AFS Communication as Amazon is a must nowadays. Therefore, Cedemo participated early on the Amazon Feed Specification (AFS) pilot. Meanwhile, this has become a mature service. Managing AFS communication? First of all, let us start with…
Given the current lockdowns, there is a big need for refurbished IT equipment for home education and the home office. SpareIT benefits from that surge and invests in its e-commerce environment to better serve its many clients. The Icepim solution…
Icecat notices a rush of retailers that register for free Open Icecat since lockdowns are in place in most Western countries. E-commerce makes the difference for many retailers in these difficult times. Icecat helps retailers to get their shop online…
The first case in India was in the state of Kerala. Two Indian students studying in China tested positive for corona during the big outbreak in China. Immediately they were quarantined and the effects were limited to two people. Later,…
English below Yeppon.it, e-commerce 100% made in Italy, è nato nel 2011 dall'idea di tre soci che da più di 15 anni “fanno web” ma che soprattutto hanno sempre “fatto e-commerce”, in Italia e all’estero. Da quel momento, 300.000 italiani…
Our editors work around the editorial rules for Product Data-Sheets. Icecat editors are involved in the large-scale production of standardized and localized product data-sheets (PDSs) on behalf of brands participating in Open Icecat. How do we define and explain the…
In many jurisdictions - at least in the US and EU - a permissive legal framework is in place for the online re-use of a brand owner’s copyrighted materials in so far already published on the internet. A grey area…
ABB, Schneider Electric, both in electricity management and Weidmüller (DIY tools) are the top three brands in the Icecat DIY & Construction monitor. This is based on 128 million online Product Data-Sheet (PDS) requests through searches or otherwise over 2019.…
According to a survey from Bitkom (association of the German information and telecommunications industry) conducted in October 2019 with more than 1,000 German participants, over 50% of the online shoppers use reviews as part of the buying decision process. People…
I still remember the first hero product that I described in Icecat, a Nokia 6680. It was 2006. I used to be a student and Icecat gave me the opportunity to earn some money while studying. At that time, it…
Since the launch of the blog in September 2015, Iceclog got after four years more than one million web visits. 2019 was a peak year in terms of web visits with an increase by 105% compared to 2018. What are the…
There's a longstanding co-operation with Carrefour, among others in Belgium. Carrefour Belgium - relaunching non-food categories on its bilingual website Carrefour.eu soon - is calling its non-food suppliers to register for Icecat's free Vendor Central. Moreover, the free Vendor Central…
Thanks to successful Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and UX (usability) improvements like roll-out of Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) and solving Google-reported indexing issues for structured data and otherwise, 2019 became a peak year in terms of webvisits, with more than…
Intertoys, the Dutch toys retail chain that operates around 200 stores and a webshop in The Netherlands, has finalized its integration of Icecat. The chain was taken over in 2019 by the Mirage Retail Group, that also exploits Blokker, Big…
Post-buy, a consumer can retrieve manuals, warranty information and leaflets via the Garanteasy app. Garanteasy is connected to the Icecat database, and gets any relevant product data after a match on a product code entered by a consumer. Monitoring Warranty…
Power International AS is a leading home electronics retailer in the Nordic region, with a nation-wide store network and online shops in Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland. Power International AS, the household electronics retailer in the Nordics, collaborates with Icecat…
XML most used integration method during 2019. Although, there were some small shifts in the Icecat interfacing methods that our users, connected platforms, use. The Icecat portal is still generating a lot of visibility leading to manual lookups called "www"…
Looking back at 2019, something we typically do before the year end, we selected these highlights as most memorable. 1. Alibaba Global Roll-out Last November, Alibaba decided to scale up the co-operation with Icecat globally. Only a year after the…
On the Icecat web site, two extra "languages", Austrian-German and Argentinian- Spanish are now made visible. These locales have also their respective syndication repositories through Icecat APIs. In the coming two weeks, also Canadian-French will be added as a new…