E-Commerce Trends

2018 Google Shopping Benchmarks Report Findings

Rising Competition Among Key Findings In Sidecar’s 2018 Google Shopping Benchmarks Report

Google Shopping’s swift expansion and heightening competition raises new questions. We analyzed e-commerce data across a sample of 300-plus U.S. retailer websites to find answers and reveal the defi...

Kristin Maranki

Top 5 AI-Powered Retail Trends You Should Care About

E-commerce retail is abuzz about artificial intelligence (AI), and for good reason: Revenue generated from the direct and indirect application of AI software will grow from $1.38 billion in 2016 to $5...

Janelle Kozyra

Voice Search in Retail: Evolving the Customer Experience

Voice search stands to live at the heart of how retail marketers guide the customer experience into the future.
Behind every voice query lies data riper with real-time intent and context than ...

Steve Tutelman

Prepare for the Discovery-Driven, Visual-Obsessed Shopper This Holiday

Retail marketers often use “visual search” and “visual discovery” interchangeably to refer to the use of images and videos to find products. But as the visual world evolves, these terms are di...

Steve Tutelman

The Future of Search for Retail Marketers? Google Shopping Ads

Google Shopping ads have never been so conspicuous to consumers — nor so successful for retailers.
Search for "black sunglasses," and it's hard to miss the Google Shopping ads monopolizing th...

Andre Golsorkhi

Sidecar’s 2017 Google Shopping Benchmarks Report Reveals New Growth Metrics

Google is constantly giving Google Shopping ads more real estate on its SERP. And new retailers are joining the party -- or upping their Shopping investments -- every day.

With such rapi...

Mike Perekupka

Is Conversational Shopping from Google the Next Frontier in E-Commerce?

At SMX West’s keynote address last week, Google’s Director of Search in Zurich, Behshad Behzadi, confirmed that Google was working on conversational shopping to complement its conversational se...

Rob DePersia

[PODCAST] 8 Questions With Brock Weatherup, Former PetSmart E-Commerce Exec

Having started in e-commerce during the industry’s early days, Brock Weatherup has a lot of perspective on what digital marketing strategies work to grow an online retail business, and what efforts ...

Janelle Kozyra

Keepin’ It Relevant: What #RIPTwitter Means for E-Commerce

This week, the Twitterverse went all, well, atwitter with the announcement that it would roll out an update to users’ timelines. While the feature is currently opt-in, it will soon become a defa...

Mike Perekupka

The Sidecar Seasonal E-Commerce Report for Holiday 2015 Is Here

With Holiday 2015 in the books, you’ve probably spent some time analyzing your data to determine how sales fared, understand the impact of your marketing efforts, and figure out how to crush it in 2...

Janelle Kozyra

5 Unexpected Places E-Commerce Retailers Might Be Selling Their Products by 2021

2016 has a lot in store for e-commerce retailers, and there’s no stopping innovation beyond that. A lot could change in five years, and it's awfully fun to speculate how a fast-paced industry like r...

Dave LeDonne

The 7 Biggest E-Commerce Opportunities of 2016

The first week of a new year is unlike any other week of the year. If you’re like me, you’ve got what feels like a million thoughts and emotions running through your head. You could be excited....

Andre Golsorkhi

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Rising Competition Among Key Findings In Sidecar’s 2018 Google Shopping Benchmarks Report

Top 5 AI-Powered Retail Trends You Should Care About

Voice Search in Retail: Evolving the Customer Experience

Prepare for the Discovery-Driven, Visual-Obsessed Shopper This Holiday

The Future of Search for Retail Marketers? Google Shopping Ads

Sidecar’s 2017 Google Shopping Benchmarks Report Reveals New Growth Metrics

Is Conversational Shopping from Google the Next Frontier in E-Commerce?

[PODCAST] 8 Questions With Brock Weatherup, Former PetSmart E-Commerce Exec

The Sidecar Seasonal E-Commerce Report for Holiday 2015 Is Here

5 Unexpected Places E-Commerce Retailers Might Be Selling Their Products by 2021