Running marketplaces is a cut-throat job. Who will survive? 2017 was the year of retail apocalypse. Now it looks like the worst has passed. The SPDR S&P Retail fund (XRT), a collection of traditional…
Brexit & trade wars are causing a customs crisis. What’s the solution? Answer: Broker expertise + technology
Product classification with AI: How machine learning sped up logistics for Aeropost Pasta. Have you ever thought about importing it? Artisanal pasta maybe?
Ecommerce marketplaces have a product content problem, and it's killing them. It is the best of times, it is the worst of times. At the point of writing, there are approximately 40–50 ecommerce marketplaces available…
PopShops API Migration guide: Here’s how you can migrate your product data feeds from Rakuten… So, in case you haven’t heard about it yet, Popshops API is shutting down. It’s kind of a big deal, especially since PopShops product data…
Rakuten PopShops is shutting down. Do you have an alternative? Try Semantics3’s Affiliate Feeds Solution!
Justin Timberlake’s Super Bowl Performance Drives Pepsi’s Market Share To Surge Overnight Attribution is a BIG deal. It’s the reason that digital advertising has always had a leg up on traditional media.
Here’s our top retail tech prediction for 2018 What do the shopping season, the 2018 Tax Bill, Artificial Intelligence and Omnichannel all have in common?
Did a Garmin watch really need to be price optimized 129 times in 30 days? How we built a dashboard tracking tens of thousands of products over the Black Friday 2017 season.
Why is Amazon hiding its ownership of private labels? Brands have power and Amazon desperately want to harness it. Here’s how they’re going about it.
Where are the REAL deals this Thanksgiving? Announcing the 2017 Holiday Sales Dashboard, by Semantics3 & Slickdeals. Get the bird’s eye view to the best deals.
The “Amazon Amendment” could hand the retailer an unfair advantage in government procurement Section 801 of the National Defense Authorization Act is a sweetheart deal for Amazon and is unfair to the retail industry
Powering your ecommerce pricing strategy Let’s say you sell Glow Pets Pillow Sets on your ecommerce store.
Amazon is big. Omnichannel Amazon will be an even bigger, all-consuming giant. Amazon in 2017, is like Morgoth back in the day before Sauron turned up. A better, badder version of what might come next. Its laser sharp…
Of ecommerce & false promises — How product matching can deliver on long forgotten promises. We were promised transparency and variety. Neither is a given.
Product Matching — A Visual Tribute Product matching is a challenging data-science problem that we’ve been battling for several years at Semantics3. The variety of concepts…
How Refinery29 used a Product Feed API to build a better editorial platform This article is continued from a series. This week we look at how media companies can double their efficiency and how Refinery29 is using…